Does environmental performance affect organizational performance? Evidence from green IT organizations

International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 889-906

  Nishant, Rohit ^a   Teo, Thompson S H ^a   Goh, Mark ^a,b   Krishnan, Satish ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Environmental performance; Green IT; Organizational performance

Indexed keywords

CORPORATE ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; GREEN IT; HARMFUL EMISSIONS; OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE-BASED;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EMISSION CONTROL;

EID: 84886507266     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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