Green IT strategies: A case study-based framework for aligning Green IT with competitive environmental strategies

PACIS 2011 - 15th Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems: Quality Research in Pacific

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Erek, Koray ^a   Loeser, Fabian ^a   Schmidt, Nils Holger ^b   Zarnekow, Ruediger ^a   Kolbe, Lutz M ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competitive advantage; Environmental strategies; Green IT; Strategic alignment; Strategy; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGY; GREEN IT; STRATEGIC ALIGNMENT; STRATEGY;

ALIGNMENT; COMPETITION; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84855838150     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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