Call for papers: Green Entrepreneurship: integrative perspective of knowledge management, innovative practices, green social behaviour and entrepreneurial success

Social entrepreneurship as a concept emerges when there is a need to development business that address social issues and needs. Mounting evidences all over the globe has directed focus of firms on business social responsibilities and ethics. As of now, challenges associated with business growth are deepening the gap between have and have-nots. Thereby, it is critical to know that effective innovative approaches that are in consideration for profit strategies either have the potential to address social issues. Social entrepreneurship fairly has a potential to build social behaviours and offer innovative solutions to the more pressing challenges of society.

Guest editors:

Marcin Staniewski, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland)

Samuel Ribeiro-Navarrete, Visiting Professor PhD, University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw (Poland), ESIC University (Spain)

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Social entrepreneurship as a concept emerges when there is a need to development business that address social issues and needs. Mounting evidences all over the globe has directed focus of firms on business social responsibilities and ethics. As of now, challenges associated with business growth are deepening the gap between have and have-nots. Thereby, it is critical to know that effective innovative approaches that are in consideration for profit strategies either have the potential to address social issues. Social entrepreneurship fairly has a potential to build social behaviours and offer innovative solutions to the more pressing challenges of society.

The literature is abundant on social entrepreneurship; however, it is quite surprising to have scarce information regarding the motives of green social behaviour which leads to entrepreneurial success. Besides the commercial and social aspects of entrepreneurs that add value to businesses and social spheres, biosphere behaviours are equally important as they add value to environmental success by curbing the negative effects of climate changes. Eco-friendly social behaviour of entrepreneurs is very much sensitive to environmental quality, hence, keenly look into environmental related issues such as deforestation, overexploitation of natural resources, higher fossil fuel consumption etc. Since, the environmental deterioration accelerates further due to business activities, thereby, stakeholders involve in green social behaviour and transfer the knowledge to others so that organizations may endeavour more eco-friendly practices to maintain sustainability and ensure success. The innovative practices and knowledge transfer behaviour, differs from traditional assumptions of conventional market. Green social behaviour is remarkably significant for environment and company as it sympathizes with green growth and sustainability issues of the economy. Along with it, it also emphasizes on ecological values and social justice that together unlock the success. It is quite fortunate that green entrepreneurs and ventures can foster green social behaviour through knowledge and innovative practices that consequently lead to entrepreneurial success and green economy. However, bureaucracy and legislative instabilities at times put threat on innovative practices of green ventures that not only restrict their growth and limit the process of knowledge sharing. Thus, institutional bodies must be finding ways to foster green social behaviour, innovative practices and knowledge share process in order to gain entrepreneurial success.

Furthermore, the cognitive processes and personal characteristics of entrepreneurs surely have the capability to build the desired behaviour which increases social competence. Agreeing with the statement, social capital of entrepreneurs, which is based on their reputation and social network, helps them to share knowledge and gain access to personas which are important for the entrepreneurial success. Thus, we can say that social competence with green element not only shapes the knowledge sharing process and innovative practices but also unlocks the success of green ventures.

The arguments stated above raise numerous questions and open avenues for researchers, thus, scholars are cordially invited to submit their original work and showcase their innovative approaches on this trajectory. Case studies, research papers, state of art reviews, etc. are welcomed in this special issue as the aim is to closely observed long-overlooked components of green entrepreneurship and bridging it with entrepreneurial success, thus, achieving the general goal; green economy.

The call for paper is welcomed to submit their creative work in following areas:

• Grass root innovation and entrepreneurial success
• Green social behaviour as a psychological approach to achieve entrepreneurial success
• Corporate entrepreneurial success and entrepreneur's innovativeness and social competence
• Conceptualizing knowledge-based entrepreneurship and green ventures
• Assessing knowledge management and social innovation to build entrepreneurial behaviour
• Green entrepreneurship, social capital and entrepreneurial success
• Role of socio-cultural factors in building green social behaviour to achieve entrepreneurial success
• Social psychology of entrepreneur attributes and sustainable business success
• The interplay of innovation, knowledge and green social behaviour in shaping entrepreneurial success
• Green education programmes to build social competence and entrepreneurial success
• Innovative capability and green social entrepreneurship
• Selected personality traits and its linkage to green social behaviour
• Metrics for knowledge management process and entrepreneurial success
• Developing green social behaviour and innovative capabilities to ensure entrepreneurial success
• Empirical investigation of knowledge, innovative capabilities, green social behaviours affecting entrepreneurial success

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