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Competencies for Sustainable Entrepreneurship

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Competence is described as the generic, integrated, and internalized capability to deliver durable effective performance in a certain professional domain, job, role, organizational context, and task situation. Competency or the plural competencies are the constituents of competence, which refers to coherent clusters of knowledge, skills, and attitudes which can be utilized in real performance contexts.

The overarching aim of Sustainable Entrepreneurship is ultimately to balance the competing demands for environmental protection and economic development, emphasizing economic, ecological, and social goals in equal degrees.

Sustainable entrepreneurs are described as those individuals who holistically integrate the goals of economic, social, and environmental entrepreneurship into an organization that is sustainable in its goal and sustainable in its form of wealth generation.

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Sustainable development is perhaps the most prominent challenge for businesses of...

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    Lisa Ploum

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  1. FTZ-ALS, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences FTZ-ALS, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Ctr Neurosci & Cell Biology, 1 Floor, Univ Coimbra, Edf Fac Medicina, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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    Edurne A. Inigo

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Ploum, L. (2019). Competencies for Sustainable Entrepreneurship. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Decent Work and Economic Growth. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71058-7_36-1

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