We are pleased to present this AJIS Special issue on Green IT/IS (Sustainable Computing). There are five papers published in this special issue of the AJIS which reflect the diversity of this emerging and important area of research in Information Systems. Environmental sustainability is one of...

IT off-shoring has received much attention in the media for both positive and negative reasons. However, there has been a lack of empirical studies that have critically evaluated the practice of IT off-shoring. This paper reports on a qualitative study of the key factors facilitating and...

This paper examines the applicability of three dimensions of IT outsourcing success (Strategic benefits, Economic benefits, Technological Benefits) which have been identified in existing literature, in the Australian context. While a number of studies have identified that IT outsourcing success...

[Abstract]: At a time when the IT industry in general and the IT academy in particular face major challenges,some accuse universities of producing graduates with poor or inappropriate skills. This qualitative study, based on interviews with fifteen senior IT executives and managers in the...

[Abstract]: Agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP) have emerged as a major thrust in the computer software development arena. Almost contemporaneously, an organisational theory highly aligned with the values of agile methodologies has mutated from the ‘restructuring’ paradigm....