Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals

Nikolaos Apostolopoulos · Haya Al-Dajani · Diane Holt · Paul Jones · Robert Newbery

2018年10月 · Emerald Group Publishing

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The sustainable development goals (SDGs) were launched in 2015, as a global agenda for addressing the multiplicity of social and environmental challenges that face communities around the world. But what role might entrepreneurship play in reaching these goals?
In the first book of its kind, Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals will encourage you to think about the critical role that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs might play in supporting sustainable development. More than twenty authors from across Africa, Asia, North America, and Europe explore a fascinating mix of enterprises and sustainable development initiatives to illustrate the capacity of entrepreneurship as the engine for transforming our world and overcoming the diverse nature of these global challenges. Structured into three provocative sections this book explores: • Social change and entrepreneurship through the lens of the SDGs; • Organisational practices and innovation towards the SDGs; • Entrepreneurship, gender equality and empowerment towards the SDGs
Journey through the stories of tribal enterprises in India, to cacao framers in Ghana, small and medium sized businesses in Greece, social enterprises in Kenya, Zambia and the USA and many others to see the powerful force that entrepreneurship can be for promoting poverty alleviation and sustainable development.

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Dr Nikolaos Apostolopoulos is Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Programme Leader in the MSc programmes in Entrepreneurship at the University of Plymouth. He holds a PhD with distinction in entrepreneurship and regional sustainable development. He is co-investigator of the Enterprise Educators UK grant focusing on entrepreneurship education and sustainable development. Dr Haya Al-Dajani is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Entrepreneurship and leads the Responsible Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation Group (RESI) at the University of Plymouth where she also co-chairs the Displacement Studies Research Network and the University Women's Network. She is the Principal Investigator of two RCUK funded projects focusing on entrepreneurship and refugees. Dr Diane Holt is a Professor in Management at Essex Business School, University of Essex. She is currently leading the ESRC-NRF South Africa PhD partnering programme SASIE (2015-2018) on social innovation and social entrepreneurship. She has published over 100 peer reviewed journal articles, book chapters and conference papers. Dr Paul Jones is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Swansea University. He has previously held academic posts at Coventry University, Plymouth University and the University of South Wales. He has published his work in leading international journals such as "International Small Business Journal", "Omega", "Journal of Business Research" and "Environment and Planning C". Dr Robert Newbery is a Senior Lecturer in Enterprise and Innovation at Newcastle University and Head of the Marketing, Operations and Systems group at Newcastle University Business School. He has worked extensively in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America and has founded and run a number of entrepreneurial businesses.