Developing green it capability: An absorptive capacity perspective

Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Cooper, Vanessa A ^a   Molla, Alemayehu ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Absorptive capacity; Green IT; Organisational learning

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY; DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES; ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE; EXTERNAL INFORMATIONS; EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE; GREEN IT; ORGANISATIONAL LEARNING; SOCIAL INTEGRATIONS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84928194264     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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