Organizational adoption of green IS & IT: An institutional perspective

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Chen, Adela J ^a   Boudreau, Marie Claude ^a   Watson, Richard T ^a   Karahanna, Elena ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; Coercive pressure; Green information systems (IS); Green information technology (IT); Institutional isomorphism; Mimetic pressure; Natural resource based view

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; COERCIVE PRESSURES; GREEN INFORMATION SYSTEMS (IS); GREEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT); INSTITUTIONAL ISOMORPHISM; MIMETIC PRESSURES; NATURAL-RESOURCE-BASED VIEW;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84870963336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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