Multi-stakeholder networks as learning settings towards pro-environmental entrepreneurship: learning through the diversity and policy-practice interface
Journal article
Authors | Baranova, P. |
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Abstract | The article explores the value of stakeholder diversity for learning towards pro-environmental entrepreneurship in multi-stakeholder networks (MSNs). Networks are viewed as entrepreneurial learning settings where stakeholder diversity frames the access to knowledge, practice and stakeholder dialogues. A qualitative case study research design is used to explore the experiences of learning towards pro-environmental entrepreneurship across 15 organisations as part of a well-established MSN with over 140 members operating in the Midlands. Stakeholder dialogues are identified as a significant feature of the MSN and reveal the policy-practice interface. The article shows how learning in MSNs is informed by the policy-practice interface, and as such expose the policy-practice gap and orient entrepreneurial behaviour. A view of a MSN as a dynamic learning system that brings together, often conflicting, agendas of environmental stakeholders and supports development of pro-environmental entrepreneurship as a pathway to sustainable regional development is argued. Policy makers and business support agencies are advised to pay a close attention to MSNs as mechanisms for the development of entrepreneurial activity which is policy attuned, practice informed and environmental sustainability oriented. |
Keywords | entrepreneurial learning; diversity; policy-practice interface; multi-stakeholder network; dynamic learning perspective; sustainable regional development |
Year | 2024 |
Journal | International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
Publisher | SAGE Journals |
ISSN | 2043-6882 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1177/14657503231224613 |
Web address (URL) | https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14657503231224613 |
Accepted author manuscript | License File Access Level Open |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 10 Jan 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 19 Dec 2023 |
Deposited | 11 Jan 2024 |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/q3yy9/multi-stakeholder-networks-as-learning-settings-towards-pro-environmental-entrepreneurship-learning-through-the-diversity-and-policy-practice-interface
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