SigGreen Webinar

8 September 2022

Eva Glanze will give a presentation at the SIGGreen Webinar: SMEs, Sustainable Practicing / Allocation Efficiency, Electricity Rate Design.

This is what the presentation is about:

How Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises use Digital Technologies for Sustainable Practicing

The impact of global warming threatens humanity’s long-term peaceful survival. Information systems scholar have thus started to examine how organizations may use digital technologies to achieve sustainability goals such as reduced energy consumption or eco-effective practices. However, the insights to date largely only hold for large companies with expansive digital infrastructures and dedicated IT functions, which means that they do not apply to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that make up about 90 % of global businesses. SMEs usually do neither have sophisticated or expansive digital infrastructure, IT strategy or personnel, nor are they subjected to equivalent institutional pressures to engage in sustainable practicing. To address this lacuna of knowledge, we carried out an inductive multiple case study of four German manufacturing SMEs. In this paper, we present on the research procedures, interim findings, and expected contributions of our work in progress.

Attendance is free of charge.

Interested?

For log in data please contact Christine Rodenbeck isdi-teamassistenz.bwl"AT"uni-hamburg.de.