IT and eco-sustainability: Developing and validating a green IT readiness model

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Molla, Alemayehu ^a   Cooper, Vanessa A ^a   Pittayachawan, Siddhi ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capability; Eco sustainability; G readiness; Green IS; Green IT; Readiness

Indexed keywords

CAPABILITY; ECO-SUSTAINABILITY; G-READINESS; GREEN IS; GREEN IT; READINESS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGERS;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84870961588     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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