Entrepreneurship contribution to the three pillars of sustainable development: What does the evidence really say?

Abstract

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.

Mapping Sustainable Development Goals: A network analysis framework

“…The results of our survey support the existence of integration between environment, economy, and society pillars to the SDGs, which was also supported from other studies (Dhahri & Omri, ; Horton, ; Sachs, ). We covered a gap from previous research of Le Blanc (, which was mapping goals based on wording.…”

“…Experts groups in another study (Waage et al, ) reveal an interaction between natural environment, infrastructure, and well‐being, whereas other studies created models based on well‐being as three‐pillar multidimensional (Costanza et al, ). The three pillars of SD are not only interconnected but also entrepreneurial activity is contributing to their support (Dhahri & Omri, ). But environmental dimension is negatively affected by entrepreneurship (Dhahri & Omri, ), whereas in our study, environmental issues are highly ranked of their importance.…”

“…The three pillars of SD are not only interconnected but also entrepreneurial activity is contributing to their support (Dhahri & Omri, ). But environmental dimension is negatively affected by entrepreneurship (Dhahri & Omri, ), whereas in our study, environmental issues are highly ranked of their importance. Also, social‐ecological status of various countries around the world is according to a system of the three pillars of sustainability (economic prosperity, social justice, and environmental quality), called the SESI: social‐ecological status index (Estoque & Murayama, ).…”

Moveable Production Systems for Sustainable Development and Trade: Limitations, Opportunities and Barriers

“…For example, moveable factories are suitable for short-term leasing to different lessees in the same way as other types of capital equipment are leased by plant hire companies. Thus, the financing of moveable production systems, which can improve the ecological and social sustainability of production, are well-suited cross-sector initiatives for funding entrepreneurship to support the three pillars of sustainable development: economy, ecology and society [153].…”

Do Entrepreneurial Attitudes Explain the Rising International Business Orientation in Developing and Emerging Economies?

“…In modern and well-established free market economies, entrepreneurship is at the forefront of private economic activity, investment, and business creation, and thus of detrimental importance to economic growth and prosperity (e.g. Kirzner, 1973Kirzner, , 1997Salvino et al, 2014;Prieger et al, 2016;Stuetzer et al, 2018;Dhahri and Omri, 2018). Advanced and developed countries have a long history with respect to free market economies and pro-active entrepreneurial culture.…”