Monika Sheoran
Department of Management Studies, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.

Divesh Kumar
Department of Management Studies, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India.

DOI https://doi.org/10.33889/IJMEMS.2020.5.6.096

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Abstract

Environmental challenges are increasingly becoming central to businesses. The startups are also being increasingly influ-enced by environmental concerns. The present article attempts to understand the environmental concerns in the values guiding the management of the startups at two levels, i.e., start up’s internal as well as external operations. At the same time, it tries to correlate the same with the network size and networking frequency of the startups. A model has been pro-posed to show the relationship between start up’s environmental concerns and their networking efforts. To identify and understand these relations, a survey was conducted on the emerging startups from different fields. The incubation centres at different institutions of Rajasthan (India) were covered under the survey. The findings highlighted a significant relation-ship between the start up’s external environmental concern and networking, thereby suggesting the significance of these concerns for environmental issues in business operations. The startups having high environmental concern were found to be among the businesses which will get more attention and find themselves more scalable. Moreover, findings also re-vealed that the environmental orientation is a very crucial aspect of networking of startups, although the influence of ex-ternal and internal environment orientation has a contrasting impact on the networking of startups. So, researchers and academicians working in the field of environmentally oriented startups can use this differentiation for further researches. There have been studies on correlating the environmental concern with networking in established firms in developed country such as Dickel et al. (2018). Moreover, emerging economies like India, there have not been an attempt to study this kind of relationship in the context of startups. The current study tries to validate the results of the study conducted by Dickel et al. (2018) for the startups in Rajasthan (India).

Keywords- Startups, Environmental orientation, Network frequency, Network size.

Citation

Sheoran, M., & Kumar, D. (2020). Role of Environmental Concerns on the Startups Networking: A Study of Indian Startups. International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences, 5(6), 1300-1311. https://doi.org/10.33889/IJMEMS.2020.5.6.096.