Understanding the environmental impact of sustainable IT: An empirical examination

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

Emission; Environmental performance; Sustainable IT practices

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; NEUTRON EMISSION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; DIRECT EMISSIONS; EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE-BASED THEORY; SUSTAINABLE IT; SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 84928485360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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