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Environmental change, strategic entrepreneurial action, and success: introduction to a special issue on an important, neglected topic

Davidsson, P., Jan, R., Chalmers, D. and Carter, S. (2023) Environmental change, strategic entrepreneurial action, and success: introduction to a special issue on an important, neglected topic. Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, (doi: 10.1002/sej.1464) (Early Online Publication)

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Research Summary: The two premises that underpin this SEJ Special Issue on Environmental Change, Strategic Entrepreneurial Action, and Success are that all environmental changes provide positive potentials for some ventures, and that this has been under-emphasized in past theory and research. After stating these premises and illustrating how present research treats the environment, we proceed to explain how the five articles selected for the special issue advance our thinking in this domain. We then broaden our discussion to how future entrepreneurship research can make further progress by studying interaction among environmental changes as well as their links to entrepreneurial agents, contexts (sectoral, spatial, organizational, etc.) and the entrepreneurial artifact (emerging venture). Throughout, the focus is on the enabling rather than constraining role of environmental changes. Managerial Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic, the digital revolution, and the sustainability transition forced by climate change demonstrate significant business impact of environmental changes, including potentials for new business initiatives. This editorial and the five vanguard articles included in this SEJ Special Issue on Environmental Change, Strategic Entrepreneurial Action, and Success outline how future research can develop better theory and evidence on this important topic. The articles address matters ranging from how COVID-19 facilitated some technology firms' recruiting and reignited media firms' dormant initiatives to how environmental degradations sparked entrepreneurial ecosystem development in Kenya, how the level of environmental dynamism at a venture's birth impact its current ability to benefit from change, and the consequences of passing on potentials provided by environmental change.

Item Type:	Articles (Editorial)
Keywords:	Entrepreneurship, environment, exogenous change, external enabler.
Status:	Early Online Publication
Refereed:	Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:	Carter, Professor Sara and Chalmers, Professor Dominic
Authors:	Davidsson, P., Jan, R., Chalmers, D., and Carter, S.
College/School:	College of Social Sciences > Adam Smith Business School > Management
Journal Name:	Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	1932-4391
ISSN (Online):	1932-443X
Published Online:	16 May 2023
Copyright Holders:	Copyright © 2023 Strategic Management Society
First Published:	First published in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2023
Publisher Policy:	Reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policy
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Deposit and Record Details

ID Code:	298553
Depositing User:	Professor Dominic Chalmers
Datestamp:	15 Jun 2023 14:10
Last Modified:	16 Jun 2023 01:31
Date of acceptance:	2 May 2023
Date of first online publication:	16 May 2023
Date Deposited:	15 June 2023
Data Availability Statement:	No