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  1. 6. Insights in the Individual Eco-Intrapreneur

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Antonia Becker; Ruben Heidenreich; [2019]
    Keywords : Intrapreneurship; Eco-Intrapreneurship; Individual Drivers; Intrapreneurial Behaviour; Intrapreneurial Characteristics; Intrapreneurial Attitudes; Environmental Innovation; Ecopreneurship; Sustainability Oriented Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Title: Insights in the Individual Eco-Intrapreneur: A Single Case Study Exploring the Individual Drivers of Employees Facilitating Eco-Intrapreneurship Date of the Seminar: 28 May 2019 Course: ENTN39 Master Corporate Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Internship and Degree Project (Master Thesis 15 ECTS) Authors: Antonia Becker and Ruben Heidenreich Supervisor: Shibayama, Sotaro Examiner: Winborg, Joakim Keywords: Intrapreneurship, Eco-Intrapreneurship, Individual Drivers, Intrapreneurial Behaviour, Intrapreneurial Characteristics, Intrapreneurial Attitudes, Environmental Innovation, Ecopreneurship, Sustainability Oriented Innovation, Entrepreneurship Research Question: What are the individual drivers of employees facilitating eco-intrapreneurship and how do these individual drivers of employees facilitate eco-intrapreneurship? Methodology: Investigating the individual drivers and their facilitating role on eco-intrapreneurship, this single case study applied a qualitative research method. Strengthening this study, a control group (intrapreneurs) within the same organizational context was incorporated to first identify eco-intrapreneurial drivers before analysing their dynamic relations. READ MORE

  2. 7. Impetus for Change: How Sustainable is Sustainable Entrepreneurship? : A Discourse Analysis of Case Studies of Eco-Inclusive Enterprises in Africa & a Conceptualisation of Strong Sustainable Entrepreneurship

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Abe Hendriks; Ute Pauline Wiemer; [2018]
    Keywords : sustainable entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship for sustainable development; ecological economics; weak and strong sustainability; UN; SEED;

    Abstract : Despite the increasing popularity of the concept of entrepreneurship for sustainable development in both academia and policy making, there is no agreement on how this process should unfold and which objectives it should pursue. Perceived tensions between the paradigms of sustainability and economic development as well as alack of shared definitions and assumptions lead to ambiguous understandings of the idea of sustainable entrepreneurship. READ MORE

  3. 8. Fostering Sustainable Entrepreneurship by Governmental Entrepreneurship Agencies : The Case of Almi Blekinge

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för strategisk hållbar utveckling

    Author : Eva Milletorp; Christopher Busiku; Jean Pierre Candiotti Bustamente; [2015]
    Keywords : sustainable entrepreneurship; SMEs; government; Almi; Blekinge; hållbart företagande; hållbart entreprenörskap; små och medelstora företag; Almi; Blekinge;

    Abstract : The importance of entrepreneurship for economic growth has long been recognized. It is also widely agreed that we are facing a sustainability challenge, which, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, is largely created by the economic activities of the industrialized society. READ MORE

  4. 9. The Potential Catalytic Role of Green Entrepreneurship – Technological Eco–Innovations and Ecopreneurs’ Acts – in the Structural Transformation to a Low–Carbon or Green Economy: A Foucauldian Discursive Approach

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Simon Elias Bibri; [2014]
    Keywords : Discourse; episteme; green entrepreneurs hip; ecopreneurs; technological eco–innovations; low–carbon green sustainable economy; transformation; green and energy efficiency technologies; ICT; environmental; economic; political; social; ecological modernization; European society; Foucault; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Green entrepreneurship – technological eco–innovations and ecopreneurs’ acts – has recently received much attention from European policymakers as one promising response to the challenges of sustainable economic development due to its potential to catalyze and build a low–carbon or green economy. This topical relationship between green entrepreneurship and sustainable economy has also gained increasing interest among scholars. READ MORE

  5. 10. Is Clean Green? : A qualitative study of cleantech entrepreneurs' motives and goals.

    University essay from Handelshögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Mery Oscanoa; [2010]
    Keywords : “entrepreneurship”; ” cleantech”; “technology“; “sustainability”; “ecopreneurship”; “motivation” and “influences”;

    Abstract :   This paper focuses on companies within the cleantech industry (clean technology and its derivation “cleantech”) that have started up and produced clean techniques to the industrial world. The main purpose of this study is to contribute a better understanding of cleantech entrepreneurs’ motivations and influences to start up a cleantech company. READ MORE