Towards sustainable IT by teaching governance practices for inter-organizational dependencies

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 366, Issue , 2011, Pages 70-88

  Stolze, Carl ^a   Boehm, Matthias ^a   Zarvić, Novica ^a   Thomas, Oliver ^a  

^a NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alignment; Governance; Green IT; Information Technology; Inter Organizational Dependencies; Sustainability; Teaching

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT; GREEN COMPUTING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION USE; TEACHING;

DESIGN-SCIENCE RESEARCHES; GOVERNANCE; INTER-ORGANIZATIONAL; SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS; SUSTAINABLE IT;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84951126247     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: 1868422X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24148-2_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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