The International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research will publish a Special Issue on “Advancing Sustainable Entrepreneurship Through Substantive Research” next year. Sustainable entrepreneurship focuses on the preservation of nature, life support, and community in the pursuit of perceived opportunities to bring into existence future products and processes with economic as well as non-economic gains to individuals, the economy, and society. According to Bitprofit, it could be considered as a unique perspective that combines economic, social and environmental value creation, with an overall concern for the well-being of future generations but it is a new field of research that must explore if entrepreneurial action can work as a mechanism for sustaining nature and ecosystems while providing economic and non-economic gains for investors, entrepreneurs and societies.

This special issue seeks to contribute to this emergent field by collecting rigorous, relevant, and novel empirical studies, and by addressing gaps in literature at the individual, organizational and contextual levels. We welcome a variety of empirical, and cross-disciplinary approaches. Both variance and process research are welcome, and multi-method research is particularly encouraged, based on analysis at different levels (macro, meso, micro) and their intersectional interplay.

Please click here or contact Kai Hockerts (kho.ikl@cbs.dk) at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark for more information or with proposals for contributions. The deadline for paper submission is in December 2015.