Making ecopreneurs : developing sustainable entrepreneurship / edited by Michael Schaper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaper, Michael.

Contributor:

Schaper, Michael (Professor)

Series:

Corporate social responsibility series.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development.

Entrepreneurship.

Environmental ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (342 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing researchers, policymakers and business people up to date with the latest developments in the world of ecopreneurs, this timely new edition of Schaper's book updates and adds to the case studies of entrepreneurs engaged in sustainable business practice worldwide.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part One: Concepts; 1 Understanding the Green Entrepreneur; 2 Sustainability Entrepreneurship: Charting a Field in Emergence; 3 The Making of the Ecopreneur; 4 Beyond the Visionary Champion: Testing a Typology of Green Entrepreneurs; 5 A Framework and Typology of Ecopreneurship: Leading Bioneers and Environmental Managers to Ecopreneurship; 6 Little Acorns in Action: Green Entrepreneurship and New Zealand Micro-Enterprises; 7 An Insider's Experiences with Environmental Entrepreneurship

Part Two: Contexts and Conditions8 Ecopreneurship in India: A Review of Key Drivers and Policy Environment; 9 Sustainability in the Start-up Process; 10 How Venture Capital Can Help Build Ecopreneurship; 11 Offsetting the Disadvantages of Smallness: Promoting Green Entrepreneurs through Industry Clusters; 12 Ecopreneurship, Corporate Citizenship and Sustainable Decision-making; 13 The Competitive Strategies of Ecopreneurs: Striving for Market Leadership by Promoting Sustainability; Part Three: Cases; 14 Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Tourism: The Global Gypsies Approach

15 Promoting Sustainability, Building Networks: A Green Entrepreneur in Mexico16 Sustainable Harvest International: Expanding Ecopreneur Expertise; 17 Sustainability Entrepreneurship: Organizational Innovation at NativeEnergy; 18 The Mimosa Project; Index

Notes:

"A Gower Book"--Cover.

First published 2010 by Gower Publishing.

Rev. ed. of: Making ecopreneurs : developing sustainable entrepreneurship, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Schaper, Michael Making Ecopreneurs

ISBN:

9786612614811

9781317102434

1317102436

9781315593302

1315593300

9781317102427

1317102428

9781282614819

1282614819

9781409401230

1409401235

OCLC:

656359023