@article{Santos_Teixeira_2021, place={São Paulo, SP}, title={The creation process of environmentally sustainable enterprises}, volume={10}, url={https://regepe.org.br/regepe/article/view/1913}, DOI={10.14211/regepe.e1913}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Objective:</strong> To analyze phases that involve the process of creating environmentally sustainable enterprises. <strong>Method:</strong> Qualitative approach with an exploratory and descriptive purpose. A multi-case study strategy was employed, carried out with five micro-enterprises located in the state of Paraná. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and observed under documental analysis. <strong>Originality/Relevance: </strong>Evidenced by the scarcity of studies investigating how the sustainable environmental entrepreneurial process occurs, the present study can be seen as an initial effort to help fill this gap. <strong>Results:</strong> The evidence demonstrated that the sustainable environmental entrepreneurial process as a multifaceted phenomenon, admitting different configurations depending on the profile of the individual who undertakes a venture, motivations for business creation, central proposal of the created enterprise and development context. <strong>Theoretical/methodological contributions: </strong>Proposition of a specific structure in the field of environmental sustainable entrepreneurship that which allows for recursion between the phases and / or the non-coverage of any of them in the creation of an enterprise of this nature. <strong>Social contributions</strong>: The proposed model can guide new entrepreneurs in the creation of an environmentally sustainable enterprise.</p> <p><strong>JEL CODE: </strong>L26, Q01,  Q56</p> <!-- Start Crossmark Snippet v2.0 --><!-- End Crossmark Snippet -->}, number={2}, journal={REGEPE Entrepreneurship and Small Business Journal}, author={Santos, Joyce Aparecida Ramos dos and Teixeira, Rivanda Meira}, year={2021}, month={May}, pages={e1913} }