Researchers around the world are investigating how entrepreneurship can contribute to the transition to a sustainable economy and to sustainable development more widely. The fellows of the Onesa Institute have compiled this bibliographic resource to draw attention to some of the path-breaking research in this field.
Inclusion of a piece of work in this bibliography is not an endorsement of the respective authors’ views by the Onesa Institute. Rather, the decision to include pieces of work is indicative of their contribution to current debates and growing knowledge in this area. As new findings are published the bibliographic resource will continue to be updated. If you would like to recommend a piece of work for inclusion please contact us with the reference.
Gibbs, D., 2009. Sustainability entrepreneurs, ecopreneurs and the development of a sustainable economy. Greener Management International 55: 63–78.
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O’Neill, G.D., Jr, Hershauer, J.C., Golden, J.S., 2009. The cultural context of sustainability entrepreneurship. Greener Management International 55: 33-46.
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Parrish, B.D., 2009, Sustainability-driven entrepreneurship: Principles of organization design, Journal of Business Venturing, doi:10.1016/j.jbusvent.2009.05.005
Full text of author’s personal version available with permission [official published version available from Elsevier]
Parrish, B.D., Foxon, T.J., 2009. Sustainability entrepreneurship and equitable transitions to a low-carbon economy. Greener Management International 55: 47–62.
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Parrish, B.D., Tilley, F., 2009. Sustainability entrepreneurship: charting a field in emergence.
In: Schaper, M. (Ed.), Making Ecopreneurs: Developing Sustainable Entrepreneurship. Gower, Aldershot, UK.
Schlange, L.E., 2009. Stakeholder identification in sustainability entrepreneurship: the role of managerial and organisational cognition. Greener Management International 55: 13-32.
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Tilley, F., Parrish, B.D., 2009. Introduction to sustainability entrepreneurship research. Greener Management International 55: 5–12.
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Tilley, F., Young, W., 2009. Sustainability entrepreneurs: could they be the true wealth generators of the future? Greener Management International 55: 79–92.
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Cohen, B., Smith, B., Mitchell, R., 2008. Toward a sustainable conceptualization of dependent variables in entrepreneurship research. Business Strategy and the Environment 17(2): 107–119.
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Parrish, B.D. 2008. Sustainability Entrepreneurship: Design Principles, Practices, and Paradigms, PhD thesis, University of Leeds, UK.
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Parrish, B.D., 2008. Sustainability-driven entrepreneurship: A literature review. SRI Working Paper No. 9, Sustainability Research Institute, Leeds, UK.
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Cohen, B., Winn, M.I., 2007. Market imperfections, opportunity and sustainable entrepreneurship. Journal of Business Venturing 22(1): 29–49.
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Dean, T.J., McMullen, J.S., 2007. Toward a theory of sustainable entrepreneurship: reducing environmental degradation through entrepreneurial action. Journal of Business Venturing 22(1): 50–76
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Johanisova, N., 2007. A Comparison of Rural Social Enterprises in Britain and the Czech Republic, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic.
Parrish, B.D., 2007. Designing the sustainable enterprise. Futures 39(7): 846–860.
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Schlange, L.E., 2007. What drives sustainable entrepreneurs? Indian Journal of Economics and Business Special Issue on ABEAI Conference Kona, Hawaii, 2006: 35–45.
Earlier conference paper version available from the author [free download from author]
Clifford, A., Dixon, S.E.A., 2006. Green-Works: a model for combining social and ecological entrepreneurship. In: Mair, J., Robinson, J., Hockerts, K. (Eds.), Social Entrepreneurship. Palgrave MacMillan, New York, NY, pp. 214–234.
Young, W., Tilley, F., 2006. Can businesses move beyond efficiency? The shift toward effectiveness and equity in the corporate sustainability debate. Business Strategy and the Environment 15(6): 402–415.
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