CFP: Entrepreneurship Education: Educating the Next Wave of Stakeholders (New England J of Entrepreneurship)

[entrepreneurship-phd at lists.uni-due.de]

Call for Papers - New England Journal of Entrepreneurship **Special Issue**
Entrepreneurship Education: Educating the Next Wave of Stakeholders
Submissions must be received by April 30, 2008.

The New England Journal of Entrepreneurship is published twice annually by the John F. Welch College of Business at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. The objective of the journal is to be an invaluable forum for exchange of scholarly ideas, practices and policies in the field of entrepreneurship and small business management.

In the last decade interest in Entrepreneurship Education has captured the popular imagination. Demand for courses in entrepreneurship and for academics qualified to teach these courses while doing meaningful research has soared. Accordingly, we seek contributions relating to Entrepreneurship Education that fall within one or more of the following four tracks: Visionary Articles, Theory Articles, Critical Issues Articles, and Nuts & Bolts Articles.

Visionary Articles: "Some people see things as they are and ask 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'"
Submissions to this track should briefly review the following:
1) the variety of approaches used in programs/courses on Entrepreneurship, and acknowledge     
2) the strengths and the limitations of these approaches. 
Submissions will then proceed to articulate 3) what could/should be achieved in Entrepreneurship programs/courses of the near future. 
The only limitation to contributions for this track is that the vision must be implementable by a typical business school (i.e. authors should not assume unlimited resources will suddenly be available to all business schools) and achievable by typical business students (i.e. authors should not assume that all students can suddenly be molded into successful, high-potential entrepreneurs).

Theory Articles:
Submissions to this track should build on existing theories from other disciplines (e.g. economics, sociology, psychology, or political science) and reinterpret them in terms of theories applicable to entrepreneurship education. Theory articles that expand upon our understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of entrepreneurship and the challenges this presents for entrepreneurship education are welcome.

Critical Issues Articles:
Submissions to this track should deal with an issue that is critical to Entrepreneurship Education. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
§ Entrepreneurship Education: Issues Affecting Youths, Minorities, Women, and/or Senior Citizens
§ Entrepreneurship Education: Issues Affecting Ph.D. Students
§ Measuring Outcomes: What Are/Should Be the Measures of Success for Entrepreneurship Education
§ Models for Improving Student Exposure to the Sources of Ideas for New Businesses
§ Career Advice for Students Aspiring to Be Entrepreneurs
§ Models for Entrepreneurship Education & Training in Countries with Authoritarian Regimes (e.g. North Korea) Seeking to Transition to Market Economies. (Articles that can draw empirically or anecdotally from cases/experiences in former satellite states of the Soviet Union or from Latin America are especially welcome).

Nuts & Bolts Articles
Submissions to this track should deal with an issue that is essential to the delivery of superior Entrepreneurship courses. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
§ Accommodating Different Modes of Learning in Entrepreneurship Courses
§ Teaching Technoentrepreneurship to [non-technical] Business Majors
§ Teaching Lifestyle Entrepreneurship to non-Business majors
§ Models for Collaborating with University Technology Transfer Offices for the Delivery of Courses on Technology Commercialization & Entrepreneurship
§ Teaching Entrepreneurship through Entrepreneurship Centers/Models for Collaborating with Entrepreneurship Centers for the Delivery of Courses on Entrepreneurship
§ Micro-businesses and Courses on Entrepreneurship/Incubators as Vehicles for Learning By Doing
§ Motivating Entrepreneurship Students to Discard Strategies of Doing the Least Amount of Work in Order to Get the Highest Possible Grade in Favor of Adopting a Strategy of Studying Hard Enough and Producing Well-Enough to Succeed in the Real World
§ Challenges to Teaching Entrepreneurship

Manuscripts should be sent as an MS Word file via email to:

Sean M. Hackett
Assistant Professor of Management
LeBow College of Business
Drexel University
sean.m.hackett at drexel.edu
+1 (215) 895-2875 (Telephone)
+1 (215) 895-2891 (Fax) 
www.seanmhackett.com 
 
and

Miles Davis
Associate Professor of Management
Harry F. Byrd, Jr. School of Business, Shenandoah University
mdavi3 at su.edu
+1 (540) 545-7314 (Telephone)
+1 (540) 665-5437 (Fax)

Please be certain to indicate in your email that your submission is for the Special Issue.

Submissions must be received by April 30, 2008.