Sustainable IS initialization through outsourcing: A theory-based approach

17th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2011, AMCIS 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 2282-2291

  Nedbal, Dietmar ^a   Wetzlinger, Werner ^a   Auinger, Andreas ^a   Wagner, Gerold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES UPPER AUSTRIA   (Austria)

Author keywords

B2B Integration; Green IS; Green IT; Outsourcing; Sustainability; Sustainable IS

Indexed keywords

B2B INTEGRATION; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS; EMPIRICAL SURVEYS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; ENVIRONMENTALLY-FRIENDLY; GREEN IS; GREEN IT; IMPLEMENTATION SUCCESS; OUTSOURCING SUCCESS; SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS; SUSTAINABLE IS; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE; TECHNOLOGY-ORGANIZATION-ENVIRONMENT FRAMEWORKS; TRANSACTION-COST THEORY;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RESEARCH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84870155457     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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