To grow or not to grow? Entrepreneurship and sustainable development

Kyrö, Paula

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“…However, even though the historic trajectories of these types differ, it seems that the underlying motivations for the activities are very similar and this seems to make likely a convergence of these currently rather independent literatures. Despite this, up to now, significantly less attention has been devoted to sustainable or sustainability entrepreneurship as a concept integrating environmental and social aspects (Larson, 2000; Kyrö, 2001; Strothotte and Wüstenhagen, 2005; Cohen et al , 2008; Cohen and Winn, 2007).…”

Section: Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bennett, 1991). In this view entrepreneurs are actors opening a new company and entrepreneurship is the process of creating and establishing a new company. Another aspect of entrepreneurship is the striving for growth (Kyrö, 2001; Gartner, 1990). Entrepreneurs are viewed as actors enlarging companies and expanding businesses. Entrepreneurship has also been interpreted as a social movement or another kind of environmental grassroots or social concern movement (Pastakia, 1998; Mair and Marti, 2006).…”

Section: What Is Sustainable Entrepreneurship?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainability innovation: categories and interactions

2011

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The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework to position sustainable entrepreneurship in relation to sustainability innovation. The framework builds on a typology of sustainable entrepreneurship, develops it by including social and institutional entrepreneurship, i.e. the application of the entrepreneurial approach towards meeting societal goals and towards changing market contexts, and relates it to sustainability innovation. The framework provides a reference for managers to introduce sustainability innovation and to pursue sustainable entrepreneurship. Methodologically, the paper develops an approach of qualitative measurement of sustainable entrepreneurship and how to assess the position of a company in a classifi cation matrix. The degree of environmental or social responsibility orientation in the company is assessed on the basis of environmental and social goals and policies, the organization of environmental and social management in the company and the communication of environmental and social issues. The market impact of the company is measured on the basis of market share, sales growth and reactions of competitors. The paper fi nds conditions under which sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainability innovation emerge spontaneously. The research has implications for theory and practitioners in that it clarifi es which fi rms are most likely under specifi c conditions to make moves towards sustainability innovation. The paper makes a contribution in showing that extant research needs to be expanded with regard to motivations for innovation and that earlier models of sustainable entrepreneurship need to be refi ned.

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Section: Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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Section: What Is Sustainable Entrepreneurship?mentioning

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Sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainability innovation: categories and interactions

2011

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“…What is notable about these classifications (e.g., Linnanen, 2002;Walley and Taylor, 2002) is, however, the absence of the dimension of innovativeness (e.g., radical versus incremental or original versus imitation) which seems to be of considerable relevance for entrepreneurial rents as well as opportunity realization. The recent literature on sustainable entrepreneurship has consequently attempted to integrate environmental and social aspects (Larson, 2000;Kyrö, 2001;Cohen, 2006), and simultaneously links the process of entrepreneurship (Bhave, 1997) to the concept of opportunity recognition that is in numerous respects closely related to innovativeness (Buttner and Gryskiewicz, 1993).…”

Section: Sustainable Entrepreneurshipmentioning

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The influence of sustainability orientation on entrepreneurial intentions — Investigating the role of business experience

Kuckertz

Wagner

2010

Journal of Business Venturing

658

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a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c tDo individuals who are concerned by issues of sustainability also exhibit stronger entrepreneurial intentions? Given that existing imperfections in the market create numerous opportunities for entrepreneurship connected with sustainable development, adding individual sustainability orientation to models of entrepreneurial intention could increase their explanatory power. Based on survey data collected from engineering and business students and alumni of three universities, we provide evidence that entering sustainability orientation into the equation is actually meaningful. However, our findings suggest that the positive impact of sustainability orientation vanishes with business experience. Consequently, we suggest measures to nourish an evidently existing potential for sustainable entrepreneurship.The emerging stream of academic literature on sustainable entrepreneurship adds a new dimension to the general promise of entrepreneurship. No longer is entrepreneurship supposed to merely result in economic success: sustainable entrepreneurs manage to the "triple bottom line" by balancing economic health, social equity and environmental resilience through their entrepreneurial behavior. Sustainable entrepreneurship is thus clearly associated with the promise of more traditional concepts of entrepreneurship, but also brings additional potential both for society and the environment.With this paper we contribute to the emergent stream of literature on this important topic in one particular aspect. Above all, we are interested in individuals who are concerned with environmental and societal issues; individuals who are sustainabilityoriented and thus could potentially be more interested in supporting initiatives and forming businesses that support the idea of sustainability. In other words, we aim to answer the question of how sustainability orientation and entrepreneurial intentions are related in practice. Our paper, as a relatively rare exception uses large-scale survey data to provide empirical insights into this question. In doing so, and by being rooted in entrepreneurship theory and theorizing on sustainable development, it links debates on entrepreneurship for sustainable development with mainstream theories of entrepreneurship and at the same time provides a balance to the wealth of conceptual models on sustainable entrepreneurship.Embedding our empirical analysis in entrepreneurship theory, we hypothesize a positive relationship between an individual's sustainability orientation and entrepreneurial intention. However, based on the literature on organizational legitimacy and empirical findings from research on business ethics, we hypothesize as well that business experience negatively impacts on this relationship. Based on data collected from students and alumni from science and engineering programs plus students from business programs at three universities, we apply ordinal probit models and find support for these hypotheses. Our ordinal probit models suggest that engineering...

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“…In their works, scientists argue that due to the interdependencies between entrepreneurship and sustainable development, a fundamentally new approach to the concept of welfare and the process of sustainable development of national socioeconomic system scan be developed. Scientists are also exploring how the problems of the development of the national economy affect the direction of entrepreneurial activity (Kyrö, 2009;Kuckertz and Wagner, 2010;Schaltegger and Wagner, 2011;Baumgartner et al, 2013;Dewick and Hernandez, 2014;Audretsch et al, 2017;Huggins et al, 2018;Huggins and Thompson 2019).…”

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Methodology for Analyzing the Level of International Entrepreneurship Development

Stopochkin¹,

Sytnik²,

Sytnik³

2020

ERSJ

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Purpose: The purpose of this article is the development of a methodology for analyzing the level of international entrepreneurship development and how to introduce and test this methodology in the non-financial enterprises in Poland.Design/Methodology/Approach: The proposed methodology consists of three stages. At the first stage, the indicators are analyzed, allowing revealing the level of participation of business structures in the national economy system. At the second stage, indicators characterizing the degree of investment activity and the efficiency of business structures functioning, as well as their activity in international markets, are examined. The third stage is devoted to the calculation of the final index of enterprises' participation in international entrepreneurship. The research methodology is based on the use of the following methods: a descriptive statistics method; the method of grouping statistical data; the method of correlation analysis, as well as the regression analysis method. Findings: The proposed methodology makes it possible to comprehensively assess the level of entrepreneurial structures development and the degree of their involvement in international business processes. Practical Implications: The authors' methodology can be the scientific rationale for the process of development of international entrepreneurship. Originality/Value: The methodology proposed the total index of participation of enterprises in international entrepreneurship as a comprehensive indicator of entrepreneurial activity in international markets, based on volumes and efficiency of export operations of business structures.

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To grow or not to grow? Entrepreneurship and sustainable development

Cited by 35 publications

References 2 publications

Sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainability innovation: categories and interactions

Sustainable entrepreneurship and sustainability innovation: categories and interactions

The influence of sustainability orientation on entrepreneurial intentions — Investigating the role of business experience

Methodology for Analyzing the Level of International Entrepreneurship Development

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