A Green Information Technology governance model for large Mauritian companies

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 198, Issue , 2018, Pages 488-497

  Hardin Ramanan, Sarita ^a   Chang, Vanessa ^a   Issa, Tomayess ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Green IT; Green IT mechanisms; IT governance; IT governance mechanisms; Mauritius

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS;

BUSINESS PROCESS; CONFIRMATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL VULNERABILITY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE; IT GOVERNANCE; MAURITIUS; SMALL ISLAND DEVELOPING STATE; STRATEGIC VALUES;

GREEN COMPUTING;

EID: 85053076338     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.07.047     Document Type: Article

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