TY - JOUR
T1 - Entrepreneurial Responsibility
T2 - A Conceptual Framework to Understand Ethical Dualism Throughout the Entrepreneurial Process
AU - Hägg, Gustav
AU - Haataja, Vera
AU - Kurczewska, Agnieszka
AU - McKelvie, Alexander
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/7
Y1 - 2024/7
N2 - Entrepreneurs have been promoted as a main engine of progress. However, recent scandals and questionable behavior have led to increased discussion of entrepreneurs’ ethics. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize entrepreneurial responsibility throughout the entrepreneurial process from an ethical viewpoint. We model entrepreneurial responsibility based on normative ethics (deontology and teleology), enabling us to better understand entrepreneurs’ active and conscious responses to their ethical duties and the consequences thereof. Our theorizing opens new avenues for scholarly research related to the ethical nature of opportunities, the interconnection of entrepreneurial intentions and outcomes from a moral perspective, and potential societal impact.
AB - Entrepreneurs have been promoted as a main engine of progress. However, recent scandals and questionable behavior have led to increased discussion of entrepreneurs’ ethics. The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize entrepreneurial responsibility throughout the entrepreneurial process from an ethical viewpoint. We model entrepreneurial responsibility based on normative ethics (deontology and teleology), enabling us to better understand entrepreneurs’ active and conscious responses to their ethical duties and the consequences thereof. Our theorizing opens new avenues for scholarly research related to the ethical nature of opportunities, the interconnection of entrepreneurial intentions and outcomes from a moral perspective, and potential societal impact.
KW - deontological ethics
KW - entrepreneurial process
KW - entrepreneurial responsibility
KW - teleological ethics
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U2 - 10.1177/10422587241227072
DO - 10.1177/10422587241227072
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85184238066
SN - 1042-2587
VL - 48
SP - 1110
EP - 1126
JO - Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
JF - Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice
IS - 4
ER -