There are many concerns at the global level about environmental performance. The United Nations has created a framework for measuring national development goals that enable environmental sustainability. This paper examines the relationships between technological and social factors as enablers of environmental performance and draws from technological determinism and human agency paradigms. It fills an important gap in the literature by empirically examining the hypothesized relationships. The specific examined factors are online service (maturity and quality), IT infrastructure, e-participation, corruption-free, and human capital. Environmental performance is the dependent variable. These factors are relevant to ten of the seventeen goals that the United Nations set in their SDG framework. The hypotheses are tested and validated using secondary data collected by reputable global institutions and PLS-SEM analytical procedures. The results indicate that technology can enable environmental performance directly and indirectly through e-participation. We also found that e-participation influences corruption-free and human capital that positively impact environmental performance. This paper provides significant implications for research and practice.

全球范围内对环境绩效存在许多担忧。联合国创建了一个衡量国家发展目标的框架，以实现环境的可持续性。本文研究了作为环境绩效推动因素的技术和社会因素之间的关系，并借鉴了技术决定论和人类代理范式。它通过实证检验假设的关系，填补了文献中的一个重要空白。具体考察的因素包括在线服务（成熟度和质量）、IT基础设施、电子参与、廉洁和人力资本。环境绩效是因变量。这些因素与联合国在可持续发展目标框架中制定的十七个目标中的十个相关。使用全球知名机构收集的二手数据和 PLS-SEM 分析程序对假设进行测试和验证。结果表明，技术可以通过电子参与直接或间接地实现环境绩效。我们还发现，电子参与会影响廉洁和人力资本，从而对环境绩效产生积极影响。本文对研究和实践具有重要意义。