From Entrepreneurial Ethics to Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A Collection of Essays, 1994-2017

¿ For entrepreneurs facing the new paradigm of sustainable development, their personal ethics should serve as the compass guiding their actions. Unlike ethics established in the form of codes or standards, this personalist approach should provide the meaning behind education in sustainable entrepreneurship: the "ethics of sustainability" could take the form of an ethics of change oriented toward others. ¿ The context of their actions, akin to a labyrinth, requires specific personal capabilities. Research in international entrepreneurship, particularly regarding SMEs, had already highlighted this. In sustainable entrepreneurship, we propose to break down the required entrepreneurial capabilities into terms of identity and knowledge, and legitimacy and proximity: by grounding the sustainability of entrepreneurial action at the local level, they ensure its contribution to global sustainability. ¿ This collection is intended for faculty and students in entrepreneurship, as well as anyone for whom "our shared future" calls for individual initiative.