In recent years our understanding of corporate sustainability has moved from exploitation to exploration, from corporate environmental management to sustainable entrepreneurship, and from efficiency to innovation. Yet current trends indicate the need for radical innovation via entrepreneurial start-ups or new ventures within existing corporations despite difficulties with the financing and marketing of such efforts. Presenting both conceptual and empirical research, this fascinating book addresses how we can combine environmental and social sustainability with economic sustainability in order to produce innovative new business models.
The international cast of contributors addresses the wide range of issues in the balance between growth and environmental concerns. The first five chapters discuss various aspects of sustainable entrepreneurship. This is followed by two chapters that look at innovation within existing firms. Innovation is not successful until it finds a customer, so the two chapters that follow delve into the marketing aspects of business-to-consumer and business-to-business settings. The book closes with a broad discussion of the evolution and future of the research agenda into the intersection of sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Academics, students, business professionals, and NGOs will find this volume enlightening and useful.
| ISBN: | 9781847200372 |
| Publication date: | 30th April 2008 |
| Author: | Rolf Wüstenhagen |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 317 pages |
| Series: | New Perspectives in Research on Corporate Sustainability |
| Genres: |
Entrepreneurship / Start-ups Sustainability |
In recent years our understanding of corporate sustainability has moved from exploitation to exploration, from corporate environmental management to sustainable entrepreneurship, and from efficiency to innovation. Yet current trends indicate the need for radical innovation via entrepreneurial start-ups or new ventures within existing corporations despite difficulties with the financing and marketing of such efforts. Presenting both conceptual and empirical research, this fascinating book addresses how we can combine environmental and social sustainability with economic sustainability in order to produce innovative new business models.
The international cast of contributors addresses the wide range of issues in the balance between growth and environmental concerns. The first five chapters discuss various aspects of sustainable entrepreneurship. This is followed by two chapters that look at innovation within existing firms. Innovation is not successful until it finds a customer, so the two chapters that follow delve into the marketing aspects of business-to-consumer and business-to-business settings. The book closes with a broad discussion of the evolution and future of the research agenda into the intersection of sustainability, innovation and entrepreneurship.
Academics, students, business professionals, and NGOs will find this volume enlightening and useful.
Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship features in the following genres: Entrepreneurship / Start-ups, Sustainability
Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship is available in Hardback
Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship was written by Rolf Wüstenhagen and published by Edward Elgar Publishing
Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship has 317 pages
Yes it is part of New Perspectives in Research on Corporate Sustainability series