CFP: Globalisation of Entrepreneurship in Small Organisations (SBEJ)

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Call for Papers - Small Business Economics Journal (SBEJ)
Special Issue: Globalisation of Entrepreneurship in Small Organisations
Deadline: 30 June 2008

Guest Editors: Professor Domingo Ribeiro and Professor Salvador Roig, University of Valencia, Spain

The study of the globalisation of entrepreneurship in small organisations will be the focus of a Small Business Economics Journal special issue scheduled for 2009. The link between entrepreneurship and small business, and vice-versa is a relatively recent one, although studies by Vesper (1974), along with the International Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development that appeared in June 1975, were among the first scientific sources to indicate the presence of such a relationship. In this issue, we will attempt to analyse the current state of this relationship in the face of new factors that characterise today's international economic climate. The idea that small and medium-sized organisations can adapt more easily to changes in the environment due to their more manageable size and can compete perfectly with large organisations through specialisation and networks provided by new technology has been widely demonstrated in recent years Changes that have affected the market and businesses, such as the sweeping tide of globalisation, must be analysed and documented in the near future so that the empirical studies and theories expounded in this special issue may constitute a guide for researchers, scholars, consultants, entrepreneurs, businessmen, managers, government agencies, policy makers and practitioners pertaining to a multi-disciplinary forum in the field of business. The issue will deal with the diverse and complex characteristics of entrepreneurship in small organisations focusing on both the for-profit and non-profit areas in SMEs in local, regional, national or international markets that lead to competitiveness in the face of the effects of globalisation.

Small organisations are the most common type of firm found in today's global economy. Porter indicated that the success of SMEs, under the effects of globalisation, depended on the formulation and implementation of strategies. Some of these strategies take the form of marketing and innovation. Marketing strategy may be better supported when management has an entrepreneurial bias. Small businesses represent a path towards innovation as Acs and Audretsch have shown in their extensive research (Acs and Audretsch, 1990; Audretsch, 1995). Thus, as Schumpeter also pointed out, small organisations are a vehicle for entrepreneurship. Manuscripts that deal with entrepreneurial orientation and innovation among SMEs affected by globalisation would be suitable for this special issue.

Editors urge authors to pose research that makes significant contributions to the literature. Such research includes developing and testing core elements of existing theories, resolving conflicting predictions from multiple theories, or integrating different theories, propositions, contributions and findings. This can be done using different samples or measures, to then seek conclusions that break new ground and provide a major and lasting impact. Submissions could report on single-country studies or multiple country comparisons. In particular we would welcome articles on:

- Interfaces between small business and entrepreneurship, and vice-versa in the present global market.
- Entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy for small organisations.
- Educational entrepreneurship in small business.
- Institutional aid and policy initiatives to entrepreneurship in small organisations.
- Small business and entrepreneurship networks
- Promoting entrepreneurship in emerging economies.
- Specific management practices that small organisations need to utilise to achieve entrepreneurship.
- Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of entrepreneurship in SMEs.
- Entrepreneurship and its relation to human resources in small business.
- Innovation in small organisations.
- Ethical context of entrepreneurship in small business.
- Small franchisor organisations.
- Entrepreneurship in the small not-for-profit sector.
- Implications of management in the entrepreneurial small public-sector.
- Comparison of entrepreneurship development in countries
- Entrepreneurship training for emerging small organisations.
- Entrepreneurship in microenterprises.
- New tendencies and research in entrepreneurship and small business.

Papers must be electronically submitted to the Small Business Economics Manuscript website, which is located at: http://www.editorialmanager.com/sbej -while submitting, please choose "Glob. of Ent. in Small Org" as the article type from the drop down menu box.

Full information about the journal, including links to the SBEJ style guidelines, which must be followed, can be found on the web at http://journal.sbej.mpg.de/

Full papers are due by June 30, 2008. All papers must be based on original material not under consideration by any other journal and will go through the regular double-blind review process to ensure its relevance and quality.

Guest Editors Contact Details: Domingo Ribeiro or Salvador Roig, University of Valencia-Facultad de Economía, Campus de los Naranjos, Avenida de los Naranjos, 46021 Valencia, Spain. Email to domingo.ribeiro at uv.es or salvador.roig at uv.es; Fax: +34 963 828 333

REFERENCES

Acs, Zoltan J.and David B. Audretsch, 1990, Innovation and Small Firms, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Audretsch, David B., 1995, Innovation and Industry Evolution, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Vesper, Karl H., 1974, ´Entrepreneurship, a Fast Emerging Area in Management Studies´, Journal of Small Business Management 12, 8-15.

More info at http://journal.sbej.mpg.de/