Sustainability in start-up ventures: what founders say versus what they do

Galpin, Timothy J.; Hebard, Julia

doi:10.1108/wjemsd-05-2015-0025

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“…There is no consensus definition of sustainability that remains an ill-defined term (Galpin & Hebard, 2015) with more than 70 different definitions (Lozano, 2008) being proposed by various studies (Barkemeyer et al, 2014;Owens & Legere, 2015;Habidin, Zubir, Fuzi, Latip, & Azma, 2015;Ratiu & Anderson, 2015), depending on how the sustainability is approached and perceived (Lozano, 2008;Barkemeyer et al, 2014;Owens & Legere, 2015). Even though the aim of sustainability is to secure intergenerational equity, its meaning yet remains elusive (Bansal & DesJardine, 2014).…”

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Sustainable Growth in SMEs: A Review from the Malaysian Perspective

Yusoff¹,

Wahab²,

Latiff³

et al. 2018

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The importance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) contributions to the nations' economies in the world is an undebatable fact. The same applies to Malaysia with 98.5% of the total business establishments being SMEs; contributing to 65.3% of total employment and 36.3% of GDP. Supports from the Government are never fading with huge allocations of budget every year but yet registering high failure rate. Sustainable growth of SMEs is long overdue. The awareness of the importance of sustainable growth of SMEs has resulted in the presence of various definitions and concepts of sustainable growth. This paper seeks to explore the literature on long-term and sustainable growth for SMEs and the enhanced knowledge on this area willbe aguidance to the policy makers, supporting agencies, advisors, entrepreneurs and academicians to seriously develop an all-encompassing model for sustainable growth of SMEs. This paper suggests an integrated sustainable growth model of SMEs with four dimensions of the economic factors.

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Sustainable Growth in SMEs: A Review from the Malaysian Perspective

Yusoff¹,

Wahab²,

Latiff³

et al. 2018

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“…À guisa de implicações, destaca-se a importância de se tratar sobre aspectos sustentáveis no ambiente de startups, já que acabam por fornecer diferenciais competitivos (BOCKEN et al, 2014). Além disso, a incorporação da sustentabilidade em startups acaba por ser algo interessante, já que novas empresas apresentam poucos ou nenhum processo ou procedimento organizacional estabelecido (GALPIN; HEBARD, 2015), o que facilita a formulação de estratégias sustentáveis.…”

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Sustentabilidade no Ambiente de Startups: Revisão Sistemática de Publicações Internacionais

Oliveira

Beuren

2021

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Este estudo analisa as abordagens das pesquisas publicadas em periódicos internacionais sobre sustentabilidade no ambiente de startups. Uma revisão sistemática foi realizada nos artigos sobre a temática publicados nos últimos vinte anos (1999-2018), disponíveis na base de dados da Scopus. Além de identificar o período com maior número de publicações, os periódicos que se sobressaíram e a autoria dos artigos, analisaram-se aspectos metodológicos das pesquisas e o objetivo de cada artigo. Os resultados revelaram que as publicações sobre a temática se tornaram mais frequentes em anos recentes, apenas dois periódicos se destacaram, e não se observou formação de redes de autores. Nos aspectos metodológicos, predominaram pesquisas desenvolvidas por meio de estudos de casos e levantamentos, com coleta de dados a partir de entrevistas, documentos e questionários. Os objetivos declarados nos artigos apontam predominância da abordagem econômica da sustentabilidade, em detrimento das abordagens social e ambiental, que juntas formam o Triple Bottom Line. Não foi observado um eixo quanto ao que é objetivado pelos artigos, o que inibe inferências quanto às tendências de pesquisas sobre sustentabilidade em startups. No entanto, isso representa uma importante contribuição, aponta uma lacuna de pesquisa relativa aos aspectos sustentáveis de startups.

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“…It is not that they act irresponsibly; instead, their approach towards CSR is different (Soundararajan et al, 2018). Startups are initiating CSR activities to enhance the viability of their firms in the long run (Galpin & Hebard, 2015). The limited research on this topic found that most startups undertook sustainable practices only to differentiate themselves (Jenkins, 2009) by maximizing product range (Schick et al, 2002), by incorporating it into the core structure of the organization right from the beginning (Grayson & Hodges, 2017), new opportunities through innovation (Jenkins, 2009), risk and cost reduction (Schaltegger et al, 2012), customer loyalty (Iglesias et al, 2018), stakeholder satisfaction, and excellent financial performance (Ngai et al, 2017).…”

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Corporate Social Responsibility Practices: A Strategy for Indian Startups to Sustain

Malpani

Ghosh

2022

Business Perspectives and Research

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The need for creating an environment for sustainable growth of startups for the well-being of an economy cannot be overemphasized. Many experts have proposed that corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices are integral to the long-term survival and success of startups (Jenkins, Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century, 2009). At the same time, they also argue that it is very challenging for startups to adopt these practices effectively ( Salamzadeh, 2015 ). In this background, this is an empirical study of promoters of startups in a developing economy, India, to test the linkages between CSR practices and startup success. The study empirically examines the perception of the promoters regarding these linkages, studies the CSR practices adopted by them, and identifies the challenges faced by them in using CSR for sustainable growth. The findings of the study reveal that there is a distinct relationship between startup success (sustainability) and CSR activities. The article empirically proves that the sustainability of a startup is positively dependent upon internal, external, and environmental CSR initiatives. It also concludes that definite structural interventions are required by policymakers to achieve the twin objectives of startup success and societal well-being.

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Sustainability in start-up ventures: what founders say versus what they do

Cited by 11 publications

References 42 publications

Sustainable Growth in SMEs: A Review from the Malaysian Perspective

Sustainable Growth in SMEs: A Review from the Malaysian Perspective

Sustentabilidade no Ambiente de Startups: Revisão Sistemática de Publicações Internacionais

Corporate Social Responsibility Practices: A Strategy for Indian Startups to Sustain

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