Investigating the critical capabilities of information technology for developing ecological competencies of organisations

Organizations are increasingly concerned about the environmental performance in the business operations. To improve the environmental performance, information technology (IT) can be adopted as ecological competencies of organizations for reducing the adverse impacts of business processes on the natural environment. Thus, the development of organizational ecological competencies are able to help the organization to meet environmental regulations, improve their profitability, and enhance their competitive position in the market place. The resource-based view is used as the theoretical foundation to develop a set propositions and a model for IT capability including IT infrastructure quality and IT human resource competencies in developing ecological competencies of organizations. Findings indicate that organizations enable to develop their ecological competencies that help organizations delivery sustainable value to relevant stakeholders and gain sustained competitive advantage. This is a IT capability conceptualization constitute an original contribution to the information system research in general and the green IT sub research in particular.