Organizational green motivations for information technology: Empirical study

Journal of Computer Information Systems

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 92-102

  Molla, Alemayehu ^a   Abareshi, Ahmad ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption; Eco Sustainability; Green is; Green it; It for green; Motivation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861022953     PISSN: 08874417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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