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Edited by Lindgreen, Adam; Edited by Vallaster Christine; Edited by Maon, François; Edited by Yousafzai, Shumaila; Edited by Palacios Florencio, Beatriz

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This book comprehensively review key dimensions of the sustainable entrepreneurship phenomenon to establish an essential definition and up-to-date picture of the field. Sustainable Entrepreneurship is an important resource for entrepreneurs, policy makers as well as students in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and susta

The way organizations manage entrepreneurship has changed dramatically over the past decade. Today, organizations take account of economic issues, but they also adopt a broader perspective of their purpose including social and environmental issues (i.e. sustainability). Yet, despite its global spread, sustainable entrepreneurship remains an uncertain and poorly defined ambition with few absolutes.

This book reaffirms the important need to improve comprehension and explore the subtleties of how individuals, groups, and organizations can discover, create, and seize opportunities for blended value generation, by designing and operating sustainable ventures. It examines, in an interdisciplinary fashion and across sectoral and geographical boundaries, how entrepreneurial activities can be developed to be generally consistent with sustainable development goals, as well as by whom, for what reasons, and with what implications. The Editors comprehensively review key dimensions of the sustainable entrepreneurship phenomenon to establish an essential definition and up-to-date picture of the field. The 19 chapters cover 4 main topics:

- Understanding the intentions and motivations for sustainable entrepreneurship
- Fostering and enacting sustainability through entrepreneurial action
- Leading and inspiring sustainable entrepreneurial action
- Finding the contextually grounded implications of and challenges to sustainable entrepreneurship and blended value generation

This book is an important resource for entrepreneurs and policy makers as well as students in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainability.

Table of contents:

List of Figures, List of Tables , About the Editors , About the Contributors , Foreword and Acknowledgment ,
1: Understanding intentions and motivations behind sustainable entrepreneurship, 1.1: The Role of Perceived University Support in the Formation of Students’ Entrepreneurial Intention, By Saadat Saeed, Shumaila Y. Yousafzai, Mirella Yani-De-Soriano, and Moreno Muffatto, 1.2: Motivations and Entrepreneurial Orientation of Sustainable Entrepreneurs: An Exploratory Study of Sustainable Entrepreneurship Archetypes in the Fashion Industry, By René Bohnsack and Lori DiVito, 1.3: Gender Analysis of Social Entrepreneurial Intention: A Case of Morocco and Spain, By Juan D. Borrero, 1.4: Non-profit Entrepreneurial Activism: Values, Behaviour, and Sociotechnical Dimensions of Social Entrepreneurship in the Case of Freegle, By Chris Martin, Paul Upham, and Rita Klapper
, 2: Fostering and enacting sustainability through entrepreneurial action, 2.1: Sustainable Entrepreneurship Orientation: A Reflection on Status-Quo Research on Factors Facilitating Responsible Managerial Practices, By Sascha Kraus, Janina Burtscher, Christine Vallaster, and Martin Angerer, 2.2: Sustainable Consumption through New Business Models: The Role of Sustainable Entrepreneurship, By Nancy Bocken, 2.3: Enacting Sustainable Entrepreneurial Action for a Circular Economy, By Melissa Edwards, Suzanne Benn, Tamsin Angus-Leppan, and Robert Perey, 2.4: Policy