CFP: Special issue on Small Business Financing at the Small Enterprise Research (SER) Journal

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From: João Carlos Correia Leitão [mailto:jleitao71 at gmail.com]
Date: Fri 26 Aug 2016 18:54

Dear Colleague

We look forward to receiving your contribution.

Best wishes


João Leitão and Zélia Serrasqueiro

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Small Enterprise Research (SER) is an international, scholarly, and double blind peer-reviewed journal. It was established in 1992 and it presents practitioner, analytical and theoretical insights which are focused on the topic of Small Business. Small Enterprise Research is the official journal of the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand Ltd (SEAANZ), a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1987 with the specific purpose of advancing research, education, policy and practice in the field of small enterprise and entrepreneurship. As the official journal of SEAANZ, Small Enterprise Research is dedicated to the advancement of these ‘four pillars’ through the dissemination of knowledge.


Small business financing is a topic that has been the target of several reference works on entrepreneurial finance literature from different approaches, due to its importance and relevance for small business performance, namely survival, growth, productivity, innovative performance and liquidity, as well as market power, capital structure, firm selection and competitiveness along the firm’s life cycle. 


This is a hot topic with an emerging body of theoretical and empirical applications devoted to the internal and external finance acting as determinants of small business performance, considering both the endogenous and exogenous factors that can jointly work for a sustainable performance funded on the adoption of distinct mechanisms of strategic partnerships, entrepreneurial finance, bootstrapping and venture capital, at the small business level. 


This special issue aims to present a solid body of selected contributions to better understand the internal and external finance determinants of small business performance, using a multidimensional approach, taking as dependent variables: survival; growth; productivity; innovative performance; and liquidity; and focusing on the different stages of the life cycle of start-ups, micro and small and medium sized firms.


Recommended topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Firm growth determinants: age; size; internal finance; external finance; intangible assets; patents; R&D intensity, etc 

• Taxonomies of performance determinants of start-ups, micro and small and medium sized firms 

• Growth and productivity of small business 

• Founder's characteristics and small business performance 

• Tangibles and intangibles assets and small business performance 

• Capital structure and small business performance 

• Human capital management practices and small business performance 

• Intellectual capital management practices and small business performance 

• Venture capital and small business performance.

• Strategic partnerships (M&A, Joint-ventures, Foreign Direct Investment, Coopetition, IPOs, etc) and small business performance.

• Bootstrapping strategies and small business performance 

• Managerial and innovative practices. Innovation, technological change and small business performance 

• Cooperation and coopetition strategies and small business performance 

• Determinants of innovative capacity of the firm and small business performance 

• Bootstrapping finance and small business performance 

• Market dynamics: Entry; Exit; and Evolutionary pathways; and small business performance.


Submission instructions
Submissions should be made via Small Enterprise Research's ScholarOne Manuscripts system: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rser


Further instructions for authors can be found here: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rser20&page=instructions


Guest Editor Contact Details

Prof. João Leitão, University of Beira Interior, School of Social and Human Sciences, Department of Management and Economics, 6200 209 COVILHÃ, PORTUGAL - jleitao at ubi.pt

Professor Zélia Serrasqueiro, University of Beira Interior, School of Social and Human Sciences, Department of Management and Economics, 6200 209 COVILHÃ, PORTUGAL - zelia at ubi.pt


Editorial information

• Guest Editor: João Leitão (jleitao at ubi.pt 

• Guest Editor: Zélia Serrasqueiro (zelia at ubi.pt)
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