Compliance with institutional imperatives on environmental sustainability: Building theory on the role of Green IS

Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-26

  Butler, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Compliance; Decision making; Green IS; Green IT; Institutional theory; Knowledge sharing; Sense making

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE; GREEN IS; GREEN IT; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; KNOWLEDGE SHARING; SENSE-MAKING;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANUFACTURE; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 79952630125     PISSN: 09638687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsis.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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