Assessing the Ethical, Social and Environmental Performance of Conferences

Sergio España; Vijanti Ramautar; Quang Tan Le

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Assessing the Ethical, Social and Environmental Performance of Conferences

Sergio España^*, Vijanti Ramautar, Quang Tan Le

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Utrecht University

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Abstract

There is a rising demand for assessing the performance of organisations on ethical, social and environmental (ESE) topics. Ethical, social and environmental accounting (ESEA) is common practice in many types of organisations and initiatives. Currently, scientific conferences are not in the spotlight nor feeling pressure to disclose their ESE accounts. However, proactively adopting these practices is an opportunity to lead the way and show commitment and responsibility. Since no existing ESEA method fits the domain of conferences well, this paper presents preliminary results on engineering such a method. We discuss material ESE topics for conferences, key performance indicators, measurement and data collection methods, and ICT infrastructure. We illustrate the method concepts by applying it to the RCIS conference series. We are confident that conference organisers and scientific communities will start assessing the performance of their conferences under many organisational sustainability dimensions and, what is more important, initiate reflection processes to improve such performance over the years.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022)
Editors	Renata Guizzardi, Jolita Ralyté, Xavier Franch
Publisher	Springer
Pages	752-760
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Print)	9783031057595
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05760-1_52
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2022 - Barcelona, Spain Duration: 17 May 2022 → 20 May 2022

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Name	Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Volume	446 LNBIP
ISSN (Print)	1865-1348
ISSN (Electronic)	1865-1356

Conference

Conference	16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2022
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	17/05/22 → 20/05/22

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Keywords

Ethical social and environmental accounting
Ethics in information science
Scientific conferences
Sustainability reporting

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España, S., Ramautar, V., & Le, Q. T. (2022). Assessing the Ethical, Social and Environmental Performance of Conferences. In R. Guizzardi, J. Ralyté, & X. Franch (Eds.), 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022) (pp. 752-760). (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 446 LNBIP). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05760-1_52

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España, S, Ramautar, V & Le, QT 2022, Assessing the Ethical, Social and Environmental Performance of Conferences. in R Guizzardi, J Ralyté & X Franch (eds), 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022). Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol. 446 LNBIP, Springer, pp. 752-760, 16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2022, Barcelona, Spain, 17/05/22. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05760-1_52

Assessing the Ethical, Social and Environmental Performance of Conferences. / España, Sergio; Ramautar, Vijanti; Le, Quang Tan.
16th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2022). ed. / Renata Guizzardi; Jolita Ralyté; Xavier Franch. Springer, 2022. p. 752-760 (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing; Vol. 446 LNBIP).

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