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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 D

«Motivation, identity, and well-being»

Chairs: Grégoire, Denis / Müller, Susan
Bold names indicate the Rencontres’ participants
Ehrenhard, MIchael L / Grabow, Justin et al.

The Innovation That Looks Like the Threat: Entrepreneurial Identity and the Adoption of Risk-Mitigating Deep Tech in the German Wine Industry.
Fauchart, Emmanuelle / Scheef, Christine / Sieger, Philipp

Economic, Community, Social Value – Or a Combination? How Entrepreneurs can build High Performing Ventures
Foo, Maw-Der

Human Flourishing in Entrepreneurship
Huber, Thibault

From Symptom Markets to Root-Cause Markets: Sustainability
as a Multi-Generational Culture Challenge
Kaufmann, Carolin / Hatak, Isabella / Rosendahl Huber, Laura

The Psychological Dilemma of Sustainability: When the Source of a Founder’s Meaning in Life Is Also the Source of Threat
Manolova, Tatiana S. et al.

Women in Social Venturing: The Role of Personal Identity
Pollack, Jeff / Clark, Lynn T.

Mindsets Before Models: Why Sustainable Entrepreneurship Has a Belief Problem
Stephan, Ute / Vandor, Peter

«Understanding the creation of intelligent enterprises»: A research opportunity
van Gelderen, Marco / Hatak, Isabella / Battisti, Martina

Nature, Death, and Entrepreneurship.
Why Some Entrepreneurs and their Stakeholders Will Step Up Efforts to Destroy the Environment in Response to Information About Climate Change
2026 | University of St.Gallen – Swiss Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship | KMU-HSG