From poles to wholes: facilitating an integrated approach to sustainable entrepreneurship

Tilley, Fiona; Parrish, Bradley D.

doi:10.1504/wremsd.2006.010214

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“…It is claimed that green entrepreneurs operate their businesses in ways that run eounter to conventional perceptions of entrepreneurial behaviour (Hart, 2006;Tilley and Parrish, 2006). They may reject the entrepreneurial label as possessing connotations of profit maximisation, materialism, and aggressive behaviour (Friedman and Phillips, 2003;Nicholson and Anderson, 2005).…”

Section: Green Entrepreneursmentioning

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Rethinking Sociotechnical Transitions and Green Entrepreneurship: The Potential for Transformative Change in the Green Building Sector

2014

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Tbis paper explores tbe development of green entrepreneursbip and its potential role in transformative cbange towards a green economy. It achieves tbis tbrougb a study of tbe green building sector in England and Wales, based on qualitative empirical data from fifty-five semistructured interviews witb businesses in tbe green building sector and witb support organisations, including banks, financial sources, and business advice and support. Tbe paper both critiques and syntbesises two bodies of literatureentrepreneurial researcb and sociotecbnical transitions theories, specifically tbe multilevel perspective (MLP)-to better understand tbe role of green entrepreneurs in facilitating a sbift towards a green economy. Tbis analysis embeds green entrepreneurs in a wider system of actors, ratber tban reifying tbe lone entrepreneurial bero, in order to explore bow green entrepreneurs facilitate sustainability transitions. Tbe paper cballenges tbe notion tbat green entrepreneurs are an unproblematic category. We discovered tbat individuals move between 'green' and 'conventional' business, evolving over time, sucb tbat tbis is a fiuid and blurred, ratber tban static, state. Moreover, wbile tbe green economy and tbe green building sector are often referred to as coherent sectors, witb agreed and consistent practices, our evidence suggests tbat they are far from agreed, tbat business models vary, and tbat tbere are significant contradictions within so-called green building practices. Tbe paper contributes to tbe development of sociotecbnical transitions tbeory and suggests tbat tbe MLP needs to incorporate complexity and multiplicity witbin nicbes, tbat niches may be inberently conflictual ratber tban consensual, and tbat tbe concept of 'protection' for nicbes is problematic.

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Section: Green Entrepreneursmentioning

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Rethinking Sociotechnical Transitions and Green Entrepreneurship: The Potential for Transformative Change in the Green Building Sector

2014

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“…Green enterprises as described in the literature in detail by Schaper [11], have their core focus on the process of "greening" in their ongoing operations. Sustainability enterprises ideally seek to integrate social, ecological, and economic objectives [14], but such concepts still remain abstract and theoretical.…”

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“…As defined by Tilley and Parrish [14], sustainability enterprises are those which attempt to integrate environmental, economic, and social considerations in a holistic manner. Such enterprises are built on a different organizing logic than conventional businesses, focusing their resources and "whole enterprise design" on sustainable development [15] and shifting business philosophy to new form of capitalist ideology that can directly address issues of climate change and other environmental impacts [16].…”

Section: Sustainability Enterprisesmentioning

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Environmental Orientation of Small Enterprises: Can Microcredit-Assisted Microenterprises be “Green”?

Shahidullah

Haque

2014

Sustainability

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Abstract:The objective of this research was to explore, both theoretically and empirically, the ecological impacts of small-scale entrepreneurial ventures in developing countries. To this end, six microenterprises in rural southwestern Bangladesh established using green-microcredit strategies were evaluated in terms of goals, operational procedures, economic viability, social contributions, and impact on local ecological sustainability. This research revealed that the majority of such enterprises are not only sustainable and comply with current ecological standards, but also contribute a considerable number of vital ecosystem services while simultaneously maintaining suitably high profit margins to promise long-term economic viability. These findings indicate that microenterprises given environmental guidance by developmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs)-especially NGOs microfinance institutions, NGO-MFIs-have the potential to make significant ecological contributions and address the issue of climate change from the bottom of the social ladder upwards.

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“…Green entrepreneurs are said to combine the environmental, economic and social components of sustainability in a holistic manner and to have a different organising logic than the more conventional entrepreneurs (Tilley, Parrish, 2006). Economic goals can be connected with environmental objectives by either removing environmental damaging processes or introducing innovative solutions to address environmentally degrading market imperfections or both (Cohen, Smith, Mitchell, 2008;Young, Tilley, 2006).…”

Section: Green Entrepreneurship As a Factor Of Innovationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Managing Economic Innovations – Ideas and Institutions

2019

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From poles to wholes: facilitating an integrated approach to sustainable entrepreneurship

Cited by 44 publications

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Rethinking Sociotechnical Transitions and Green Entrepreneurship: The Potential for Transformative Change in the Green Building Sector

Rethinking Sociotechnical Transitions and Green Entrepreneurship: The Potential for Transformative Change in the Green Building Sector

Environmental Orientation of Small Enterprises: Can Microcredit-Assisted Microenterprises be “Green”?

Managing Economic Innovations – Ideas and Institutions

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