Sustainable Entrepreneurship

<p>The way organizations manage entrepreneurship has changed dramatically over the past decade. Today organizations take account of economic issues but they also adopt a broader perspective of their purpose including social and environmental issues (i.e. sustainability). Yet despite its global spread sustainable entrepreneurship remains an uncertain and poorly defined ambition with few absolutes.</p><p>This book reaffirms the important need to improve comprehension and explore the subtleties of how individuals groups and organizations can discover create and seize opportunities for blended value generation by designing and operating sustainable ventures. It examines in an interdisciplinary fashion and across sectoral and geographical boundaries how entrepreneurial activities can be developed to be generally consistent with sustainable development goals as well as by whom for what reasons and with what implications. The Editors comprehensively review key dimensions of the sustainable entrepreneurship phenomenon to establish an essential definition and up-to-date picture of the field. The 19 chapters cover 4 main topics: </p><ul> <ul> <p> </p> <li>Understanding the intentions and motivations for sustainable entrepreneurship </li> <p> </p> <li>Fostering and enacting sustainability through entrepreneurial action </li> <p> </p> <li>Leading and inspiring sustainable entrepreneurial action </li> <p> </p> <li>Finding the contextually grounded implications of and challenges to sustainable entrepreneurship and blended value generation</li> </ul> </ul><p>This book is an important resource for entrepreneurs and policy makers as well as students in the fields of entrepreneurship innovation and sustainability.</p>