Is Academic Research Sustainable?

Research in academic medical centers: two threats to sustainable support.

Reductions in federal support and clinical revenue jeopardize biomedical research and, in turn, clinical medicine.

Panel: Developing a Sustainable Academic Career in IS

What does it take to become a successful Professor in Information Systems? Hard work and a good sense of humor, obviously. But, is it enough? Unsurprisingly, the familiar confession from the people who have made it through the professorial ranks in our field is " Well, it hasn't been easy ". This panel aims to explore why this may be the case, shedding light in the processes, the practices, the...

Environmentally Sustainable ICT: A Critical Topic for IS Research?

This paper aims to increase awareness and understanding of the environmental sustainability of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and to highlight the opportunities for timely action by Information Systems (IS) researchers and practitioners in this field. Through examples from a diversity of literature sources this paper defines the problems and the scope of ICT environmental sust...

Thirty Years of IS Research: Core Artifacts and Academic Identity

Research for Sustainable Development

Preface The advancing climate change is one of the most important and most urgent challenges of our time. However, the UN Climate Conference in Copenha-gen in December 2009 made clear how difficult it is to achieve an international agreement on binding climate protection goals. Germany has a pioneering role in climate research and climate modelling, in the development of strategies to adapt to ...