A Review of Green IS Research and Directions for Future Studies <s> Drivers of Green IS initiatives <s> Combining the need for broadening the scope of IT value research and increasing urgency to deal with environmental challenges, this paper explores the concept of Green IT value. The paper presents the results of a small-scale examination of practitioner literature on the topic and finds that there are several dimensions of value related to Green IT that span across multiple levels of analysis, from the organization to society. Given inherent characteristics of environmental issues, traditional models for assessing the value of Green IT are insufficient. Therefore, this paper proposes that two theoretical perspectives, the natural resource-based view of the firm and environmental embeddedness, provide complementary insights which may help to explain organizations’ justification and choice of Green IT and how they realize value from these investments. A series of theoretical propositions is set out to guide further research in this important and emerging area. <s> BIB001 </s> A Review of Green IS Research and Directions for Future Studies <s> Drivers of Green IS initiatives <s> Green IT (information technology) has recently emerged into an active research area in the information systems (IS) discipline. A major gap that exists in the Green IT research literature today is the absence of a theoretical framework that can be used to assist organizations in assessing their potential for undertaking Green IT initiatives and implementing them via modern technological means such as virtualization. This study attempts to bridge this gap by developing and proposing an integrative framework which focuses on identifying and examining the factors that contribute to the assessment of a firm's readiness to go green via IT-enabled virtualization. The framework is firmly grounded using three well-established IS theories: (a) technology-organization-environment, (b) process-virtualization, and (c) diffusion of innovation. It integrates these three theoretical lenses to utilize the strengths of each for assessing the potential for undertaking Green IT initiatives and the stages of Green IT implementation at the organizational level. The implications of the outcome of this study, both for the IS researchers and for the practicing managers are discussed. The plan for empirical testing and validation of our propositions is presented, as well as suggestions for future extensions of this study. <s> BIB002
As our framework shows, the organizational literature has explored factors that may influence initiation of green IS. However, few studies have examined technological factors and only one study BIB002 explicitly examines the technological factors related to specific kinds of green IS initiatives. As BIB001 suggests, there are different kinds of green IS initiatives (e.g., collaboration technologies, data centers, innovative online services), and these will likely require different types of resources and support from organizations.