Entrepreneurship can take a variety of forms and a number of researchers have suggested that it is important to recognize different “types” of entrepreneurship when analyzing issues such as the characteristics of entrepreneurs, their motives for choosing entrepreneurship and the contributions of their entrepreneurial activities...
A previous article discussed the convergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate governance over the last several decades of the 20th Century. In order to understand the impact of the convergence of CSR and corporate governance on corporate regulation, one must first be familiar...
Many commentators, beginning with Schumpeter, have argued that entrepreneurship is crucial for understanding economic development.[1] Acs and Virgill noted that “[t]he empirical evidence is . . . strong in support of a link between entrepreneurship and economic growth” and that [s]tudies have found that regional...
The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (“GEM”) is a partnership between the London Business School and Babson College that administers a comprehensive research program to produce annual assessments of national levels of entrepreneurial activity. The project was first launched in 1999, when it covered just ten countries,...
Dyllick and Hockerts observed that as sustainability became a more mainstream concept for businesses, the main focus of corporate leaders and academics was on the “business case” for sustainable development, which involved demonstrating how companies could further economic sustainability by increasing their ecological and social...
While a good deal of the research regarding entrepreneurship has focused on questions such as identifying individual traits and values that are positively associated with entrepreneurial activities, it is generally conceded that societal culture also plays an important role in entrepreneurship.[1] In fact, as Mueller...
Bell and Stellingwerf noted that a variety of terms have been used to describe “entrepreneurship behavior conducted through an environmental lens” including eco-entrepreneurship, environmental entrepreneurship, Enviropreneurship, green entrepreneurship and green–green businesses.[1] They preferred “ecopreneurship” and included the following examples of definitions and conceptualizations of that...
Few topics in the business area have attracted more attention among academics and journalists than “entrepreneurship”. From an economic perspective, “entrepreneurship” is generally conceptualized as the creation of a new business and the bearing of the risk associated with that business in exchange for profits...
The growing importance of, and the relationships between, social and environmental issues and governance practices was emphasized in “Who Cares Wins: Connecting Financial Markets to a Changing World”, a report prepared by the UN Global Compact and released in 2004: “In a more globalized, interconnected and...
Several scholars have argued that the rate of new venture formation and growth is directly influenced by the institutional environment, both formal and informal, in which the venture is operating.[1] New ventures, being both new and small, must struggle to gain legitimacy and survive in...