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Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals for the Business-Health Relationship

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 20879

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Nicola Mucci

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Associated Professor, Occupational Medicine, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Florence, 50139 Florence, Italy
Interests: occupational medicine; occupational health; workplace health promotion; risk assessment; workplace risk factors; cardiovascular risk; psychological well-being; work-related stress; organizational factors
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Prof. Dr. Antonio Ariza-Montes

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Department of Management, Universidad Loyola Andalucía, 14004 Córdoba, Spain
Interests: decent work; work-related stress; workplace bullying; sustainable tourism, social innovation; nonprofit organizations
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Prof. Dr. Gabriele Giorgi

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Department of Human Sciences, European University of Rome, 00163 Roma RM, Italy
Interests: workplace health and safety; psychological health; workplace innovation; future of work
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleague,

The world of work is going through a period of radical changes that require the creation of sustainable business solutions.

Today's societies have to face numerous problems including climate change, pollution, employment and poverty, as underlined by institutions such as the UN and the ILO. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development together with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide guidelines for governments and companies in order to achieve economic growth considering also the possible social and environmental consequences.

As a result of these imperatives, researchers are beginning to analyse the role of entrepreneurship as a possible solution. The relationship between sustainable development and the entrepreneurial orientation of companies is expressed by the concept of sustainable entrepreneurship, understood as the achievement of economic goals and the creation of value through practices that minimize negative consequences and contribute to the wellbeing of future generations.

Incorporating sustainable entrepreneurship into corporate strategy could be a long-term competitive advantage. However, it is necessary to understand under what conditions the sustainable paradigm can provide measurable benefits, also considering the risks associated with long-term goals and the possible contradictory interests of the various partners involved. Costs and wastes analyses associated with fake sustainability business strategies also seem to be needed in order to avoid money being thrown down the drain.

Within the management literature, there is a need for further scientific analyses about the possible new healthy business models that can combine economic prosperity with positive social and environmental impact. The new research area of the psychology of sustainability and sustainable development offers critical opportunities in this direction.

This research topic is particularly interested in manuscripts that offer new perspectives and insights into the relationship between sustainability, business and health, using a psychological lens to look at the framework of the psychology of sustainability and sustainable development. We encourage a focus on: how the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in connection with entrepreneurship will shape the health and productivity of individuals and organizations.

Prof. Nicola Mucci
Prof. Antonio Ariza-Montes
Prof. Gabriele Giorgi
Guest Editors

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Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Business
  • Health
  • Sustainable Development Goals
  • Fake sustainability strategies
  • Job design
  • Sustainable entrepreneurship
  • Productivity
  • Work-related stress
  • Organizational psychology

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COVID-19 and Its Effects on Attitudes toward Opportunity-Motivated Entrepreneurship: Before and after Lockdown
by Yuan Zhi Seah
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 8689; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13168689 - 04 Aug 2021
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COVID-19 lockdown measures have largely been effective in curtailing the spread of the disease. Yet, its other effects have been profound and pervasive, exposing gender inequalities, reducing psychological sustainability, and causing economic hardship. Entrepreneurship, with its potential for effecting social good and sustainable [...] Read more.
COVID-19 lockdown measures have largely been effective in curtailing the spread of the disease. Yet, its other effects have been profound and pervasive, exposing gender inequalities, reducing psychological sustainability, and causing economic hardship. Entrepreneurship, with its potential for effecting social good and sustainable economic development, has too been changed with studies finding a drop in entrepreneurship during the crisis. Yet, it is unknown how entrepreneurship may change after COVID-19 and lockdown measures are eased. We study changes in attitudes toward entrepreneurship by testing two samples of Singaporean undergraduates before the implementation (N = 242) and after the easing (N = 280) of lockdown measures. In doing so, we contribute to research about attitudes toward entrepreneurship, often side-lined in Theory of Planned Behaviour entrepreneurship studies which tend to focus instead on entrepreneurship intentions. Our findings indicate that opportunity-motivated, or pull, entrepreneurship may have become more positive after lockdown measures are eased. Next, women hold stronger beliefs in entrepreneurship’s capacity to fulfil agentic-type goals (e.g., power, achievement). For both genders, the extent to which entrepreneurship can achieve prosocial, communal-type goals is a key post-lockdown determinant of positive attitudes to entrepreneurship. Our findings provide clues into what to expect regarding post-lockdown entrepreneurship, and bears practical implications for entrepreneurship educators and policymakers. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals for the Business-Health Relationship)
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Sustainable Interpersonal Interaction: Research on Instant Message and Helping from the Perspective of Sender
by Xia Jiang, Jing Du, Tianfei Yang and Jinfan Zhou
Sustainability 2021, 13(1), 402; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13010402 - 04 Jan 2021
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Instant Messaging is widely used in people’s daily life because of its convenience and timeliness. People have to deal with this communication almost every day. At present, most of the researches focuses on the instant messages of the receiver, but rarely explores the [...] Read more.
Instant Messaging is widely used in people’s daily life because of its convenience and timeliness. People have to deal with this communication almost every day. At present, most of the researches focuses on the instant messages of the receiver, but rarely explores the perspective of the sender. Based on the conservation of resources theory, we propose a model that initiates communication indirectly affects one’s own follow-up helping behavior. The results showed that (a) Instant Message sent has a positive correlation with perceived work goal progress; (b) Perceived work goal progress mediates the relationship of Instant Message sent and helping; (c) The mediating effect of perceived work goal progress on the relationship between Instant Message sent and helping will be moderated by the usefulness of reply. Our study builds a framework to explain how sent instant messages can increase helping via perceived goal progress, broaden the knowledge of Instant Messaging and helping. The practical implications are further discussed. Full article
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Sustainable Relationship Development between Hotel Company and Its Employees: Linking Job Embeddedness, Job Satisfaction, Self-Efficacy, Job Performance, Work Engagement, and Turnover
by Jongsik Yu, Antonio Ariza-Montes, Gabriele Giorgi, Aejoo Lee and Heesup Han
Sustainability 2020, 12(17), 7168; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su12177168 - 02 Sep 2020
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This study aimed to investigate the impact of hotel employees’ perceived job embeddedness on job satisfaction, self-efficacy, turnover intention, job performance, and job commitment. The results showed that job embeddedness partially increased job satisfaction, while job satisfaction and self-efficacy reduced turnover intention and [...] Read more.
This study aimed to investigate the impact of hotel employees’ perceived job embeddedness on job satisfaction, self-efficacy, turnover intention, job performance, and job commitment. The results showed that job embeddedness partially increased job satisfaction, while job satisfaction and self-efficacy reduced turnover intention and increased job performance and job commitment. Furthermore, job satisfaction and self-efficacy were found to play an important mediating role. Therefore, the theoretical framework, based on the results of this study, clearly demonstrated the causal relationship between the given variables, and adequately describes the goals of this study. The theoretical/practical implications are discussed in detail in the conclusion. Full article
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Ethical Leadership and Employee Green Behavior: A Multilevel Moderated Mediation Analysis
by Maria Saleem, Faisal Qadeer, Faisal Mahmood, Antonio Ariza-Montes and Heesup Han
Sustainability 2020, 12(8), 3314; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su12083314 - 19 Apr 2020
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In today’s globalized world, it has become challenging for organizations to prevent environmental damage and decay as they are the major contributors to these concerns. Researchers in the field of organizational behavior and sustainable development have been concentrating on the role of corporate [...] Read more.
In today’s globalized world, it has become challenging for organizations to prevent environmental damage and decay as they are the major contributors to these concerns. Researchers in the field of organizational behavior and sustainable development have been concentrating on the role of corporate leaders in deriving employee green behavior (EGB). Despite a few early attempts in this emerging field, no precise antecedents and mechanisms have been established so far. Accordingly, this research contributes to this emerging debate by examining how and under what conditions ethical leadership affects EGB. This study investigates the impact of ethical leadership on EGB through the mediation of green psychological climate (GPC) and the boundary condition of environmental awareness. This research uses social learning theory to derive hypotheses. This study empirically examines the underlying framework by conducting two surveys with time-based breaks to collect multilevel data from 410 employees working in four private and public sector universities and hospitals in Pakistan. We conducted multilevel path analysis through Mplus and confirmed a statistically significant positive effect of ethical leadership on GPC that ultimately translates to EGB. Further, the contingency of environmental awareness strengthens the indirect impact of ethical leadership on EGB through the mediation of GPC. Our findings reveal various ways by which organizations can strategically focus on employee green behavior, such as saving energy, wastage, and recycling. Full article
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