Institutional Change and Green IS: Towards Problem-Driven, Mechanism-Based Explanations

Butler, Tom

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-6108-2_19

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“…Research shows that this issue is high on corporate agendas: according to a global survey, 70% of companies have sustainability on their management agendas and 31% said they are profiting from sustainable business practice [23]. Increasingly, companies are feeling the force of regulative pressure, meaning they are being coerced to report on sustainability measures [1]. This triple bottom line reporting requirement has support in the literature [24].…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Integrating Green IS into the curriculum: a carbon footprinting case [22] Yet another theoretical framework has been developed by Tom Butler in Ireland where a richness of concepts and relationships calls out for empirical testing. This model includes the following elements: stakeholders, institutional pressures, Institutional and social mechanisms, Green IS and ultimately proposes a pathway to reduced Greenhouse Gas emissions [1]. We believe this to be a useful framework as it encapsulates the stakeholder dilemma experienced by listed companies (shareholders who expect short-term dividends at odds with future generations, who will inherit a world which has not been irreparably damaged by previous generations).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…A second institutional pressure worth examining concerns the normative pressure exerted by peer organisations on a firm [1]. This notion arises from institutional theory, which has provided the IS discipline with a range of useful applications [26].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This paper attempts to examine whether there are pressures which are driving companies on the JSE to systematise attempts at sustainable development and which pressures are most cogent. The contribution to knowledge will be an attempt to augment a currently-accepted model for Green Information Systems, which posits a relationship between stakeholders, institutional pressures, Green IS and one of the most relevant indicators of sustainability, reduction of Greenhouse Gas emissions [1]. This paper is organised as follows: we start with a literature review of Green IS, including Butler's theoretical model and how we propose to extend the model to include a fourth institutional pressure -a financial driver.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Key drivers of Green Information Systems in South African listed companies

Kotze

Belle

McGibbon

2014

2014 5th International Conference - Confluence the Next Generation Information Technology Summit (Confluence)

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This study on the use of Information Systems in support of sustainability, known as Green IS, was undertaken in the hope of adding data to the relatively scarce available research into the subject in South Africa. The research question explored whether or not companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange used information systems to support sustainability. Data was collected from companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange for a quantitative survey through an electronic questionnaire and tested against the adoption influencers defined by an expanded version of Butler's Integrative Model of Institutional Theory of Green Information Systems. This research found that Green IS practices with a direct cost saving component were favoured. This provides a theoretical contribution of this paper as an augmented model of Green IS isproposed to include financial pressure as a driver of Green IS. In additional, this empirical study suggests support for Butler's normative driver of Green IS, as 62% of respondents expressed the view that Green practice had become the norm in their sector.

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confidence: 98%

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2014

2014 5th International Conference - Confluence the Next Generation Information Technology Summit (Confluence)

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“…1;2015 structuration theory and the organizing vision. The institutional theory is concerned with the influences that shape social and organizational structures, schemes, rules, norms, schemes and ultimately the behavior of social actors (Butler, 2012). The stakeholder holder theory provides the benefit of identifying who is key in the project and if and how they can be managed (Mishra & Dwivedi, 2012).…”

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Mindfulness and Quality of Innovation in Cloud Computing Adoption

Oredo¹,

Njihia²

2014

IJBM

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The emergence of cloud computing is quickly redefining the information technology (IT) and business landscape. Cloud computing involves delivery of IT infrastructure, software and platforms as a service to the end users. This IT acquisition model saves organizations from huge capital expenditures on IT and the burden of keeping a huge IT department to provide system support. Cloud computing as an IT innovation is steadily generating a lot of interest within IT innovation researchers and practitioners. Extant research in IT innovation has heavily relied on the dominant paradigm which explains and predicts innovation adoption on the basis of economic-rationalistic models. These models assume a direct relationship between an organization's innovator profile and the quantity of adoption in terms of earliness, frequency and extent of adoption. Further, they have always assumed a positive relationship between the quantity of innovation and quality of innovation. The advent of radical IT innovations like cloud computing calls for a rethinking of the dominant paradigm in terms of its efficacy in explaining innovative behaviors in organizations. Organizations hoping to adopt cloud computing are in need of a unifying IT innovation model that will help them discern whether, when and how to innovate. That is, they are concerned about the quality of innovation. This study proposes an IT innovation adoption model that incorporates the concept of mindfulness as a moderating factor between quantity of innovation and quality of innovation. The proposed conceptual model is a result of a thorough literature review of the IT innovation adoption research. This study, though conceptual, enriches cloud computing research by proposing an IT innovation model that suits its radical nature compared to other IT innovations. The proposed model once validated will also be of valuable use to practitioners and researchers interested in cloud adoption.

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Institutional pressures and firms’ environmental management behavior: the moderating role of slack resources

Wang

2022

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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Institutional Change and Green IS: Towards Problem-Driven, Mechanism-Based Explanations

Cited by 5 publications

References 55 publications

Key drivers of Green Information Systems in South African listed companies

Key drivers of Green Information Systems in South African listed companies

Mindfulness and Quality of Innovation in Cloud Computing Adoption

Institutional pressures and firms’ environmental management behavior: the moderating role of slack resources

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