Breaking the iron law: Implementing cost effective, green ICT in the UK public sector

ECIS 2012 - Proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Butler, Tom ^a   Hackney, Ray ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy; Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; ICT strategy; Institutional theory; Qualitative field study; Social mechanisms

Indexed keywords

COST REDUCTION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; IRON RESEARCH; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; TAXATION;

ENERGY; ICT STRATEGIES; INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT; INSTITUTIONAL THEORY; PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION; QUALITATIVE FIELD STUDIES; STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATIONS; TRANSFORMATIONAL GOVERNMENTS;

GREENHOUSE GASES;

EID: 84905748800     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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