articleEntrepreneurship Theory and PracticeJan 23, 2020BRONZE OA

Digital Sustainability and Entrepreneurship: How Digital Innovations Are Helping Tackle Climate Change and Sustainable Development

Singapore Management University

Indexed incrossref

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…

Citation impact

874
total citations
FWCI
90.48
Percentile
100%
References
103
Citations per year

Authors

3

Topics & keywords

Keywords
  • Sustainability
  • Toolbox
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Grand Challenges
  • Sustainable development
  • Climate change
  • Business model
  • Business
No related works found for this paper.