Environmental concern is becoming an important invest theme for progressive investors the world over. Investors are opting to invest in organizations which utilize environmentfriendly technologies and business practices to reduce their carbon footprint. Such businesses are known as green businesses. Investors are preferring organizations which have environmental concerns built into their vision...

Consumers and organisations are increasingly considering longer term sustainability issues when they purchase or supply goods or services: “green buying” appears to be gaining momentum. However, progress is slow and the percentage of green purchases has remained static at 2% for the last two years. This paper suggests that a network approach to the drivers of green purchasing and supply may pro...

This article analyzes how chemical manufacturers can develop stronger business advantages for green chemistry by rethinking sustainability marketing approaches. Green chemistry is a package of technologies, design principles and tools to reduce the toxicity, resource and energy use, and pollution of chemicals. Using research into US chemical industry efforts, this article introduces green chemi...

Extant Green IT practices and reports reveal that many organizations implementing Green IT face the problem of sustaining Green IT initiatives to gain long term advantage. This study attempts to address the issue by proposing a sustainability model for Green IT initiatives. It evaluates longitudinal changes in Green IT environmental performance of 24 firms featured in the top Green IT rankings ...

This study aims to examine and analyze the influence of green creativity business independence on competitive advantage moderated by IT empowerment. The research population is all creative SMEs in Tangerang, Yogyakarta West Java regions. Samples were taken from part using purposive sampling technique. target sample this 400 SMEs. However, there only 272 who completely filled out questionnaire t...

There is a growing interest on the profitability and value of Green Business Models related to our societies strong push greening businesses due climate change environmental challenges. Regulation everyday getting tighter different topics green. Energy water consumption, type energy used, greenhouse emissions, waste, use materials resources, recycling materials, collaboration types latest fulfi...

Using the natural resource based perspective (NRBV) as our theoretical lens, green IS is conceptualized as comprising different dimensions of sustainability practices that can create competitive advantage for the organization. This study examine (i) the impact of adoption of green IS on organizational performance; (ii) the impact of the extent of adoption of green IS on organizational performan...

Across the globe, more companies are pursuing economically viable green manufacturing in order to efficiently reduce or eliminate pollutants and hazardous substances. Companies are seeing the economic impact of green manufacturing because it creates sustainable development, allows opportunity for re-investment, supports cost saving strategies, and has a positive impact on the bottom line. These...