TY - JOUR
T1 - Operational Values of Information Technology and Green Initiatives: The Stochastic Production Frontier Approach
AU - Lin, Winston T
AU - Chou, Chia-Ching
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Previous studies regarding environmental issues in the field of Information Technology (IT) focused on the direct effect of IT on the environment and indicated a trade-off relationship between them. This study employs the resource-based view, theory of production, and stochastic production frontier approach to empirically investigate the supporting role of IT in green initiatives among different industries and provide evidence that the joint presence of IT and green initiatives can positively contribute to operational performance. By adopting the built- in performance measure of the stochastic production frontier approach, this study investigates the relationships among IT, green initiatives, and productive efficiency. With sector, industry, and firm level analysis, this study shows detailed information on how IT and green initiatives contribute to operational performance in different ways, provides managers and decision makers a guideline for IT and green initiative investment decision-making, and develops a more realistic stochastic production frontier model for researchers to apply.
AB - Previous studies regarding environmental issues in the field of Information Technology (IT) focused on the direct effect of IT on the environment and indicated a trade-off relationship between them. This study employs the resource-based view, theory of production, and stochastic production frontier approach to empirically investigate the supporting role of IT in green initiatives among different industries and provide evidence that the joint presence of IT and green initiatives can positively contribute to operational performance. By adopting the built- in performance measure of the stochastic production frontier approach, this study investigates the relationships among IT, green initiatives, and productive efficiency. With sector, industry, and firm level analysis, this study shows detailed information on how IT and green initiatives contribute to operational performance in different ways, provides managers and decision makers a guideline for IT and green initiative investment decision-making, and develops a more realistic stochastic production frontier model for researchers to apply.
M3 - Article
JO - International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences
JF - International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences
ER -