1. FROM GREEN IT TO SUSTAINABLE VALUE: THE PATH-DEPENDENT CONSTRUCTION OF SUSTAINABLE INNOVATION
- Author
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Michel Avital, W. van Osch, René Bohnsack, and Information management (ABS, FEB)
- Subjects
Green Information Technology ,Value (ethics) ,Green computing ,Sustainable Value ,business.industry ,Sustainability ,Environmental resource management ,Information technology ,General Medicine ,Business ,Environmental economics ,Work systems ,Path dependence - Abstract
The article discusses the use of the sustainable value perspective in the development of a framework that extends the green information technology/information science (IT/IS) discourse beyond ecological considerations to include social, environmental and economic value as worth and value as norms. An analysis of the path-dependent nature and the sociomateriality of sustainable value creation in the automotive industry is presented. It is also suggested that sustainable value creation necessitates a concerted effort among all stakeholders to reshape existing norms and values, to create new standards, and to reshape work systems for diffusing sustainable technologies.
- Published
- 2010