Data centre energy consumption is expected to increase organisational costs and CO2 emissions. Greening data centres can decrease these negative impacts. As a result, examining the antecedents to approaches for greening data centres in order to facilitate their widespread adoption is critical....

This study explores antecedents to sector based e-business use. Sectoral e-business studies are valuable to understand the absorption of e-business in different economic sectors, the specific challenges of using e-business across different sectors and the potential of different sectors to...

Businesses are under increasing pressure from customers, competitors, regulators and community groups to implement sustainable business practices. Balancing economic and environmental performance to be green and competitive is therefore a key strategic issue. The information technology (IT)...

This paper presents a multicriteria analysis approach for evaluating and selecting e-markets in conducting organizational business-to-business e-business. The multi-dimensional nature of the evaluation and selection process for choosing the most appropriate e-market in developing organizational...

Previous research on the factors that influence a business's participation in third party e-markets identified a set of motivational and ability related factors. This paper explores further the question of the determinants of third party e-market participation using a multiple case study...

Over the last decade, an increasing number of businesses are undertaking initiatives to reduce theirenvironmental footprint and improve their 'green' credentials. As information technology (IT) has permeatedmost, if not all, business processes and supply chains, it offers an important means to...

Abstract: Previous research on the factors that influence a business's participation in third-party e-markets identified a set of motivational and ability related factors. This paper explores further the question of the determinants of third-party e-market participation using a multiple case...

Enterprise Systems (ES) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems have been widely adopted by organizations around the world with the global market revenue estimated by AMR Research (2009) at 37.5 billion US dollars in 2008 and is expected to continue growing. Given the huge investments made...

Several studies of eCommerce in developing countries have emphasized the influence of contextual impediments related to economic, technological, legal, and financial infrastructure as major determinants of eCommerce adoption. Despite operating under such constraints, some organizations in...

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems are diffusing globally. There is however little research on ERP reflecting the experiences of developing countries' in general and on the relationship between ERP and competitive advantage in particular. This paper addresses the issues of competitive...