Toward green IT: Modeling sustainable production characteristics for Chinese electronic information industry, 1980-2012

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

Volumn 96, Issue , 2014, Pages 62-70

  Zhang, Ning ^a   Xie, Hualin ^a  

^a JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese electronic information industry; Duality theory; Green IT; Non radial directional distance function; Sustainable production characteristics

Indexed keywords

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GREEN COMPUTING; PUBLIC POLICY;

DIRECTIONAL DISTANCE FUNCTION; DUALITY THEORY; ELECTRONIC INFORMATION INDUSTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNICAL EFFICIENCIES; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS; MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES; SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY; INDUSTRIAL HISTORY; INDUSTRIAL POLICY; INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION; INDUSTRIAL REGULATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SUSTAINABILITY; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY;

CHINA;

EID: 84988286124     PISSN: 00401625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.techfore.2014.10.011     Document Type: Article

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