We’re All in the Same Boat: A Collective Model of Preserving and Accessing Nature-Based Opportunities

Karin Andrea Wigger and Dean A. Shepherd

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 2020, vol. 44, issue 3, 587-617

Abstract: This article explains how collective environmental entrepreneurship can ensure the sustainable exploitation of opportunities based on natural resources. We discuss the major threats entrepreneurial ventures face in pursuing potential nature-based opportunities and the collective action they take to preserve the associated natural resources while also providing access to them. This analysis adds to our understanding of environmental entrepreneurship by detailing the possible problems associated with exploiting potential nature-based opportunities, the ways ventures can come together to collectively address these exploitation challenges, and the benefits of such collective action (for both ventures and nature).

Keywords: environmental entrepreneurship; nature-based opportunities; sustainability; collective action (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/1042258719834014

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