Making Ecopreneurs: Developing Sustainable Entrepreneurship(2nd ed.)

摘要

Recent years have revealed an increasing interest in one aspect of entrepreneurship and small business management: environmental sustainability and, particularly, environmental entre- (or, for short, eco-) preneurship or the more established term, sustainability entrepreneurship[1]. Ecopreneurship and the ecopreneurs who start and grow such businesses are the theme of the second edition of this edited book by Michael Schaper. The first edition (Schaper, 2005) was a fairly pioneering collection of chapters on what is probably best now described as a "young" field (Parrish and Tilley, 2010, in this volume)[2]. Some early literature on ecopreneurship includes books by Blue (1990) and Isaak (1998), as well as journal articles (such as Anderson, 1998) up to more recent research such as this volume, Kirkwood and Walton (2010), Parrish (2010), and Thompson and Scott (2010). Indeed, it has been the wider research area of environmental business (as distinct from entrepreneurship), e.g.