E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten
Reihe: De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and FinanceISSN
de Jong / Faber / Folmer De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-075620-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
E-Book, Englisch, 464 Seiten
Reihe: De Gruyter Handbooks in Business, Economics and FinanceISSN
ISBN: 978-3-11-075620-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Many countries and regions face unprecedented social and environmental crises and disruptive events whose impact can no longer be ignored. Sustainable entrepreneurs offer new solutions to these problems that involve replacing the current linear economies by circular systems.
Sustainable entrepreneurs generate new sustainable products, services, and production processes, with new sustainable business models that simultaneously balance ecological, social and economic goals, which result in sustainable welfare for current and for future generations. The studies the causes and consequences of sustainable entrepreneurship, the new standard of doing business and designing public policy, as reflected in the growth of sustainable entrepreneurship start-up ventures and the increasing integration of sustainability in small- and medium-sized enterprises as well as in incumbent corporations. It explores five main themes, each presenting state-of-the-art thinking: foundations, leadership, innovation, business models, performance and impact. Each section consists of four chapters that, taken together, offer in-depth perspectives, take stock of current situations and propose new avenues for future research.
The handbook offers a coherent and systemic perspective for sustainable start-ups and for incumbent firms and governments aiming for transitions. It will also be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students interested in sustainable entrepreneurship.
Zielgruppe
Academic scholars and postgraduate students interested in sustain
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensgründung
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Energie- und Umweltmanagement
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction Part 1: Foundations of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Field Evolution
Research Paradigms
Teaching Paradigms
Consultancy Paradigms Part 2: Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Leadership
Values, Norms and Traits
Opportunity Recognition Process
Start-up Process
Incumbent Transitions Part 3: Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Teams and Processes
Degrees of Innovation
Tools and Technology
Policy Part 4: Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Business Models
Sustainable Value
Solutions for Sustainability
Multi Stakeholder Engagement
Long Term Perspectives Part 5: Sustainable Entrepreneurship Performance and Impact
Triple Bottom Line Performance
Performance Management
Regional Sustainable Development
Ecosystems
List of Contributors
Shatabdi Acharjee is an ex-MS student at the Rural Sociology Department at Bangladesh Agricultural University. Her MS thesis focuses on the challenges and opportunities of women’s online businesses in Bangladesh. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University, Bangladesh. Music is her special interest. She loves painting, cycling and travelling.
Wee Chan Au is Lecturer in Management Practice at Newcastle University Business School (NUBS). She received her PhD in Human Resource Management from Monash University. Her research interest lies in work, health and well-being. She has published her work in edited books and in leading scholarly journals such as the Journal of Business Ethics, Career Development International, Human Resource Development International, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Personnel Review. Wee Chan is interested in supporting young people to engage in social innovation and social entrepreneurship activities. In addition, she engages young people to take active roles in sustainability and addressing social issues through various educational endeavours.
Frank Berkers, MSc, is a senior scientist at TNO Strategic Business Analysis where he is, since 2008, the lead scientist for business modelling and value network analysis. He developed several methods to support collaborative and sustainable business modelling and analysis, including the Value Case Methodology. He has founded and is a trainer in TNO’s strategic initiative Orchestrating Innovation, which trains leaders of large open societal impact focused innovation hubs and networks. He is currently pursuing a PhD on ‘strategic decision making for platform business models’. Frank holds a master’s degree in Econometrics from Maastricht University. Before joining TNO, he has held positions at ABN AMRO as a marketing/consumer intelligence analyst and at market research agency SKIM as a senior methodologist where he set up preferred suppliers, with McKinsey and Monitor, in the field of computer-aided choice experiments.
Vincent Blok is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Technology and Responsible Innovation at the Philosophy Group, Wageningen University (the Netherlands). He is also Director of the 4TU. Ethics Graduate School in the Netherlands. In 2005, he received his PhD in philosophy at Leiden University with a specialisation in philosophy of technology. Together with seven PhD candidates and four post-docs, he reflects on the meaning of disruptive technologies for the human condition and its environment from a continental philosophical perspective. His books include Ernst Jünger’s Philosophy of Technology: Heidegger and the Poetics of the Anthropocene (Routledge, 2017), Heidegger’s Concept of Philosophical Method (Routledge, 2020) and The Critique of Management (Routledge, 2022). Blok has published over a hundred articles in high-ranked philosophy journals like Environmental Values, Business Ethics Quarterly, Synthese and Philosophy & Technology, and in multi-disciplinary journals like Science, Journal of Cleaner Production, Public Understanding of Science and Journal of Responsible Innovation. See www.vincentblok.nl for more information about his current research.
Alain Daou is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Olayan School of Business (OSB) and Director of the Nature Conservation Center at the American University of Beirut. Through his research, Alain looks at how social enterprises innovate, scale up and have a positive impact, with a particular focus on extreme contexts. In 2020, he was chosen as part of the #thinklist of racialised thinkers in responsible business by the University of Bath’s Centre for Business, Organisation and Society (CBOS). In 2021 the SME impact initiative at Khaddit Beirut that he chairs was recognised as an AACSB International Innovation That Inspires.
Hellen Dawo is a Kenyan researcher, now based in the Netherlands. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree from Moi University, Kenya. For over five years she worked in manufacturing and agricultural research in western Kenya. In 2016 she embarked on a master’s in Environmental and Energy management at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, graduating with a cum laude distinction. Her PhD studies commenced in November 2018, after completing a year as a trainee at Phillips, Amsterdam office. Given her expertise in environmental issues and governance, Hellen’s current research focuses on understanding the influence of contexts such as regulatory institutions, incumbent enterprises, local authorities, and local community on creation and growth of sustainable enterprises. She has presented her preliminary findings at various influential European and American conference meetings in her study area. Between 2019 and 2020, she also worked with the Global Center on Adaptation to develop an online introductory course on climate adaptation governance. Hellen is currently a lecturer at Utrecht University.
Milou Derks is a senior programme coordinator at Orange Corners where she focuses on stimulating entrepreneurship and employment for women and youth in low- and middle-income countries. She is also a PhD student at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). Her research interests focus on ecosystem- and business model-thinking for scaling sustainable and circular innovations in the Global South. Her research results are regularly published in journals and conference proceedings.
Andreana Drencheva is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Entrepreneurship at King’s College London (UK). Her research interests focus on why and how individuals and communities engage in (social) entrepreneurship in their local, often under-researched, context and with what intended and unintended impact. Her research has appeared in journals such as Business & Society, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Small Business Management and Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. She collaborates with support organisations to co-create services, programmes and tools that help (aspiring) social entrepreneurs to develop their ventures, while maintaining their well-being.
Manon Eikelenboom is a postdoctoral researcher at the Organization Sciences department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU). She obtained her PhD from the Centre for Sustainable Entrepreneurship at the Faculty Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen, and her Master of Science in Global Economics and Management (research master) from the University of Groningen. Her research focus is on the transition towards a circular economy in the building sector, paying attention to organisational change and multi-party collaboration including topics such as trust, role divisions and power dynamics. In her research, she actively engages with practitioners through focus group discussions and action research methodologies.
Margo Enthoven is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology of the Stockholm School of Economics. She obtained her PhD from the Centre for Sustainable Entrepreneurship at the Faculty Campus Fryslân, University of Groningen. Her research focuses on the role of opportunity recognition in sustainable entrepreneurship, and how individual values and social networks come into play to explain the processes behind sustainable opportunity recognition.
Philipp Eppe is a research associate and PhD student at the Department of Resilient Energy Systems at the University of Bremen. He obtained his Master of Science in Environmental Psychology at the University of Groningen. His research focus is on investigating socio-technical transformation pathways. He is developing an interactive, agent-based modelling platform by linking socio-technical and participatory methods and by developing and integrating suitable methods in the field of complex decision-making.
Fatima Zannat Esha received a Master of Science in Rural Sociology degree with the highest CGPA in her class from Bangladesh Agricultural University. In her MS thesis, she researched women’s entrepreneurship, empowerment and psychological well-being. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Economics from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural University. She is a research fellow of the COVID-19 and Climate Change project funded by IORA-GIZ. She appreciates contributing her skills to research which addresses different socio-economic challenges. She aspires to be a full-time researcher in the socio-economic arena.
Niels Faber is Assistant Professor at the University of Groningen (Faculty Campus Fryslan) and researcher/lecturer at Hanze University of Applied Sciences. His research focuses on the organisational aspects of sustainability and the circular economy. This translates into such themes as sustainable and circular business models, and the ensuing transition and assessment of the progress made towards a circular economy. He has produced numerous academic and professional publications and is co-editor of a series of online columns on the circular economy and the triple transition (climate challenge, energy transition and circular economy). Recently, he co-edited the book...
