Pro-environmental User Behavior in the Lifecycle of Consumer Electronics
Date
2023-10-01
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AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract
Acknowledging environmental sustainability as one of the most critical global challenges in our time, information systems (IS) scholars and practitioners have begun to address environmental problems by developing and implementing various green information systems. Besides pro-environmental IT artifacts, we argue that user-oriented green practices play a crucial role in ameliorating the adverse effects that result from making, using, and disposing electronic devices. To that end, we examine user intentions toward engaging in pro-environmental behaviors that can penetrate the electronic device lifecycle, which includes choosing, using, and disposing such devices. In particular, we adopt the extended theory of planned behavior as a lens and suggest ecological beliefs among users can determine their ecological attitude, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control, which, in turn, can shape their pro- environmental behavior. Also, ecological knowledge appears to play an influential role in changing user intentions to perform pro-environmental practices. We also revisit relevant green IT and green IS literature while providing future research directions.
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This article was originally published in AIS Transaction on Human-Computer Interaction. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.17705/1thci.00194. Copyright © 2023 by the Association for Information Systems. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and full citation on the first page. Copyright for components of this work owned by others than the Association for Information Systems must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, or to redistribute to lists requires prior specific permission and/or fee. Request permission to publish from: AIS Administrative Office, P.O. Box 2712 Atlanta, GA, 30301-2712 Attn: Reprints or via e-mail from publications@aisnet.org.
Keywords
Green IT, Green IS, Pro-environmental User Behavior, Theory of Planned Behavior, Environmental Sustainability
Citation
Li, Y., Wang, X., Javadi Khasraghi, H., & Stafford, T. (2023). Pro-environmental User Behavior in the Lifecycle of Consumer Electronics. AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, 15(3), 350-376. https://doi.org/10.17705/1thci.00194 DOI: 10.17705/1thci.00194