Organizational green IT adoption: Concept and evidence

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 16737-16755

  Deng, Qi ^a   Ji, Shaobo ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Content analysis; Green IT adoption; Sustainable competitive advantage

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; POLICY MAKING; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EID: 84952328777     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su71215843     Document Type: Article

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