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A Taxonomy About Information Systems Complexity and Sustainability

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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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    An organizational IS architecture can be defined as the set of an organization’s IS components and their interdependencies [1].

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This research was partially funded by the Network Institute - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam under the Academy Assistants research program.

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  1. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Yassin Bischoff, Robin van der Wiel, Bart van den Hooff & Patricia Lago

  2. Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Patricia Lago

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Bischoff, Y., van der Wiel, R., van den Hooff, B., Lago, P. (2022). A Taxonomy About Information Systems Complexity and Sustainability. In: Wohlgemuth, V., Naumann, S., Behrens, G., Arndt, HK. (eds) Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics. ENVIROINFO 2021. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88063-7_2

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