Green IT adoption: An academic review of literature

Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Lei, Chun Fong ^a   Ngai, E W T ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Green IT; Green IT adoption; Literature review; Technology organization environment theory

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE;

ACADEMIC REVIEWS; GREEN IT; IMPLICATIONS FOR FUTURES; LITERATURE REVIEWS; TECHNOLOGY ORGANIZATION ENVIRONMENTS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84928474065     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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