Discussions about sustainable tourism development generally focus on policy making. Many studies on sustainable tourism development address issues such as area tourism planning and development, management, and the formulation of tourism development guidelines and regulations. However, in this study, rather than focusing on policy making, I will focus on small-scale tourism entrepreneurs who are...

Entrepreneurs can make an impact on reducing environmental and societal problems. This study empirically explores when entrepreneurs become more likely to identify sustainable opportunities. How do their existing business arrangements enable or constrain the identification of sustainable opportunities and how is this influenced by interactions in the entrepreneurial team? We find that some perc...

This paper is concerned with the issues surrounding technology diffusion, specifically that of More Sustainable Technologies (MST’s), the barriers which they face, and how new business models might be able to overcome these challenges. The distinctive features of MST’s are described and their associated challenges outlined. Entrepreneurs are identified as being essential to their successful com...

This paper demonstrates that entrepreneurs who have created innovative organizations and service provision models are contributing to sustainable development. The processes, structures and outcomes of their initiatives are contrasted with more traditional efforts. World leaders have recently renewed the momentum for ‘buying’ sustainable development through massive allocation of development fund...

Ever increasing ecological treats and unlimited, accelerated economic growth shall be evaluated in interaction with each other. In real estate industry investment environment unable to ensure sustainability without conformity of other economic sectors with the criteria of sustainable development. In practice entrepreneurs devoting insufficient attention to the outcome of a construction process,...

rural and nature tourism has experienced high growth over the past 20 years. one of the primary challenges facing rural tourism management is to establish a profitable and environmentally sustainable industry. moreover, sustainable tourism is a complex concept and it requires that nature and tourism activity should be studied from an integrated point of view. in this paper, we analyze how the e...

63 This paper focuses on investigating the role that sustainability entrepreneurship may have in engendering a shift in the practices and operations of contemporary capitalism. Sustainability entrepreneurs are increasingly seen as being in the vanguard of a shift to a new form of capitalist development that can help to address fears over global warming, climate change and their associated negat...

This paper analyzes entrepreneurs in South Africa‘s informal sector. The aim is to determine the extent to which African informal retail trade spawns viable enterprises. To assess the prospects for South Africa‘s informal retail sector, questionnaires were obtained from owners of small-scale establishments in random sample taken throughout the country in 2007. Owner salary and sales data provid...

Urban and rural areas differ in economic, social and environmental terms. Due to the diverging dynamics in urban and rural areas, the social and economic distance between them might increase in the future even more. Rural entrepreneurs with linkages to urban areas are able to bridge the rural–urban divide by accessing some of the urban features, such as knowledge and markets, while at the same ...

Amidst the debate about what sort of technology is appropriate for achieving sustainable development, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) offers some solutions to today's technology problems for many developing countries. However, there is a paucity of empirical evidence to help us understand the potentials FOSS technologies have for small businesses in SubSaharan Africa. This research utilize...