Encyclopedia Entry: Beyond Academic Recognition, A Paradigm Shift

David and I are thrilled to announce a significant milestone in the journey of Harmonious Entrepreneurship! The concept has been officially recognised and featured in the prestigious International Encyclopedia of Business Management, published by Elsevier. This inclusion represents more than just…

New Emerald Journal Publication: Harmonious Entrepreneurship, A Sustainable Model for Addressing Global Inequality

We are pleased  to announce the publication of our latest research paper, "Harmonious Entrepreneurship: A Sustainable Model for Addressing Global Inequality," in the Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies by Emerald Publishing. This study demonstrates  how the disruptive HES entrepreneurial business…

Harmonious Entrepreneurship & its systems thinking roots

Fifteen years ago, I proposed the need for a new entrepreneurship education paradigm (Kirby, 2007). At the International Enterprise Educators Conference (IEEC2022) hosted by Swansea University last week, similar calls were made once more. First, in his keynote address, Professor…

Sanergy and the Power of Systems Thinking

Currently, some 2.5 billion people globally do not have access to basic sanitation, and some 1 billion defecate outdoors, exposing themselves, their families and their neighbours to faecal bacteria. As a result, half of the hospital beds in developing countries…

Harmonious Entrepreneurship and the Terra Carta: a charter for Nature, People and Planet

Professor David A Kirby and Mrs Felicity Healey-BensonCo-founders The Harmonious Entrepreneurship Society Launched on 11th January, 2021 by HRH The Prince of Wales at the “One Planet” Summit in Paris, the seventeen page Terra Carta is a seminal document that…

Systems thinking and the sustainability agenda

It isn't easy to pin down a succinct definition of system thinking. Coined by Barry Richmond in 1987, and rooted in Ludwig Von Bertalanffy’s General Systems Theory and cybernetics, it has evolved over the decades and through many schools of…