Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

9-2021

Abstract

We explore how digital technologies are helping address grand challenges to tackle climate change and promote sustainable development. With digital technologies, entrepreneurial organizations have adopted innovative approaches to tackle seemingly intractable societal challenges. We refer to these broadly as digital sustainability activities. By focusing on the digital toolbox employed by pioneering organizations, we propose a research agenda that generates novel questions for entrepreneurship, business models, and ecosystems as well as new ways of thinking about trust and institutional logics. We believe that digital sustainability can spur empirical advances in entrepreneurship, innovation, and strategy with potential for positive impact on society.

Keywords

business models, sustainable, technology and innovation management

Discipline

Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations | Technology and Innovation

Research Areas

Strategy and Organisation

Publication

Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice

Volume

45

Issue

5

First Page

999

Last Page

1027

ISSN

1042-2587

Identifier

10.1177/1042258719899425

Publisher

SAGE

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1177/1042258719899425

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