Learning apart and together: towards an integrated competence framework for sustainable entrepreneurship in higher education

The return of the Jedi in entrepreneurship?! : Developing a validated competence framework for sustainable entrepreneurship and exploring the specific role of moral competencies in the sustainable entrepreneurial process

“…Lans et al, 2014), but some steps still have to be made in order to establish the validity of the competence framework for sustainable entrepreneurship.…”

“…The chapter begins with an indepth introduction to the variety of research that reports on competencies for sustainable development in a work-context. The choice for the competence framework as developed by Lans et al (2014) is explained and the framework is discussed. The goal of this chapter is a first test to assess the empirical robustness of this framework by means of Confirmatory Factor Analysis.…”

“…As a reaction to these critical remarks, several scholars have identified and studied competencies for sustainable development which are enacted in a specific work context (Hesselbarth & Schaltegger, 2014;Osagie et al, 2015;Wesselink et al, 2015;Lans et al, 2014). In today's society different…”

“…Nevertheless, the number of competence studies from a business perspective is much more limited, compared to competence studies from the educational context. To the best of our knowledge, only Hesselbarth & Schaltegger (2014), Osagie et al (2015), Wesselink et al (2015) and Lans et al (2014) have made an effort in 'translating' more generic lists of competencies for SD into specific working contexts of change agents for sustainability. The former three focus more on the role of competencies in the work context of CSR managers and the latter focuses on would-be sustainable entrepreneurs.…”

“…Similar to the study of Lans et al (2014) we focus on the work context of sustainable entrepreneurs.…”