Special Issue "Entrepreneurship and Sus...

Entrepreneurship has become recognized as a means of transforming economic sectors towards sustainable development (Dean and McMullen, 2007; Shepherd and Patzelt, 2011). In particular, sustainable entrepreneurs who simultaneously strive for environmental protection, social welfare, and economic viability are increasingly regarded as important change agents (Belz and Binder, 2017; Muñoz and Dimov, 2015). Due to the multiplicity of goals inherent in sustainable entrepreneurship, the successful exploitation of sustainable business opportunities can be considered as more complex than in the case of opportunities solely driven by economic consideration (De Clercq and Voronov, 2011). Therefore, we do need to advance our understanding of how sustainable entrepreneurs simultaneously achieve economic, social, and environmental goals (Hall, Daneke, and Lenox, 2010; Sarango-Lalangui, Santos, and Hormiga, 2018). In this Special Issue, we address this request. The eight published papers contribute to discover how sustainable entrepreneurs manage their hybrid entrepreneurial endeavors from the nascent stage over new venture creation towards the development of a sustainable business venture.