CFP: Extending Women's Entrepreneurship Scholarship in New Directions (ETP)

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Call for Papers -Extending Women's Entrepreneurship Scholarship in New Directions
Special Issue of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
"Extending Women's Entrepreneurship Scholarship in New Directions"

Special Issues Editors:
Karen D. Hughes, University of Alberta
Jennifer E. Jennings, University of Alberta
Candida Brush, Babson College
Sara Carter, University of Strathclyde
Friederike Welter, Jonkoping University

In recent years there has been a dramatic expansion of scholarly interest and activity in the field of women's entrepreneurship. Initiatives such as the Diana Project, founded in the late 1990s by U.S. scholars, have grown rapidly into a global network of researchers from over 20 countries, sparking numerous conferences, symposia, and publications. Likewise, academic journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice have sponsored some of the first-ever special issues on women's entrepreneurship, providing a valuable synthesis of the cumulative insights from empirical and theoretical work from around the globe.

Such activity has done a great deal to consolidate knowledge about women's entrepreneurship and to correct the historical inattention paid to women's entrepreneurial activity. As scholars have long noted, women entrepreneurs are vastly understudied, despite the fact that they are "(tm)one of the fastest rising populations of entrepreneurs and that they make a significant contribution to innovation, job and wealth creation in economies across the globe(tm)" (deBruin, Brush and Welter, 2006: 585).

Yet, as women's entrepreneurship scholarship continues to develop and mature, there are increasingly strong calls from scholars for new directions in the field. Speaking to this, deBruin, Brush, and Welter (2006) note that the challenge ahead is "(tm)not merely to suggest that more research is the answer -- rather, it must be connected to theory, (tm) to capture the heterogeneity of what constitutes women's entrepreneurship, and (tm) to be progressively additive and complementary, with studies that connect and build on one another (de Bruin, 2006: 590).

Responding to this call for new directions, this special issue seeks leading edge research that builds creatively on key debates, puzzles, and questions in existing scholarship in order to generate a richer, more robust, understanding in the domain of women's entrepreneurship research. In particular we welcome submissions that:

* reframe old questions in fresh and innovative ways - thus generating substantial new insights to long-standing theoretical or empirical debates
* posit entirely new questions that have not been examined before - especially with respect to the heterogeneity of women's entrepreneurship
* study new sites of women's entrepreneurship - for example, by exploring new regions, national contexts, or industries
* utilize new methodological approaches that help to build and improve upon the rigor and creativity of empirical research - for example, by using multi-disciplinary or cross cultural perspectives

Interested contributors should prepare their submissions following the ET&P Style Guide which is available here Submissions can be made via the ET&P website at: ScholarOne (Manuscript Central) by November 5, 2010. Be sure to complete the "special issue box". Publication is scheduled for 2012. If you have questions about this special issue, or wish to discuss a potential submission, please contact the special issue Guest Editors: Karen Hughes (Karen.Hughes at UAlberta.CA) and Jennifer Jennings (Jennifer.Jennings at UAlberta.CA).

More info at http://www.baylor.edu/business/ETP/index.php?id=69774