The green entrepreneur: Opportunist, Maverick or Visionary?

Taylor, David W.; Walley, Elizabeth E.

doi:10.1504/ijesb.2004.005377

Cited by 66 publications

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“…Although large firms perform better in communication of CSR engagement (López‐Pérez, Melero, & Sese, ), small firms have an advantage in implementation because they require less effort to embed values throughout the firm (Baumann‐Pauly, Wickert, Spence, & Scherer, ). Likewise, the ecopreneurship literature places personal values as a key driver behind establishing sustainability‐oriented businesses (Taylor & Walley, ). The nascent body of literature on sustainable business models similarly depict entrepreneurs as driven by value propositions that reflect social and ecological priorities (Evans et al, ; Schaltegger & Wagner, ).…”

Section: Characterizing Smes As Social Actorsmentioning

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Conceptualizing businesses as social actors: A framework for understanding sustainability actions in small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises

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Small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can play a crucial role in advancing environmental and social well-being. Yet various-often conflicting-explanations have been offered to clarify why SMEs pursue sustainability. Some arguments foreground possibilities of profit maximization, whereas others emphasize individual values and convictions. Research supporting such contradicting explanations is often biased towards large enterprises or small, innovative frontrunners. In this article, we examine the underlying drivers of social and environmental interventions of SMEs by exploring empirical data from a survey of over 1,600 Canadian SMEs and complementary indepth interviews. We argue that sustainability actions of SMEs can be understood by viewing these firms as social actors-organizations that are shaped by individual values, internal and external interpersonal relationships, and are embedded in a social environment. This conceptualization directs attention to the full range of factors that shape sustainability engagement of SMEs and highlights frequently overlooked forms of sustainability-oriented actions.

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Section: Characterizing Smes As Social Actorsmentioning

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Conceptualizing businesses as social actors: A framework for understanding sustainability actions in small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises

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“…These categories include those who have a profit or economic orientation on the one hand and those who have a sustainability orientation and want to help change or improve the environment on the other hand (Isaak, 2002;Taylor and Walley, 2003;Koester, 2011). Schnick, Marxen and Freiman, (2002) further state that these categories are the two ends of the ecological orientation range.…”

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Ecopreneurship and Green Product Initiative (GPI): An Agenda for Nigeria’s Sustainable Development in the 21st Century

Solaja

2017

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“…The risk‐taking propensity of individuals high in maverickism has some linkages with entrepreneurship (e.g., Brockhaus, 1980; Taylor & Walley, 2004). Individuals high in maverickism like those labelled ‘entrepreneurs’ have a tendency to trust their own judgement and take advantage of opportunities to realize their unique vision (Palich & Bagby, 1995).…”

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Workplace mavericks: How personality and risk‐taking propensity predicts maverickism

Gardiner

Jackson

2011

British J of Psychology

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We examine the relationship between lateral preference, the Five-Factor Model of personality, risk-taking propensity, and maverickism. We take an original approach by narrowing our research focus to only functional aspects of maverickism. Results with 458 full-time workers identify lateral preference as a moderator of the neuroticism-maverickism relationship. Extraversion, openness to experience, and low agreeableness were also each found to predict maverickism. The propensity of individuals high in maverickism to take risks was also found to be unaffected by task feedback. Our results highlight the multifaceted nature of maverickism, identifying both personality and task conditions as determinants of this construct.

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The green entrepreneur: Opportunist, Maverick or Visionary?

Cited by 66 publications

References 9 publications

Conceptualizing businesses as social actors: A framework for understanding sustainability actions in small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises

Conceptualizing businesses as social actors: A framework for understanding sustainability actions in small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises

Ecopreneurship and Green Product Initiative (GPI): An Agenda for Nigeria’s Sustainable Development in the 21st Century

Workplace mavericks: How personality and risk‐taking propensity predicts maverickism

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