Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development: A Review and Multilevel Causal Mechanism Framework
Matthew P. Johnson and
Stefan Schaltegger
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2020, vol. 44, issue 6, 1141-1173
Abstract:
Entrepreneurship for sustainable development is a multilevel phenomenon connecting social, environmental and economic dimensions between entrepreneurial processes, market transformations, as well as large-scale societal developments. While previous articles on social, environmental, and sustainable entrepreneurship have advanced our understanding on processes of discovery, creation, and exploitation of sustainability-oriented opportunities, the links between contextual influences on venture development and transformational outcomes at multiple levels are only partially captured in extant frameworks. Drawing out causal mechanisms with a systematic review, this article proposes a multilevel framework for linking mechanisms in existing literature and proposing future research on entrepreneurship for sustainable development.
Keywords: sustainable entrepreneurship; social entrepreneurship; environmental entrepreneurship; mechanism; multilevel framework (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/1042258719885368
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