Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation [Hardcover]

Sustainable entrepreneurship has attracted growing attention in both scholarly and practitioner circles. Focusing on generating social, environmental and business value, the notion has been raised more recently to address the contribution of entrepreneurial activities to sustainable economic and social development.

Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Social Innovationbuilds on a theoretical framework that addresses related topics via a combination of insights from sustainability, policy, managerial, strategic, innovation and institutional perspectives. Providing empirical casework as well as a conceptual and theoretical framework, the book takes a global, interdisciplinary approach to the emergent field of sustainable entrepreneurship. The book highlights elements of sustainable entrepreneurship which have a societal impact as well as regional relevance and related aspects of innovation are also presented. Definitional issues are further elaborated in order to encompass the main inter-connected fields of study, sustainable entrepreneurship and social innovation.

This book is an important resource for academic researchers, and postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation and sustainability.

Introduction Katerina Nicolopoulou, Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Frank Janssen, John Jermier

Part 1: A theoretical Framework for Sustainable Entrepreneurship

1. Sustainable Entrepreneurship: eternal beginnings Pierre Kletz and Eric Cornuel
2. Addressing sustainability challenges through state led innovation Azad Singh Bali, Peter McKiernan, Christopher Vas and Peter Waring
3. Eco Socio Innovation: underpinning sustainable entrepreneurship and social innovation Jonathan M. Scott, Patrick Dawson and John L. Thompson
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