Toward a theory of sustainable entrepreneurship: Reducing environmental degradation through entrepreneurial action

By Thomas J. Dean, Jeffery S. McMullen. 2007

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

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Escaping the green prison: Entrepreneurship and the creation of opportunities for sustainable development (2010, background): “Both popular and academicwriters have asserted that the innovative process of entrepreneurship can serve as a central force in the development of an ecologically and socially sustainable economy (Anderson and Leal, 1997, 2001; Bennett, 1991; Blue, 1990; Dean and McMullen, 2007; Hawken, 1994; Hawken ”
Entrepreneurship as Catalyst for Sustainable Development: Opening the Black Box (2019, background): “Several researchers share this view, which sees market imperfections not only as a source of environmental degradation but also as an engine for innovation and sustainable and/or social entrepreneurial opportunities [9,15,16].”
The Coevolution of Institutional Entrepreneurship: A Tale of Two Theories (2010, positive): “Furthermore, these market imper-fections represent opportunities for entrepreneurial profit because some barrier to the wide-spread exploitation of the opportunity exists (Dean & McMullen, 2007; Eckhardt & Shane, 2003).”
How Different Formal Institutions Affect Opportunity and Necessity Entrepreneurship (2015, background): “ean and McMullen (2007) emphasize that overtaxation akes entrepreneurs feel squeezed by the Government and, onsequently, demotivates them.”
Social, Environmental and Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research (2015, background): “The other instance was the Dean and McMullen (2007) article.”
Social Entrepreneurship Research: Past Achievements and Future Promises (2018, neutral): “Sustainable entrepreneurship has been defined as the “process of discovering, evaluating, and exploiting economic opportunities that are present in market failures which detract from sustainability, including those that are environmentally relevant” (Dean & McMullen, 2007: 58).”
Born to be green: new insights into the economics and management of green entrepreneurship (2017, background): “Green entrepreneurs exploit the opportunities that are inherent in environmentally relevant market failures (Dean and McMullen 2007); however, the paradox of green entrepreneurship may also emanate from the fact that environmental wellbeing that results from born greens is a public good and, therefo”
What Makes an Entrepreneurship Study Entrepreneurial? Toward A Unified Theory of Entrepreneurial Agency (2020, background): “…al., 2012; McMullen, 2011); institutions—for example, formal and informal institutions vary and are subject to leverage and influence by entrepreneurs (Dean & McMullen, 2007; McMullen, 2011); and process— for example, skill is needed to create hybrid models and manage the tensions of hybrid…”
‘Better late than never’: the interplay between green technology and age for firm growth (2017, background): “A sort of ‘sin of youth’ seems to emerge from the literature on ‘(eco-)sustainable entrepreneurship’ (Dean and McMullen, 2007), in which the comparative analyses of start-ups (young firms) vs.”
Delineating the Domain of Development Entrepreneurship: A Market–Based Approach to Facilitating Inclusive Economic Growth (2011, background): “…the source of the opportunity for DE. Inefficient institutions create high transaction costs, the reduction of which can constitute an opportunity for enhanced market efficiency or the creation of entirely new markets (Dean & McMullen, 2002, 2007; Elkington & Hartigan, 2008; McMullen et al., 2008).”
Entrepreneurs for a low carbon world: How environmental knowledge and policy shape the creation and financing of green start-ups (2020, neutral): “…on showing that: i) based on patent citations, green knowledge spillovers are more prominent that spillovers from brown knowledge across sectors (Dechezleprêtre et al., 2013), ii) brown knowledge creation does not lead to new green venture entry (Colombelli and Quatraro, 2017) and that iii)…”