Who Takes More Sustainability-Oriented Entrepreneurial Actions? The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Values, Beliefs and Orientations

Afshar Jahanshahi, Asghar; Brem, Alexander; Bhattacharjee, Amitab

doi:10.3390/su9101636

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Who Takes More Sustainability-Oriented Entrepreneurial Actions? The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Values, Beliefs and Orientations

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Asghar Afshar Jahanshahi

^1,*

,

Alexander Brem

^2,3

and

Amitab Bhattacharjee

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¹

CENTRUM Católica Graduate Business School, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima 15023, Peru

²

Chair of Technology Management, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Fürther Str. 246c, 90429 Nuremberg, Germany

³

Technology Entrepreneurship and Innovation (TEI), University of Southern Denmark, Alsion 2, 6400 Sønderborg, Denmark

⁴

MBA, Independent Researcher, Narsingdi 1600, Bangladesh

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Sustainability 2017, 9(10), 1636; https://doi.org/10.3390/su9101636

Submission received: 1 August 2017 / Revised: 7 September 2017 / Accepted: 9 September 2017 / Published: 25 September 2017

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurial Sustainability: New Innovative Knowledge)

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Abstract

We examine the relationships between entrepreneurs’ values, beliefs and orientations with their firms’ engagement in sustainability-oriented entrepreneurial actions, using a sample of 352 newly established businesses from two Asian countries (Bangladesh and Iran). Our results reveal a dual role of entrepreneurs’ values, beliefs and orientations when taking sustainability-oriented actions. We confirm that individual differences in the set of values, beliefs and orientations can foster or hinder the sustainability-oriented actions across organizations. Our paper contributes to the growing literature of sustainable entrepreneurship, by providing answers for recent calls for better understanding which entrepreneurial ventures engage more in sustainability-oriented actions.

Keywords: sustainability-oriented entrepreneurial actions; entrepreneur; values; beliefs; orientations; upper echelon theory

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Afshar Jahanshahi, A.; Brem, A.; Bhattacharjee, A. Who Takes More Sustainability-Oriented Entrepreneurial Actions? The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Values, Beliefs and Orientations. Sustainability 2017, 9, 1636. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9101636

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Afshar Jahanshahi A, Brem A, Bhattacharjee A. Who Takes More Sustainability-Oriented Entrepreneurial Actions? The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Values, Beliefs and Orientations. Sustainability. 2017; 9(10):1636. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9101636

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Afshar Jahanshahi, Asghar, Alexander Brem, and Amitab Bhattacharjee. 2017. "Who Takes More Sustainability-Oriented Entrepreneurial Actions? The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Values, Beliefs and Orientations" Sustainability 9, no. 10: 1636. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9101636

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Afshar Jahanshahi, A., Brem, A., & Bhattacharjee, A. (2017). Who Takes More Sustainability-Oriented Entrepreneurial Actions? The Role of Entrepreneurs’ Values, Beliefs and Orientations. Sustainability, 9(10), 1636. https://doi.org/10.3390/su9101636

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