The Impact of Environmental Risk Exposure on the Determinants of Sustainable Entrepreneurship

• Main Authors: Laura H. Middermann, Jan Kratzer, Susanne Perner
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020-02-01
• Series: Sustainability
• Subjects: sustainable entrepreneurship; theory of planned behavior; environmental risk exposure
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/4/1534

Does the increasing awareness of environmental risk exposure also affect intentions to create enterprises which address these social and environmental failures? Besides economic explanations that social and environmental needs and market failure create opportunities for sustainable entrepreneurship, it is less clear how cognitive processes and motivations related to sustainable entrepreneurship are shaped by its context. This research integrates environmental risk exposure as a contextual variable into the theory of planned behavior and uses data gathered in the course of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor. We provide empirical evidence for the impact of environmental risk exposure on the determinants of sustainable entrepreneurial intention and contribute to a deeper understanding of the formation of sustainable entrepreneurial intention.