Microfoundations of sustainability: a study on innovative ICT startups in Italy

There has been a growing concern for sustainable development, which is why more research is being done on the topic so that every task can be performed with a sustainability-oriented goal in mind. This research underlines the need of analyzing the microeconomic aspects that might increase organizational sustainable development tasks. We employ regression analysis to analyze the relationship between environmental sustainability, the skills and competencies that the founders possess, and the role of collaboration in 173 start-ups operating in the ICT sector in Italy. Our analysis consists of four regression models, which consist of environmental sustainability as the dependent variable, the skills and competencies that the founders possess, and the role of collaboration as the independent variables. With the use of regression analysis, in the given setting, we can conclude which variables affect environmental sustainability and which ones play a major role in contributing toward it.