3D EVALUATION OF BUSINESSES IN TERMS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES; DESCRIPTION OF THE IMPORTANCE OF SUSTAINABLE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS

Authors

  • M. Ehsan University of Klagenfurt , Austria
  • Y. Mohsen Farabi Campus, University of Tehran
  • S. Golnoosh University of science and culture ,Tehran, Iran

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31618/ESSA.2782-1994.2021.5.68.33

Keywords:

sustainable development, evaluation, environment, business, comparison, standard, future, sustainable entrepreneurship

Abstract

Evaluation and comparison of businesses in various industrial, service, and agricultural clusters is a suitable way for determining the equivalence of their position in relation to each other if the evaluation tool can generalize and deploy in various ranges. In terms of diligence of firms and businesses trying to help the occurrence of sustainable development purposes, it is necessary to have a standard and simple tool that can be realized and used by commercial firms easily. The current article, using a qualitative method and investigating the documents and substantive concepts and open and in-depth interviews, has provided a tool for evaluation and comparison of businesses and organizations from the perspective of three dimensions of sustainable development. Services or agriculture has become easily possible, moreover due to the generalizability of its tools and items by being based on standard business literature, the ability to compare businesses in an out-cluster way has been provided, and this helps policymakers to understand the current situation and examine the desired cluster to cluster and larger which accordingly, the comparison of businesses within any industrial or service or agricultural cluster are easily possible moreover due to the generalizability of their tools and items the ability to compare out-cluster businesses is provided due to the establishment on standard business literature too. Such an issue helps policymakers survey the current and desired situation in a cluster to cluster and macro-ones. Moreover, the research findings indicate that future businesses and the future of companies depend on changing the paradigm to sustainable entrepreneurship. 

Author Biographies

M. Ehsan , University of Klagenfurt , Austria

PhD student in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Y. Mohsen , Farabi Campus, University of Tehran

PhD Student in Entrepreneurship

S. Golnoosh , University of science and culture ,Tehran, Iran

Graduate in Business administration

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