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31 Citations
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Sustainable Entrepreneurship in the 2030 Horizon

  • Fernando Crecente,
  • María Sarabia and
  • María Teresa del Val

18 January 2021

(1) Background: this paper analyzes the relationship between entrepreneurship and sustainability following the worldwide reference of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framework set by the United Nations. Nowadays, these SDGs are the insp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
129 Citations
35,598 Views
25 Pages

Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A Literature Review

  • Albérico Travassos Rosário,
  • Ricardo Jorge Raimundo and
  • Sandra P. Cruz

These days, issues such as environmental degradation, the wealth gap, and unequal access to opportunities and resources are increasing. These concerns have increased the need for sustainable entrepreneurship, defined as sustainable business practices...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,154 Views
33 Pages

28 November 2019

In recent years, conducted businesses have been increasingly expected to obtain more sustainable forms, with many added determinants. Indeed, sustainability-related entrepreneurship still faces complex choices among conventional entrepreneurial facto...

  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
6,517 Views
20 Pages

28 June 2019

After the launch of the United Nations’ Brundtland’s report in 1987, entrepreneurship has been promoted as one of the tools for achieving sustainable development. Since then, the studies in sustainable entrepreneurship have flourished and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,937 Views
15 Pages

6 April 2021

After the UN’s adoption of 17 Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, it became clear that the relationship between sustainability and entrepreneurship was an area for re-examination. Traditional measures of entrepreneurial success rested largely on e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
129 Citations
14,105 Views
19 Pages

The Development of Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research Field

  • Paul Sarango-Lalangui,
  • Jane Lucia S. Santos and
  • Esther Hormiga

14 June 2018

Sustainable entrepreneurship has received substantial recognition from academics and practitioners in the last decade, with a noticeable and rapidly increases of publications on the topic. Through bibliometric techniques and tools, this study allows...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,225 Views
18 Pages

7 September 2019

Sustainable entrepreneurship has recently been identified as a promising force to push a sustainable business paradigm shift. A key challenge for researchers and practitioners is thus to understand and promote such practices. However, critics have ar...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
11,253 Views
12 Pages

Women Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Review and Research Agenda

  • Mercedes Barrachina Fernández,
  • Maria del Carmen García-Centeno and
  • Carmen Calderón Patier

31 October 2021

In various regions of the world, there is great concern about existing gender differences, which could affect opportunities for economic growth, and how to mitigate them. Entrepreneurship is of great importance to the economy and in a global society,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
14,758 Views
21 Pages

The Effects of Financial Literacy on Sustainable Entrepreneurship

  • Alberto Burchi,
  • Bogdan Włodarczyk,
  • Marek Szturo and
  • Duccio Martelli

30 April 2021

Entrepreneurship contributes to the economic well-being of every country. Specifically, the level of individual entrepreneurship is crucial in the process of developing and building economic potential, especially in Central European countries. Among...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,079 Views
20 Pages

Intergenerational Entrepreneurship to Foster Sustainable Development: A Methodological Training Proposal

  • Adriana Perez-Encinas,
  • Isidro de Pablo,
  • Yolanda Bueno and
  • Begoña Santos

27 August 2021

Intergenerational entrepreneurial initiatives are aimed at addressing the needs and opportunities of certain social groups and have the potential of becoming successful business projects. Moreover, they are a key to undertake sustainability practices...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,438 Views
15 Pages

This study explores the impact of the perceived well-being of students; the degree to which they perceive that their university enhances, facilitates, and supports six sustainable development goals (SDGs); and entrepreneurship education on nascent en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
669 Views
18 Pages

Sustainable Entrepreneurship in the Western Balkan Countries: Key Constraints

  • Aleksandra Andjelković,
  • Vesna Janković Milić,
  • Marija Radosavljević,
  • Saša Petković,
  • Ditjona Kule and
  • Stojan Debarliev

23 October 2025

Public concern about environmental issues has led to growing interest in sustainability across various sectors, including entrepreneurship. However, beyond the concern for environmental protection and the presseration of natural resources for future...

  • Review
  • Open Access
48 Citations
17,248 Views
24 Pages

Rural Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Current and Emerging Issues from the Sustainable Livelihood Framework

  • Alexander Tabares,
  • Abraham Londoño-Pineda,
  • Jose Alejandro Cano and
  • Rodrigo Gómez-Montoya

Most entrepreneurship studies have an urban focus, and it is studied mainly from the perspective of opportunity exploitation. Rural entrepreneurship presents different characteristics, and it requires analysis from a resource-based view since this ki...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,861 Views
25 Pages

Entrepreneurship Through Open Data: An Opportunity for Sustainable Development

  • Diego Corrales-Garay,
  • Eva-María Mora-Valentín and
  • Marta Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado

24 June 2020

Entrepreneurship and open data are key elements in the sustainable development field, improving economic, social, and environmental dimensions. However, entrepreneurship and open data are barely studied together in the literature from a theoretical p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
6,159 Views
28 Pages

24 March 2021

Entrepreneurship is one of the driving forces behind the development of the national economy. The effect of entrepreneurship in the economic dimension is a business entity, most often a small or medium enterprise. The SME sector plays a significant r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,924 Views
23 Pages

16 January 2024

The importance of shifting to a sustainable economy, based on new capabilities that would enable us to cope with the current turbulent changes is paramount. Entrepreneurs with sustainable concerns are considered to play a key role in the process by c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,734 Views
17 Pages

30 June 2022

It can be seen that entrepreneurship has undergone many changes since the time it was defined and many types have been introduced over time as well. A relatively new type is sustainable entrepreneurship, which seeks to function in a way that can be p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,230 Views
32 Pages

Technology-Enabled Learning for Green and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education

  • Adina Cocu,
  • Emilia Pecheanu,
  • Ioan Susnea,
  • Sandra Dingli,
  • Adrian Istrate and
  • Cornelia Tudorie

5 February 2025

(1) Background and objectives: Global crises such as climate change, pandemics, and resource depletion present unprecedented challenges that require coordinated and innovative responses. This study advocates for a bottom-up strategy by proposing and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,134 Views
23 Pages

1 September 2025

This exploratory study analyzes how ordinary citizens from seven European countries perceive and construct the meaning and legitimacy of responsible entrepreneurship. Drawing on a qualitative and social constructionist approach, 104 open-ended interv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
57 Citations
8,553 Views
15 Pages

18 February 2020

Does the increasing awareness of environmental risk exposure also affect intentions to create enterprises which address these social and environmental failures? Besides economic explanations that social and environmental needs and market failure crea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
7,583 Views
15 Pages

3 February 2022

The aim of this paper is to understand how sustainable entrepreneurship competence impacts entrepreneurial intentions in two educational contexts: in higher education and in secondary education. We applied the sustainable entrepreneurship framework,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
97 Citations
11,144 Views
19 Pages

The Relationship between Green Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Development

  • Miguel-Angel Galindo-Martín,
  • María-Soledad Castaño-Martínez and
  • María-Teresa Méndez-Picazo

1 June 2020

Economic growth is one of the important objectives of economic policy due to the beneficial effects it has on employment and economic well-being. The work carried out in the last few decades has highlighted the roles that entrepreneurship and innovat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,813 Views
21 Pages

24 March 2022

Sustainable entrepreneurship is venturing to shift business practices towards environmental and social sustainability. It gained popularity worldwide, particularly in the US, due to promoting regulations for some sustainability areas, the high availa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,594 Views
23 Pages

This study examines the relationship between entrepreneurship and sustainable development in Saudi Arabia from 2006 to 2022, focusing on the economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model, the re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
99 Citations
13,950 Views
15 Pages

17 November 2015

This paper conceptually synthesizes prior studies on sustainable entrepreneurship against the background of the multi-level perspective. It thereby relates separate streams of literature on sustainable entrepreneurship, sustainability transformations...

  • Article
  • Open Access
71 Citations
10,531 Views
13 Pages

31 December 2021

The role of entrepreneurs in attaining Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is paramount. Entrepreneurs with strong awareness and commitment to sustainable development help to attain almost all SDGs, as they create businesses that will help employmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,070 Views
17 Pages

The Role of Digital Technology within the Business Model of Sustainable Entrepreneurship

  • Sascha Fuerst,
  • Odille Sanchez-Dominguez and
  • Miguel Angel Rodriguez-Montes

12 July 2023

The adoption and usage of digital technologies is considered one of the most promising transformations for sustainability, and sustainable entrepreneurship is considered key for providing solutions for the grand social and environmental challenges. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
104 Citations
12,606 Views
18 Pages

Entrepreneurship as Catalyst for Sustainable Development: Opening the Black Box

  • Matthias Filser,
  • Sascha Kraus,
  • Norat Roig-Tierno,
  • Norbert Kailer and
  • Ulrike Fischer

20 August 2019

In the last decades, sustainable development has become an important topic of discussion for scholars and practitioners concerned with environmental issues. Since the publication of the Brundtland Report, which represents a milestone in triggering aw...

  • Article
  • Open Access
117 Citations
14,949 Views
12 Pages

Sustainable Entrepreneurship in SMEs: A Business Performance Perspective

  • Pedro Soto-Acosta,
  • Diana-Maria Cismaru,
  • Elena-Mădălina Vătămănescu and
  • Raluca Silvia Ciochină

Assuming that sustainable entrepreneurship leads to business performance, the present paper intends to investigate the standpoints of SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) entrepreneurs on different facets. The emphasis is laid on the entrepreneu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,618 Views
18 Pages

The Potential for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in EU Countries in the Context of Sustainable Development

  • George H. Ionescu,
  • Daniela Firoiu,
  • Ramona Pîrvu,
  • Marian Enescu,
  • Mihai-Ionuț Rădoi and
  • Teodor Marian Cojocaru

4 September 2020

For the European Union, innovation and entrepreneurship are strong vectors to overcome global societal challenges from climate change and sustainable energy to food and healthy living. Innovation is a facilitator of entrepreneurship and a way of empo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,675 Views
17 Pages

29 April 2024

Discussions about sustainability and entrepreneurship are often an “either/or” discourse. Many higher-education institutions offer sustainability education programs with the aim of enabling students to think and act sustainably without co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,789 Views
13 Pages

Lifestyle Entrepreneurship as a Vehicle for Leisure and Sustainable Tourism

  • Miguel Duarte,
  • Álvaro Dias,
  • Bruno Sousa and
  • Leandro Pereira

The subject of this research is related to sustainable tourism and its connection with lifestyle entrepreneurship. The Portuguese business fabric is formed by micro, small, and medium sized enterprises which have emerged in big numbers over the last...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
6,315 Views
20 Pages

30 April 2021

This study investigated the impact of entrepreneurial attitude, perceived desirability, and perceived feasibility on sustainable entrepreneurship intentions under the moderating impact of entrepreneurial passion among undergraduate students of Malays...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,473 Views
17 Pages

Leadership and Entrepreneurship in Education and Their Impact on the Management of Sustainable Educational Environments

  • Andrea Gracia-Zomeño,
  • Eduardo García-Toledano,
  • Ramón García-Perales and
  • Ascensión Palomares-Ruiz

25 March 2025

The role of leadership and entrepreneurship in teaching is key to the management of sustainable educational environments, promoting inclusive and innovative teaching. This quantitative, cross-sectional study seeks to explore education professionals&r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
7,610 Views
14 Pages

Innovative Sustainable Tourism Development and Entrepreneurship through Sports Events

  • Georgios Tsekouropoulos,
  • Ourania Gkouna,
  • Dimitrios Theocharis and
  • Athanasios Gounas

7 April 2022

Innovation and the development of new services are important strategic features to ensure the growth and sustainable wealth for industries where customers have many choices, as is the case in tourism sector. In this context, the present research come...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
11,017 Views
26 Pages

Sustainable Sport Entrepreneurship and Innovation: A Bibliometric Analysis of This Emerging Field of Research

  • María Huertas González-Serrano,
  • Vicente Añó Sanz and
  • Rómulo Jacobo González-García

26 June 2020

In the sports sector, entrepreneurship, innovation, and social corporative responsible are generating growing interest during the last years. Due to that situation, sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation in sport have emerged in this sector, rec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
8,570 Views
23 Pages

This study explores the influence of green entrepreneurial activity on sustainable development, using institutional economics as a theoretical framework. Also, the role of entrepreneurship policy is analysed in the context of Saudi Arabia. Using info...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,337 Views
18 Pages

Based on the data of 22 different countries from 2005 to 2018, this paper mainly studies the influence of entrepreneurship on sustainability, and further explores the influence of Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) and the interaction effect between E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
87 Citations
15,133 Views
24 Pages

17 April 2020

The field of entrepreneurship is considered essential for the economy, and many researchers around the world have studied it from diverse perspectives. The outcomes of this research are not yet consensual. Today, it is gaining attention and consensus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,354 Views
28 Pages

20 December 2022

The objective of this study is to characterize the contribution to sustainable entrepreneurship as a field of knowledge from developing countries, also called the Global South, through the analysis of the literature that has been produced in the last...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,219 Views
22 Pages

Determinants of Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Morocco: The Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation, Financial Literacy, and Inclusion

  • Ikram Zouitini,
  • Hamza El Hafdaoui,
  • Hajar Chetioui,
  • Pierre-Martin Tardif and
  • Mohamed Makhtari

This paper investigates the relationship between sustainable entrepreneurship and financial inclusion, financial literacy, and entrepreneurial orientation. As sustainable entrepreneurship gains academic and practical interest, understanding factors t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
7,800 Views
15 Pages

Entrepreneurship or Employment? A Survey of College Students’ Sustainable Entrepreneurial Intentions

  • Ruijie Zhu,
  • Guojing Zhao,
  • Zehai Long,
  • Yangjie Huang and
  • Zhaoxin Huang

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has had a huge impact on the global job market, with increasing unemployment rates leading to an unstable social situation that has affected college students’ job prospects. This situation has drawn the attention of...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,484 Views
28 Pages

14 May 2022

A real challenge for the EU economy and society is to achieve both green and digital transitions in order to tackle the major economic, social and environmental issues faced by EU member states. In this context, digital entrepreneurship, which lies a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,066 Views
18 Pages

Entrepreneurship among Social Workers: Implications for the Sustainable Development Goals

  • João Pereira,
  • Ricardo Gouveia Rodrigues and
  • Pedro Mota Veiga

24 January 2024

The study’s objective is to analyze the entrepreneurial intentions of social workers and their impact on the SDGs. Furthermore, it seeks to explore social workers’ perceptions and attitudes towards entrepreneurship. Thus, this research ai...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,744 Views
13 Pages

8 March 2024

The world is facing numerous ecological challenges that require urgent attention. Interventions from policymakers and universities are becoming more frequent in order to facilitate the transition of society into a more sustainable world. This paper p...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
37 Citations
11,951 Views
11 Pages

28 October 2020

Understanding entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship as engines of outcomes beyond economic terms, this paper introduces the Special Issue “Entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in social, sustainable, and economic development”. Institutio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
113 Citations
22,448 Views
31 Pages

Women Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development: Bibliometric Analysis and Emerging Research Trends

  • Raghu Raman,
  • Nava Subramaniam,
  • Vinith Kumar Nair,
  • Avinash Shivdas,
  • Krishnashree Achuthan and
  • Prema Nedungadi

26 July 2022

Women entrepreneurship has attracted the attention of academics and practitioners with a large body of research studies in recent years. Past literature reviews on women entrepreneurship have been criticized for their limited scope, lack of interdisc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
7,757 Views
15 Pages

28 February 2020

Students’ start-ups are making a significant contribution towards sustainable entrepreneurship development. Thus, this article examines the obstacles to sustainable entrepreneurship amongst university students of tourism and focuses on gender d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,981 Views
14 Pages

2 April 2021

In a rapidly changing business environment, the entrepreneurship of top management is essential for the survival and sustainable development of the enterprise. Building on the view of the strategic choice theory, this study identifies the relationshi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
12,037 Views
19 Pages

24 February 2016

There is growing interest in the ability of both private–public partnerships and entrepreneurship to promote sustainable rural development. This research outlines the historical chronology and the importance of the PPP (Private Public Partnership) fo...

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