Eco-entrepreneurship as a Response to Sustainability and Climate Challenges: What have we learnt and where do we go from here?

Abstract

Through this review, our key intention is to capture interest and advance research on eco-entrepreneurship. We examine the literature on eco-entrepreneurship and highlight that research on eco-entrepreneurship has received limited attention, and thus, several areas remain underexplored. Therefore, scholarly contributions were invited to interrogate, challenge, and debate current understanding of the topic in an effort to develop solutions to unanswered questions. The contributions chosen for this issue comprise of three studies on eco-entrepreneurship, that complement each other in terms of the topic of investigation and the context of the study. The studies share an understanding of how eco-entrepreneurship is stimulated, how decision-making in such hybrid ventures could be triggered and what alternative financing strategies could be adopted by eco-ventures. In addition, our review contributes by emphasizing areas in eco-entrepreneurship that need research attention.