Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives
On the basis of a qualitative study of 25 renewable energy firms, we theorize why and how individuals engage in environmental entrepreneurship, inductively defined as: the use of both commercial and ecological logics to address environmental degradation through the creation of financially profitable org...
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| author | York, Jeffrey G. O'Neil, Isobel Sarasvathy, Saras D. |
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| description | On the basis of a qualitative study of 25 renewable energy firms, we theorize why and how individuals engage in environmental entrepreneurship, inductively defined as: the use of both commercial and ecological logics to address environmental degradation through the creation of financially profitable organizations, products, services, and markets. Our findings suggest that environmental entrepreneurs: (1) are motivated by identities based in both commercial and ecological logics,(2) prioritize commercial and/or ecological venture goals dependent on the strength and priority of coupling between these two identity types, and (3) approach stakeholders in a broadly inclusive, exclusive, or co-created manner based on identity coupling and goals. These findings contribute to literature streams on hybrid organizing, entrepreneurial identity, and entrepreneurship’s potential for resolving environmental degradation. |
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| spelling | nottingham-331042020-05-04T17:41:34Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33104/ Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives York, Jeffrey G. O'Neil, Isobel Sarasvathy, Saras D. On the basis of a qualitative study of 25 renewable energy firms, we theorize why and how individuals engage in environmental entrepreneurship, inductively defined as: the use of both commercial and ecological logics to address environmental degradation through the creation of financially profitable organizations, products, services, and markets. Our findings suggest that environmental entrepreneurs: (1) are motivated by identities based in both commercial and ecological logics,(2) prioritize commercial and/or ecological venture goals dependent on the strength and priority of coupling between these two identity types, and (3) approach stakeholders in a broadly inclusive, exclusive, or co-created manner based on identity coupling and goals. These findings contribute to literature streams on hybrid organizing, entrepreneurial identity, and entrepreneurship’s potential for resolving environmental degradation. Wiley 2016-03-17 Article PeerReviewed York, Jeffrey G., O'Neil, Isobel and Sarasvathy, Saras D. (2016) Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives. Journal of Management Studies, 53 (5). pp. 695-737. ISSN 1467-6486 effectuation entrepreneurial identity environmental entrepreneurship hybrid organizations institutional logics social enterprise sustainability http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joms.12198/abstract doi:10.1111/joms.12198 doi:10.1111/joms.12198 |
| spellingShingle | effectuation entrepreneurial identity environmental entrepreneurship hybrid organizations institutional logics social enterprise sustainability York, Jeffrey G. O'Neil, Isobel Sarasvathy, Saras D. Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives |
| title | Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: identity
coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives |
| title_full | Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: identity
coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives |
| title_fullStr | Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: identity
coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: identity
coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives |
| title_short | Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: identity
coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives |
| title_sort | exploring environmental entrepreneurship: identity
coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives |
| topic | effectuation entrepreneurial identity environmental entrepreneurship hybrid organizations institutional logics social enterprise sustainability |
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