Sustainability is one of the key issues that organizations confront today, and ecologically responsible ("green") information systems (IS) initiatives are manifestations of sustainable business practices. Engaging in green IS initiatives can be challenging due to poor understanding of their holistic process. In this research, we develop a multitheoretical framework to provide a holistic underst...

The green agenda for cities and the economy in general is a major focus of global institutions and is increasingly a major national and urban priority. Core issues and best practice for built environment businesses were collated from published studies and used in a survey of Australian firms to see how committed they were to the green economy. The results show high awareness of the challenges a...

Sustainable green technology innovation is essential in all the stages of the supply chain development. The members of the supply chain in each stage need to invest in sustainable green technology innovation research and development. However, whether the sustainable green technology innovation investments and profits for all the members are fairness concerned is a critical factor to motivate th...

There is a considerable amount of awareness of environmental issues and corporate responsibility for sustainability. As such, from a technological viewpoint, Green IT has become an important topic in contemporary organizations. Consequently, organisations are expected to be innovative in their business practices to become more sustainable. Yet, the popularity and adoption of such initiatives am...

Recently, Green IT has been discussed with different levels of intensity. Manufacturers, associations, and trade shows are dealing with this subject. Green IT contests are announced and Green IT alliances are formed in addition to Green IT being an objective of public funding programs. Initially, the discussions focused on energy and resource consumption of information technology. As an example...

Presently, technology plays a vital role in the field of business to acquire its position in the global market. The authors’ proposal brings a smart way of making business by the eco-friendly and economical friendly Cloud TPS. Cloud TPS provides advance features compare with cloud computing because Cloud TPS bears with ACID property which is not acquired in cloud computing. It reveals the secre...

Of the past recent, the use of e-business has been up-taken amazingly in various business sectors considering its characteristics of ubiquity, universal standards, global reach, richness, information density, interactivity, and personalization or customization of messages (Laudon & Traver, 2006). The growth is said to be stimulated by the increasing demand for data processing and storage, that ...

This research aims to examine the influence of mediating effect of corporate social responsibility on the relationship between consumer awareness of green marketing and purchase intentions in the retail setting. Data from 200 valid questionnaires was analyzed using the partial least squares (PLS) approach for the analysis of structural equation models with SmartPLS computer program version 2.0 ...

In the emerging field of Green IT/IS, a figure of 2% is often quoted as the percentage of environmentally harmful emissions attributed to the use of IT and the IT industry. The term „Green IT‟ is now part of our vocabulary recognizing the problem of IT as a polluter and the responsibility of IT professionals to do something about it. On the other hand there is a counter argument that in IT and ...