Does Green IT matter? Analysis of the relationship between Green IT and GRID technology from a resource-based view perspective

PACIS 2009 - 13th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: IT Services in a Global Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Vykoukal, Jens ^a   Wolf, Martin ^a   Beck, Roman ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Green IT; Grid computing; Resource based view; Virtualization

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS; ENERGY EFFICIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GREEN GRID; GREEN IT; GRID TECHNOLOGIES; HARDWARE DEVICES; IT EQUIPMENT; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; VIRTUALIZATIONS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPETITION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 84855656256     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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