Description:
The International Journal of Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility (IJSECSR) is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to social entrepreneurship. It is a multi-disciplinary, multi-functional, and multi-contextual scholarly forum for exchanging the latest research on all... Show More
The International Journal of Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility (IJSECSR) is a peer-reviewed publication dedicated to social entrepreneurship. It is a multi-disciplinary, multi-functional, and multi-contextual scholarly forum for exchanging the latest research on all aspects of sustainable entrepreneurship. Social entrepreneurship is an emerging field of research that concerns how enterprising individuals or groups develop businesses that offer solutions to various social and environmental problems. Research in this domain aims to incorporate entrepreneurial insights about opportunity recognition and exploitation into sustainable development in order to help scholars, practitioners, and policymakers gain a deeper and broader understanding of how a new business mindset can be developed and used in managing an effective and smooth transition toward more sustainable societies where new and established businesses preserve and protect communities, nature, and the environment while contributing to economic growth by creating offerings with environmental and social value.
Mission & Scope:
The journal is international in scope and welcomes submissions that are theoretically rigorous, practically relevant, and methodologically sound. It aspires to deepen and enrich understanding of sustainable entrepreneurship as a complex yet unexplored phenomenon. Therefore, it aims to publish articles that help understand how, why, when, under what circumstances, and by whom sustainable... Show More
The journal is international in scope and welcomes submissions that are theoretically rigorous, practically relevant, and methodologically sound. It aspires to deepen and enrich understanding of sustainable entrepreneurship as a complex yet unexplored phenomenon. Therefore, it aims to publish articles that help understand how, why, when, under what circumstances, and by whom sustainable businesses emerge, thrive, or fail. The vision is to become a key outlet for interesting and insightful ideas about myriad forms and dimensions of sustainable entrepreneurship. Subsequently, it welcomes case studies, quantitative and qualitative research, commentaries, book reviews, and conceptual submissions, so long as they offer original and new insights into this growing domain of inquiry to help researchers, students and educators, practitioners, and policymakers understand social entrepreneurship in the context of corporate social responsibility.
Coverage:
- Attributes of sustainable leaders in corporate world
- Business model transitions and transformation toward sustainable businesses
- Concept of shared value
- Corporate citizenship and philanthropy from an entrepreneurial perspective
- Corporate social responsibility in established and entrepreneurial firms
- Difference between large and small firms in adoption of sustainable business models
- Doing business at the bottom of the pyramid
- Dynamism of opportunities exploitation in sustainable and social entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial management of sustainable value chains and supply chains
- Globalization and opportunities for sustainable trade for small and large firms
- Green Business Models
- Inclusive Growth
- Large firms adoption of multiple sustainable business models
- Recognition of opportunities for business model greening
- Resource configurations in sustainable versus unsustainable business ventures
- Social and sustainable entrepreneurship
- Sustainability paradigm
- Sustainable Business Models
- Typology of sustainable entrepreneurs/managers
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This journal is currently actively seeking new submissions. Interested authors should ensure that their article manuscript adheres to the journal's
submission guidelines
and
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please begin the submission process below.
All inquiries regarding IJSECSR should be directed to the attention of:
Submission-Related InquiriesMaria Palazzo
Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility (IJSECSR)
Email:
maria.palazzo@unimercatorum.itAuthor Services Inquiries
For inquiries involving pre-submission concerns, please contact the Journal Development Division:
journaleditor@igi-global.comOpen Access Inquiries
For inquiries involving publishing costs, APCs, etc., please contact the Open Access Division:
openaccessadmin@igi-global.comProduction-Related Inquiries
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The International Journal of Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility (IJSECSR) is owned and published by IGI Global.
International Journal of Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility (IJSECSR) is editorially independent, with full authority of the journal's content falling to the Editor-in-Chief and the journal's
Editorial Board.
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