Sustainability Entrepreneurship and Equitable Transitions to a Low-Carbon Economy

Parrish, Bradley D.; Foxon, Timothy J.

doi:10.9774/gleaf.3062.2006.au.00006

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“…Thus, sustainable entrepreneurship is a multidimensional concept that encompasses economic factors (profits and product competitiveness), factors related to the preservation of the environment and surroundings, and social factors, which refer to the protection of people's health and wellbeing. At the same time, through its goal of improving the environment and advancing social wellbeing, sustainable entrepreneurship can also effect structural social transformations and promote sustainable technologies associated with these sustainable initiatives [4]. These outcomes have been reported in, for example, Spain [21], Finland and Germany [22], and the US [4].…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Certain conditions or entrepreneurial characteristics help entrepreneurs take innovative actions that advance their initial position, allow them to exploit new opportunities [9,10] and support their decision-making processes [11]. Entrepreneurs thus jointly consider economic, social, and environmental goals (for further details, see [4]. ) The goal of this study was to analyze the factors that, according to the views of experts in entrepreneurship, are closely linked to actions designed to foster business sustainability.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Accordingly, the goal is to initiate actions and processes that develop profitable opportunities and contribute to sustainable development [3]. Sustainable entrepreneurship can thereby catalyze structural socioeconomic transformations [4].…”

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Factors Affecting Entrepreneurship and Business Sustainability

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Sustainability is becoming increasingly important for society, and the creation of business ventures is one area where sustainability is critical. We examined the factors affecting actions that are designed to foster business sustainability. These factors are related to the environment, behavior, human relations, and business activity. Based on questionnaire responses from experts, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method was used to rank sustainable business criteria according to their importance for entrepreneurs starting sustainable businesses. The results indicate that the most important drivers of sustainable entrepreneurship are behavioral factors and business factors. Ethical principles and values, together with competitive intelligence, are crucial for undertaking actions that lead to sustainability.

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“…This contribution to socio-economic development [128], is seen as being enabled by a potential change in the environmentally-and sustainability-oriented thinking of sustainable firms [76,83,[129][130][131][132]. These kinds of firms are understood as promoting a greener future by acting as role models [30,128,133].…”

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Sustainable Entrepreneurship Orientation: A Reflection on Status-Quo Research on Factors Facilitating Responsible Managerial Practices

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Abstract:With the global financial system having undergone vast changes since the financial crisis of 2007, scientific research concerning the investor's point of view on sustainable investments has drastically increased. However, there remains a lack of research focused on the entrepreneur's angle regarding sustainable oriented investments. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of sustainable financial markets by bringing together entrepreneurial and financial research. This paper provides a structured literature review, based on which the authors identify three relevant levels that they believe have an effect on the successful implementation of managerial sustainable practices; these are the individual, the firm, and the contextual levels. The results show that on the individual level sustainable entrepreneurs tend to derive their will to act more sustainably from their personal values or traits. On the organizational level, though, it can be concluded that an small and medium sized enterprise's internal culture and the reconfiguration of resources are critical determinants for adopting a sustainable entrepreneurial orientation. Finally, on the contextual level, researchers have focused on a better understanding of how entrepreneurs can help society and the environment through sustainable entrepreneurship, and how they can act as role models or change agents in light of the fact that the choice of investing or financing based on sustainability is still in its infancy. By providing an overview on facilitating factors for responsible managerial practices on the entrepreneur's side, this research contributes to a better understanding for both theory and practice on how sustainable practices can be implemented and facilitated.

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“…Focusing solely on economic growth, however, conceals other possible dimensions by which growth might be experienced, such as: personal, social, spatial and environmental (Achtenhagen et al, 2010;Anderson 1998;Haugh 2007;Korsgaard and Anderson 2011). Making other dimensions visible might also bring into question the desirability of economic growth, specifically challenging the academic willingness to understand and promote growth simply in terms of the assimilation and accretion of resources (Anderson 1998;Dean and McMullen 2007;Parrish and Foxon 2009). …”

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Re-imagining the growth process: (co)-evolving metaphorical representations of entrepreneurial growth

Clarke

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Blundel

2014

Entrepreneurship & Regional Development

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We investigate the role and influence of the biological metaphor 'growth' in studies of organizations, specifically in entrepreneurial settings. We argue that we need to reconsider metaphorical expressions of growth processes in entrepreneurship studies in order to better understand growth in the light of contemporary challenges, such as environmental concerns.Our argument is developed in two stages: first, we review the role of metaphor in organization and entrepreneurship studies. Second, we reflect critically on three conceptualizations of growth that have drawn on biological metaphors: the growing organism, natural selection and co-evolution. We find the metaphor of co-evolution heuristically valuable but under-used and in need of further refinement. We propose three characteristics of the co-evolutionary metaphor that might enrich our understanding of entrepreneurial growth: relational epistemology; collectivity; and multidimensionality. Through this we provide a conceptual means of reconciling an economic impetus for entrepreneurial growth with an environmental imperative for sustainability.

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Sustainability Entrepreneurship and Equitable Transitions to a Low-Carbon Economy

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Factors Affecting Entrepreneurship and Business Sustainability

Factors Affecting Entrepreneurship and Business Sustainability

Sustainable Entrepreneurship Orientation: A Reflection on Status-Quo Research on Factors Facilitating Responsible Managerial Practices

Re-imagining the growth process: (co)-evolving metaphorical representations of entrepreneurial growth

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