Green IT segment analysis: An academic literature review

20th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Tushi, Bonny Tuskeen ^a   Sedera, Darshana ^a   Recker, Jan ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Green IS; Green IT; Green IT research area; Literature review; Research agenda

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

ACADEMIC LITERATURE; GREEN INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GREEN IS; INDIVIDUAL LEVELS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; RESEARCH AGENDA; RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS;

GREEN COMPUTING;

EID: 84905967763     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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