Information Systems Innovation for Business: Change, Growth and Future Impact

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue disseminates the extended version of the accepted and presented papers in the “International Conference on Sustainability in Software Engineering & Business Information Management: Innovation & Applications (SSEBIM)”, Olten, Switzerland. This Special Issue also invites other researchers who could not take part in the conference to submit their research papers falling within the Special Issue scope. This Special Issue invites research articles, empirical studies, and short articles addressing the alignment of business strategies with sustainability and the resulting impacts.

This Special Issue accepts two types of submissions: a) Methods: the Methods section publishes research articles, review papers and technical notes on methods for collecting, processing (treating), managing, storing and analyzing scientific and scholarly data. Related source code, if available, can be deposited as supplementary material. b) Data Descriptors: the Data Descriptors section publishes descriptions of scientific and scholarly datasets (one dataset per paper). Described datasets need to be publicly deposited prior to publication, preferably under an open license, thus allowing others to re-use the dataset.

This Special Issue is oriented toward (but not limited to) the following topics:

• sustainability in business model innovation;
• innovative and sustainable business practices;
• sustainability in business management;
• disaster and crisis management for supporting sustainable business models;
• sustainable supply chain management;
• human values, ethics, and responsibility;
• social businesses, sustainable innovation practices;
• value proposition innovation;
• value architecture innovation;
• tools, approaches and impact assessment in sustainable business models;
• business experimentation for sustainability across organizational contexts;
• best practices and case studies of business experimentation for sustainability;
• policy implications for business experimentation for sustainability;
• sustainable operational solutions;
• sustainable consumer service;
• sustainability in business economics;
• green marketing; spirituality.

Dr. Varun Gupta
Prof. Dr. Chetna Gupta
Dr. Leandro Ferreira Pereira
Dr. Lawrence Peters
Prof. Dr. Antonio Ferreras
Guest Editors

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• sustainability
• spirituality
• green marketing
• social businesses