Impact of Pressure for Environmental Sustainability on Grid Assimilation – Empirical Results from the Financial Services Industry

Vykoukal, Jens; Beck, Roman; Wolf, Michel De

doi:10.3127/ajis.v17i1.573

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“…Finally, the model mainly focussed on outsourcing in Green IS practice implementation. Furthermore, Vykoukal et al (2011) examined the impact to which pressure from government and non-governmental organizations influences environment-friendly practices for sustainability attainment in financial-based institutions. The model components consist of pressure for environmental sustainability, mimetic pressure, coercive Green information technology pressure and normative pressure, which impacts grid assimilation as the Green IT strategy component.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…But Vykoukal et al (2011) suggested that the behaviour of people can be changed by conducting workshops concerning Green initiative integration in achieving sustainability and can increase their rigidity to eco-friendly practices. Chen et al (2008), Nedbal et al (2011) mentioned that institutions should develop and train their staff to achieve the state of rational knowledge headed for sustainability attainment.…”

Section: Components That Influences Sustainability Achievementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This was supported by finding from Zheng (2014), who shows that 55 per cent of institutions surveyed saw an increase in profit or cost reduction as the main motivator for infusing Green IT practices and not really the concerns for the environment or attaining efficient energy. Vykoukal et al (2011) believes that energy cost reduction in any institutions is often linked to the goal to achieve competitive advantage. It is therefore imperative to say that cost decrease encourages institutions to implement eco-friendly practices and economic prospects (Seidel et al 2010;Molla et al, 2014).…”

Section: Cost Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…But, to achieve this goal, government-based institutions must progressively consider implementing Green IT initiatives as a medium to resolve environmental problems. Accordingly, Vykoukal et al (2011) stated that institutions that deploy Green IT policies to address environmental issues are likely to attain sustainability. Hence, findings from this research provide theoretical implication for how Green IT polices can be conceptualized in the design and sourcing of energy effective IT Green information technology infrastructures, as well as the proficient use and operation of hardware equipment in government-based institutions.…”

Section: Practical Implicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Green information technology adoption towards a sustainability policy agenda for government-based institutions

Anthony

Majid

Romli

2019

JSTPM

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to identify the key Green information technology (IT) components needed to be considered by government-based institutions and to develop a Green policy framework based on the identified Green IT components to facilitate government-based institutions achieve sustainability. Design/methodology/approach The Green policy framework and associated propositions are developed to facilitate government-based institutions achieve sustainability. In addition, a case study approach was adopted to verify the proposed framework based on data collected from open-ended interviews and sustainability report documents from two government-based institutions in Malaysia. Furthermore, the collected data were analyzed based on content analysis using descriptive and narrative method to present the findings of Green IT components adopted in the selected case studies. Findings Findings show that sustainability considerations are increasingly being deliberated in institutions. Moreover, finding from the analyzed data also indicates that there is an increased interest towards implementation of Green IT initiatives for developing, operating and usage by practitioners and staff within government-based institutions. Research limitations/implications Findings from this study suggest that the Green policy framework components have implications to support only government-based institutions address environmental, social and economic-related issues. Practical implications The developed Green IT components serve as robust indicators or constructs to measure management of Green IT initiatives currently being implemented and thereby provide a framework for sustainability committee members to benchmark their current Green IT practice. Social implications This study provides an agenda to guide government-based institutions achieve sustainability goals. Accordingly, government-based institutions can adopt the framework’s components to evaluate their progress, hence improving their target of attaining sustainability. Besides, this research provides an approach for assessing current practices adopted in government-based institutions against the Green IT components. Originality/value The originality of this study is attributed to the fact that this study presents Green IT policy framework to be considered by government-based institutions in achieving sustainability. The framework provides an agenda to simultaneously consider all three dimensions of sustainability the people, planet and profit (social, environment and economic). Moreover, this is one of the first studies to explore Green IT practices in government-based institutions.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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Section: Components That Influences Sustainability Achievementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Cost Managementmentioning

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Section: Practical Implicationmentioning

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Green information technology adoption towards a sustainability policy agenda for government-based institutions

Anthony

Majid

Romli

2019

JSTPM

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“…The finding of this research also supports the finding presented by Lami & Buglione (2012) on evaluating software sustainability where the authors mentioned that the Green information technologies and system applied during the software development process influence energy usage and CO2 emission. Furthermore, findings regarding pressure as one of the predictors that influences sustainable software practice application corroborates Jenkin et al (2011) and Vykoukal et al (2011). The authors stated that pressure within the organization by the management, pressure from governmental and nongovernmental associations and pressure from end-users of services produced by the organization motivate the organization towards sustainable practice application.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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An Empirical Study on Predictors of Green Sustainable Software Practices in Malaysian Electronic Industries

Anthony

Majid

Romli

2018

Journal of Information and Communication Technology

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Currently, sustainability is a pertinent issue that should be considered in the software development process; hence it is imperative to recognize how environmental-friendly practices can be applied in the electronic industries that develop and deploy software products. However, sustainability is not fully considered when electronic industries implement modern software systems. Additionally, software developers in electronic industries believe that software is environmental friendly mainly because it is virtual. Conversely, the life cycle process and approaches applied to implement, deploy and maintain software do possess social and environmental impacts that are usually not accounted for by electronic industries. Therefore this study identified the predictors that determine sustainable software practice applications in electronics industries by presenting a model to facilitate sustainable software products development. The identified predictors influence sustainable software practices applications which correlate to environmental, technical, economic, social and individual dimensions of sustainability in electronics industries. Based on the identified predicators, this research developed a set of indicators for survey questions and collected data from 133 respondents from Information Technology (IT), software, environmental and electronic- based industries. The survey data aimed to verify each of the identified predictors that influence sustainable software practice applications. Descriptive and inferential statistical results from the survey data show that each of the predictors is significant and do influence sustainable software development. The finding from this study provides insights to electronic industries in implementing sustainable software practice applications.

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Green fintech: Developing a research agenda

Puschmann,

Khmarskyi

2024

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Digitalization and sustainability have been the core drivers of transformation of the financial industry in recent years. In this context, green fintech plays a major role, which, however, is still an unexplored field in business, information systems and finance research. This paper conducts a systematic literature analysis and develops a research agenda based on a framework, which is derived from clustering 74 academic research papers. The framework consists of the four clusters strategy, organization, technology, and potentials along nine dimensions. The research agenda reveals that green fintech is still a very premature field of research. The analysis shows that areas like customer‐ and government‐related services, insurance‐oriented approaches and SDGs which focus on life on land and life below water are still rare and that most of the approaches focus on blockchain technology, while other financial technologies like artificial intelligence are still underrepresented.

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Impact of Pressure for Environmental Sustainability on Grid Assimilation – Empirical Results from the Financial Services Industry

Cited by 18 publications

References 60 publications

Green information technology adoption towards a sustainability policy agenda for government-based institutions

Green information technology adoption towards a sustainability policy agenda for government-based institutions

An Empirical Study on Predictors of Green Sustainable Software Practices in Malaysian Electronic Industries

Green fintech: Developing a research agenda

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