Green IT beliefs and pro-environmental IT practices among IT professionals

Information Technology and People

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 129-154

  Molla, Alemayehu ^a   Abareshi, Ahmad ^a   Cooper, Vanessa ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Adoption; Behaviour; Empirical study; Green computing Green IT; Practice; Structural equation modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902497871     PISSN: 09593845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/ITP-10-2012-0109     Document Type: Article

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