Towards Sustainable Entrepreneurship Holistic Construct

Abstract

In recent years, conducted businesses have been increasingly expected to obtain more sustainable forms, with many added determinants. Indeed, sustainability-related entrepreneurship still faces complex choices among conventional entrepreneurial factors, while being urged to consider three main pillars of sustainability. Thus, this work is focused on the development of sustainability-related entrepreneurship by reflecting the sustainable needs of entrepreneurship. Due to the fact that it is not clear for the sustainability-related entrepreneurship what the valuable and most influential factors stimming its development are, the detection of basic components and their correlation becomes a major motivation of this work. Therefore, this paper aims to conduct an attempt to identify a comprehensive set of SE (sustainable entrepreneurship) factors providing a structural overview in making insights into the factors/determinants of SE. It assists researchers and entrepreneurs in obtaining clear, informative pictures about SE factors. The applied research methodology is based on a systematic literature review which is conducted using the PRISMA methodology, simultaneously ensuring repetitiveness and lack of bias in this process. To retrieve and condense the immense amount of bibliographic information, a bibliometric analysis is adopted to perform in co-occurrence analysis of keywords determining SE factors and different detailed forms of distribution analysis. The expected outcome is to provide the classification schema of applied keywords in sustainable entrepreneurship literature as part of a comprehensive literature review, which is presented in order to uncover, classify and systematize the current research. As a result, a co-word matrix of high frequency keywords of SE factors is also established. It offers a feasible path of investigation for researchers aiming to build a consistent body of knowledge about sustainable entrepreneurship, by providing a conceptualization and systematization that can be applied across the many contexts in which sustainable entrepreneurship is expressed, for example, sustainable actions and sustainable development contexts. The present research aims to yield a successful attempt of identifying the comprehensive set of SE factors, as well as to establish a co-word matrix of high frequency keywords of SE factors. Providing a macroscopic overview of the main factors of SE in the form of conceptualization of the proposed construct will capture the unique organizational characteristics of sustainable enterprises and facilitate the research into capability building, innovation and competitive advantage in sustainable enterprises. It supports both researchers and entrepreneurs in shaping up and refining future research activities and investments in line with the policy of SE.

Entrepreneurship Through Open Data: An Opportunity for Sustainable Development

“…On the other hand, it affects the impact of this phenomenon, especially in the environmental, social, and economic spheres. Some authors have shown an interest in studying the emerging field of sustainable entrepreneurship [79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87][88]. Entrepreneurs are increasingly aware of sustainability, introducing new sustainable services and products to provide social and environmental value [132,133].…”

“…According to Muñoz and Cohen [83] (p. 300), "The recognition of entrepreneurship as a solution to, rather than a cause of, environmental degradation and social inequality moved the field to identify a new type of entrepreneurial activity, namely sustainable entrepreneurship". Sustainable entrepreneurship applies the entrepreneurial approach to achieve societal and environmental goals [81]. Therefore, sustainable entrepreneurship can be defined as "the examination of how opportunities to bring into existence 'future' goods and services are discovered, created, and exploited, by whom, and with what economic, psychological, social, and environmental consequences" [134] (p. 35).…”

An Ontology-Based Knowledge Modelling for Sustainable Entrepreneurship Domain

“…The proposed ontology covers the domain of SE in a form of selected factors and provides a description of EO as a collection of terms and definitions relevant to business enterprises [7], [8]. The ontology was developed also on base of in-depth analysis of available literature presented in [38]. The applied research methodology exploits a previously elaborated bibliometric analysis which included a systematic literature review which was conducted using the PRISMA methodology.…”

“…The analysis of co-occurrence of keywords was performed using VOSviewer software. The details are included in [38].…”

Manager’s Age, Sustainable Entrepreneurial Orientation and Sustainable Performance: A Conceptual Outlook

“…It will help develop a culture of sensitivity and re-design of business models to turn to a more effective system. Such a mechanism results in improved performance in terms of environmental, social and economic dimensions and enhances the chances of a firm's survival [49].…”