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成功环境企业家的机制和动机

这项研究是一项对环境企业家在新企业创建进程的机制和动机的探索。这项研究的目的是调查这些由科学家变成的环境企业家的的触发机制和动机，因为他们洞察了这一现象：从科学家过渡到企业家的转换以及从员工到企业家转换的过程。基于它对环境和科学专业人士的管理实践的重要性，对创业型经济的政府指令的适应性，和当今世界的社会环境问题，这种现象还是很有意义的。二十年代的环境企业家回答了研究提出的问题：当企业家进入新企业创建进程时，对他们的机制和动机的溯性评价是什么？在埃德蒙德?胡塞尔传统中从，现象学研究的角度是用来从这些人中得到的数据的意义的。本研究发现给一个新企业定下概念的现象与创建一个成功的新企业的行为是不同的。

The triggers and motivations of successful environmental entrepreneurs

Abstract

This research is an exploration of the triggers and motivations of environmental entrepreneurs in the new venture creation process. The goal of the research was to investigate the triggering mechanisms and motivations of these scientists-turned-entrepreneurs as they experienced the process to gain insight into the phenomenon of the transition from scientist to businessperson and employee to entrepreneur. This phenomenon is significant because of its importance to the management practices of environmental and scientific professionals, its applicability to governmental directives for a more entrepreneurial economy, and the social relevance of environmental issues in the world today. Twenty environmental entrepreneurs answered the research question: What is the retrospective assessment of the triggers and motivations of environmental entrepreneurs as they enter into the new venture creation process? A phenomenological research perspective in the Husserlian tradition was used to explicate meaning from the data derived from these individuals. This research found that the phenomenon of conceptualizing a new venture is distinct from the phenomenon of the act of creating a successful new venture. The essences of these phenomena are suggested relative to the extant literature of motivational and scientific Entrepreneurship discourse. While triggers and motivations were uncovered, the research suggests that the experience of deciding to engage in the new venture creation process for these scientists-turned-entrepreneurs is separate and distinct from the experiences related to the actions arising from their decision. Findings from this study contribute to the body of knowledge of entrepreneurship, in general, and scientific entrepreneurship, specifically.

INTRODUCTION

Industry struggles with environmental responsibility. Scientists have documented environmental degradation caused by industry even before the turn of the twentieth century (Paddock, 2008). Today, industries must account for a myriad of adverse environmental issues including air pollution, toxic chemicals, deforestation, endangered species, and global climate change. Industrialists maintain this contradicts free market dynamics and is anathema to a competitive marketplace. Environmental scientists maintain that industry has made significant advancements in addressing environmental concerns and that environmental responsibility is attainable in a competitive marketplace.

A growing number of environmental scientists are striving to assist industry with incorporating environmental responsibility into competitive business practices (MISI, 2004). Some are so committed to this goal that they have decided to enter the world of business, commercialize their discoveries, market their professional knowledge, and implement environmental solutions inside the competitive economic framework. These environmental entrepreneurs choose to create new, autonomous, for-profit, business ventures often with little entrepre