Sustainable information systems: Does it matter?

Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Nishant, Rohit ^a   Teo, Thompson S H ^a   Goh, Mark ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adoption; Organizational performance; Sustainable IS

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; PROFITABILITY;

ADOPTION; COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; GLOBAL ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE MEASURE; RESOURCE-BASED VIEW; SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES; SUSTAINABLE IS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84928484928     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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