Sustainable Entrepreneurship and the Global South

Resolving the Energy, Economy, and Environment Trilemma in India
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-38367-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies

This book contributes to the emerging global discourse on sustainable entrepreneurship by highlighting its transformative potential to harmonise economic growth with environmental sustainability. It emphasises the role of innovative, sustainability-driven entrepreneurs in reshaping production and consumption practices to achieve just and equitable economic, social, and environmental outcomes. By empirically investigating the renewable energy transitions in India, this book offers valuable perspectives from the Global South, enriching existing frameworks with insights into the unique contexts, opportunities, and challenges in emerging economies.

Through a mixed-methods approach, the research synthesises diverse data sources, including personal interviews, field observations, policy documents, corporate reports, and secondary data analysis. This comprehensive methodology provides a detailed understanding of how sustainable entrepreneurial niches contribute to energy transitions, offering actionable insights for achieving systemic change.

This book intends to serve as a resource for researchers in sustainability; innovation studies; ecological economics; and Science, Technology, and Society (STS) studies. It also provides practical guidance for policymakers and practitioners working at the interface of energy, environment, and entrepreneurship. By integrating theory and practice, this work calls for collaboration among multilevel stakeholders, particularly in the emerging economy contexts, to co-develop sustainability-oriented strategies that drive economic growth while addressing pressing environmental and societal challenges.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haldar, Stuti

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Setting the stage: Sustainable entrepreneurship in sociotechnical transitions 2. Sustainability driven entrepreneurship: Evolution of the concept and perspectives from Global North and South 3. Environment, energy, and sustainable entrepreneurship: Conceptual framing, policy landscape, and niche characteristics 4. Evolution of policy landscape for renewables: National and state intervention 5. Opportunities and challenges to sustainable entrepreneurship: Evidence from India’s energy sector 6. In conclusion: A multilevel framework for energy transitions through sustainable entrepreneurship and the way forward

Über Autor(innen)

Stuti Haldar is a postdoctoral researcher at CIRCLE (Centre for Innovation Research) Lund University, Sweden, and is affiliated with the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru, India. She has worked extensively on issues of climate change mitigation through transdisciplinary and place-based approaches. Her work spans multiple areas including sociotechnical transitions, governance, sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation, climate finance, energy and development policy, and justice perspectives.