Green Digits: Towards an Ecology of IT Thinking

The Oxford Handbook of Management Information Systems: Critical Perspectives and New Directions

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Berthon, Pierre ^a   DesAutels, Philip ^a   Donnellan, Brian ^b   Williams, Cynthia Clark ^a  

^a BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Green IT; Information views; IT paradoxes; Sustainability; Technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952625987     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199580583.003.0026     Document Type: Chapter

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