Auditing the Governance and Management of Green IT

ABSTRACT

Sustainability is not a trend; more and more areas of knowledge defend it and apply it among their main characteristics. The area of Information Technology (IT) has not been left behind and, through the so-called Green IT, advocates for a more sustainable environment. Organizations around the world are realizing that Green IT is an important asset that produces great benefits at ecological, social, and economic level. For this reason, we have developed a revised version of the “Governance and Management Framework for Green IT”. With this new version we intend to offer a more complete and solid guide that helps organizations to gradually implement, assess, and improve those characteristics of governance and management that are the basis of the processes and practices of Green IT. This proposal has been empirically validated through a case study and the results obtained demonstrate the validity, usefulness, and applicability of the framework for organizations.

KEYWORDS:

• Governance
• management
• Green IT
• sustainability
• case study

Acknowledgments

This work is the result of a joint PhD supervision agreement between the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”. This work is also part of the Industrial PhD DI-17-09612, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities; of the GINSENG-UMU project (TIN2015-70259-C2-2-R), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness and the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund); of the ECD project (PTQ-16-08504), funded by the “Torres Quevedo” Program of the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness; of the SOS project (SBPLY/17/180501/000364), funded by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the JCCM (Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha) and the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund); of the BIZDEVOPS-GLOBAL project (RTI2018-098309-B-C31), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and the ERDF (European Regional Development Fund); of the “Digital Service Ecosystem” project (PON03PE_00136_1), funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research; and the “Auriga2020” project (T5LXK18), funded by the Apulia Region.

Declaration of interest statement

No potential competing interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities [DI-17-09612,RTI2018-098309-B-C31]; Italian Ministry of University and Research [PON03PE_00136_1]; Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha [SBPLY/17/180501/000364]; Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness [PTQ-16-08504,TIN2015-70259-C2-2-R]; Apulia Region [T5LXK18].