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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 E

«Market mechanisms and failures; Impact measurement»

Chairs: Welter, Friederike / Volery, Thierry
Bold names indicate the Rencontres’ participants
Bacq, Sophie / Hoos, Florian / Polychronopoulos, Georgios

What Can Be Counted versus What Truly Counts: Ethical Dilemmas for Social Entrepreneurs in the New Era of Mandatory Sustainability Reporting
Baum, Matthias

Credible Imperfection: When are Sustainable Ventures forgiven for not (yet) living up to their Sustainability Vision?
Berger, Elisabeth

”Sustainability Is Part of our DNA” – When Entrepreneurial Frames become trivial
Chepurenko, Alexander / Pashkov, Stanislav

Resilience vs Sustainability: How SMEs Navigate Ongoing Shocks in Fragile Contexts
Fletcher, Denise / Steyaert, Chris

The sustainable possibilities of re-invigorating the new materialist turn in entrepreneurship research
Grégoire, Denis A.

Leveraging the power of entrepreneurial disruption
Hakala, Henri

Beyond Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Towards a Responsibility-Based Conceptualization of Regenerative Entrepreneurship
Nikolaev, Boris

Cheaper, Not Holier
Zachlod, Nina / Welser, Alina / Siren, Charlotta

Negative Environmental Externalities of Green Ventures
2026 | University of St.Gallen – Swiss Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship | KMU-HSG