Corporate ecological responsiveness, environmental ambidexterity and it-enabled environmental sustainability strategy

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Thambusamy, Ravi ^a   Salam, A F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Corporate ecological responsiveness; Corporate payoffs; Environmental ambidexterity; Firm motivations; It strategic role; It enabled environmental sustainability strategy

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE ECOLOGICAL RESPONSIVENESS; CORPORATE PAYOFFS; ENVIRONMENTAL AMBIDEXTERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; STRATEGIC ROLE;

COMPETITION; ECOLOGY; INDUSTRY; RESEARCH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870971881     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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