Scalability in Sustainable Entrepreneurship: A Review and Research Agenda

ABSTRACT This paper presents a systematic literature review of 55 articles on scalability in the context of sustainable entrepreneurship. Based on our analysis, we identify nine influential factors for scalability, which we organize into a conceptual model comprising three interrelated levels of analysis: the system level, venture level, and entrepreneur level. In addition, we specify each factor's enabling and disabling effects. Building on these insights, we propose a research agenda that highlights unexplored but promising factors at each level to further improve our understanding of the specific challenges and opportunities of scalability in sustainable entrepreneurship.