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Mobilising information systems scholarship for a circular economy: Review, synthesis, and directions for future research
Information Systems Journal ( IF 6.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 , DOI: 10.1111/isj.12305
Roman Zeiss 1 , Anne Ixmeier 2 , Jan Recker 1 , Johann Kranz 2
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One of today's grand societal challenges is to replace the current ‘take‐make‐waste’ economic model with a circular economic model that allows a gradual decoupling of economic activities from the consumption of finite virgin resources. While circular economy (CE) scholars have long lauded digital technologies such as sensors, distributed ledgers, or platforms as key enablers, our own community has not fully explored the potentials of information systems (IS) for a CE. Considering recent technological advances in software and hardware and our history of helping address wicked challenges, we believe the time is ripe to mobilise IS scholarship for a CE. Our findings from an interdisciplinary literature review show that research has primarily examined IS potentials for increasing efficiency of isolated intra‐organisational processes while neglecting the larger sustainability potential of IS to establish circular material flows—that is, slow down and close material loops across entire product lifecycles. In response, we propose directions for IS research that develop our knowledge of how IS can help understand and enact circular material flows to intensify and extend use of products and components and recycle waste materials. Our directions offer pathways to building and evaluating the problem‐solution pairing that could characterise a prolific CE‐IS relationship.

中文翻译:

为循环经济动员信息系统奖学金:回顾、综合和未来研究方向

当今社会面临的重大挑战之一是用循环经济模型取代当前的“采取-制造-废物”经济模式,该模式允许经济活动与有限原始资源的消耗逐渐脱钩。虽然循环经济 (CE) 学者长期以来一直称赞传感器、分布式账本或平台等数字技术是关键推动因素,但我们自己的社区尚未充分探索信息系统 (IS) 对 CE 的潜力。考虑到最近软件和硬件的技术进步以及我们帮助解决严峻挑战的历史,我们相信为 CE 动员 IS 奖学金的时机已经成熟。我们在跨学科文献综述中的发现表明,研究主要检查了 IS 提高孤立组织内部流程效率的潜力,而忽略了 IS 在建立循环材料流方面的更大可持续性潜力——即减缓和关闭整个产品的材料循环生命周期。作为回应,我们提出了 IS 研究的方向,以发展我们对 IS 如何帮助理解和制定循环材料流以加强和扩展产品和组件的使用以及回收废物材料的知识。我们的方向提供了构建和评估问题-解决方案配对的途径,可以表征多产的 CE-IS 关系。在整个产品生命周期中减缓和关闭材料循环。作为回应,我们提出了 IS 研究的方向,以发展我们对 IS 如何帮助理解和制定循环材料流以加强和扩展产品和组件的使用以及回收废物材料的知识。我们的方向提供了构建和评估问题-解决方案配对的途径,可以表征多产的 CE-IS 关系。在整个产品生命周期中减缓和关闭材料循环。作为回应,我们提出了 IS 研究的方向,以发展我们对 IS 如何帮助理解和制定循环材料流以加强和扩展产品和组件的使用以及回收废物材料的知识。我们的方向提供了构建和评估问题-解决方案配对的途径,可以表征多产的 CE-IS 关系。
更新日期:2020-08-17
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