Greening with IT: Practices of leading countries and strategies of followers

Management Decision

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 629-642

  Lee, Sang M ^a   Park, Sang Hyun ^b   Trimi, Silvana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b National Computerization Agency   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Carbon footprint; Developing countries; Green IT; Information technology; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875589475     PISSN: 00251747     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/00251741311309698     Document Type: Article

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