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Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Past Researches and Future Directions


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Sustainable Entrepreneurship(SE) has emerged as a new area of scholarship in the field of entrepreneurship research which seeks to address social and environmental problems. Sustainable Entrepreneurship takes into account both social aspects and environmental effects and also considering the long-term economic and business consequences of new venture opportunities. The term 'sustainable entrepreneurship' combines two words, sustainability and entrepreneurship. However, research combining sustainable development and entrepreneurship is relatively new. The newness of the field offers tremendous opportunity to explore new ground and relationships in the field of sustainable entrepreneurship. This paper describes the concept of sustainable entrepreneurship, examines the past researches and outlines a prospective research agenda for further inquiry in the field of sustainable entrepreneurship

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Sustainability, Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Sustainopreneurship.
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B. Rajasekaran
Department of Management Studies, Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, India

Abstract


Sustainable Entrepreneurship(SE) has emerged as a new area of scholarship in the field of entrepreneurship research which seeks to address social and environmental problems. Sustainable Entrepreneurship takes into account both social aspects and environmental effects and also considering the long-term economic and business consequences of new venture opportunities. The term 'sustainable entrepreneurship' combines two words, sustainability and entrepreneurship. However, research combining sustainable development and entrepreneurship is relatively new. The newness of the field offers tremendous opportunity to explore new ground and relationships in the field of sustainable entrepreneurship. This paper describes the concept of sustainable entrepreneurship, examines the past researches and outlines a prospective research agenda for further inquiry in the field of sustainable entrepreneurship

Keywords


Sustainability, Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Sustainopreneurship.

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