Green Business Process Management Towards the Sustainable Enterprise
Green Business Process Management – Towards the Sustainable Enterprise" consolidates the global state-of-the-art knowledge about how business processes can be managed and improved in light of sustainability objectives. Business organizations, a dominant p
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Jan vom Brocke • Stefan Seidel • Jan Recker Editors
Green Business Process Management Towards the Sustainable Enterprise Preface by Richard T. Watson
Editors Jan vom Brocke Stefan Seidel University of Liechtenstein Institute of Information Systems Vaduz Liechtenstein
Jan Recker Queensland University of Technology Information Systems Discipline Brisbane, QLD Australia
ISBN 978-3-642-27487-9 e-ISBN 978-3-642-27488-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-27488-6 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012933960 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword
Green is the new Black. Of course, not in the sense of a new fashion wave or the go-to response for corporate branding efforts; but instead Green is epitomizing an eco-aware movement that has pushed sustainability into the top ten list of business movements in the new millennium. What used to be a boutique market for tourism and political activists has become probably the biggest business revolution since the e-commerce boom. Public and private organizations alike push towards “sustainable” solutions and practices. That push is partly triggered by the immense reputational gains associated with branding your organization as “green,” and partly by emerging societal, legal, and constitutional concerns and pressures that force and encourage organizations to become economically, socially, and ecologically more sustainable. MIT’s Peter Senge, for example, calls for the “necessary revolution” – one that is not merely political but rather induces a paradigmatic shift towards a sustainable economy. Obviously, challenges at a global level cannot be solved by rather reactive solutions that target the mere symptoms rather than the underlying imbalances and potential misbelieves. What is needed is a fundamental, paradigmatic shift. Organizations are hence forced to also recognize the environmental implications of resource consumption and social cost caused by their processes – the processes’ ecological and social footprint. With this book, we intend to immerse deeper into the role of business processes a
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