Deborah E. de Lange

TL;DR: Sustainability can be defined, based on earlier definitions, as an approach to business that considers economic, environmental and social issues in balanced, holistic, and long-term ways that benefit current and future generations of concerned stakeholders as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the link between social entrepreneurship and sustainable tourism and examined the Canadian context in this regard, finding that there are limited showcased hospitality and tourism social entrepreneurship projects in Canada.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined a sample of 300 start-ups across thirty cities around the world to consider whether sustainability is rewarded by investors and whether a sustainable firm within a sustainable national context gains more investor attention and investment.

Abstract: This paper develops a theoretical model to explicate stakeholder-related mechanisms that affect university adoption of sustainability in curricula. This work combines stakeholder and institutional theories so as to extend both. By examining change in the university context wherein there is confusion about sustainability adoption, this research adds to previous institutional theory focusing on strongly contested practices, primarily in the for-profit firm setting. Sustainability is a transformational challenge and may be adopted reactively or proactively. Also, stakeholder theory is extended in a mixed profit and non-profit context. Propositions suggest how the extent of embeddedness affects an organizations’ selection of stakeholders, consequently affecting the type of adoption. This facilitates a greater understanding of why two competing definitions of stakeholders may operate. Moreover, extrinsic and intrinsic motivations are discussed as affecting adoption in different ways. A responsible leader organization is newly defined and intrinsic motivation is proposed as underlying its choice of the widest set of stakeholders leading to broad, proactive adoption.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop theory on the legitimation of firms in the context of new entrepreneurial clean technology ventures attempting to grow and develop in emerging economies where they face institutional voids.