Unearthing the value of green IT

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Corbett, Jacqueline ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Embeddedness; Environmental sustainability; Green IT IS; IT value; Resource based view

Indexed keywords

EMBEDDEDNESS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GREEN IT; IT VALUE; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW;

HARDWARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870962717     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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