Entrepreneurial pursuits of self‐ and collective interests

Sustainable Entrepreneurship: The Role of Perceived Barriers and Risk

“…In contrast to regular entrepreneurs, the aim of social, environmental, and sustainable entrepreneurs is not limited to and not primarily focussed on the pursuit of value creation for private gains; rather, it includes the pursuit to increase quality of life to the benefit of others (Groot and Pinkse 2015;Santos 2012;Schaltegger and Wagner 2011). Hence, the motivation of social, environmental, and sustainable entrepreneurs deviates from the one-sided pursuit of profit that tends to characterize the regular entrepreneur (Van de Ven et al 2007;Dacin et al 2010).…”

“…additional uncertainties inherent to environmental and societal issues) and the liabilities of newness (i.e. obstacles related to institutional barriers and the requirement of additional and broader knowledge) than their regular counterparts ( Van de Ven et al 2007). Although both regular and sustainable entrepreneurs face challenges in mobilizing resources, we argue that the value-creating mission of sustainable entrepreneurs leads to different risk perceptions.…”

“…Although the mainstream entrepreneurship literature shows a strong bias towards rational self-interest and the pursuit of private economic gains (Dacin et al 2010; Van de Ven et al 2007), the occurrence of other-regarding behaviour has a long tradition in ethics research (Jones et al 2007;Santos 2012). This paper focuses on so-called sustainable entrepreneurs, i.e.…”

How Do Partnerships Lead to a Competitive Advantage? Applying the Resource Based View to Nascent Social Ventures

“…At the same time, the outputs of both social and commercial ventures include products, services, assets, failure, losses, profits, benefits, and value (Morris et al, 1994). Nevertheless, the primary focus of social ventures is to use entrepreneurial activities to address social needs and create social value Certo & Miller, 2008;Hibbert, Hogg, & Quinn, 2001;Short et al, 2009;Van de Ven et al, 2007 Resource conditions. Developing adequate resource conditions is important to facilitate the achievement of social venture goals.…”

“…Although some types of social ventures have been studied extensively in the nonprofit and sociology literature, social venture scholarly research in the field of management is still at an early stage of development (Dees & Anderson, 2006;Dorado, 2006;Mair & Martí, 2006;Weerwardena & Mort, 2006). Social ventures operate as nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid organizations whose primary purpose is to address unmet social needs and create social value (Austin, Stevenson, & Wei-Skillern, 2006;Certo & Miller, 2008;Neck, Allen, & Brush, 2009;Short, Moss & Lumpkin, 2009, Van de Ven, Sapienza & Villanueva, 2007Zahra, Gedajlovic, Neubaum, & Shulman, 2009) through entrepreneurial processes (Mair & Noboa, 2006;Perrini & Vurro, 2006;Shaw, Shaw, & Wilson, 2002). Social ventures address social challenges and problems, from poverty to health to education to the environment (Emerson, Freundlich, & Fruchterman, 2007).…”