The Role of AI in Enhancing Sustainable Business Leadership and Organizational Resilience

With each global challenge like climate change, economic instability, digital disruptions, and many other challenges, business infrastructure and business leadership need to be sustainable and resilient. While AI is becoming a well-recognized transformative tool to improve business performance, AI’s impact on sustainability and business resilience has not yet been systematically investigated. The current study aims to fill this gap by carrying out an analysis of the way AI implementation influences the creation of sustainable and adaptive business ecosystems in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, Estonia, China and Poland in 2021–2024. The goal is to measure AI's impact on two main structural outcomes – Sustainability Index and Business Resilience Score – and to assess how this informs future business leadership strategies. The findings from a fixed-effects panel regression model show that AI_Intensity is significantly and positively related to the Sustainability Index (β = 0.452, p < 0.01) and also significantly and positively related to the Business Resilience Score (β = 0.398, p < 0.01). In country-level analysis, the United States and the UK rank highest across different indicators of AI adoption and related infrastructure outcomes. Estonia and Poland have a steady performance coming up from behind as countries of high digital maturity and policy support. The emphasis of the conclusions is in the sense that AI, in conjunction with digital transformation and innovation, contributes significantly to long-term environmental and organizational robustness and to the development of bold and adaptive business leadership. Further studies require the scale-up to encompass additional countries, assessing sectorial effects and investigating what the ethical governance of AI has to do with keeping such tendencies alive.