Unpacking Green IS: A Review of the Existing Literature and Directions for the Future

Organizational Green IT Adoption: Concept and Evidence

“…Some regard them as the same object and use them interchangeably. The difference between green IS and green IT can be traced back to the difference between IT and IS [10]. In-depth analysis of such a difference is beyond the scope of this paper.…”

“…As Brooks et al [10] has proposed, in the context of the organizational level, the first of three of the most provident research questions for future green IT study is: What motivates a company to adopt green IT initiatives? Research on organizational green IT adoption has recently proliferated in Information Systems (IS) and other business disciplines, such as corporate strategy and social responsibility.…”

Employees' Collaborative Use of Green Information Systems

“…As a complex organizational endeavor, GIS implementation also depends on whether there is a forward-thinking proactive strategy [57]. Besides, it is affected by the extent to which an organization's senior managers and employees believe that GIS implementation may influence its environmental performance and green image [7].…”

Green IS Research: A Modernity Perspective

“…Our search experience is not unsurprising as coupling "green" with "information systems" is itself relatively new. Brooks, Wang, and Sarker (2012) found that the word "green" was used for the first time in Loeser (2013) found that the term "green IS" was used initially in 2008.…”

“…One reaches saturation when no additional relevant information emerges from the newly read papers (Randolph, 2009). For completeness, we also reviewed the list of green IS papers included in previous literature reviews on the subject (Brooks et al, 2012;Dedrick, 2010;Malhotra, Melville, & Watson, 2013).…”