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The Entrepreneurship-Sustainability Nexus

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2020) | Viewed by 17118

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Char-lee Moyle

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Guest Editor
School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Interests: transformation; sustainable development; innovation; entrepreneurship; tourism; policy and planning
Mr. Chad Renando

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Guest Editor
School of Management, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Interests: sustainable development; innovation; entrepreneurship

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The academic literature has clearly called for a better understanding of human–environment interactions (Wilson, 2012). Entrepreneurship provides both promise and caution for sustainability. The role of entrepreneurs as a driver of economic, societal and environmental transformation is clear, but there is a juxtaposition in the literature around whether entrepreneurship is a panacea or detrimental to sustainability.

A complex relationship exists between new entrepreneurial ventures and sustainability: entrepreneurs provide a new means of economic development and can build resilience in regional communities through economic diversification, but they draw on significant resources to establish and increase embedded disadvantage through wealth inequality. Prior research has demonstrated that the impacts from entrepreneurial activities have resulted in significant environmental damage. Yet innovations from entrepreneurs, such as innovative circular economy business models, may be the only tool for addressing climate change on a global scale. Entrepreneurship has the promise of inclusive pathways for all age groups, genders, and community segments, but societal structural challenges may only make such opportunities accessible to a few, and governments often have a policy imperative around picking winners.

This Special Issue will delve into the nuances of the entrepreneurship–sustainability nexus by bringing together a selection of papers on the role entrepreneurship plays in environmental, cultural, economic and social sustainability. This broad Special Issue will draw together an understanding from a range of disciplines and contexts to answer fundamental questions relating to the nature of the entrepreneurship–sustainability nexus.

Dr. Char-lee Moyle
Mr. Chad Renando
Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • entrepreneurship
  • sustainable development
  • circular economy
  • entrepreneurship and regional community resilience
  • entrepreneurship and the emerging circular economy
  • the socially minded ecosystem
  • inclusive entrepreneurship
  • regional entrepreneurship
  • entrepreneurship for community resilience
  • fostering tourism entrepreneurs for regional sustainability
  • are high growth firms an exctractive practice?
  • entrepreneurship as activism

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R&D, Marketing, Strategic Planning, or Human Resources? Which CEO Career Is Most Helpful for the Economic Sustainability of ICT Startups in South Korea?
by Hongbum Kim, Yuri Jo and Daeho Lee
Sustainability 2021, 13(5), 2729; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052729 - 3 Mar 2021
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The market performance of a company is greatly influenced by the functional experience of the chief executive. In the case of a small startup, the functional experience of the chief executive is even greater. Based on career data of chief executives, this study [...] Read more.
The market performance of a company is greatly influenced by the functional experience of the chief executive. In the case of a small startup, the functional experience of the chief executive is even greater. Based on career data of chief executives, this study first classifies startups in the information and communication technology (ICT) industry into four different groups. In addition, this study analyzes the effect of the CEO’s experience on the market performance of ICT startups by deriving the efficiency of each company using the financial data of ICT startups provided in the database. This study estimates the technical efficiency of each group using stochastic frontier analysis and then uses meta-frontier analysis to compare the efficiency of different groups. As a result, the CEO group with a career in strategy and planning showed the highest meta-frontier efficiency, whereas the CEO group with a career in R&D showed the lowest. Full article
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Imprinting Perspective on the Sustainability of Commitments to Competing Institutional Logics of Social Enterprises
by Tae Jun Bae and James O. Fiet
Sustainability 2021, 13(4), 2014; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13042014 - 13 Feb 2021
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This study examines the conditions under which dual commitments to competing institutional logics, particularly a social vs. a commercial logic, are both important to organizational functioning for social enterprises. Using hand-collected data from a survey of 190 social enterprises in South Korea, we [...] Read more.
This study examines the conditions under which dual commitments to competing institutional logics, particularly a social vs. a commercial logic, are both important to organizational functioning for social enterprises. Using hand-collected data from a survey of 190 social enterprises in South Korea, we identify a reliable measure for the sustainability of competing logics. We also identify the factors associated with variation in a social enterprise’s capacity to sustain dual commitments to competing institutional logics. Using an imprinting perspective, we show that a social entrepreneur’s non-profit experience has a curvilinear effect on the sustainability of competing logics. Moreover, the non-linear effect of a social entrepreneur’s non-profit experience on the sustainability of competing logics is less profound in social enterprises with a highly ambivalent founder. Full article
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An Exploratory Study on Social Entrepreneurship, Empowerment and Peace Process. The Case of Colombian Women Victims of the Armed Conflict
by Antonio Manuel Ciruela-Lorenzo, Ana González-Sánchez and Juan José Plaza-Angulo
Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10425; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410425 - 13 Dec 2020
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The Colombian armed conflict is the oldest internal confrontation in the entire American continent and has placed Colombia as one of the countries in the world with the highest volume of internally displaced persons. There are many factors that influence the possibility of [...] Read more.
The Colombian armed conflict is the oldest internal confrontation in the entire American continent and has placed Colombia as one of the countries in the world with the highest volume of internally displaced persons. There are many factors that influence the possibility of suffering violence in this situation, but one of the main factors is undoubtedly gender. In addition, the destruction of the productive fabric and the impoverishment of conflict zones are a difficult reality when it comes to undertaking initiatives. Women not resigning themselves to this state of affairs, by their own initiative, work to go from passive victims to survivors and agents of change. To achieve this, they hold on to social entrepreneurship as a possible vehicle and alternative for empowerment and personal development, the union with other women and the support of their families’ being crucial factors to reach this purpose. In this context, two research questions have been raised, related to the role of social entrepreneurship in women’s development and in building peace. These questions are answered by obtaining empirical data from key informants (seven personal interviews with Colombian women victims of the conflict from different departments who have promoted social entrepreneurship projects). The interviews were conducted from September to November 2019. Thus, one of the main conclusions is that entrepreneurship alone is not enough; State involvement is also necessary if the effects of the work carried out by these women are to reach a greater number of people and be more durable, contributing to economic and social progress and, therefore, to peace processes. Full article
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Testing Entrepreneurial Intention Determinants in Post-Transition Economies
by Ana Iolanda Vodă, Alina-Petronela Haller, Alexandru Anichiti and Gina Ionela Butnaru
Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10370; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410370 - 11 Dec 2020
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The paper aims to analyze the entrepreneurial intention determinants in nine post-transition economies of European member states. To achieve our stated goal, the study focused on the influence of fear of failure and networking on individuals’ inclination towards entrepreneurship. Additionally, gender, income, education, [...] Read more.
The paper aims to analyze the entrepreneurial intention determinants in nine post-transition economies of European member states. To achieve our stated goal, the study focused on the influence of fear of failure and networking on individuals’ inclination towards entrepreneurship. Additionally, gender, income, education, and work status were also considered control variables. The data were collected using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) database. We included responses collected from nine former transition economies, giving us a total of 13,494 observations, for 2015. Logistic regression models were employed to measure the influence of perceptions on the propenisty of individuals to create a new venture. The results indicated that fear of failure is significantly and negatively correlated with entrepreneurial intentions for all groups of countries. The results also indicated that people who have entrepreneurs in the family have a higher propensity for entrepreneurial intentions than people who do not have family members with such a status. Full article
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Legitimation of Social Enterprises as Hybrid Organizations
by Ji-Hoon Park and Zong-Tae Bae
Sustainability 2020, 12(18), 7583; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12187583 - 14 Sep 2020
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On the basis of an inductive multiple case study of ten social enterprises, we explore how social enterprises, which incorporate for-profit and not-for-profit logics as a hybrid form, gain legitimacy. Our analysis suggests the existence of three types of social entrepreneurs’ hybrid identities [...] Read more.
On the basis of an inductive multiple case study of ten social enterprises, we explore how social enterprises, which incorporate for-profit and not-for-profit logics as a hybrid form, gain legitimacy. Our analysis suggests the existence of three types of social entrepreneurs’ hybrid identities and shows how these hybrid identities systematically shape legitimation patterns of social enterprises. Furthermore, our findings suggest that social enterprises’ organizational types as hybrids also determine their legitimation patterns. These findings theoretically contribute to the research on hybrid organizing, legitimation of new ventures, and social entrepreneurship. Full article
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