Green information systems (Green IS) practice in organisations: Tracing its emergence and recurrent use

18th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2012, AMCIS 2012

Volumn 6, Issue , 2012, Pages 4910-4921

  Ijab, Mohamad Taha ^a   Molla, Alemayehu ^a   Cooper, Vanessa ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Empirical study; Field; Green information systems; Theory of practice

Indexed keywords

CONFLICT RESOLUTION; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FIELD; GREEN INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN ACTOR; INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS; SUBFIELDS; THEORY OF PRACTICES;

HARDWARE;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84878089177     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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