Exploring environmental entrepreneurship: : Identity coupling, venture goals, and stakeholder incentives

• Autores: Jeffrey G. York, Isobel O'Neil, Saras D. Sarasvathy
• Localización: Journal of management studies, ISSN 0022-2380, Vol. 53, Nº 5, 2016, págs. 695-737
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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.