Group Decision Approach to Adopt Green IT Practices Based on S.W.O.T Analysis

Silva, Lúcio Câmara e; Poleto, Thiago; Moura, Jadielson Alves de; Daher, Suzana de Franca Dantas; Costa, Ana Paula Cabral Seixas

doi:10.1109/smc.2013.132

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“…Knowledge and information sharing between economic agents or organizations can aid the management of resources, mitigate intrinsic risks, reduce production costs and increase team performances (Xiao et al, 2021). Operational Research methodologies are common to model and evaluate information structures, contract designs and information technology prospects such as customer-knowledge enabled innovations (Wen et al, 2019), sustainability and green IT practices (Nepomuceno & Costa, 2019a;Silva et al, 2013), delaytime (Scarf et al, 2019), work in process levels (Pergher & Vaccaro, 2014), risk management (Cavalcante et al, 2017;Mendonc xa Silva et al, 2016) and IT and service products such as web-pages (Nepomuceno, Nepomuceno, & Sadok (2020)) resources and storage assignments (Fontana & Cavalcante, 2014;Nepomuceno & Costa, 2019a;Pergher & de Almeida, 2018).…”

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When Penalty Fails: Modeling Contractual Misincentives With Evidence From Portugal ITO Agreements

Nepomuceno

Poleto

et al. 2022

Sage Open

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A misincentive is characterized as an incentive producing the opposite effect of motivating or preventing some specific action. In some circumstances, contract penalties such as sanctions and fines on late delivery or low-quality software encourage the irregularities instead of preventing them from occurring. The present study models misincentive behaviors in Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) transactions as a Principal-Agent problem. Considering the non-linear relationship in software vendors’ cost structure and the client’s sensitivity to the product/service quality and delivery time, we offer theoretical modeling elucidating the best responses on agreements under incomplete and asymmetric information. Some empirical evidence of contractual misincentives is reported in outsourcing arrangements between private institutions and public administrations in Portugal. The contracts were divided into three categories: pure contracts with no incentive clauses, contracts with no explicit monetary penalties, and contracts under explicit sanctions. The results suggest that the knowledge of the penalty reduces the Agent’s uncertainty about the Principal’s cost structure and might lead them to intentionally delay the delivery of the technology.

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Section: Theoretical Modelingmentioning

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When Penalty Fails: Modeling Contractual Misincentives With Evidence From Portugal ITO Agreements

Nepomuceno

Poleto

et al. 2022

Sage Open

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“…Post-print version of the paper by Anthony Jnr,B et al in Journal of Systems and Information Technology,21(2) (2019) 1328-7265 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JSIT-10-2017-0083 Silva et al (2013) developed group decision approach to adopt Green IT Practices Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat (S.W.O.T) analysis Support decision process of adopting Green practices by group decision since SWOT analysis is an essential tool for strategic decision-making. Jeong et al (2013) propose an approximate life cycle assessment (LCA) method Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and CBR Presented the approximate method for a rapid and convenient environmental evaluation in product development.…”

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Emerging case oriented agents for sustaining educational institutions going green towards environmental responsibility

Anthony

Majid

Romli

2019

JSIT

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to design a system deployment model that integrates case-based agent technique to develop an eco-responsibility decision support tool for greening educational institutions toward environmental responsibility. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected through questionnaires distributed among a statistical population that comprised practitioners across educational institutions in Malaysia that implement green practices. The questionnaire measured the feasibility of the developed tool based on factors derived from the literature. Accordingly, descriptive, exploratory and factor analysis approach using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) was used to test the feasibility of the developed tool. Findings Results from descriptive analysis confirm the tool is feasible based on mean values that range from 4.1619 to 3.6508 on a five-point scale, indicating that the tool is effective in sustaining educational institutions going green. Besides, results from exploratory analysis verify the reliability of the tool based on the acceptable Cronbach’s alpha reliability coefficient score higher than 0.7 and Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin value being above 0.5. Finally, results from factor analysis reveal that the developed tool is usable, efficient, helpful, flexible and credible and supports educational institutions in going green at 88.44 per cent of the total variance, suggesting that the respondents are satisfied with the tool. Research limitations/implications The sample population in this study comprises only practitioners from educational institutions in Malaysia. Theoretically, this research provides feasibility factors and associated items that can be used in evaluating developed information systems. Practical implications Practically, this study develops an eco-responsibility decision support tool to facilitate green strategies and provides information on how practitioners in educational institutions can improve green growth. Social implications This study presents how case-oriented agents aid educational institutions in going green for environmental responsibility. Socially, this research provides the strategies for green practice improvement in educational institutions toward environmental responsibility. Originality/value The eco-responsibility decision support tool provides a Web-based platform for promoting ecological protection by supporting the measuring of practitioners’ current green practices for environmental responsibility. Thus, research findings from this study are expected to help decision-makers generate useful insights into environment-friendly strategies to be implemented in educational institutions. Lastly, the statistical tests adopted in this paper can be used to gauge the feasibility of information system application in future.

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“…Similarly, fuzzy logic was applied as a technique by Bai and Sarkis [15] and Deng et al [16] to assist management in making decisions on how to implement green strategies in organizations. SWOT analysis technique was adapted by Silva et al [17] to evaluate the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to organizations by adopting green IT in their enterprise.…”

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Case Based Reasoning for Green Information Systems Infusion and Assimilation among IT Professionals in University Campuses

2018

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Information Technology (IT) usage in university campuses consumes an enormous amount of power and incurs other costs in cooling and related operations. Currently, universities are infusing environmentally friendly initiatives in their campuses. However, IT professionals in most universities are not still sure how to infuse and assimilate environmentally friendly practices. Hence, green Information Systems (IS) are suggested for the utilization of technologies and systems in a greener and more sustainable planet. Accordingly, this study provides a review of existing green IS practices and further proposes a decision support framework based on Case Based Reasoning (CBR) technique. The proposed framework utilizes CBR to support the decision making of IT professionals in infusing and assimilating green IS within university campuses. Findings of this study show how the framework utilizes CBR to support IT professionals in assimilating green IS lifecycle and infusing green IS determinants. Furthermore, they show how IT professionals can green their university campuses. Moreover, this research study would be of interest to data and knowledge management community as well as environmental scientists and sustainability researchers.

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Group Decision Approach to Adopt Green IT Practices Based on S.W.O.T Analysis

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

When Penalty Fails: Modeling Contractual Misincentives With Evidence From Portugal ITO Agreements

When Penalty Fails: Modeling Contractual Misincentives With Evidence From Portugal ITO Agreements

Emerging case oriented agents for sustaining educational institutions going green towards environmental responsibility

Case Based Reasoning for Green Information Systems Infusion and Assimilation among IT Professionals in University Campuses

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