The Role of Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Sustainability Transitions: A Conceptual Synthesis against the Background of the Multi-Level Perspective

By Jacob Hörisch. 2015

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This paper conceptually synthesizes prior studies on sustainable entrepreneurship against the background of the multi-level perspective. It thereby relates separate streams of literature on sustainable entrepreneurship, sustainability transformations and ecopreneurship, which have previously not been systematically connected and synthesized, to the multi-level perspective. The paper furthermore provides suggestions on how the multi-level perspective can be advanced based on the inspirations of these previously only sparsely-connected streams of literature. Finally, implications for entrepreneurs, academia and politics are presented: means to increase the contribution of sustainable entrepreneurship to sustainability transitions are suggested, and the importance of growth and degrowth is discussed in the context of sustainable entrepreneurship.

Subfields: Business and International Management, Management of Technology and Innovation, Marketing

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Citations in the corpus

• Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Development: A Review and Multilevel Causal Mechanism Framework (2019, background): “On the other hand, markets and local communities are embedded in the macro- level phenomena but may also act outside these realms as well (Hörisch, 2015b).”