Sustainability-Driven Entrepreneurship and Innovation
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2021) | Viewed by 7497
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Innovation And Technology Management
Interests: Innovation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability-driven entrepreneurship (SDE) has emerged as a growing field of knowledge from the broader entrepreneurship, innovation, environmental management, and corporate sustainability disciplines. SDE focuses on entrepreneurs who seek to contribute towards broader sustainable development through integrating social and/or environmental purposes (or values/outcomes) within their ventures. SDEs respond to climate change and global warming through innovative technologies, products, processes, and services (Parrish, 2008; Kardos, 2012).
This Special Issue’s aim is to push research on SDE forward and toward new directions. For example, papers could address new contexts such as the nexus of entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainable development through the perspective of Industry 4.0, digital transformation, corporate sustainability (CS), new business model innovation, and sustainable entrepreneurial orientation (SEO) (Schlange, 2009, Putnins and Sauka, 2019).
Furthermore, we aim to bring in new theoretical perspectives, such as the shift from environmental management to sustainable entrepreneurship, and from eco-efficiency to clean technology development, and emerging theories in social entrepreneurship. We also welcome case studies of successful SDEs who have taken their sustainability-driven ideas to market, typically financed by means of venture capital, and SDEs who are corporate entrepreneurs with a sustainability mindset and how they have successfully balanced sustainability and corporate performance (Lyigun, 2015, Klewitz and Hansen, 2016).
Prof. Mile Terziovski
Dr. Jerome Donovan
Dr. Richard Laferriere
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Sustainability
- Entrepreneurship
- Innovation
- Environmental management
- Entrepreneurial orientation
- Social entrepreneurship
- Venture capital
- Profitability
- Business model
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