Smart Citizens, Wise Decisions: Sustainability-Driven Tourism Entrepreneurs

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Author(s): Maria de Lurdes Calisto (Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, Portugal)and Ana Gonçalves (Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, Portugal & Centre for Geographical Studies, Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 24
Source title: Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Development and Innovation Within Smart Cities
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Luisa Cagica Carvalho (Universidade Aberta, Portugal & CEFAGE - Universidade de Évora, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-1978-2.ch002

Keywords: Business & Management / Entrepreneurship & Innovation / Environmental Science and Technologies / Information Science Reference

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This chapter takes as its research starting point a critical and convergent review and reexamination of existing theory and knowledge about entrepreneurship and sustainability. We question whether smart cities provide the ideal context for sustainability entrepreneurship (SE) to emerge and how sustainability-driven entrepreneurs can contribute to the development of smarter and more sustainable tourism destinations. Hence, we examine SE tourism and hospitality businesses implemented by these so-called ‘smart citizens' in Lisbon (Portugal), a city that arguably provides the necessary context for smart decisions to flourish. This chapter thus aims at opening up new modes of inquiry and questioning existing epistemologies on the study of smart cities and entrepreneurship that help breaking new ground about the role of entrepreneurs in the tourism activity.

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