Environmental business intelligence and sustainable decision quality: An exploratory test of green strategic agility

Abstract

Industrial firms require timely environmental information to evaluate resource use, compliance exposure, and the long-term consequences of strategic alternatives. This study examines the association between environmental business intelligence and sustainable strategic decision quality and evaluates green strategic agility as a potential transmission mechanism in Jordanian industrial organizations. A cross-sectional survey yielded 312 usable responses from managers, supervisors, administrative employees, and technical specialists. Environmental business intelligence was modeled through environmental data quality, analysis and prediction, reporting and dashboards, and sustainability integration. The primary sustainable decision-quality construct used 14 directly observed items; six planned items absent from the original data file were excluded from all reported models. Composite-based partial least squares structural equation modeling with 5,000 bootstrap samples showed a strong positive association between environmental business intelligence and sustainable strategic decision quality (β = .729, p < .001, f² = 1.083) and a small positive association with green strategic agility (β = .152, p = .007, f² = .024). Green strategic agility was not significantly associated with decision quality (β = −.067, p = .093), and the indirect effect was unsupported. Because the agility scale showed weak reliability and convergent validity, its structural results are interpreted as exploratory diagnostics rather than confirmatory mediation evidence. The findings emphasize environmental information governance while identifying measurement and organizational-routine conditions that future research must address.