Greening the Organisational Field of Government ICT: A Problem-Driven, Mechanism-based Theory
Ends: Wednesday 24 April 2013 2:30 pm
| Event type | Seminar |
| Location | Eastern Gateway Building, First Floor, room 103 |
| Booking Required? | Yes |
The importance of this sector is generally overlooked when considering the problem of reducing GHG emissions. For example, in the United Kingdom ICT use in the public sector is responsible for between 35-38% of total ICT-related GHG emissions across the economy. The objective of this study is, therefore, to develop an explanation of how the direct, enabling and systematic effects of Green ICT may be realized in this context. The study employs institutional theory as a framework for our mechanism-based theorizing of how the organisational field can be structured to maximise the effects of Green ICT. In line with recent calls by IS researchers we take the organisational field as our primary unit of analysis and employ a qualitative, cross-sectional empirical study in the UK public sector. The research contributes to mechanism-based explanations of the steps that national governments will need to take to achieve the targeted offsets or abatements in GHG emissions using Green ICT by 2020. It also provides an analysis of how national and local government Green ICT-based initiatives can institute wider societal and organisational beneficial change.
Speaker: Professor Ray Hackney
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Email: bbs.events@brunel.ac.uk
