The Influence of Green IT on the Management of Small and Medium Enterprises

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to examine and evaluate the awareness and the application of Green IT amongst IT managers, network administrators or company directors of small and medium-sized businesses in the United Kingdom and Czech Republic. The paper also discusses strong and weak scopes of Green IT and connects them to factors, such as company’s number of employees, its business sector and the country of employment. In order to assess the situation, a research based on an on-line questionnaire has been carried out. Then collected data was analysed and conclusions were drawn. It was found that there are links between the implementation of Green IT options, the number of employees in the company and the business area. The results also showed that the country of employment has no direct impact on the findings and that there are only few cases of relatively different results of the English and the Czech answers.