Volume 1: This volume is the culmination of many discussions among the editors over the years, especially at the Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference, related to the growth and institutionalization of environmental and social entrepreneurship. Research on these two forms of entrepreneurial action has tried to keep pace with what is occurring in the field. While the research is diverse, attracting scholars across many disciplines and from all parts of the world, it is still in the formative stages. This volume seeks to take stock of the literature and report the state of the art in environmental and social entrepreneurship. In particular, it seeks to explore new theoretical directions that blend traditional notions of economic efficiency and social welfare and new ways of measuring and empirically testing these phenomena. The chapters in this volume demonstrate the diverse philosophical, methodological, and theoretical techniques to studying these forms of entrepreneurship. We expect this volume will contribute to this burgeoning research and that researchers will engage in theory development for the foreseeable future, as new business models are developed, tested, abandoned, and evolved.
Volume 2: This volume spotlights cutting-edge research, innovative methodologies, and provocative thinking by organizational scholars and leaders committed to advancing the global sustainability agenda. Each chapter focuses on advancing one or more United Nations (UN) 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The chapter sequence follows a general logic of SDG numerical order and breadth. Overall, this compendium provides critical insights, practical strategies and tools, and timely inspiration to motivate individual and collective engagement with and achievement of the SDGs. With a decade remaining to achieve the 2030 Agenda, this volume supports sustainable development globally, through: identification of key challenges; theoretical, empirical, and practical exploration of potential solutions; and sharing of actionable findings. Each chapter makes an impactful contribution by spotlighting opportunities for advancing best-in-class efforts toward the achievement of the SDGs. Chapters represent diverse scholarly perspectives and include a representative range of focal SDGs, organizational contexts, applications, and initiatives from Africa, Asia, Europe, North and South America, and spanning national borders.
Volume 3: Historically religious institutions have been at the forefront of social change, yet religion and spirituality are rarely discussed in contemporary entrepreneurship research. We challenge this oversight and argue that by ignoring the fundamental principles that define an overwhelming majority of people all over the world, our scholarship risks being partial, incomplete and thus misleading. This volume presents a selection of entrepreneurship perspectives — studies, essays and analyses — that integrate religion and spirituality with social change. We have deliberately sought chapters that are edgy and novel, to give different nuances on this integration of religion and spirituality with entrepreneurship for social change.
Contents:
- Volume 1: Environmental and Social Entrepreneurship (Peter Gianiodis, Maritza I Espina & William R Meek):
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Introduction – The State of the Art in Environmental and Social Entrepreneurship Research (Peter Gianiodis, Maritza I Espina and William R Meek)
- Sustainable Venturing Across Global Contexts:
- Responding to Climate Change by Developing a Low-Carbon Economy Through Innovation: An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Perspective (Richard T Harrison)
- Supply Chain Climate Change Mitigation Strategies and Business Models (Thomas B Long and William Young)
- Corporate Sustainability, Stakeholder Orientation, and Collaboration between Competitors: What Lies Beneath (Lilach Trabelsi)
- Beyond Goal Hybridity: How Multilevel Actor Networks Can Scale Climate Impact (Sanwar A Sunny)
- Value Creation through Environmental Entrepreneurship (Geoff Archer, Felix Arndt and Fiona Robinson)
- Key Success Factors in Environmental Entrepreneurship: The Case of Wilderness Safaris (James E Austin, Megan Epler Wood and Herman B Leonard)
- Social Entrepreneurship and Impact:
- Societal Attitudes Toward Corporate Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship (Sumita Sarma and Sharon A Simmons)
- How Social Entrepreneurs’ Metacognition Shapes Socioeconomic Change Toward Sustainability-as-Flourishing (Katrin Schaefer, Patricia Doyle Corner and Kate Kearins)
- How a Prosocial Personality is Helpful in Predicting Social Entrepreneurial Intentions (Preeti Tiwari)
- Changing the World Under Limitations: The Role of Resource in Social Enterprise (Wentong Liu)
- Social Entrepreneurship and Impact:
- Sustainability Leadership: Innovation in Governance and Gender (Anne H Reilly)
- The Language of Entrepreneurship: An Exploratory Gender-Coding Study (Rosanna Garcia)
- Where to Fall Dead: A Comparative Analysis of the Death Care Industry (Gladis Cecilia Villegas-Arias)
- Index
- Volume 2: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (Andrew Ward & Erica Steckler):
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Introduction — Advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (Andrew Ward and Erica Steckler)
- ‘Let’s Bring Innovation into the Bottom of the Pyramid Together’: Introducing the Anti-Poverty Innovation Approach (Ximing Yin, Ryan Coles, and Jin Chen)
- The Hidden Nature of Sustainable Agribusiness: An Appreciative Approach across the Value Chain (Pamela S Robinson, Richard J Boland, Jr, and David L Cooperrider)
- A General Organizational Model for Creating Safe, Effective, Affordable (SEA) Hospitals in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Gaurab Bhardwaj)
- Social Entrepreneurship and Addressing SDGs Through Women’s Empowerment: A Case Study of She-EO (Wendy Cukier, Vicki Saunders, Samantha Stewart, and Erica Wright)
- Towards Sustainable Cities and Communities: Paradoxes of Inclusive Social Housing Strategies (Angela Greco and Tom B Long)
- Choosing Not to Buy When Tempted: Advancing Sustainable Development with Consumer Moral Restraint (Leslie E Sekerka, Petra Kipfelsberger, Derek Stimel, and Richard P Bagozzi)
- Social Purpose Value Chains: Formation and Participation Enabled by Blockchain Technology, Value-Chain Level Governance, and Co-opetition (Carolee Rigsbee, Stephen Newell, and Gastón de los Reyes, Jr)
- Beyond the Ivory Tower: A Social Enterprise Challenge as an Instrument to Overcome Minério-Dependência in a Brazilian Mining Community (Ramon Jung Pereira, Armindo dos Santos de Sousa Teodósio, and Walter Mswaka)
- Social Enterprises and SDGs: A Case Study of SELCO Solar Light Pvt Ltd, India (Tapan Sarker, Subhendu Dey, Anish Yousaf, and Abhishek Mishra)
- Case Study of the Municipality of Rheden, The Netherlands: Global Goals Program (Henk Doeleman and Frank Landman)
- Partnerships for the Goals in Africa: Impact Investors and Social Entrepreneurs Through the Lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Oluwaseun Oguntuase)
- Systems View of the Sustainable Development Goals (Giovanni Ferri and Habib Sedehi)
- Index
- Volume 3: Spirituality, Entrepreneurship and Social Change (Kathryn Pavlovich & Gideon Markman):
- Foreword by Roy Suddaby
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Introduction — Spirituality, Entrepreneurship and Social Change (Kathryn Pavlovich and Gideon Markman)
- Epistemological Considerations:
- Entrepreneurial Imagination: A Blakean Perspective (Denise M Vultee, Todd H Chiles and Sara R S T A Elias)
- Rethinking Entrepreneurial Leadership (Elena Antonacopoulou and Regina Bento)
- Musical Entrepreneurship, Spirituality and Social Change: Wisdom as Balance (June Boyce-Tillman)
- Pathways to Pluralism in Entrepreneurship: Reading Four Steps to the Epiphany as a Sacred Text (Besty Campbell)
- Methodological Applications:
- Faith and Effectuation in a Developing Country’s Entrepreneurship (Anastasia Mamabolo and Kerrin Myres)
- The Role of Religion in the Formation of Trust-Based Relationships Amongst South African Entrepreneurs (Jonathan Marks and Sugandree Mudely)
- People of Faith as Institutional Entrepreneurs (Nazarina Jamil and Paresha Sinha)
- Organizations with a Buddhist Ethos — A Path to Sustainability? (Sashika Abeydeera, Kate Kearins and Helen Tregidga)
- How Do Spiritual Values Inform Entrepreneurial Action? A Sri Lankan Perspective (Srinath Dissanayake and Jenny Gibb)
- Spirituality and Entrepreneurship: A Muslim Viewpoint (Farhana Sidek, Rosmah Mat Isa and Abu Hanifah Ayob)
- The Role of Entrepreneurship and Spirituality in the Provision of Elective Social Enterprise Courses in Business Schools (Cherry W M Cheung, Sujun Fieldhouse and Caleb C Y Kwong)
- Ontological Alternatives:
- Yoga Sutras and Spiritual Entrepreneurship (Anil K Maheshwari and Nisha Pandey)
- Harnessing Andean Spirituality and Entrepreneurship (Tamara Stenn)
- Index
Readership: Researchers and academics in management, strategic management and entrepreneurship disciplines; readers with an interest in religion and entrepreneurship.