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One of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is to transform urban mobility to be more accessible, efficient, safe, and sustainable. Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be applied to address some critical urban mobility issues and facilitate the achievement of SDGs. However, there is a need to understand how mobility ecosystem organisations use AI in alignment with their organisational goals to contribute to SDGs. To address this puzzle, this study draws on the affordance theory and preliminary interviews with ten key informants from mobility organisations in Australia. The preliminary findings show that mobility organisations’ exploitation of AI systems and technologies leads to the emergence of decarbonising, optimising, conditioning asset management, and provisioning customer-centric services. To do so, they develop AI literacy, business-IT collaboration, change management, and technology and data foundation. The paper contributes a tentative framework linking AI affordances with mobility-related SDGs, serving as a guide for future research and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study explains the role of organizational and knowledge factors on the adoption of Non-certifiable Green Data Center (NGDC) standards. The extant literature on data center energy efficiency and environmental impacts does not offer a close examination of how the knowledge about NGDC standards coalesce with data center organizational elements and whether such interactions are consequential for adoption of NGDC standards. Thus, this study addresses the questions: 1) What is the diffusion extent of NGDC standards among existing data centers? And 2) Why would data centers adopt NGDC standards? The survey result from 112 data centers reveals that the adoption of NGDC is selective with slightly more than 50% adopting them to a moderate and great extent. It shows that NGDC are adopted in relatively large data centers with commitment to environmental performance and well-developed absorptive capacity for NGDC knowledge. The paper concludes with recommendations for research and practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research investigates how FinTech start-ups, which refer to organisations that offer novel “financial services or products that are delivered via technologies”, develop capabilities for innovation, survival and scaling. The study draws from the dynamic capabilities theory to investigate how Fintech start-ups not only spur innovations in products, business models and processes but also ensure their sustenance both in the Fintech and financial industry. Empirically, the study uses qualitative case studies with 13 Fintech firms in Australia. The findings identified six clusters of FinTech firms’ capabilities that are associated with four broad microfoundations. Based on these findings, the study contributes a model that illustrates the FinTech capability development process. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An increasing number of organizations are shifting from spreadsheet-based tools to enterprise-grade software platforms, which we refer as environmental enterprise systems (EES), to manage environmental data, processes, resources, footprints, and commitments. Despite this trend, and in view of differences in EES modules, form and functions, why organizations choose EES software have not been researched. This is an important issue as it reflects, albeit indirectly, organizations’ commitment to environmental sustainability. Under the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework and ecological sustainability context, this study investigated the factors that influence the adoption of EES in four Australian service organizations. The findings indicate limitations of precursor systems, relative advantages and perceived benefits of EES, and software experience of sustainability managers affect the decision to adopt an EES software. Additionally, IT-dependent environmental strategies, the complexity of environmental portfolio management, and commitments to voluntary sustainability reporting requirements influence both the adoption decision as well as the selection of the specific EES module. These findings contribute more nuanced insights to the body of knowledge on Enterprise Systems and Green Information Systems adoption. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Research on online communities (OCs) has focused on why people participate in OCs and less on how they cope and respond when those communities are disrupted or displaced. We undertake a grounded theory analysis of the closure of a 16-year-old firm-sponsored message board to investigate how OCs respond to displacement, how they migrate, and how they make sense of alternative virtual settlements. Our results indicate emotional reactions, contestations, forms of resistance, and symbolic action when OCs are disrupted. Rather than self-organize and reform, the OC we studied became fragmented and followed multiple trajectories. This was not only due to the contested value of the community and the lack of grounding in a firm website, but also because the alternative virtual settlements were inconsistent with the OCs experience of community size, content and conversation, and platform form and function. In considering this case, we provide several contributions to the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the increase in worldwide residential energy consumption is a concern, a larger concern is the breakdown of residential energy use which is shifting towards life-style oriented appliances and devices. Life-style appliances and devices drive the biggest growth in residential energy consumption making them a concern requiring intervention, given also that life-styles are behavioural in nature with potential for modification. Previous research involving use of IS in residential energy management has not benefited from new technologies, in particular new information technologies (IT). Thereby, the full potential of information systems (IS) is still not harnessed for residential energy management warranting research into its roles in order to guide design and deployment of IS for improved residential energy consumption. The objective of this research is to study the roles of IS in residential energy management. By providing a clear role of IS in residential energy management, we set the grounds for further research into a framework for the design and deployment of a residential energy management IS in order to improve on residential energy efficiency. The paper commences with a review of the factors contributing to residential energy consumption and also use of IS in residential energy management. The roles of IS in residential energy management are then derived from the functional affordance based on studies into the four areas of residential energy management process, technologies used in residential energy management, actual Implementation of IS for residential energy management and environmental behavioural theories and models. From the research it is found that IS for residential energy management fulfils the overarching IS roles of automating, informating and transforming processes. Of these, a specific key role found is in the channelling of interventions to the residential energy end user in order to modify behaviour towards improved energy efficiency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]