Description
Sustainable development aspires to reduce current societal challenges by creating wealth for everyone within the limit of the planet productive capacity, in this way, ensuring that future generations can meet their own needs. This is largely because sustainable development refers to the “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. Activists, corporations, non-governmental organizations, and politicians must all be involved in achieving sustainable development. Academics and policymakers have also recognized the potential of entrepreneurs for tackling current societal challenges with their businesses because entrepreneurs are able to fill the voids left by the other individuals and organizations. However, who are these entrepreneurs? How can they provide solutions and tackle current societal challenges with their business? How Entrepreneurs are Driving Sustainable Development explores how sustainable entrepreneurs not only have a transformative power, but also family entrepreneurs, women entrepreneurs, and ethnic entrepreneurs contribute to alleviating current societal challenges by acting as actors for the societal change and breaking inequalities
