Green entrepreneurial farming: A dream or reality?

Sher, Ali; Mazhar, Saman; Zulfiqar, Farhad; Dong, Wang; Li, Xiangmei

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.02.198

Cited by 48 publications

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“…First, in the face of increasingly serious environmental issues, agricultural new ventures need to conduct business activities in a sustainable manner that is competitive and environmentally sensitive (Sher et al, 2019). GPO provides a development direction for managers.…”

Section: Managerial Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Green Proactiveness Orientation Improve the Performance of Agricultural New Ventures in China? The Mediating Effect of Sustainable Opportunity Recognition

Zhang

2021

SAGE Open

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It is still unclear whether the green proactiveness orientation (GPO) adopted by agricultural new ventures boost firm performance, and what is its internal mechanism, especially in the transition economies where agriculture accounts for a significant proportion. Therefore, drawing on the theory of green entrepreneurial orientation and natural-resource-based view, this study used the structural equation model combined with Bootstrapping to test the direct and indirect effects of GPO on firm performance. Results from 301 agricultural new ventures in China demonstrate that GPO has a positive influence on environmental performance, but its influence on financial performance is not significant. Sustainable opportunity recognition (SOR) partially mediates the relationship between GPO and environmental performance and fully mediates the relationship between GPO and financial performance. Besides, we find that environmental performance plays a mediating role between SOR and financial performance. This study, the first of its kind, focuses on green entrepreneurship of agricultural new ventures in the transition economy to enrich the literature on green entrepreneurial orientation through GPO. It also provides some valuable references for managers to recognize sustainable entrepreneurial opportunities through GPO to improve their environmental and financial performance. These could be important in terms of both management and policy implications.

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Section: Managerial Implicationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does Green Proactiveness Orientation Improve the Performance of Agricultural New Ventures in China? The Mediating Effect of Sustainable Opportunity Recognition

Zhang

2021

SAGE Open

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“…Ecopreneurship and environmental sustainability: This involves the emerging sub-topics of ecopreneurship, as in the entrepreneurship of ethics and place [75,76], organic entrepreneurship and "green entrepreneurial farming" [77,78]; regenerative agricultural entrepreneurship [79]; and sustainable rural entrepreneurship [80]. There is a growing pressure to boost entrepreneurial orientation to produce food naturally without depleting natural resources [78]. This entails the amendment, replacement or co-existence of traditional agricultural practices and knowledge with new ideas and ways of thinking and potentially a return to pre-industrial forms of farming and a rejection of exploitative forms of food production [81], i.e., a process of regrounding.…”

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confidence: 99%

Ecopreneurial Education and Support: Developing the Innovators of Today and Tomorrow

Manning

Smith²,

Conley

et al. 2020

Sustainability

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Entrepreneurship and more, particularly ecopreneurship, are essential to drive the sustainable transitions needed in food supply chains. Existing pedagogic frameworks should address these academic disciplines and they should be embedded in the educational curricula. Even when ideas are formed that can drive sustainable change, the process from ideation to commercialization can be difficult: the so-called “valley of death.” This aim of this conceptual paper is to consider pedagogic and program design and the mechanisms required to enaction of a body of practice around entrepreneurship and, more specifically, ecopreneurship, within academic curricula and associated business incubators. This makes this paper of particular interest for academia, policy makers and industry support sectors alike. An existing university that has both a student enterprise and ecopreneurship program and an established agri-technology business incubator and accelerator is used as a case study to provide insight into how progress from ideation to commercialization can be more readily supported in a university setting. From a pedagogical perspective, it is incumbent to develop new conceptual, methodological and theoretically underpinned spiral pedagogies to teach and support future generations of learners at agricultural and land-based colleges and universities as to how to exploit and take advantage of entrepreneurial and ecopreneurial business opportunities. Productization, too, needs to be embedded into the ecopreneurial pedagogy and also consideration of how businesses and their associated ecopreneurs navigate from ideation to successful product/service commercialization.

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“…Characteristics of entrepreneurs (Schick, Marxen, & Freimann, 2002) Entrepreneur's behavior (Diochon, Menzies, & Gasse, 2008) Success factors (Hockerts & Wüstenhagen, 2010) Company size ( (Hasani, Bojei, & Dehghantanha, 2017) Success and failure factors (Antarciuc et al, 2018) Investors' behavior (Bergset, 2018) Investors' behavior Risk of failure (Valentin, Pînzaru, Vătămănescu, & Stanciu, 2015) Marketing (Malindretos, Tsiboukas, & Argyropoulou-Konstantaki, 2016) Waste management (Henry, Rushton, & Baillie, 2016) Sustainable business model (Antikainen & Valkokari, 2016) Sustainable business model (Franceschelli, Santoro, & Candelo, 2018) Sustainable business model 4. Impact of institutional support (Noyes, 2015) Sustainability education (Putri & Fujiwara, 2015) Investment as government support (Jagoda, Lin, Calvert, & Tao, 2016) Incubators ( Institutional support initiatives (Ge et al, 2016) Institutional support initiatives (Bank, Fichter, & Klofsten, 2017) Incubators (Kanda, Hjelm, Clausen, & Bienkowska, 2018) Institutional support initiatives (Sher, Mazhar, Zulfiqar, Wang, & Li, 2019) Market barriers (Demirel, Li, Rentocchini, & Tamvada, 2019) Sustainability factors in start-ups (Sunny & Shu, 2019) Institutional support initiatives…”

Section: Articles By Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic Literature Review: Sustainability practices in Start-ups

Boar-Boar¹,

Oliveras-Villanueva²

2019

Eur. Account. Manag. Rev.

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Start-ups and sustainability are growing in our society. For this reason, this paper is written with the aim to realize a systemic review of the literature in this topic. It analyses the characteristics of investors and entrepreneurs, the impact of existing green start-ups in society and if the institutional support is important for the development of the company. The most relevant results of each section show than the principal motivation of entrepreneurs is their social awareness with sustainability; traditional investors avoid investing in green start-ups; green start-ups need to use different management models than traditional start-ups; institutional support is crucial for the development and growth of a start-ups. However, it has been detected many gaps in the literature and to solve them, the paper proposes up to eight research questions to create a future agenda of investigation.

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Green entrepreneurial farming: A dream or reality?

Cited by 48 publications

References 91 publications

Does Green Proactiveness Orientation Improve the Performance of Agricultural New Ventures in China? The Mediating Effect of Sustainable Opportunity Recognition

Does Green Proactiveness Orientation Improve the Performance of Agricultural New Ventures in China? The Mediating Effect of Sustainable Opportunity Recognition

Ecopreneurial Education and Support: Developing the Innovators of Today and Tomorrow

Systematic Literature Review: Sustainability practices in Start-ups

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