Title: Gender and green IT practice - implications from the ABC model of attitude

Authors: Manohar Kapse; Aruna Bala; Vinod Sharma

Addresses: Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Pune, India ' ICFAI Business School, Mysore Road, Bengaluru-560060, India ' Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD), Pune, India

Abstract: Society is increasingly changing and modernising. Traditional gender roles are no longer valid as world moves toward a gender equal society. This paper aims to examine the significance of gender difference in the attitude formation that would eventually result in green IT practice. The study is based on the fundamental affect-behaviour-cognition (ABC) model and it investigates the relationship between the beliefs of an individual and green IT practice with respect to the mediator green IT concern. The data was collected from 246 young respondents via purposive sampling technique and was analysed through regression analysis and average causal mediation effect (ACME). Green IT concern has been identified as a mediator and results also confirmed that females have a different ways of attitude formation compared to its male counterparts. Hence, to ensure employee engagement, it is very important to consider the factor of gender.

Keywords: green IT belief; green IT concern; green IT practices; ABC model; gender difference; average causal mediation effect; ACME.

DOI: 10.1504/IJBIR.2022.127178

International Journal of Business Innovation and Research, 2022 Vol.29 No.3, pp.308 - 325

Received: 08 Jun 2020
Accepted: 14 Sep 2020

Published online: 25 Nov 2022 *

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