International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences Vol. 5, No. 6, 1300-1311, 2020 https://doi.org/10.33889/IJMEMS.2020.5.6.096 1300 Role of Environmental Concerns on the Startups Networking: A Study of Indian Startups Monika Sheoran Department of Management Studies, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. Corresponding author: monicasheoran11@gmail.com; 2016rbm9528@mnit.ac.in Divesh Kumar Department of Management Studies, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, India. E-mail: diveshcms@gmail.com; divesh.dms@mnit.ac.in (Received April 4, 2020; Accepted July 13, 2020) Abstract Environmental challenges are increasingly becoming central to businesses. The startups are also being increasingly in- fluenced 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 proposed 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 relationship 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 revealed that the environmental orientation is a very crucial aspect of networking of startups, although the influence of external 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 re- searches. 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. 1. Introduction The present era has seen an increasing number of startups around the world (Startup India, 2019). There have been numerous startups in different fields like technology, agriculture, service delivery etc. Another important development of the present era is increased stress on environmental issues (Doblinger et al., 2019). This study is an attempt to correlate the two where it is being tried to ascertain how much concern and awareness startups show regarding the environmental issues. Gov- ernment of India defines startup in very objective manner, i.e. “the entity registered in India up to a period of seven years from the date of registration or up to 10 years in case of startups in the Biotechnology sector with annual turnover not exceeding INRs 25 Crore for any of the financial years since incorporation and that organization should work towards innovation, development or improvement of products or high potential of employment generation” (Agarwal, 2018). For this article, the startups are the entities, which adhere to this definition.