Place attachment and social legitimacy: Revisiting the sustainable entrepreneurship journey

Kibler, Ewald; Fink, Matthias; Lang, Richard; Muñoz, Pablo

doi:10.1016/j.jbvi.2015.04.001

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“…The field should seek to explore how entrepreneurs are embedded in markets, social systems and territories, what factors influence priorities for the entrepreneur embedded in multiple contexts, and how the embeddedness influences the venturing process. Only three of the papers we reviewed addressed territorial embeddedness of sustainable, purpose‐driven entrepreneurs (Shrivastava and Kennelly, ; Kibler et al ., ; Cohen and Muñoz, ). This is somewhat surprising given the strong relationship between sustainability and local development.…”

Section: Expanding the Boundaries: Looking Aheadmentioning

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Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research: Taking Stock and looking ahead

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The recognition of entrepreneurship as a solution to, rather than a cause of, environmental degradation and social inequality moved the field to identify a new type of entrepreneurial activity, namely sustainable entrepreneurship. Scholarly interest has spiked in recent years; however, aside from its aspirational appeal, there remains a lack of understanding of the nature of the phenomenon and the future of sustainable entrepreneurship in theory and practice. This review seeks to provide a conceptual basis for stimulating scholarly thought and improving our collective understanding of sustainable entrepreneurship as a distinct subdomain within entrepreneurship research. Based on boundary definition and delineation of main features, this review critically discusses the main challenges ahead and elaborates on the research implications and future research directions beyond current, dominant approaches to entrepreneurial action. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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“…Entrepreneurs, as previously, mentioned have to be able to influence opinion leaders and key actors in order to exploit their capability of establishing [60] and modifying powerful relationships among different actors [61]. This need reflects the critical nature of ecological sustainable entrepreneurs with the external environment [62][63][64][65], taking on no further distinction or separation between formal and informal institutions [66][67][68], or cooperation and support of each other in networks [69][70][71]. Research shows that by being more inclined to successfully network within and across industries, entrepreneurs leading sustainable enterprises maintain sustainable growth in pursuit of their long-term survival [59,72].…”

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Configurational Paths to Social Performance in SMEs: The Interplay of Innovation, Sustainability, Resources and Achievement Motivation

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In today's world of increasing ecological, social and economic issues, the question as to how businesses can become a vehicle towards more sustainable development has become more relevant than ever. Crucial to a more sustainable economy is the successful implementation of sustainable practices through entrepreneurial activities. Although there are attempts to describe how sustainable entrepreneurs differentiate themselves, the question of how some entrepreneurs manage to successfully create a sustainable enterprise, while others do not, remains unanswered. The aim of this research is to find causal patterns that explain the success of sustainable entrepreneurs, using their social performance as a measure. Using a configuration approach-based fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) of 598 Austrian small-and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), we could identify four different combinations of the interconnected variables of innovation orientation, environmental sustainability, resource leveraging and achievement motivation, which all lead to social performance depending on the respective networking intensity of the firms. The only variable that is included in all combinations is environmental sustainability, thus indicating it may be either crucial to or a prerequisite for achieving social performance in SMEs.

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“…As mentioned above, entrepreneurs have to be able to influence opinion leaders and key actors to get the most out of their capability of establishing [101] and modifying powerful relationships among different actors [102]. This need helps make clear the critical nature of ecologically-sustainable entrepreneurs with their external environment [73,[103][104][105]. Here, there is no recognizable further distinction or separation between formal and informal institutions [106][107][108], nor is there cooperation and mutual support in networks [109][110][111].…”

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Sustainable Entrepreneurship Orientation: A Reflection on Status-Quo Research on Factors Facilitating Responsible Managerial Practices

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Abstract:With the global financial system having undergone vast changes since the financial crisis of 2007, scientific research concerning the investor's point of view on sustainable investments has drastically increased. However, there remains a lack of research focused on the entrepreneur's angle regarding sustainable oriented investments. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of sustainable financial markets by bringing together entrepreneurial and financial research. This paper provides a structured literature review, based on which the authors identify three relevant levels that they believe have an effect on the successful implementation of managerial sustainable practices; these are the individual, the firm, and the contextual levels. The results show that on the individual level sustainable entrepreneurs tend to derive their will to act more sustainably from their personal values or traits. On the organizational level, though, it can be concluded that an small and medium sized enterprise's internal culture and the reconfiguration of resources are critical determinants for adopting a sustainable entrepreneurial orientation. Finally, on the contextual level, researchers have focused on a better understanding of how entrepreneurs can help society and the environment through sustainable entrepreneurship, and how they can act as role models or change agents in light of the fact that the choice of investing or financing based on sustainability is still in its infancy. By providing an overview on facilitating factors for responsible managerial practices on the entrepreneur's side, this research contributes to a better understanding for both theory and practice on how sustainable practices can be implemented and facilitated.

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Place attachment and social legitimacy: Revisiting the sustainable entrepreneurship journey

Cited by 122 publications

References 20 publications

Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research: Taking Stock and looking ahead

Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research: Taking Stock and looking ahead

Configurational Paths to Social Performance in SMEs: The Interplay of Innovation, Sustainability, Resources and Achievement Motivation

Sustainable Entrepreneurship Orientation: A Reflection on Status-Quo Research on Factors Facilitating Responsible Managerial Practices

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