Abstract
Sustainability becomes a crucial focus for companies as the ability to support future development and long-term business robustness inherently depends on it. The paper aims to report on examples of weaknesses in business support for sustainable development practices uncovered in empirical studies and discuss possible needed changes in work practices. Previous research focused on the investigation of sociotechnical sustainability in real-world employees' work practices in SMEs. Overall, employees' work practices seem to be lacking when it comes to integration with sustainability practices, and this situation does not support a real, sustainable future for the enterprise. Hence management of sustainability need to be directed on collaboration emphasizing employees' “know-how” and needs in practice, integrating sociotechnical systemic sustainability approach.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS Development (STPIS 2020) |
Editors | Peter Bednar, Alexander Nolte, Mikko Rajanen, Helena Vallo Hult, Anna Sigridur Islind, Federico Pigni |
Publisher | CEUR Workshop Proceedings |
Pages | 133-139 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Volume | 2789 |
Publication status | Published - 28 Dec 2020 |
Event | 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development - Online, Grenoble, France Duration: 8 Jun 2020 → 9 Jun 2020 Conference number: 6 https://stpis2020.cs.ut.ee/ |
Publication series
Name | CEUR Workshop Proceedings |
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Publisher | CEUR-WS |
ISSN (Print) | 1613-0073 |
Workshop
Workshop | 6th International Workshop on Socio-Technical Perspective in IS development |
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Abbreviated title | STPIS'20 |
Country/Territory | France |
City | Grenoble |
Period | 8/06/20 → 9/06/20 |
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Keywords
- information systems sustainability
- sociotechnical approach
- sustainability
- sustainable work practice
- systemic sustainability
- work practice analysis