Encouraging Sustainable Pro-Environmental Behavior in Organizations Using Information Systems

鼓励使用信息系统的组织采取可持续的环保行为

• 批准号: 289192107
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Marina Fiedler
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl für BWL mit Schwerpunkt Management, Personal und Information
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2015-12-31 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/289192107?language=en
• 关键词: Encouraging; Sustainable; Pro; Environmental; Behavior

How can organizations encourage their employees to act pro-environmentally in the workplace? The DFG-funded project we started in July 2016, seeks to address this question by examining the role of information systems (IS) in increasing employees’ pro-environmental behavior (PEB). We know from literature that IS are entangled with human activity. Research in this tradition has focused on the interplay of human and material agency, but has downplayed the roles of structures and institutions. Therefore, our interdisciplinary project integrates technological, human, and organizational factors to augment the understanding about how to encourage employee PEB by leveraging the motivating potentials of IS. To date, only our project draws on the need for joint analysis of the direct and moderating effects of technical, human, and organizational aspects of PEB in organizations. We seek to address this gap by investigating the interactions between institutional logics, psychological dynamics, and IS affordances and how they influence the effectiveness of IS-based interventions.The investigation will contribute to theory in IS and organizational behavior. Particularly, we contribute to calls for more in-depth and methodological diverse research on institutional logics and affordance theory and the integration of both theories to better understand IS-enabled organizational sustainability transformations. Our project is guided by three research questions: (1) How do different IS affordances influence employee PEB and how are they actualized by employees? (2) How do IS affordances and institutional logics interplay to influence organizational sustainability transformations? (3) How and why do institutional logics change over time? Investigating these questions provides needed insights into the design and usage of gamified IS for employee PEB, influences of institutional logics on the effectiveness of gamified IS and the change dynamics of institutional logics.Based on the rich data we have already gathered from interviews, documents, and observations at our partner companies Audi and Symrise and a laboratory experiment, we designed different affordances in gamified IS artifacts (i.e. mobile apps) to examine their effectiveness in encouraging employee PEB in longitudinal field experiments. Building on usage data and interviews from the field experiments, we will apply a mixed-methods approach to investigate employees’ actualization of affordances. To unveil the impact of institutional logics on affordance actualization, we apply a self-developed scale to measure the dominant institutional logic(s) via large-scale cross-sectional and longitudinal surveys. Further interviews will unearth how balancing and blending mechanisms resulted in a change of the dominant institutional logic for PEB. Thus, our research setting and design provides the rare opportunity to examine IS-enabled organizational sustainability transformations over time in real work environments.

企业如何鼓励员工在工作场所采取环保行动？我们于2016年7月启动了由dfg资助的项目，旨在通过检查信息系统（IS）在提高员工亲环境行为（PEB）方面的作用来解决这个问题。我们从文献中得知，伊斯兰国与人类活动纠缠在一起。这一传统的研究侧重于人与物质的相互作用，但对结构和制度的作用却轻描淡写。因此，我们的跨学科项目整合了技术、人力和组织因素，以增强对如何通过利用信息系统的激励潜力来鼓励员工PEB的理解。到目前为止，只有我们的项目需要对组织中PEB的技术、人员和组织方面的直接和缓和影响进行联合分析。我们试图通过调查制度逻辑、心理动态和信息系统支持之间的相互作用以及它们如何影响基于信息系统的干预措施的有效性来解决这一差距。该调查将有助于IS和组织行为学的理论。特别是，我们呼吁对制度逻辑和支持理论进行更深入和方法多样化的研究，并将这两种理论整合起来，以更好地理解is推动的组织可持续性转型。我们的项目以三个研究问题为指导：(1)不同的信息系统启示如何影响员工的PEB，以及员工如何实现这些启示？(2)信息系统能力和制度逻辑如何相互作用影响组织的可持续性转型？(3)制度逻辑如何以及为什么会随着时间而变化？调查这些问题可以为员工PEB的游戏化信息系统的设计和使用，制度逻辑对游戏化信息系统有效性的影响以及制度逻辑的变化动态提供必要的见解。基于我们从合作伙伴公司奥迪和Symrise的访谈、文件和观察中收集到的丰富数据以及实验室实验，我们在游戏化的IS工件（即移动应用程序）中设计了不同的功能支持，以检查其在纵向现场实验中鼓励员工PEB的有效性。基于现场实验的使用数据和访谈，我们将采用混合方法来调查员工对支持的实现情况。为了揭示制度逻辑对功能实现的影响，我们采用自行开发的量表，通过大规模的横断面和纵向调查来衡量占主导地位的制度逻辑。进一步的访谈将揭示平衡和混合机制如何导致PEB主导制度逻辑的变化。因此，我们的研究设置和设计提供了难得的机会来检查在真实的工作环境中，随着时间的推移，由is驱动的组织可持续性转变。