Over the last decade, an increasing number of firms are undertaking actions to cut their environmental impact. As information technology and information systems have permeated most business activities, they offer an important opportunity to solve the ecological problems. Green information technology and information systems (ITIS) has become one of the latest considerations to reduce energy cons...

This paper concentrates on two key areas connected with business informatics, i.e., business informatics management and the role of ICT in promoting sustainable development. The surveys mentioned in this paper show that organisations in the Czech Republic do not devote sufficient attention to these areas and thus lag behind organisations in other developed countries. To help enterprises with th...

Environmental technologies are becoming increasingly important for business firms to reduce environmental impacts and differentiate from competitors. In this paper, fundamental approaches of strategic management are presented and the strategic significance of sustainability initiatives and Green Information Technology (Green IT) is analyzed. Environmental strategies are introduced and the impor...

Information and communication technology has experienced a vast development and increased usage over the past few years. This development again yields to increasing energy consumption. In this paper we provide a research agenda that picks up this serious development and suggests first approaches how holistic energy efficiency could be introduced in enterprises without neglecting a company’s per...

It is widely considered that industrial networks are vital to the operation of small and medium sized enterprises in the manufacturing sector. In addition, it has been suggested that all organisations need to adopt some e-business tools and techniques to survive in the long term. This discussion paper presents an account of how e-business tools and techniques will affect the set-up and operatio...

Sustainability concerns are gaining ground as a better way to do business, because of its contribution to the triple bottom lineeconomically, environmentally, and socio-culturally (Graci & Dodds, 2008; Taylor, 2008). From this motive, the term Green has evolved in various business sectors with aim to substitute the use of toxic materials with non-toxic materials and non-sustainable practices/pr...

Using a combination of metamodels, ontologies, green performance indicators and metrics, we apply a novel approach in Semantic Business Process Benchmarking to the area of Green Business Process Management (Green BPM). Up to now, process benchmarking has mainly been a manual process; the approach described and empirically evaluated in this paper partially automates the time-consuming and costly...