Two presentations:
 
Eva Glanze (University of Hamburg): How Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises use Digital Technologies for Sustainable Practicing

The impact of global warming threatens humanity’s long-term peaceful survival. Information systems scholar have thus started to examine how organizations may use digital technologies to achieve sustainability goals such as reduced energy consumption or eco-effective practices. However, the insights to date largely only hold for large companies with expansive digital infrastructures and dedicated IT functions, which means that they do not apply to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that make up about 90 % of global businesses. SMEs usually do neither have sophisticated or expansive digital infrastructure, IT strategy or personnel, nor are they subjected to equivalent institutional pressures to engage in sustainable practicing. To address this lacuna of knowledge, we carried out an inductive multiple case study of four German manufacturing SMEs. In this paper, we present on the research procedures, interim findings, and expected contributions of our work in progress.

Philipp Staudt (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Balancing Allocation Efficiency with Complexity in Electricity Rate Design

Citizen Energy Communities that allow residents to share renewable energy generation among each other are increasingly popular given the current development of energy prices. They have also been a subject of GreenIS research over the last years as digital technology has enabled a real-time accounting of local generation and demand. However, the exact design of the allocation mechanism remains a subject of debate. While simple rate designs can easily be understood and handled by participants, they might lack the right incentive signals for an efficient consumption of locally generated energy. In this presentation, I will talk about an online experiment to evaluate how users value allocation efficiency and the ability to express preferences against complexity of an energy allocation mechanism. Furthermore, I'll present preliminary results and an outlook to further research.