How Could We Have Known? Anticipating Sustainability Effects of a Software Product
Paper in proceeding, 2021
Companies are required to think of ways to address their sustainability responsibilities and impacts. Although they commonly present some of their activities and impacts at a high-level of abstraction in their sustainability strategies, the impacts of their products and services may remain unclear in such reporting. This is partly due to the lack of suitable tools to increase their awareness regarding the potential effects of these products and services on different sustainability dimensions. Using a case study, this paper shows how the Sustainability Awareness Framework (SusAF) can be applied to identify such potential effects of an IT company’s (software) product and how such identified effects could be linked to the company focus.
Software product
Sustainability effects
SusAF
Author
Jari Porras
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT)
Colin C. Venters
University of Huddersfield
Birgit Penzenstadler
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT)
Testing, Requirements, Innovation and Psychology
Leticia Duboc
University Ramon Llull
Stefanie Betz
Furtwangen University (HFU)
Norbert Seyff
University of Zürich
Saeid Heshmatisafa
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT)
Shola Oyedeji
Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology (LUT)
Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
1865-1348 (ISSN) 18651356 (eISSN)
Vol. 434 LNBIP 10-179783030919825 (ISBN)
12th International Conference on Software Business, ICSOB 2021
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Driving Forces
Sustainable development
Subject Categories
Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified
Environmental Management
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-91983-2_2