Understanding the Phenomenon of Green Information Technology in Industrial Companies

Green information technology is a desirable technology that actually complements the information technology industry and refers to studies and activities in the field of environmental protection against information technology losses. Green information technology is very important from both economic and environmental aspects, and it is also considered as a kind of social responsibility of organizations. The main goal of this research is to understand the phenomenon of green information technology in industrial companies. This research is practical based on the purpose and it is a qualitative research based on the type of method. In the current research, in order to take advantage of the experiences and information of academic faculty members of universities and managers of industrial companies in Ilam province in the information technology sector, a qualitative method has been used. According to the nature of the present research, it can be said that it is practical in terms of its purpose. The statistical population of this research includes experts (members of academic staff and experts in the field of green information technology, professors familiar with the research topic and managers with experience in industrial companies in the field of information technology). Since the experts and experts who have mastery in the field of the research subject are not clearly identifiable, therefore, the purposeful and snowball sampling method was used and a total of 12 people were selected as the research sample. In this research, semi-structured interviews were used to identify factors affecting green information technology. For data analysis, the ground theory method (foundation data theory) has been used. The results showed that; 72 common codes were extracted from the conducted interviews, which were categorized into 15 concepts and 6 categories. Requirements for the use of green information technology (including economic drivers, social responsibility and government policies), key categories (including energy management and optimal green process), platforms (including environmental and organizational factors, technological factors), intervening conditions (including technology governance Green information and organizational sustainability), strategies (including data center integration, development of a sustainable green information technology program, smart structure), consequences (including environmental and community consequences, employee consequences, public sector consequences and consequences related to customers).