CFP: Entrepreneurial Finance (IJEIM)

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From: Sascha Kraus [mailto:sascha.kraus at wu-wien.ac.at] 
Date: Wed 16 April 2008 12:31

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management
(IJEIM)
Call For Papers
Special Issue on: "Entrepreneurial Finance - Integrating Finance and
Entrepreneurship"
Deadline: 31 October 2008

Guest Editors:
Prof. Dr. Christine Mitter, Salzburg University of Applied Sciences,
Austria
Dr. Sascha Kraus, Vienna University of Economics & Business
Administration, Austria

Entrepreneurial firms have become an increasingly important element of
global economic growth. Accompanying this development, the volume of
financing to entrepreneurial firms has grown as well. Research in the
field of entrepreneurial finance has long lagged behind these
developments. Until the early 1990s, studies in entrepreneurial finance
were almost non-existent and entrepreneurship was regarded as completely
separate from the field of corporate finance. In recent years, however,
there has been an augmented interest in the nature and behaviour of
financial markets and financial intermediaries that allocate capital to
new and growing businesses. Several scholars have addressed the
application of fundamental principles and problems of corporate finance
to entrepreneurial firms.

The increasing importance of entrepreneurial firms as "engines" of
economic development and growth has also lead to an enhanced interest by
policy makers, regulators and academics in the macroeconomic
implications of entrepreneurial finance and the role and impact of legal
and market infrastructures on the nature and availability of capital to
entrepreneurial enterprises.

While research in the field of entrepreneurial finance has begun, many
areas and issues still remain unexplored. Research findings on the
interrelation between finance and entrepreneurship are extremely
fragmented so far, and there is no integrated analysis or comprehensive
theory yet. This special issue therefore aims at contributing to the
theory building of entrepreneurial finance. Truly innovative research is
appreciated. Papers can be purely theoretical or theory-driven empirical
work (quantitative or qualitative).

Subject Coverage

Potential topic areas suitable for review articles include but are not
limited to:

* Capital structure of entrepreneurial firms
* Sources of funding available to new and growing businesses
* Investors and intermediaries that provide financing to entrepreneurial
firms
* Changes in capital structures over the business cycle, financial
growth cycles
* Cost of capital and determining factors
* Public policy issues: government programmes, tax policies, and other
regulations
* Cross-cultural differences in entrepreneurial finance
* Credit analysis for small businesses
* Credit availability and lending to entrepreneurial firms
* Emerging security markets and entrepreneurship
* Contracting issues: type of securities, covenants, and control rights
* Agency problems and information asymmetry and their impact on
entrepreneurial finance
* Entrepreneurial finance in transition economies
* Financial management for entrepreneurial firms
* Financing entrepreneurial ventures
* Interconnectedness and relations between the various sources of
funding
* Angel investors and angel investments
* Incubators and their financing impact
* Initial public offerings (IPOs)
* Financing beyond the startup phase
* Financing rapid growth
* Managing working capital in entrepreneurial firms
* New ventures feasibility studies
* Banks and bank financing
* Investor relations
* Creditor relations
* Venture capital and venture capitalists

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. Dr. Christine Mitter
Department of Finance
Salzburg University of Applied Sciences
Urstein Sud 1
A-5412 Puch/Salzburg
AUSTRIA
E-mail: christine.mitter at fh-salzburg.ac.at

Dr. Sascha Kraus
Asc. Senior Researcher
Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration
Augasse 2-6
A-1090 Vienna
AUSTRIA
E-mail: sascha.kraus at wu-wien.ac.at

with a copy to:

IEL Editorial Office
E-mail: ijeim 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 http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=936