Sustainable notebooks: Who carries the cost?

ICIS 2009 Proceedings - Thirtieth International Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Desautels, Philip ^a   Berthon, Pierre ^a  

^a BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Notebooks; Price analysis; Sustainability; Tragedy of the commons

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL COSTS; MARKET PRICE; NOTEBOOKS; PORTABLE COMPUTERS; PRICE ANALYSIS; TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS;

AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; COMPUTERS; COSTS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MICROCOMPUTERS; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871173180     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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