Application of Software and Web-Based Tools for Sustainability Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
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EnviroInfo 2014 - ICT for Energy Efficiency : 28th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection ; proceedings. ed. / Jorge Marx Gómez; Michael Sonnenschein; Ute Vogel; Andreas Winter; Barbara Rapp; Nils Giesen. Universität Oldenburg, Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem, 2014. p. 413-420.
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T1 - Application of Software and Web-Based Tools for Sustainability Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises
AU - Johnson, Matthew
AU - Viere, Tobias
AU - Schaltegger, Stefan
AU - Halberstadt, Jantje
N1 - Conference code: 28
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Recently, new approaches to organizational level sustainability management and reporting have emerged in the form of software and web-based applications. At first glance, it appears that such software and web-tools are applicable in small and medium-sized enterprises since they offer user-friendly and cost-effective alternatives to implement, manage and report on company-wide sustainability activities. Nevertheless, it remains academically and practically uncertain if such technologies will be adopted by a great number of SMEs. Using the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) model as a theoretical framework and empirical data from a recent survey with 1,250 German SMEs, this paper investigates various firm-internal and external factors that might influence managers’ decisions to adopt or reject this new technology. As a result, this paper can help determine which factors play a role in the adoption of sustainability management software and web-tools in SMEs.
AB - Recently, new approaches to organizational level sustainability management and reporting have emerged in the form of software and web-based applications. At first glance, it appears that such software and web-tools are applicable in small and medium-sized enterprises since they offer user-friendly and cost-effective alternatives to implement, manage and report on company-wide sustainability activities. Nevertheless, it remains academically and practically uncertain if such technologies will be adopted by a great number of SMEs. Using the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) model as a theoretical framework and empirical data from a recent survey with 1,250 German SMEs, this paper investigates various firm-internal and external factors that might influence managers’ decisions to adopt or reject this new technology. As a result, this paper can help determine which factors play a role in the adoption of sustainability management software and web-tools in SMEs.
KW - Sustainability sciences, Management & Economics
KW - Sustainability Management
KW - small and medium-sized enterprises
KW - Software
KW - Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework
KW - Web-based tools
KW - Sustainability management
KW - small and medium sized enterprise
KW - software
KW - Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework
KW - Web-based tools
M3 - Article in conference proceedings
SN - 978-3-8142-2317-9
SP - 413
EP - 420
BT - EnviroInfo 2014 - ICT for Energy Efficiency
A2 - Marx Gómez, Jorge
A2 - Sonnenschein, Michael
A2 - Vogel, Ute
A2 - Winter, Andreas
A2 - Rapp, Barbara
A2 - Giesen, Nils
PB - Universität Oldenburg, Bibliotheks- und Informationssystem
T2 - 28th International Conference on Informatics for Environmental Protection - EnviroInfo 2014
Y2 - 10 September 2014 through 12 September 2014
ER -