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A Taxonomy About Information Systems Complexity and Sustainability

verfasst von : Yassin Bischoff, Robin van der Wiel, Bart van den Hooff, Patricia Lago

Erschienen in: Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

With the increasing digitalization of all industry sectors, information systems are becoming more and more complex. At the same time, thanks to their crucial societal role, they have the potential to help (or hinder) organizations in their ambition to contribute to sustainability goals. In our work, we aim at helping them by identifying the important concerns that shape their information systems and that are found to influence complexity in certain sustainability aspects. To this aim, we perform a study in a mid-sized bank, and build a taxonomy of concerns that emerge from real projects and experience, and blend both complexity and sustainability.

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Fußnoten
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An organizational IS architecture can be defined as the set of an organization’s IS components and their interdependencies [1].
 
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Metadaten
Titel
A Taxonomy About Information Systems Complexity and Sustainability
verfasst von
Yassin Bischoff
Robin van der Wiel
Bart van den Hooff
Patricia Lago
Copyright-Jahr
2022
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88063-7_2

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