Moderating Role of Knowledge-Sharing on the Nexus of Digital Business and Natural Resources

This study conducts an empirical analysis of the effects procedure transforming digital on natural resource rents in private and public sectors. In our paper, we analyze changes total (rents from coal, mineral, gas, forest) by businesses (e-commerce, involving shopping online, turnovers e-commerce, trading e-commerce web, business electronically, use customer relationship management (CRM), cloud usage). From 2011 to 2019, a sample 26 countries European Union was examined using various econometric approaches. Our estimation results demonstrate that cause rise overall rents. More precisely, for coal gas appear be more influenced enterprise’s integration technologies. On other hand, digitalization sector tends lower mineral woodland Notably, knowledge-sharing is most crucial component promote efficiency preventing rent-seeking.