Green IS/IT: An Overview of Historical Periods, Recent Research Initiatives and Theoretical Approaches

Nataliya Shevchuk, Henry Oinas-Kukkonen, Harri Oinas-Kukkonen

2017

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss historical periods and recent research initiatives and theoretical approaches to Green Information Systems and Technologies (GIS/IT). Having observed that the GIS/IT history is an insufficiently investigated topic, we used Information Systems History (ISH) research methods, such as periodization, contextualization and generalization. With the help of exploring existing variety of theories and initiatives, we provide clarification of evolution of the GIS/IT concept and explore areas in industry and research that are currently lacking insight. Our methodological diversification of the GIS/IT research assists not only in summarizing the current state of the GIS/IT but also in encouraging ideation and cooperation of the academics from different fields to produce novel outlooks on the GIS/IT.

References

  1. Ansari, N.L., Ashraf, M.M., Malik, B.T., and Grunfeld, H. 2010. Green It Awareness and Practices: Results from a Field Study on Mobile Phone Related E-Waste in Bangladesh. International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), pp. 375-383.
  2. Aoun, C., Vatanasakdakul, S., and Cecez-Kecmanovic, D. 2011. Can Is Save the World? Collaborative Technologies for Eco-Mobilisation. Australasian Conference on Information System.
  3. Bengtsson, F., and Ågerfalk, P.J. 2011. Information Technology as a Change Actant in Sustainability Innovation: Insights from Uppsala. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 20(1), pp. 96-112.
  4. Bose, R., and Luo, X. 2011. Integrative Framework for Assessing Firms' Potential to Undertake GIT Initiatives via Virtualization-a Theoretical Perspective, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 20(1), pp. 38- 54.
  5. Butler, J. G. 1997. History of information technology and systems. Concepts in New Media. University of Arizona, http://www. tcf. ua. edu/AZ/ITHistoryOutline. htm.
  6. Butler, T. 2011. Compliance with Institutional Imperatives on Environmental Sustainability: Building Theory on the Role of GIS. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 20(1), pp. 6-26.
  7. Cai, S., Chen, X., and Bose, I. 2013. Exploring the Role of It for Environmental Sustainability in China: An Empirical Analysis. International Journal of Production Economics, 146(2), pp. 491-500.
  8. Cater-Steel, A., and Tan, W.-G. 2011. The Role of It Service Management in GIT. Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 171.
  9. Chetty, M., Brush, A., Meyers, B.R., and Johns, P. 2009. It's Not Easy Being Green: Understanding Home Computer Power Management. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, pp. 1033- 1042.
  10. Chetty, M., Tran, D., and Grinter, R.E. 2008. Getting to Green: Understanding Resource Consumption in the Home. International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, ACM, pp. 242-251.
  11. Chou, D.C., and Chou, A.Y. 2012. Awareness of GIT and Its Value Model. Computer Standards and Interfaces, 34(5), pp. 447-451.
  12. Chow, W.S., and Chen, Y. 2009. Intended Belief and Actual Behavior in Green Computing in Hong Kong. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 50(2), p. 136.
  13. Cooper, V., and Molla, A. 2012. Developing GIT Capability: An Absorptive Capacity Perspective, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS, pp. 1-15.
  14. Dao, V., Langella, I., and Carbo, J. 2011. From Green to Sustainability: Information Technology and an Integrated Sustainability Framework, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 20(1), pp. 63-79.
  15. Datta, A., Roy, S., and Tarafdar, M. 2010. Adoption of Sustainability in It Services: Role of It Service Providers. Americas Conference on Information Systems.
  16. Davis, G., and Olson, M. 1985. Management information systems: Conceptual foundations, structure, and development. New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc.
  17. Elliot, S. 2011. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Environmental Sustainability: A Resource Base and Framework for It-Enabled Business Transformation. Mis quarterly, 35(1), pp.197-236.
  18. Erek, K., Löser, F., Schmidt, N.-H., Zarnekow, R., and Kolbe, L.M. 2011. GIT Strategies: A Case Study-Based Framework for Aligning GIT with Competitive Environmental Strategies. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, p. 59.
  19. Gaddis, J. L. 2002. The Landscape of History (How Historians Map the Past). Oxford (Oxford University Press.
  20. Gandomi, Z., and Amin, S. 2014. Towards Green Computing Application for Measuring the Sustainability of Data Centers: an Analytical Survey. In The International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Computer Engineering and their Applications, EECEA2014, pp. 86-96. The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communication.
  21. Gholami, R., Sulaiman, A.B., Ramayah, T., and Molla, A. 2013. Senior Managers' Perception on Green Information Systems (IS) adoption and Environmental Performance: Results from a Field Survey. Information and Management, 50(7), pp. 431-438.
  22. Hirschheim, R., and Klein, H. K. 2012. A glorious and notso-short history of the information systems field. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 13 (4), p. 188.
  23. Ijab, M., Molla, A., and Cooper, V.A. 2011. A Theory of Practice-Based Analysis of Green Information Systems (GIS) Use. Australian Conference on Information Systems.
  24. Ijab, M.T., Molla, A., Kassahun, A.E., and Teoh, S.Y. 2010. Seeking the Green in GIS: A Spirit, Practice and Impact Perspective, Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems.
  25. Jain, R.P., Benbunan-Fich, R., and Mohan, K. 2011. Assessing GIT Initiatives Using the Balanced Scorecard. IT professional, pp. 26-32.
  26. Koo, C., Chung, N., and Lee, Y.-C. 2013. The Influential Motivations of GIT Device Use and the Role of Reference Group Perspective. In Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems.
  27. Lei, C.F., and Ngai, E. 2013. GIT Adoption: An Academic Review of Literature. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems.
  28. Lévesque, S., 2008. Thinking historically: Educating students for the twenty-first century. University of Toronto Press.
  29. Loock, C.-M., Staake, T., and Thiesse, F. 2013. Motivating Energy-Efficient Behavior with GIS: An Investigation of Goal Setting and the Role of Defaults. Management Information System Quarterly (MISQ), 37(4), pp.1313- 1332.
  30. Mann, H., Grant, G., and Singh Mann, I.J. 2009. GIT: An Implementation Framework. In Americas Conference on Information Systems.
  31. Mason, R. O., McKenney, J. L., and Copeland, D. G. 1997. An Historical Method for MIS Research: Steps and Assumptions, MIS Quarterly, 21(3), pp. 307-320.
  32. McLaren, T.S., Manatsa, P.R., and Babin, R. 2010. An Inductive Classification Scheme for Green It Initiatives, Americas Conference on Information Systems.
  33. Melville, N.P. 2010. Information Systems Innovation for Environmental Sustainability, Management Information System Quarterly (MISQ), 34(1), pp. 1-21.
  34. Molla, A. 2009. Organizational Motivations for GIT: Exploring GIT Matrix and Motivation Models. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, p. 13.
  35. Molla, A., and Abareshi, A. 2011. GIT Adoption: A Motivational Perspective, Pacific Asia Conference on Informati on Systems, p. 137.
  36. Molla, A., and Abareshi, A. 2012. Organizational Green Motivations for Information Technology: Empirical Study. Journal of Computer Information Systems, 52(3), pp.92-102.
  37. Molla, A., Cooper, V., and Pittayachawan, S. 2009. IT and Eco-Sustainability: Developing and Validating a Green It Readiness Model. International Conference of Information Systems. AIS Electronic Library, pp. 1-18.
  38. Molla, A., Cooper, V., Corbitt, B., Deng, H., Peszynski, K., Pittayachawan, S., and Teoh, S. 2008. E-Readiness to G-Readiness: Developing a Green Information Technology Readiness Framework. Australasian Conference on Information Systems 2008, University of Canterbury.
  39. Nanath, K., and Pillai, R.R. 2012. A Sustainability Model of GIT Initiatives. In International Conference on Information Systems, Orlando.
  40. Nedbal, D., Wetzlinger, W., Auinger, A., and Wagner, G. 2011. Sustainable Is Initialization through Outsourcing: A Theory-Based Approach. Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS.
  41. OECD Working Party on the Information Economy. 2009. Towards Green ICT strategies: Assessing Policies and Programmes on ICTs and the Environment. Retrieved from http://www.oecd.org/internet/ieconomy/42825130.pdf.
  42. Oinas-Kukkonen H. 2015. Web Science: A Golden Opportunity for Applying Information Systems Theories. Journal of Information Technology Theory and Application, JITTA, 16(3), p.3.
  43. Oinas-Kukkonen, H., and Oinas-Kukkonen, H. 2014. What Every Information Systems (IS) Researcher Should Know About IS History (ISH) Research. The Fifth International Conference on Information Systems 2014, Auckland.
  44. Pitt, L.F., Parent, M., Junglas, I., Chan, A., and Spyropoulou, S. 2011. Integrating the Smartphone into a Sound Environmental Information Systems Strategy: Principles, Practices and a Research Agenda. The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, 20(1), pp. 27- 37.
  45. Rahim, R.E.A., and Rahman, A.A. 2013. GIT Capability and Sustainable Development, Green Computing. Technology and Innovation the Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communication, pp. 80-88.
  46. Raza, K., Patle, V.K. and Arya, S., 2012. A review on green computing for eco-friendly and sustainable it. Journal of Computational Intelligence and Electronic Systems, 1(1), pp. 3-16.
  47. Recker, J. C. 2016. Toward a design theory for green information systems. In Proceedings of the 49th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, pp. 4474-4483. IEEE.
  48. Sarkar, P., and Young, L. 2009. Managerial Attitudes Towards GIT: An Explorative Study of Policy Drivers. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, p. 95.
  49. Seidel, S., Recker, J., and vom Brocke, J. 2013. Sensemaking and Sustainable Practicing: Functional Affordances of Information System in Green Transformations. Management Information System Quarterly (MISQ), 37(4), pp.1275-1299.
  50. Tushi, B. T., Sedera, D., and Recker, J. C. 2014. GIT segment analysis: an academic literature review. In.
  51. Proceedings of the Twentieth Americas Conference on Information Systems, (AMCIS 2014), pp. 1-15. Association for Information Systems.
  52. Uddin, M., and Rahman, A.A. 2012. Energy Efficiency and Low Carbon Enabler GIT Framework for Data Centers Considering Green Metrics. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 16(6), pp. 4078-4094.
  53. United Nations General Assembly. March 20, 1987. Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED), Our Common Future. Oxford, UK7 Oxford University Press.
  54. Visalakshi, P., Paul, S. and Mandal, M., 2013, May. Green Computing. In International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER), Proceedings of the National Conference on Architecture, Software systems and Green computing (NCASG). Paiyanoor, India. pp. 63-69.
  55. Watson, R.T., Boudreau, M.C., Chen, A., and Huber, M. H. 2008. Green IS: Building Sustainable Business Practices. In R.T. Watson (Ed.), Information Systems: A Global Text, pp. 1-17. Athens, GA: Global Text Project.
  56. Woodruff, A., Hasbrouck, J., and Augustin, S. 2008. A Bright Green Perspective on Sustainable Choices. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, pp. 313-322.
Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

Shevchuk N., Oinas-Kukkonen H. and Oinas-Kukkonen H. (2017). Green IS/IT: An Overview of Historical Periods, Recent Research Initiatives and Theoretical Approaches . In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS, ISBN 978-989-758-241-7, pages 127-134. DOI: 10.5220/0006235101270134


in Bibtex Style

@conference{smartgreens17,
author={Nataliya Shevchuk and Henry Oinas-Kukkonen and Harri Oinas-Kukkonen},
title={Green IS/IT: An Overview of Historical Periods, Recent Research Initiatives and Theoretical Approaches},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,},
year={2017},
pages={127-134},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006235101270134},
isbn={978-989-758-241-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems - Volume 1: SMARTGREENS,
TI - Green IS/IT: An Overview of Historical Periods, Recent Research Initiatives and Theoretical Approaches
SN - 978-989-758-241-7
AU - Shevchuk N.
AU - Oinas-Kukkonen H.
AU - Oinas-Kukkonen H.
PY - 2017
SP - 127
EP - 134
DO - 10.5220/0006235101270134