IT-enabled sustainability transformation-the case of SAP

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 35, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-17

  Seidel, Stefan ^a   Recker, Jan ^b   Pimmer, Christoph ^c   vom Brocke, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES AND ARTS NORTHWESTERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Business software; Business transformation; Green IS; Information systems; Information technology; Software provider; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES; BUSINESS SOFTWARE; BUSINESS TRANSFORMATIONS; GLOBAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; GREEN IS; SCALE TRANSFORMATION; SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES; SUSTAINABLE STRATEGIES;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84904063418     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1cais.03501     Document Type: Article

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