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Green IS - information system framework to support environmental sustainability of firms

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  • Somnath Debnath

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With increasing awareness of sustainability issues, businesses are being scrutinised to reduce their ecological footprints and resource intensity. Information technology and systems (IT/IS) being the backbone to support information needs of firms, cannot shy away from the responsibility of supporting firms with sustainability choices, much of which has remained confined to short-term strategies like reducing energy usage and carbon footprint of IT landscape. By leveraging process-oriented view of organisational functions, we explore how green IS can partner with the business processes (green or red) to encapsulate inherent and desired environmental considerations and bring other IS elements like technologies, systems and users together to interact. This, we postulate, not only introduces elements like uncertainty, complexity and dynamism, that characterises green IS (as a field of study) and differentiates it from traditional IS, but also challenges green IS to deal with a new and evolving information space.

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  • Somnath Debnath, 2020. "Green IS - information system framework to support environmental sustainability of firms," International Journal of Business Information Systems, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 34(1), pages 83-103.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbisy:v:34:y:2020:i:1:p:83-103
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    1. Parvez Alam Khan & Satirenjit Kaur Johl & Shireenjit K. Johl, 2021. "Does adoption of ISO 56002‐2019 and green innovation reporting enhance the firm sustainable development goal performance? An emerging paradigm," Business Strategy and the Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 30(7), pages 2922-2936, November.
    2. Elizabeth Chinomona, 2022. "Analysing the impact of green information system, green packaging, reverse logistics on logistics performance in the construction industry," GATR Journals jmmr290, Global Academy of Training and Research (GATR) Enterprise.

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