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Intellectual capital and environmental sustainability: a bibliometric approach on its foundations and evolution Delgado Verde, Miriam González Masip, Jaime Juan Amores Salvadó, Javier Co-word analysis Environmental Green Intangibles Intellectual capital Sustainability Administración de empresas 5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas This work presents a theoretical perspective based on a bibliometric analysis of the research on intellectual capital and environmental sustainability (IC&ES) during the period 1990–2022. Using the Web of Science as the reference database, 291 valid documents were collected and examined through a performance bibliometric analysis and a science mapping analysis based on co-word bibliographic networks, with SciMAT as the analytical tool. This study provides a comprehensive overview of the IC&ES literature from a holistic perspective, enabling the assessment of the increasing scholarly attention to this research topic. Through an in-depth analysis, the specific themes and thematic areas that shape the IC&ES literature are identified, along with their evolution dynamics and interrelationships. The main contribution lies in the identification of four thematic areas—Showing, Inventing, Profiting, and Greening—as well as these cross-fertilizing subdomains that illustrate the main trends and highlight the versatility of the intellectual capital concept and the interdisciplinary nature of the IC&ES field. The findings indicate that the literature on the topic is undergoing a growing specialization, marked by conflicting perspectives from which significant implications can be drawn. Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España) Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España) Banco Santander Universidad Complutense de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Depto. de Organización de Empresas Fac. de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales TRUE pub 2025-10-14T07:27:29Z 2025-10-14T07:27:29Z 2025-07-29 journal article VoR https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/124859 XXXX-XXXX 10.1002/bsd2.70195 2572-3170 eng info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO//ECO2015-65251-P//Conocimiento, aprendizaje organizativo y emprendimiento: antecedentes e implicaciones sobre la innovación tecnológica, medioambiental y los resultados empresariales info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICIN//PID2020-117564GA- I00//Estrategia e Innovación Medioambiental: Una perspectiva desde el Conocimiento y el Capital Intelectual PR26/16-15B- 1 PR26/16-15B- 5 PHS-2024/ PH-HUM- 294 Delgado-Verde, M., J. J. González-Masip, and J. Amores-Salvadó. 2025. “ Intellectual Capital and Environmental Sustainability: A Bibliometric Approach on Its Foundations and Evolution.” Business Strategy & Development 8, no. 3: e70195. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70195. Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access application/pdf Wiley