Although numerous scholars recognize that entrepreneurial firms and their environmental innovations play a key role in global environmental progress, the topic of ecopreneurial internationalization has received only scant research attention. This article explores how the environmental commitment of ecopreneurs influences partner selection during the internationalization of their ventures. It does so by following a multiple-case study strategy and examining ecopreneurial small- and medium-size firms from Finland’s energy sector. The study proposes that, depending on a dominating type of environmental commitment—affective, continuance, or normative—these ventures should favor partner-related and task-related criteria in different ways when selecting international partners. This article contributes to ecopreneurship and to the literature on partner selection in international entrepreneurship.

尽管许多学者认识到，企业家公司及其环境创新在全球环境进步中起着关键作用，但生态企业家国际化这一主题仅受到很少的研究关注。本文探讨了生态企业家的环境承诺如何在他们的企业国际化期间影响合作伙伴的选择。它是通过遵循多案例研究策略并检查芬兰能源部门的生态前中小型企业来实现的。研究建议，根据主要的环境承诺类型（情感，持续或规范），这些企业应在选择国际合作伙伴时以不同的方式支持与合作伙伴相关和与任务相关的标准。