CFP: INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT JOURNAL

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

From: João Ferreira [mailto:jjmf at ubi.pt] 
Date: Fri 24 Apr 2015 00:09


INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT JOURNAL

SPECIAL ISSUE
 
CALL FOR PAPERS

KNOWLEDGE SPILLOVER-BASED STRATEGIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP
 
Guest co-editors:
 João J. Ferreira, University of Beira Interior, Portugal

Vanessa Ratten, La Trobe University, Australia

Leo Dana, Montpellier Business School, France
                
Special Issue Purpose

The aim of this Special Issue is to promote theoretical and empirical research on the Knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship in the management context. A more explicit recognition of knowledge spillovers offers exciting new directions for research on entrepreneurial action with a strategic and managerial perspective.


Background
Knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship have been identified as critical to the process of creative destruction and creative construction (Agarwal et al., 2007) through which firms, industries, regions, and economies create and rejuvenate themselves (Fernandes, Ferreira and Raposo, 2013). How firms combine entrepreneurial action that creates new opportunities with strategic action that generates competitive advantage is a fundamental question in the emerging field of strategic entrepreneurship and management studies (Hitt et al., 2002). The literature that associates knowledge spillovers to strategic entrepreneurship emphasizes that incumbent organizations are an important source of new entrants, particularly when they underutilize the knowledge they create (Agarwal et al., 2004; Klepper, 2007; Shane and Stuart, 2002; Fernandes and Ferreira, 2013). In identifying the role of knowledge spillovers to organizations, strategic entrepreneurship is a key mechanism behind the process of creative construction. There is a symbiotic relationship between individuals and their knowledge environments; and co-creators of knowledge may each be able to appropriate the value (Dana, 2013, Ratten, 2011; Suseno and Ratten, 2007). 

The mechanism of knowledge spillover-based strategic entrepreneurship inspires the process of creative construction, where linkages to extant knowledge translate, through the founders, to firm level capabilities, growth, and competitive advantage (Agarwal et al., 2010). Additionally, the effect of individual, organizational, and environmental factors on the incidence and type of knowledge spillover-based strategic entrepreneurship has not been fully developed at the literature. 
Knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship has each been the theme of much academic attention, but have largely been considered separately rather than in conjunction with each other. This special issue seeks to merge traditional and modern perspectives in knowledge spillover-based strategic entrepreneurship by exploring different levels and how it relates to management.  At the individual level, there is a need to reconcile knowledge spillover-based strategic entrepreneurship with the parallel stream of literature that examines knowledge spillovers through employee mobility. At the organizational level, the effect of parent status and capabilities on the knowledge spillover-based strategic entrepreneurship should be examined. Finally, at the environmental-level, the contingency conditions and technological intensity of the industry and/or region needs more attention. 
Given the multifaceted nature of both knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship, a particular feature of this special issue is that it seeks to examine the issues from different theoretical traditions, using different methodological tools to provide evidence of the interlinkages between the two concepts and to identify key topics, themes, and issues such as those related to organizational learning, technology transfer, R&D, networks, employee mobility and entrepreneurship, spatial agglomeration, industry evolution, and endogenous economic growth in the management context.
We invite conceptual or empirical papers dealing with new theoretical and empirical perspectives in knowledge spillover-based strategic entrepreneurship and management practices. The special Issue is concerned with develop an integrated, empirically-tractable account of how such phenomena, thought which to investigate questions central to both strategy and entrepreneurship, specifically the formation of new ventures, the origin and development of firm capabilities, strategic renewal efforts of incumbents, and the dynamics of innovation and economic growth.


Research Questions
 
We believe that the following research questions are an incomplete list of issues that are deserving of more scholarly attention. In this sense, we offer them as examples of questions suitable for the Special Issue:

1. What role does the institutional knowledge context have on subsequent spillovers of knowledge and management approaches to this change?

2.  What factors have an impact on knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship within and across organizational contexts (e.g., academic institutions and organizations occupying competing, complementary, or vertical supply chain relationships)?

3. What are the underlying mechanisms that relate knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship, and how might individual, organizational, strategic, institutional (including, but not limited to, level of intellectual propertyprotection), or environmental factors affect these mechanisms? 

4. What factors have an impact on knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship in academic, scientific and management knowledge settings?

5. What are the underlying mechanisms that enable or inhibit the transfer of basic knowledge to applied domains? 

6. What are the positive or negative consequences of knowledge spillovers and legacy effects on subsequent recipient organization performance?

7.  Do knowledge spillovers always enhance competitive advantage for recipient firms or could they result in negative effects? What factors potentially moderate the knowledge spillovers performance relationship with managerial behavior? 

8. What extent does a firm-level focus on performance consequences underestimate or overestimate the overall performance consequences at another level, say the individual, industry, or regional level?

9. How do organizational strategies that differ on the continuum of open versus closed systems of innovation affect knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship? 

10. Are there differences between the effect of market and nonmarket channels of knowledge transfer on strategic entrepreneurship? 

11. How does geographic proximity matter for market-based transactions and no compensatedspillovers? Do firm and industry characteristics matter for managers? 

12. How do positional characteristics in knowledge networks interact with type of knowledge spillovers to affect innovation outcomes? 

13. What is the relationship between organizational type and the ability to access and absorb external knowledge spillovers? Are some organizations more capable of benefiting from knowledge spillovers? 

14. How might spillovers of nontechnical knowledge, such as information about markets, alliance partners, funding, or potential acquirers affect strategic entrepreneurship?
 

This special issue for International Entrepreneurship and Management aims to provide a forum for addressing some of these issues, and in this way shedding light on the underlying mechanisms that impact not only intra-and interfirm dynamics and performance, but also the implications of the diffusion of innovations through knowledge spillover-based strategic entrepreneurship for regional competitiveness and economic growth. We welcome a broad range of theoretical, empirical and methodological contribution to our understanding of the knowledge spillover-based strategic entrepreneurship and managerial dynamics.


Deadlines and Submission Instructions

The deadline for submission of papers is January, 15 2016. Please send your papers directly to the guest-editors and make sure to follow the Submission Guidelines available at:

http://www.springer.com/business+%26+management/entrepreneurship/journal/11365

Papers should be a maximum of 8,000 words in length.

Guest Co-editors’ contact details: Professor João J. Ferreira, University of Beira Interior, Portugal, e-mail: jjmf at ubi.pt; Professor Vanessa Ratten, La Trobe University, Australia, e-mail:V.Ratten at latrobe.edu.au; Professor Leo Dana, Montpellier Business School, France, e-mail: lp.dana at supco-montpellier.fr 
 
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Agarwal R, Echambadi R, April F, Sarkar M. 2004. Knowledge transfer through inheritance: spin-out generation, development and performance. Academy of Management Journal 47: 501–522.
Agarwal, R., Audretsch, D., Sarkar, MB. 2010. Knowledge spillovers and strategic entrepreneurship, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, 4: 271-283.
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Fernandes, C., Ferreira, J., Raposo, M. 2013. Drivers to firm innovation and their effects on performance: An international comparison, International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 9(4): 557-580.
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