Digital Sustainability and Entrepreneurship: How Digital Innovations Are Helping Tackle Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Gerard George, Ryan K. Merrill and Simon J. D. Schillebeeckx

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2021, vol. 45, issue 5, 999-1027

Abstract: We explore how digital technologies are helping address grand challenges to tackle climate change and promote sustainable development. With digital technologies, entrepreneurial organizations have adopted innovative approaches to tackle seemingly intractable societal challenges. We refer to these broadly as digital sustainability activities. By focusing on the digital toolbox employed by pioneering organizations, we propose a research agenda that generates novel questions for entrepreneurship, business models, and ecosystems as well as new ways of thinking about trust and institutional logics. We believe that digital sustainability can spur empirical advances in entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy with potential for positive impact on society.

Keywords: sustainable; business models; technology and innovation management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/1042258719899425

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