Rencontres de St-Gall | 01–02 September 2026, St.Gallen
Sustainable entrepreneurship 2.0: How can we re-invigorate the debate (and practice) about the social and environmental responsibility of entrepreneurial ventures? Or do we need to go back to “the business of business is business”?
Session B
«AI and digitization»
Chairs: Levesque, Moren / Souitaris, Vangelis
Bold names indicate the Rencontres’ participants
Allison, Thomas H.
Premise: While AI makes Lifestyle Entrepreneurship more Sustainable on a Human Scale it Makes it less sustainable on a Global (Environmental, Ecological) Scale
Premise: While AI makes Lifestyle Entrepreneurship more Sustainable on a Human Scale it Makes it less sustainable on a Global (Environmental, Ecological) Scale
Bellwald, Noah
Sustainable Entrepreneurship 2.0: What Does Sustainability Mean When Entrepreneurial Decisions Are Increasingly Made by AI Agents?
Sustainable Entrepreneurship 2.0: What Does Sustainability Mean When Entrepreneurial Decisions Are Increasingly Made by AI Agents?
Harms, Rainer / Bachmann, Nadine / Delke, Vincent
Strategic Pathways to Digital-Sustainable Business Model Innovation: A Configurational Study of Dynamic Capabilities
Strategic Pathways to Digital-Sustainable Business Model Innovation: A Configurational Study of Dynamic Capabilities
Herrmann, Andrea M.
“On the Social Sustainability of Platform-Dependent Entrepreneurship”
“On the Social Sustainability of Platform-Dependent Entrepreneurship”
Kesidou, Eleni / Croxton, Nicola
Too Small to Navigate? SMEs, Sustainability Policy and Institutional Reliability
Too Small to Navigate? SMEs, Sustainability Policy and Institutional Reliability
Lekkas, Henrik
Cheap Talk About Doing Good:
How Generative AI Devalued Social-Mission Language in Crowdfunding
Cheap Talk About Doing Good:
How Generative AI Devalued Social-Mission Language in Crowdfunding
Lévesque, Moren / Gautreau, Pierre et al.
Sustainable healthcare? AI-enabled mobile technology for physiotherapy
Sustainable healthcare? AI-enabled mobile technology for physiotherapy
Matthews, Charles H.
Sustainable Entrepreneurship 2.0: Reimagining New Venture Business Models at the Intersection of Innovation, AI, and Responsibility
Sustainable Entrepreneurship 2.0: Reimagining New Venture Business Models at the Intersection of Innovation, AI, and Responsibility
Schaper, Michael T.
Let’s Get Energised Here!
How Can We Effectively Help Small Businesses Electrify?
Let’s Get Energised Here!
How Can We Effectively Help Small Businesses Electrify?
Szerb, Laszlo / Lafuente, Esteban / Komlosi, Eva
Digital Entrepreneurship Ecosystem and the Twin Transition: Does Digitalization Automatically Support Sustainability
Digital Entrepreneurship Ecosystem and the Twin Transition: Does Digitalization Automatically Support Sustainability
2026 | University of St.Gallen – Swiss Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship | KMU-HSG