Green IT More Than a Three Percent Solution?

Ruth, Stephen R.

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“…Its evolution through eco-innovations is a natural result of progress over the last decades. The ubiquity of ICTs leads to increased energy consumption and CO 2 emissions with considerable negative effects on the environment in terms of sustainable development [3][4][5][6][7][8]. This ubiquity also leads to increasing the volume of e-waste [9][10][11][12].…”

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“…The advantages obtained by companies are essential both internally and in their relations with the external environment, providing a competitive market position [70] (pp. [6][7][8][9][10][11]. Competitiveness between ICT manufacturers in terms of pro-environment characteristics is quite large, and their popularization has become commonplace for each sub-sector, with larger companies competing for supremacy, according to studies published by Green Peace [71].…”

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Determinants of Green ICT Adoption in Organizations: A Theoretical Perspective

Radu

2016

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Information and communication technologies (ICT) are present in almost all fields of human activity. The expansion of their use should be balanced by the results of the studies on the negative effects on the environment. The relationship between these technologies and the environment is relatively new. The application of environmental criteria is commonly referred to as green ICT or green computing. Awareness of the importance of the ecosystem has led to increased interest in its protection both in production and in consumption. Green ICT should be a major concern not only for the hardware and software producers but also for the users. They could stimulate the demand for less harmful products for the environment with an essential role in the after-sales stages. Companies can contribute to this process by resource efficiency, dematerialization, and minimizing e-waste, increasing recycling, and producing fewer CO 2 emissions. The decision to adopt green ICT depends on the expected benefits and investments. This decision depends on costs, competitiveness, financial support, managers and employees' characteristics and skills, legal regulations, supply, and demand. The contributions of the paper cover identifying, analysing and classifying general and specific determinants of green ICT adoption in organizations based on the literature in this field.

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Determinants of Green ICT Adoption in Organizations: A Theoretical Perspective

Radu

2016

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“…Not only should plan use such IT equipment, but it also coordinates both human resources and other parts of the organization to optimally use mentioned equipment. Thus, the organization can move towards playing the managerial role of Green IT services by optimal energy consumption and cost reduction which in turns enhance industry, economy, environment, and the competition in global markets (Ruth, 2009). Now, the question is how managers can comprehend the greenness level of IT services in their company.…”

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Evaluation of Green IT services with Fuzzy Screening approach

Shokouhyar

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Aalirezaei

2017

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Regarding development of Information Technology, the world of industry has inordinately benefited, albeit that has some losses. Unless the losses are considered, advanced losses will be seen after progress with which is more difficult to cope. Neglecting the future and the risk involved in the industry, not to mention the lack of knowledge in dealing with sudden alterations, compel irrecoverable loss. In this context, information technology services in organizations are aimed to be cost-effective and have minimum environmental impact, according to green information technology strategies. Concerning significance of the issue, purpose of this research is assessment of information technology services with respect to greenness level in a general contractor organization by combination of Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process and Fuzzy Screening Procedure to enhance the greenness level of IT services. The effectiveness of using this approach is including qualitative, quantitative, and uncertainty nature of the problem. In this paper, to consider the Green IT services criteria, literatures have been studied by meta-synthesis method, then the importance of the criteria has been determined by questionnaires so as to rank Green IT criteria. Eventually, the organization level has been concluded in terms of the greenness level of IT services. As a case study, IT experts and managers of KAYSON Inc. organization are considered as statistical population of this research. The reduction had the highest weight among other criteriarecycling and reusing -in KAYSON Inc. organization. Finally, the organization greenness level was determined moderate in terms of IT services.

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“…Despite the fact that a downside to virtualization is that its complexity requires frequent maintenance and support tools (Ruth, 2009), process virtualization is the main driver of Green IT implementation in organizations building environmental thinking into their business strategies (Harris, 2008). While virtualization ushers complexity and difficulty for system administrators to visualize and the problems may persist before the proper tools are employed, the downside risks are overwhelmed by the benefits.…”

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“…To address the corporate commuting and office space issues, and to offer flexibilities to both employees and employers, Telework has become an important contributor to green practices (Ruth, 2009), as companies such as IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Cisco have been using telecommuting for half their workforce for more than a decade. This environmentally friendly practice provides a multitude of benefits that include increased productivity, lower cost due to reduction in office space requirement, reduced business travel, and enables a virtual collaborative work environment (Butler et al, 2007;Westfall, 2004).…”

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Journal of Strategic Information Systems

Galliers¹

2008

The Journal of Strategic Information Systems

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a b s t r a c tGreen IT (information technology) has recently emerged into an active research area in the information systems (IS) discipline. A major gap that exists in the Green IT research literature today is the absence of a theoretical framework that can be used to assist organizations in assessing their potential for undertaking Green IT initiatives and implementing them via modern technological means such as virtualization. This study attempts to bridge this gap by developing and proposing an integrative framework which focuses on identifying and examining the factors that contribute to the assessment of a firm's readiness to go green via IT-enabled virtualization. The framework is firmly grounded using three wellestablished IS theories: (a) technology-organization-environment, (b) process-virtualization, and (c) diffusion of innovation. It integrates these three theoretical lenses to utilize the strengths of each for assessing the potential for undertaking Green IT initiatives and the stages of Green IT implementation at the organizational level. The implications of the outcome of this study, both for the IS researchers and for the practicing managers are discussed. The plan for empirical testing and validation of our propositions is presented, as well as suggestions for future extensions of this study.

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Green IT More Than a Three Percent Solution?

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Determinants of Green ICT Adoption in Organizations: A Theoretical Perspective

Determinants of Green ICT Adoption in Organizations: A Theoretical Perspective

Evaluation of Green IT services with Fuzzy Screening approach

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