ORGANIZATIONAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY.A TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS OF ICT SECTOR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS IN ROMANIA (2013-2022)

The impact of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) sector has a complex nature. While on one hand it boosts the digital transformation of organizations and countries’ economic growth, on the other hand it has negative environmental impact as a result of its overall contribution to global greenhouse gas emission. The goal of this paper is to provide insights on how to better reconfigure organizational resource management by marrying environmental sustainability goals with the enhanced usage of information technology and information systems in streamlining and optimizing organizational processes. To this end, it provides a comprehensive literature review that approaches ICT as an organizational resource, as well as a time series analysis of Romania’s ICT sector’s greenhouse gas emission from 2013 to 2022. Its recommendations underline the ongoing need for Romanian organizations deploying ICT for digital transformation to observe climate objectives concurrently and hence, better integrate ICT as an organizational resource and capability.