The Impact of Environmental Risk Exposure on the Determinants of Sustainable Entrepreneurship

Laura H. Middermann, Jan Kratzer and Susanne Perner
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Laura H. Middermann: Department for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Technical University Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Jan Kratzer: Department for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, Technical University Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Susanne Perner: International School of Management, Campus Berlin, 10827 Berlin, Germany

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 4, 1-15

Abstract: 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 create opportunities for sustainable entrepreneurship, it is less clear how cognitive processes and motivations related to sustainable entrepreneurship are shaped by its context. This research integrates environmental risk exposure as a contextual variable into the theory of planned behavior and uses data gathered in the course of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. We provide empirical evidence for the impact of environmental risk exposure on the determinants of sustainable entrepreneurial intention and contribute to a deeper understanding of the formation of sustainable entrepreneurial intention.

Keywords: sustainable entrepreneurship; theory of planned behavior; environmental risk exposure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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