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A Compass for Navigating Sharing Economy Business Models Open
The sharing economy has emerged in recent years as a disruptive approach to traditional business models. Drawing on a multi-year research program and a design-based methodology, this article introduces a framework and generative tool calle…
The double-edged sword of purpose-driven behavior in sustainable venturing Open
This paper examines the relationship between purpose and purposeful organizing and how such arrangements influence the entrepreneurial journey as sustainable ventures move from idea to markets. We leverage an iterative multi-stage process-…
Entrepreneurial Narratives in Sustainable Venturing: Beyond People, Profit, and Planet Open
Sustainable venturing, the process of starting a new sustainable enterprise, has been studied extensively through the triple‐bottom‐line lens. The narratives employed by sustainable entrepreneurs, however, have proven to be more complex an…
Sustainable Entrepreneurship Research: Taking Stock and looking ahead Open
The recognition of entrepreneurship as a solution to, rather than a cause of, environmental degradation and social inequality moved the field to identify a new type of entrepreneurial activity, namely sustainable entrepreneurship. Scholarl…
Entering Conscious Consumer Markets: Toward a New Generation of Sustainability Strategies Open
More than 40% of U.S. consumers participate in the $300 billion conscious consumer market (CCM). In the past decade, the growth of the CCM has not gone unnoticed by startups and established multinational corporations. Yet what differentiat…
Mapping out the sharing economy: A configurational approach to sharing business modeling Open
Sharing economy businesses have emerged in recent years as a disruptive approach to the traditional way of planning, modeling and doing business. The phenomenon has gained significant traction within a wide range of domains including entre…
Towards a social-ecological understanding of sustainable venturing Open
Leveraging social-ecological systems literature and an exemplar case, the Panamanian-American venture Planting Empowerment, we introduce the notion of entrepreneurial synchronicity, emerging from an inductive approach, as a key concept for…
The Making of the Urban Entrepreneur Open
Pressures on infrastructure—due to growing urban populations, the ubiquity of new technologies, and collaborative business models—are fostering a new form of entrepreneurship focused on addressing quality of life in cities. Urban entrepren…
Entering Conscious Consumer Markets: Towards a New Generation of Sustainability Strategies Open
More than 40 percent of US consumers participate in the 300 billion (USD) conscious consumer market (CCM). In the past decade, the growth of the CCM has not gone unnoticed by startups and established multinational corporations. Yet what di…