Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: : Identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives

By Jeffrey G. York, Isobel O'Neil, S. Sarasvathy. 2016

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On the basis of a qualitative study of 25 renewable energy firms, we theorize why and how individuals engage in environmental entrepreneurship, inductively defined as: the use of both commercial and ecological logics to address environmental degradation through the creation of financially profitable organizations, products, services, and markets. Our findings suggest that environmental entrepreneurs: (1) are motivated by identities based in both commercial and ecological logics, (2) prioritize commercial and/or ecological venture goals dependent on the strength and priority of coupling between these two identity types, and (3) approach stakeholders in a broadly inclusive, exclusive, or co-created manner based on identity coupling and goals. These findings contribute to literature streams on hybrid organizing, entrepreneurial identity, and entrepreneurship's potential for resolving environmental degradation.

Subfields: Management of Technology and Innovation, Marketing, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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• Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development: A Review and Multilevel Causal Mechanism Framework (2019, background): “Such meso- level institutions can define quality standards, standards for good sustainability management practices (e.g., “B- Corps,” Stubbs, 2017), or change regulatory requirements for higher product energy efficiency in markets and industries (e.g., Doblinger et al., 2016; York et al., 2016a).”
• Entrepreneurs for a low carbon world: How environmental knowledge and policy shape the creation and financing of green start-ups (2020, unknown): “, 2010; Alvarez and Barney, 2005; Audretsch and Keilbach, 2007; Audretsch and Lehmann, 2005; 1 In this study, we refer to green entrepreneurship as the creation of new ventures that may pursue both environmental and economic goals (Isaak, 2016; York et al., 2016), but which are closely related to or”
• The Development of Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research Field (2018, background): “[58] Exploring Environmental Entrepreneurship: Identity Coupling, Venture Goals, and Stakeholder Incentives Journal of Management Studies”