Green IT for competitive advantage: Internal management perspective

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azizah Abdul Rahman ◽  
Nor Hidayati Zakaria ◽  
Nur Naha Abu Mansor ◽  
Rabiah Eladwiah Abdul Rahim
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Green It ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Internal Management

scholarly journals Environmental accounting practices: A Regulatory and internal management perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 01
Author(s):  
Sarah Yuliarini ◽  
Zaleha Othman Othman ◽  
Ku Nor Izah Ismaila
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Internal Management

scholarly journals Knowledge creation processes in small and medium enterprises: A Polish perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celina Solek-Borowska
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Large Firms ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
Knowledge Management Initiatives

The focus of this paper is to analyze small and medium enterprises through a knowledge management perspective. More specifically, the aim of the research is to further the understanding through what processes small and medium enterprises operating in the Polish market to create knowledge. Knowledge creation processes are vital to knowledge management initiatives of companies that operate in a changing environment and depend on innovation to gain the competitive advantage. Such processes significantly differ in small and large firms. Therefore, in the following study, a thorough investigation of knowledge creation processes is presented. This research attempts to fulfill the knowledge creation processes gap between small and medium enterprises in the Polish context where traditionally large firms are mainly investigated.

Green IT Capability and Firm's Competitive Advantage

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Rabiah Eladwiah Abdul Rahim ◽  
Azizah Abdul Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Pollution Prevention ◽  
Green It ◽  
Resource Based View ◽  
Product Stewardship ◽  
It Capability ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Green Information Technology

The concept of Green Information Technology (Green IT) has been widely discussed in recent times, but the question of how a firm can afford to implement Green IT in both IT and other business operations has yet to be examined. In addition, the question of whether Green IT has made any significant contributions towards competitive advantage in organizations has not yet been studied. This study attempts to bridge this gap by viewing Green IT capability from the lens of Natural Resource-Based View. The two constructs derived from this theory, namely, as pollution prevention and product stewardship are discussed in this paper. Its application is extended into the IT context with reference to Green IT literature. This occurs among an early review of the utilisation of these constructs particularly for Green IT process management. The implications of the outcome of this study, both for the IS researchers and for the practicing managers, are discussed.

An Introduction to the Green IT Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic IT Management System

2011 ◽  
pp. 126-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Wati ◽  
Chulmo Koo
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Green It ◽  
Environmental Aspect

This chapter introduces the Green IT Balanced Scorecard by incorporating an environmental aspect of technology into the scorecard measurement method. The authors conceptualized the Green IT balanced scorecard as “a nomological management tool to systematically align IT strategy with business strategy from an environmental sustainability perspective in order to achieve competitive advantage.” The objectives of the Green IT balanced scorecard include the measurement of technology performance via the effective integration of environmental aspects, the investigation of both tangible and intangible assets of Green IT investment, the alignment of IT performance and business performance, and the transformation of the results into competitive advantage. This concept offers a new possibility for both practitioners and researchers to translate their sustainable business strategies into Green IT actions.

E-Partnership Strategy and Structure

2011 ◽  
pp. 54-85
Author(s):  
Fang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Worked Examples ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Strategy Formulation ◽  
Business Partnership ◽  
Management Perspective

Now that the Internet bubble has seemingly burst, the days are gone when anyone with Internet and IT knowledge can run a successful e-business. Like other businesses, e-business also needs strategic management skills and traditional business sense. This author argues that the success of e-business requires a well-defined and well-formulated e-partnering strategy. A good e-partnering strategy can make a significant impact on business operations, customer relations and competitive market position of an organization, if it is implemented and executed successfully. E-managers must be able to think forward and strategically. Business partnership, in whatever form, has gone from being a peripheral tool of management to a centerpiece of corporate strategy and competitive advantage over the past decade (Bamford, Gomes-Casseres, & Robinson, 2003). This chapter studies e-partnership from a strategic management perspective because e-partnership has become an important component of the strategy of many successful companies. From a strategic management perspective, e-partnerships should be strategic e-business alliances. Strategic management focuses on the process whereby managers develop and implement strategies for achieving strategic goals within existing conditions, in turn, helping organizations identify and achieve a competitive advantage. By resorting to a strategic management approach, this chapter helps in understanding the complex nature of e-partnering strategy formulation and implementation, which involves changes to existing business models and procedures. The chapter focuses on the strategy of e-partnering and its matching structures and delineates various worked examples of e-partnerships in today’s e-business world, thereby providing a practical guide to e-partnering strategy formation and implementation.

Requirements Engineering Based on Knowledge Management: Theoretical Aspects and a Practical Proposal

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (08) ◽  
pp. 1199-1233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla Olmos-Sánchez ◽  
Jorge Rodas-Osollo
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Requirements Engineering ◽  
Requirements Elicitation ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Practical Proposal ◽  
Full Knowledge ◽  
Unstructured Information

Despite significant advances in requirements engineering, the problem of eliciting the appropriate and correct requirements persists, partly due to the difficulties to transfer and transform knowledge. In this paper, the final revised version of a requirements elicitation strategy based on a full knowledge management perspective is presented. We assume that a knowledge management perspective is a useful approach for addressing certain inherent problems of requirements elicitation; especially in domains characterized by informal and unstructured information and where domain specialists use large amounts of tacit knowledge to solve everyday situations. Our motivation is to give competitive advantage to any business that faces the challenge of eliciting requirements to design products, find solutions or structure its own valuable knowledge. The promising results of applying the strategy to different real case studies provide empirical insights about the usefulness and value of the strategy.

A New Recommendation for Green IT Strategies

2011 ◽  
pp. 153-175
Author(s):  
Yulia Wati ◽  
Chulmo Koo
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Prior Experience ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Future Research ◽  
It Strategy ◽  
Green It ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Conceptual Study

Incorporating the natural environment as a strategic focus has recently been recognized as a possible source of competitive advantage. In this regard, green IT provides an opportunity for companies to tackle the environmental issue, and simultaneously serves as a source of competitive advantage. However, the field of green IT strategy, from the perspective of environmental management, remains limited by its distinct lack of a theoretical framework and straightforward definitions. In this conceptual study, we proposed “green IT strategies” based on a resource-based perspective by incorporating modern institutional theory into a strategic formulation. This chapter conceptualizes three different strategies: tactical green IT strategy, strategic proactive green IT strategy, and sustained green IT strategy, along with theory-based propositions for each of the strategies. The chapter also demonstrates that the Green IT strategy is path-dependent; that is to say, a firm’s prior experience and history helps determine its current strategies. This study also involves a discussion of the development of the theory, the proposed model, and some possible future research directions.

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