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Modeling the Determinants of Employee Belief and Attitude for the Adoption of Green IT

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Eurasian Business Perspectives

Part of the book series: Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics ((EBES,volume 13/2))

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This study offers a theoretical explanation of the underlying factors for employee’s engagement in Green IT. The proposed model examines engagement in sustainable IT practices from the perspective of employee’s adoption of GIT and suggests the role of attitude in enabling such. Drawing on the belief–action–outcome (BAO) framework, this study delineates the micro- and macro-level factors underlying the formation of employee’s beliefs and attitude toward GIT, which in turn leads to the adoption of GIT. The proposed model contributes to the extant literature in GIT adoption by suggesting the role of personal competence, and organizational structure and culture in employee’s engagement in environmental sustainability initiatives.

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  1. Faculty of Management, Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia

    Adedapo Oluwaseyi Ojo, Murali Raman & Rameswaran Vijayakumar

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  1. Faculty of Political Sciences, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey

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  3. Faculty of Tourism, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Istanbul, Turkey

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Ojo, A.O., Raman, M., Vijayakumar, R. (2020). Modeling the Determinants of Employee Belief and Attitude for the Adoption of Green IT. In: Bilgin, M., Danis, H., Demir, E., Aysan, A. (eds) Eurasian Business Perspectives. Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics, vol 13/2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40160-3_12

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