CFP: Community-based Entrepreneurship (IJIRD)

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

Call for Papers - International Journal of Innovation and Regional
Development (IJIRD)
Special Issue on: "Community-based Entrepreneurship"
Deadline: 30 June 2008

Guest Editors: Prof. Vanessa Ratten, Duquesne University, USA
Prof. Leo Dana, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Prof. Isabell Welpe, University of Munich, Germany
Prof. Mary Han, Ryerson University, Canada

Since Johannisson and Nilsson's (1989) seminal paper on community-based
entrepreneurship, the literature on how regional development is
facilitated by community interaction has grown. The increasing sentiment
of people and businesses worldwide to "act locally but think globally"
has meant that community-based entrepreneurship is becoming more
important in encouraging businesses and public policy practitioners to
focus on the significance of people working together to facilitate
regional development (Kapelus, 2002; Lyons, 2002).

In this special issue, we define community-based entrepreneurship as "a
community acting corporately as both entrepreneur and enterprise in
pursuit of the common good" (Peredo and Chrisman, 2006:310). Thus,
community-based entrepreneurship involves a process through which new
enterprises are created and operate in a communities existing social
structure (Peredo and Chrisman, 2006). The economic and social role of
community-based entrepreneurship has been recognised by a growing number
of disciplines, including sociology, management and urban studies (e.g.,
Bull and Winter, 1991; Johannisson and Nilsson, 1989; Light and
Karageorgis, 1994; Mezias and Kuperman, 2001; Selsky and Smith, 1994).
Community-based entrepreneurship is encouraged through personal
networking that influence local venturing processes and regional
development (Johannisson and Nilsson, 1989).

The special issue takes a multi-disciplinary perspective to help examine
the role of community-based entrepreneurship in the international
context. Thus, its aim is to study how community-based entrepreneurship
is encouraging regional development as people become part of a number of
different communities worldwide. We are looking for new theoretical
insights and empirical studies that will contribute to the literature on
community-based entrepreneurship.

Subject Coverage

Papers should address research questions in the field, including but not
limited to the following topics

* Market conditions for community-based entrepreneurship (openness of
markets, regulations, transparency of market and resource mobilisation).
* The importance of cognitions and emotions in community-based
entrepreneurship.
* The role of human resource management practices and in community-based
entrepreneurship.
* Public perception of community-based entrepreneurship.
* The antecedents and consequences of family participation in various
aspects of community-based entrepreneurship.
* How has community-based entrepreneurship influenced regional
development in global contexts and will this change in the future?
* Comparative differences in community-based entrepreneurship by
countries, city, ethnic/national subgroup, sector and periods.
* The role of social capital and social networks in community-based
entrepreneurship.
* The role of technological innovation in community-based
entrepreneurship.
* The importance of communities for the perception, evaluation and
exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities.

Notes for Intending Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

Important Dates

Manuscript due: 30 June 2008
Acceptance notification: 30 August 2008
Final manuscript due: 30 October 2008

Editors and Notes

You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an
e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:

Prof. Vanessa Ratten
A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh
United States
Tel: +1 412 396 1907
Email: rattenv at duq.edu

with copies to

Prof. Panos H. Ketikidis
Editor-in-Chief, IJIRD
E-mail: ijird at seerc.org

and

IEL Editorial Office
E-mail: ijird at inderscience.com

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the
title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor

More info at
https://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=899