Achieving sustainability through Schumpeterian social entrepreneurship: The role of social enterprises

Rahdari, Amir Hossein; Sepasi, Sahar; Moradi, Mohammad Ali

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.06.159

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“…Later, an agreement to launch a set of universal applicable Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) appeared from the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development in 2012, which will build upon the MDGs and take centre stage at the post-2015 development agenda (Pintér et al, 2014). These goals (see Table A1 in the appendix) are aimed at transforming the current abominable conditions of education, health, employment, pollution, and poverty, among other problems, worldwide, particularly in developing countries (Rahdari et al, 2016). In response to these sustainabilityrelated problems, researchers around the world are beginning to ask what role of 3 Social, Economic and environmental sustainability form elements of a dynamic system.…”

Section: (A) Sustainable Development -A Complex Conceptmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…entrepreneurship and small business can play in achieving these goals (Parrish, 2010;Rahdari et al, 2016;Ben Youssef et al 2017;Omri, 2017). Many of them agreed that entrepreneurship could contribute significantly to the world's economy, society as well as human kind through job creation, product innovation and exploitation of business opportunities.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Concerns about the planet's sustainability have emerged as an increasingly influential subject in business practice and academic settings, and more recently with the United Nations publication "The Future We Want" one of the outcomes of Rio+20 conference on sustainable development held in 2012 (Rahdari et al, 2016). Consciousness is increasing to highlight that a fundamental change in the way society produces energy and uses natural resources is needed if we make advances on pressing environmental concerns such as global climate change and ecosystem degradation (Hall et al, 2010).…”

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Summary. -Compared to the prior discussion of the emerging research on entrepreneurship and sustainable development, the purpose of this study is to investigate the ability of the entrepreneurial activity to simultaneously enhance economic growth, advance environmental objectives, and improve social conditions in developing countries. We mainly found that entrepreneurship in these countries positively contributes to the economic and social dimensions of sustainable development, while its contribution to the environmental dimension is negative. The results of causality test confirm the interactions among entrepreneurship and these three dimensions in both short and long-run.Limitations and future research directions, some managerial and policy implications for entrepreneurial action in sustainable development are also discussed.

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“…As growing or experiencing more, some firms can allocate their resources into diverse purposes. They can then develop and maintain their intangible assets based on multiple sources, such as innovation, reputation, and environmental sustainability which ultimately benefit the environment [48]. This is presented as the red line approaching the zero-point in Figure 1b, eventuating the bottom curve of the red U-shaped curve in Figure 1a.…”

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Curvilinear Relationship between Corporate Innovation and Environmental Sustainability

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This paper proposes and tests the impacts of firms' innovation activities, such as patents, on their involvement in environmental sustainability, such as environmental performance. Combining resource allocation and eco-innovation perspectives assuming constant levels of trade-off costs, this study proposes diminishing trade-off costs between corporate innovation and environmental sustainability. Specifically, this research hypothesizes a U-shaped relationship, suggesting that a firm will suffer trade-off costs between innovation and environment-oriented activities up to a certain level, and that once a firm accumulates an adequate level of innovation, it may reduce trade-off costs, caring more for environmental issues. A proposed hypothesis is supported by empirical testing of a sample of 11,657 firm-year observations with 1564 firms, spanning from 1991 to 2010. We also found that corporate patenting activities are relevant to undesirable impacts on environmental performance overall, instead of satisfying outcomes. We suggest that firms and managers should care for environmental sustainability issues once they accumulate an adequate level of innovation assets through patenting activities.

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“…In spite of the different actors, contexts and mechanisms involved, social entrepreneurship has a strong social component Martí 2006, 2009). It creates social value, as its aim is to solve problems affecting society -environmental, social and economic challenges -through innovative strategies (Morris et al 2011;Rahdari et al 2016). Social entrepreneurs seek to transform society by targeting unjust and unsustainable systems and converting them into entirely sustainable ones (Martin and Osberg 2015;Rahdari et al 2015).…”

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El arraigo local en proyectos energéticos comunitarios. Una perspectiva de emprendimiento social

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An increasing number of community energy projects have emerged recently, reflecting diverse sociotechnical configurations in the energy sector. This article is based on an empirical study examining different types of community energy projects such as energy cooperatives, public service utilities and other entrepreneurially oriented initiatives across the European Union. Based on an in-depth analysis of three case studies, the article aims to introduce a social entrepreneurship perspective when discussing the relationship between local embeddedness and different forms of organisation and ownership in community energy. The results indicate that community energy projects can expand beyond the local scale without losing their collective and democratic form of functioning and ownership. Moreover, social movements can act as catalysts for this expansion beyond the local, in a quest for wider social transformation. Social entrepreneurship may provide a suitable analytical lens to avoid the 'local trap' when examining different forms of organisation and ownership in renewable energy, and further explore the question of scaling. KeywordsCommunity energy; Energy cooperatives; Public service utilities; Renewable energy; Social entrepreneurship; Social movements. resumenRecientemente, han surgido un número creciente de proyectos energéticos comunitarios, que reflejan diversas configuraciones socio-técnicas en el sector energético. Este artículo se basa en un estudio empírico que examina diferentes tipos de proyectos energéticos comunitarios como las cooperativas energéticas, las empresas de servicios públicos y otras iniciativas de orientación empresarial en toda la Unión Europea. Basado en un análisis en profundidad de tres estudios de caso, el artículo tiene como objetivo introducir una perspectiva de emprendimiento social cuando se discute la relación entre el arraigamiento local y los diferentes tipos de organización y propiedad en la energía comunitaria. Los resultados indican que los proyectos energéticos comunitarios pueden expandirse más allá de la escala local sin perder su forma colectiva y democrática de funcionamiento y propiedad. Además, los movimientos sociales pueden actuar como catalizadores de esta expansión más allá de lo local, en busca de una transformación social más amplia. El emprendimiento social puede proporcionar una lente analítica adecuada para evitar la "trampa local" al examinar diferentes formas de organización y propiedad en el sector de la energía renovable, mientras nos permite ahondar aún más en la cuestión de la expansión territorial de estos proyectos. PAlAbrAs clAve

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Achieving sustainability through Schumpeterian social entrepreneurship: The role of social enterprises

Cited by 234 publications

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El arraigo local en proyectos energéticos comunitarios. Una perspectiva de emprendimiento social

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