ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Sustain.
Sec. Sustainable Organizations
Volume 6 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/frsus.2025.1675378
Environmental impacts of international business and entrepreneurship: Do green and innovation technologies play significant roles?
Provisionally accepted
Anis Omri*
Mohammed Al-Qasir- Qassim University College of Business and Economics, Buraydah, Saudi Arabia
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This study examines the pivotal roles of entrepreneurship and international business in promoting environmental sustainability, with a focus on the contributions of green and innovative technologies. Grounded in the context of Saudi Arabia from 2000 to 2022. The analysis reveals that both entrepreneurship and international business currently exert negative environmental pressures, notably through rising CO₂ emissions. However, integrating green and technological innovation significantly alters these dynamics. Green technologies help mitigate the environmental impact of entrepreneurship and enhance overall environmental performance in international business, particularly when their adoption exceeds key threshold levels. Similarly, innovative technologies strengthen entrepreneurship's ability to reduce emissions, though their moderating effect on international business is more nuanced. These findings underscore the conditional nature of economic–environmental linkages and highlight the transformative potential of technology in steering economies toward sustainable pathways. The results offer valuable insights for policymakers, businesses, and stakeholders committed to advancing sustainable development through innovation and environmentally responsible strategies.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship, FDI, Environmental sustainability, Green Technologies, technological innovation
Received: 29 Jul 2025; Accepted: 21 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Omri and Al-Qasir. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Anis Omri, omrianis.fsegs@gmail.com
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