Green IT is creating a buzz these days, with a wide gamut of vendors-hardware suppliers, software developers, vertical integrators, service providers and customers-talking about the green activities and products in their organisation. This article seeks to articulate what TCS means by Green IT, together with identifying the key business drivers and the growing business opportunities in Green IT...

Green supply chain management (GSCM) is crucial for environmental compliance and business development of companies. Companies look for new ideas and methods to achieve environmental sustainability. GSCM is an innovative idea which involves all business value-adding operations, such as purchasing and in-bound logistics, production and manufacturing, distribution, out-bound logistics, and collabo...

Purpose – Awareness of environmental impacts on our society is increasing among companies. In order to turn environmental problems into business opportunities, many companies are beginning to consider how environmental, or green aspects can be integrated into their service offerings. This opportunity can be of specific interest to logistics service providers, whose core business is an environme...

In this study, we consider green supply chains as a potential area for business growth, product/operation efficiency, and effective utilization of environmental resources. These areas contribute to the greater good of the society. This study intends to focus on the various impacts of the green supply chain in terms of citizenship. We explore the concept of citizenship and how citizenship impact...

In this paper we examine an initial step towards Green Business Process Management. We give insights from a research project with the goal of monitoring and redesigning business processes in an environmentally sustainable manner. Using literature analysis and three case studies we derive suitable languages and software for business process modeling. In addition, we show business processes that ...

Green IT has emerged as an important research topic in information systems and in other areas, such as business sustainability management. Some progress has been made in our understandings of green IT in a wide area of research topics, ranging from the green IT definition to the motivation for adopting green IT by organizations. This paper provides a holistic review and explanation of why organ...

This paper reports on a 3 year-long PhD level research study carried out by the author in the development of Environmentally Responsible Business Strategies (ERBS). Although ERBS has taken a long time to develop, it is maturing into an approach used by many organizations in practice. This paper reports on the major elements that form part of ERBS: the business architecture, Green policies, proc...

Although the importance of green external integration has been widely recognized, our understanding of how firm size influences its link with firm performance is still limited. This study develops a conceptual framework in which firm size is proposed to moderate the relationships between green external integration, the time-to-market of environmentally friendly products and firm performance. We...

The concept of sustainable entrepreneurship is emerging due to the greening of the business environment. The objective of the present study is to distinguish the influencing factors for the entrepreneurial aspirants towards the sustainable entrepreneurship. It is an empirical study that incorporates 306 respondents. These respondents are young entrepreneurial aspirants. The study consists of fo...