Overview
- Focuses on the collaborative aspects of sustainable entrepreneurship
- Shows how stakeholders can facilitate the co-creation processes for sustainable business endeavors
- Provides examples from different entrepreneurial contexts from emerging economies
Part of the book series: Contributions to Management Science (MANAGEMENT SC.)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (8 chapters)
-
Front Matter
Keywords
- Ethical and social aspects of entrepreneurship
- Environmental entrepreneurship
- Research on sustainable entrepreneurship
- Collaborative innovation models for small businesses
- Entrepreneurship vs. self-employment in emerging markets
- Gamifying innovation
- Learning and sustainable development
- sustainability
About this book
Sustainable entrepreneurship focuses on how the environment is embedded within business practices. This book examines collaboration strategies and initiatives for sustainable entrepreneurs with a wide variety of partners, and demonstrates how they can be used to increase overall performance and achieve global competitiveness. Based on the latest empirical evidence from emerging economies, the book’s respective chapters address sustainability issues in connection with knowledge creation and learning, outsourcing, and the roles of universities, consultants, and the public sector.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paul Jones is deputy director of the International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship (ICTE) and professor of entrepreneurship at Coventry University, UK. He is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy and sits on the board of trustees of the Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE). He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Research, and associate editor for the International Journal of Management Education.
Vitor Braga is an associate professor at the School of Technology and Management of Felgueiras, Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal. He is the director of the Business Sciences BSc, the head of the business sciences department and the director of the MSc in International Management. His main research interests are in entrepreneurship processes such as co-operation, internationalization and innovation.
Carla Susana Marques holds a PhD in management. She is an assistant professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD Portugal) and coordinator of the innovation, markets and organisation research group in UTAD’s Centre for Transdisciplinary Development Studies. Her research on innovation and entrepreneurship has been presented at numerous international conferences and published in international journals. Her more recent research projects have covered issues relating to womens' entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship, innovation and firm performance.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Entrepreneurship
Book Subtitle: The Role of Collaboration in the Global Economy
Editors: Vanessa Ratten, Paul Jones, Vitor Braga, Carla Susana Marques
Series Title: Contributions to Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12342-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12341-3Published: 04 April 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12344-4Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12342-0Published: 27 March 2019
Series ISSN: 1431-1941
Series E-ISSN: 2197-716X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 165
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: Entrepreneurship, Sustainability Management, Innovation/Technology Management, Market Research/Competitive Intelligence, Business Strategy/Leadership