An Exploration of the Impact of Organizational Culture on the Adoption of Green IT

Author

Campbell, W.M. ; Ratcliffe, Martyn ; Moore, Philip

Author_Institution

Telecommun. & Networks, Birmingham City Univ., Birmingham, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

20-23 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

126

Lastpage

133

Abstract

This paper investigates the impact of organizational culture on the degree of adoption of Green IT initiatives and on their success. It starts by exploring organizational culture, looks at the nature of culture within IT and then analyses the effect of culture on sustainable use of IT. It considers both sustainable uses of IT and the development of IT systems that promote sustainability. Cameron and Quinn´s Competing Values Framework is used as a tool to explore organizational culture. Finally some recommendations on working with culture to promote sustainability within IT are provided.

Keywords

green computing; information technology; organisational aspects; sustainable development; Green IT initiatives adoption; IT sustainable use; IT systems development; competing values framework; organizational culture; Companies; Economics; Educational institutions; Green products; Industries; Green; IT culture; Information Technology; Organizational culture; Sustainability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom), 2013 IEEE and Internet of Things (iThings/CPSCom), IEEE International Conference on and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing

Conference_Location

Beijing

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GreenCom-iThings-CPSCom.2013.44

Filename

6682058