Green Technology Innovation and Sustainable Performance: The Role of Digital Resources and Information Coordination

ABSTRACT Compelled by the evolving digital landscape and increasingly stringent environmental regulations, there is a growing focus on utilising innovation, digital resources and digital information to achieve sustainability goals in the maritime industry. Rooted in the organisational information processing theory, this study examines how social and technical digital resources influence green technology innovation to achieve sustainable performance. 164 responses were collected from shipping industry professionals from diverse sectors of the industry. Findings disclosed that all five digital resources positively influence information coordination constructs. Furthermore, inter‐functional and inter‐partner informational coordination had positive correlations with green technology innovation. In addition, green technology innovation has a positive correlation with sustainable performance. The study's results contribute to the theoretical understanding of digital resources' influence on green technology innovation via organisational information processing theory. It provides another perspective on the digital or information coordination elements influencing green technology innovation and offers a tetradic understanding of sustainable performance's antecedents. Managerial implications include providing insights on digital resources for firms to consider during decision‐making and outlining a means for optimising digital resources. Additionally, it underscores the importance for firms to prioritise informational coordination and foster green technology innovation to attain sustainable performance.