Delgado Verde, MiriamGonzález Masip, Jaime JuanAmores Salvadó, Javier2025-10-142025-10-142025-07-29Delgado-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/bsd2.70195.10.1002/bsd2.70195https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/124859This 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.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/journal article2572-3170https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70195open accessCo-word analysisEnvironmentalGreenIntangiblesIntellectual capitalSustainabilityAdministración de empresas5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas