Balancing “what matters to me” with “what matters to them”: Exploring the legitimation process of environmental entrepreneurs

O’Neil, Isobel; Ucbasaran, Deniz

doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2015.12.001

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“…Also notably, there is little clarity on how born green ventures and their activities evolve as they move through the corporate and technology life cycles. Several recent studies have shed light on the complex reality of entrepreneurs constantly negotiating multilevel tensions between being green and being entrepreneurial through a process of balancing competing pressures in economic activities, social contexts, and ecological philosophies O'Neil and Ucbasaran 2016;O'Neill and Gibbs 2016). Yet, more data-based evidence is necessary to better understand the behaviour and performance of green entrepreneurs.…”

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Born to be green: new insights into the economics and management of green entrepreneurship

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While the number of green start-ups has steadily increased around the world in response to the environmental problems demanding immediate solutions, there are several unresolved questions on the behaviour and performance of such ventures. The papers in this special issue shed light on these issues by underscoring the role of several factors, such as industry life cycles, knowledge spillovers, institutions, and availability of external finance, in shaping decision-making and firm behaviour in green start-ups. This paper highlights the state-of-the-art developments in the literature, discusses the key contributions of the papers put together in this special issue, and presents a future research agenda for scholars interested in green entrepreneurship.

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“…(A) Environmental goals . This second‐order code resulted from connecting 7 first‐order codes: (1) environmental concern (e.g., Jolink & Niesten, ), (2) environmental awareness (e.g., Gibbs, ), (3) environmental/sustainability commitment (e.g., Isaak, ), (4) strong green values (e.g., Kearins & Collins, ), (5) being ecologically oriented (Isaak, ), (6) environmental progress/welfare as a main driver (e.g., O’Neil & Ucbasaran, ), and (7) the aim of seizing environmental market opportunities (e.g., Dean & McMullen, ). We determined that these codes had an underlying common theme, since all of them suggested that one characteristic of EE is that it is driven by environmental goals: EE has an environmental purpose.…”

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“…Fourth, EE emerges as the result of meeting economic opportunities (e.g., Dean & McMullen, ). Finally, EE is described as financially sustainable (e.g., O’Neil & Ucbasaran, ). Therefore, we found that 13 definitions specifically noted that EE is driven by economic goals.…”

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“…Scholars have used a broad range of terminology to refer to entrepreneurship connected to the natural environment. Early definitions predominantly opted for the term ecopreneurship (e.g., Isaak, 1997;Lober, 1998), whereas the term environmental entrepreneurship has gained more popularity in recent years (e.g., Dean & McMullen, 2007;O'Neil & Ucbasaran, 2016;York, O'Neil, & Sarasvathy, 2016). In addition, scholars have used terms, such as enviro-capitalists (Anderson & Leal, 1997), green entrepreneurship (e.g., Silajdžić, Kurtagić, & Vučijak, 2015), eco-entrepreneurship (e.g., Kotchen, 2009), enviropreneurship (e.g., Hartman & Stafford, 1998), eco-preneurial business/companies (e.g., Kearins & Collins, 2012), ecologically oriented start-ups (e.g., Schick, Marxen, & Freimann, 2002) and even sustainable entrepreneurship as synonymous with EE (Pacheco et al, 2010).…”

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Environmental entrepreneurship as a multi‐component and dynamic construct: Duality of goals, environmental agency, and environmental value creation

Antolín-López

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2019

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Environmental entrepreneurship (EE) is a scholarly field that has gained traction in recent years under the premise that it might represent a solution to pressing environmental grand challenges. Despite substantial advances in recent decades, the field still lacks consensus on the conceptualization of EE. The lack of a settled and unified notion of EE hinders the progress of the field because it challenges EE’s legitimacy, hampers theoretical development, creates measurement, and empirical problems. In this study, we aim to provide an integrative theoretical conceptualization of EE that can help build bridges between fragmented views of the phenomenon. First, we perform a systematic literature review to identify existing definitions of EE, and second, we follow an inductive approach to analyze them. Drawing on past definitions, we propose EE as a multi‐component and dynamic construct that consists of three interrelated core components: duality of goals, environmental agency, and environmental value creation. This conceptualization of EE might help connect the fragmented literature and build internal coherence, and it could be instrumental to further developing the current theoretical approaches that inform the phenomenon.

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“…In this sense, their objectives go beyond self-interest and profit-orientation towards the creation of multiple forms of value [3,46]. As a result, scholars argue that sustainable entrepreneurs are predestined to be confronted with, and affected by different institutional logics (logics of the commercial market, environmental protection, and social welfare), which influence their goals and behavior [6,9,20,47].…”

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Exploring Value Creation in Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Insights from the Institutional Logics Perspective and the Business Model Lens

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Sustainable entrepreneurs intend to create environmental and social value while they build their financially viable business. With this in mind, they are embedded in multiple institutionalized value systems (i.e., institutional logics) that provide them with different, often contradictory values, beliefs, and guiding principles. Adhering to these value systems and integrating multiple forms of value into a coherent business model is a key task for sustainable entrepreneurs, yet current efforts lack insight into how this can be achieved. To address this, the article utilizes the institutional logic perspective in conjunction with the componential approach to business models. By analyzing a longitudinal in-depth case study, this article develops a novel theoretical model linking shifts in the entrepreneur’s perception of institutional logic to business model alterations, and emphasizes the underlying mechanisms and behavior of the sustainable entrepreneur. Sustainable entrepreneurs integrate and blend institutional logic through multiple business model transitions, which are characterized by a personal reorientation of the entrepreneur and new practices to implement change. Furthermore, our findings show that the entrepreneur’s habitus, the pre-change business model, and the change-specific dominant logic are integral and previously overlooked concepts that contextualize their business model transition. The findings and discussion advance the theoretical and practical understanding of the processes through which sustainable entrepreneurs integrate multiple forms of value into their business models. With that, the article contributes to research on sustainable entrepreneurship, institutional logic and business models.

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Balancing “what matters to me” with “what matters to them”: Exploring the legitimation process of environmental entrepreneurs

Cited by 133 publications

References 72 publications

Born to be green: new insights into the economics and management of green entrepreneurship

Born to be green: new insights into the economics and management of green entrepreneurship

Environmental entrepreneurship as a multi‐component and dynamic construct: Duality of goals, environmental agency, and environmental value creation

Exploring Value Creation in Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Insights from the Institutional Logics Perspective and the Business Model Lens

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