Towards Collaborative Green Business Process Management

Abstract

Sustainable and efficient energy management poses a major challenge for organizations, as well as the whole society. Organizational strategies for saving energy are currently largely coined by two main courses of action: Green process optimization and investing into more energy efficient infrastructure, or energy campaigns or feedback mechanisms. We show how both approaches face limitations concerning the scope of intervention and carve out the necessity for an integrated approach on fostering sustainability in organizations and envision a Collaborative Green Business Process Management. Such modell should integrate all stakeholders, thus bridging the gap between strategic planning and everyday work in order to manage sustainability strategies more effectively and efficient. We conclude in laying out a research agenda, which we seek to address in course of an ongoing research project within a long term cooperation with several different organizations.