Call for Papers for the special issue # 53 of the Journal Entreprendre et Innover: “Entrepreneurship in the Service of Sustainability – Leveraging Business Models to Achieve Environmental and Social Goals”.
ESSCA professor Xavier LESAGE is editor of this special issue together with Robert SHELDON and Florian LUDEKE-FREUND (ESCP) and Sophie REBOUD (BSB).
Objectives
The aim of this special issue is to advance thinking on an increasingly common form of entrepreneurship, one in which new firms and business activities are expressly created in order to achieve an environmental or social goal, or broadly speaking a sustainability goal.
Contributions that deal with the following subject areas are most welcome:
- First, contributions that elaborate on the notion of sustainability entrepreneurship as such (as defined above) from both theoretical and empirical perspectives.
- Second, contributions that focus on business model-related phenomena. Such contributions build on and extend business model theory in ways that help us better understand and explain how entrepreneurs develop, implement, and revise their business models in the service of sustainability.
List of additional invited topics:
- Shapes of sustainability ventures
- Processes leading to the creation of such ventures
- Entrepreneurial intention and sustainability entrepreneurship
- Tensions and paradoxes related to sustainability entrepreneurship
- Conceptual frameworks of sustainability entrepreneurship (e.g. classification frameworks of sustainability entrepreneurship business models)
- Methods, tools, and frameworks to assess the impact and ecological and social value creation of sustainability entrepreneurship
- Empirical evidence of actual sustainability impacts (incl. case studies, statistical analyses etc.)
Methods and tools for developing and managing sustainability entrepreneurship organizations, including startups, entrepreneurial ventures, and intrapreneurship - Best practices of sustainability entrepreneurship education in academic and business contexts
For further information, please contact Professor Xavier LESAGE from ESSCA School of Management : xavier.lesage@essca.fr