Abstract
Green IT has emerged as an important research topic in information systems and in other areas, such as business sustainability management. Some progress has been made in our understandings of green IT in a wide area of research topics, ranging from the green IT definition to the motivation for adopting green IT by organizations. This paper provides a holistic review and explanation of why organizations adopt green IT. Based on an extensive review of extant studies and a broad theoretical foundation, the paper presents a theoretical framework on organizational green IT adoption (OGITA). For researchers, the study provides a comprehensive review of previous green IT adoption studies and a roadmap for future research. For practitioners, the study provides managers and policy makers a systematic analytical framework in guiding their business decisions.
Highlights
Sustainable development and green growth have been recognized by organizations to be an important strategic initiative when many are under increasing social, economic and regulatory pressures [1,2,3] to compete in the global market
Since the objective of this paper is to provide a broader review of why green IT is adopted at the organization level, we treat all predictors identified in these studies and examined them thoroughly based on their research contexts
Based on a review of predictors of green IT adoption proposed in previous studies and broad theoretical foundations, we proposed a research model for studying organizational green IT adoption (OGITA)
Summary
Sustainable development and green growth have been recognized by organizations to be an important strategic initiative when many are under increasing social, economic and regulatory pressures [1,2,3] to compete in the global market. The emergence of green IT promises organizations the benefits of reducing power consumption and carbon emissions, improving operation system performance and increasing interaction and collaboration [9]. Despite these benefits, it is still not clear what are the main determinants for green IT adoption by organizations. The authors of this paper hope to shed light and provide guidance to both green IT researchers and practitioners by identifying and summarizing current studies on organizational green IT adoption and developing and proposing an integrative theoretical framework to explain why organizations adopt green IT.
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