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Sustainable entrepreneurship in industrial ecology: the cheese case in Mexico

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  • Manuel Alexis Vázquez Zacarías
  • Eduardo Aguiñaga
  • Elías Alvarado Lagunas

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The world is experiencing an increase of externalities market failures where residues of the industries value chain affect the environment. The industrial ecology proposes to deal with externalities by using the waste of one process as the input of another. This point is where sustainable entrepreneurship plays a key role encouraging the creation of new innovative decomposer firms that specialise in transforming residues into commercial products. This study focuses on the way that externalities create opportunities for decomposer firms by developing a qualitative case about the cheese value chain represented by a vertically integrated multinational firm in Monterrey (Mexico). The analysis includes the steps proposed as the entrepreneurship model for decomposer firms. The importance for the academia lies in finding that processes and technologies are key in the opportunity creation for this type of firms that emerge from the residues created by the value chains where multinational firms exist.

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  • Manuel Alexis Vázquez Zacarías & Eduardo Aguiñaga & Elías Alvarado Lagunas, 2017. "Sustainable entrepreneurship in industrial ecology: the cheese case in Mexico," International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 10(1), pages 19-27.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijtrgm:v:10:y:2017:i:1:p:19-27
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    Cited by:

    1. Carlos Scheel & Bernardo Bello, 2022. "Transforming Linear Production Chains into Circular Value Extended Systems," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-17, March.
    2. Tetyana Pimonenko & Yuriy Bilan & Jakub Horák & Liudmyla Starchenko & Waldemar Gajda, 2020. "Green Brand of Companies and Greenwashing under Sustainable Development Goals," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(4), pages 1-15, February.

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