Green IS research: A modernity perspective

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 596-623

  El Idrissi, Sarah Cherki ^a   Corbett, Jacqueline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental sustainability; Green IS; IS history; Modernity; Reflexivity

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; GREEN IS; IS HISTORY; MODERNITY; REFLEXIVITY;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84966359610     PISSN: 15293181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17705/1CAIS.03830     Document Type: Article

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