Green information technology, energy efficiency, and profits: Evidence from an emerging economy

ICIS 2010 Proceedings - Thirty First International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Mithas, Sunil ^a   Khu, Jiban ^a   Roy, Prasanto K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b ICT Publications   (India)

Author keywords

Business value of green IT; Emerging economies; Energy efficiency; Green information technology; Profit; Sustainability; Top management commitment

Indexed keywords

EMERGING ECONOMIES; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GREEN IT; IT EQUIPMENT; IT SPENDING; MANAGERIAL PRACTICES; TOP MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT;

ECONOMICS; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

PROFITABILITY;

EID: 84871164787     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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