Green information technology (GIT) and gender diversity

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2999-3007

  Mishra, Alok ^a   Akman, Ibrahim ^a  

^a ATILIM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Environment; Gender; Green Information Technology (GIT); Information and Communication Technologies (ICT); Regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84923362434     PISSN: 15829596     EISSN: 18433707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.30638/eemj.2014.338     Document Type: Article

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