David B. Audretsch, Indiana University

Dafna Kariv, Reichman University

Mark Sanders, Maastricht University

Friederike Welter, University of Siegen

Trent Williams, Brigham Young University

This special issue in Small Business Economics investigates how entrepreneurs develop and leverage internal capabilities to succeed when external support systems are unavailable or depleted. Rather than viewing crises as isolated incidents, the issue recognizes that contemporary entrepreneurs increasingly operate under persistent adversity and must rely on their own resources, psychological strengths, and adaptive mechanisms to thrive.

The call seeks innovative research that moves beyond existing literature by examining the endogenous foundations of entrepreneurial success. Submissions should explore how entrepreneurs generate innovation, build resilience, and maintain adaptability when facing continuous challenges and reduced access to traditional ecosystem support.

Appel publié par Small Business Economics. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Entrepreneurial resilience and adaptability
• Internal resources and psychological strengths
• Self-generated mechanisms for success
• Entrepreneurship under adversity
• Entrepreneurs without ecosystem support
• Innovation in crisis conditions

Timeline

• February 15, 2026: Extended abstracts submission deadline
• October 31, 2026: Full paper submission deadline

This special issue explores the concept of bricolage—the ability to create and innovate with limited resources—in highly challenging contexts. The focus is on understanding how entrepreneurs and organizations develop creative solutions when faced with extreme resource constraints, drawing insights from the 'number eight wire mindset' that emphasizes improvisation and resourceful problem-solving.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Bricolage
• Resource-constrained environments
• Extreme resource scarcity
• Entrepreneurial resourcefulness

Timeline

• September 1, 2028: Submission deadline

Ioana Stefan, Mälardalen University

Ikenna Uzuegbunam, Howard University

Brett Anitra Gilbert, American University

Wim Vanhaverbeke, Antwerp University

Kadigia Faccin, Fundação Dom Cabral

Yanbo Wang, University of Hong Kong

This special issue addresses entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging economies, where new ventures face distinctive obstacles including institutional weakness, high uncertainty, and limited market access. While research on entrepreneurial ecosystems has expanded significantly, most studies focus on developed nations, leaving a knowledge gap about how these ecosystems function in the Global South and other emerging regions.

The call welcomes research that balances Global North and Global South perspectives, examines ecosystem emergence and development over time, applies systems thinking, and investigates how digitalization shapes entrepreneurial activity in resource-constrained contexts. Contributors are encouraged to explore how entrepreneurial ecosystems address institutional voids, support different types of entrepreneurs, and contribute to sustainable development goals.

Appel publié par Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• EE emergence and development in emerging economies
• EE dynamics and evolution
• EE orchestration, governance and brokering
• Digital affordances and digitalization
• EE metrics and measures
• Valley of Death gaps
• Institutional and infrastructure challenges
• Resource constraints in emerging economies
• EE lifecycle and temporality
• Multi-level analysis of ecosystems
• Systems perspective on EE
• Sustainability and resilience of EE
• Policy effectiveness for EE support
• Global North and Global South perspectives
• Refugee and diaspora entrepreneurship
• Venture funding instruments and diaspora remittances
• Circular economy and EE
• Regenerative business practices
• Social impact and vulnerable communities
• Digital technology effects on EE
• Computer science methods for ecosystem analysis
• Geography of entrepreneurship

Timeline

• January 30, 2027: Submission window opens
• April 30, 2027: Full paper submission deadline

Associate editors

• David Sirmon, University of Washington

This special issue seeks to advance entrepreneurship scholarship by centering Indian contexts and perspectives. The call invites research that explores entrepreneurial phenomena within India while examining how indigenous insights can contribute to global entrepreneurship theory and practice.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• January 15, 2028: Submission deadline

David Ahlstrom, Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Jiatao Li, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Bin Liu, Xiamen University

Gongming Qian, Shantou University

This collection examines how different forms of state capitalism interact with entrepreneurship globally, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. It addresses the recent shift toward increased state involvement in enterprise after years of privatization and deregulation, exploring how this state capitalism manifests in varied ways across different regions and institutional contexts.

Appel publié par Asia Pacific Journal of Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Varieties of state capitalism and their relationships with entrepreneurship
• State influence on enterprise in Asia Pacific regions and beyond
• Entrepreneurship in established corporations with state influence
• Creation and dynamics of hybrid state-private enterprises
• Relations between new ventures and corporations with state influence
• Institutional frameworks affecting entrepreneurship under state capitalism
• Mechanisms through which varieties of state capitalism affect entrepreneurship

Timeline

• October 31, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue explores the ethical dimensions of entrepreneurship, focusing on how entrepreneurs engage in moral reasoning and decision-making. The call seeks research that examines the cognitive and emotional processes underlying ethical choices that entrepreneurs face, particularly in contexts marked by uncertainty and risk. The issue aims to advance understanding of how moral considerations shape entrepreneurial behavior and venture development.

Researchers are invited to submit work investigating the intersection of ethics, cognition, and emotion in entrepreneurial contexts. The special issue welcomes diverse perspectives on how entrepreneurs navigate ethical dilemmas, the role of affect in moral judgments, and mechanisms through which ethical considerations translate into concrete actions during the venture creation process.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Moral cognition in entrepreneurship
• Affective processes in ethical decision-making
• Ethical action under uncertainty
• Entrepreneurial decision-making and ethics
• Moral reasoning in venture creation
• Emotional dimensions of ethical behavior

Timeline

• September 1, 2027: Submission deadline

This special issue seeks to advance entrepreneurship science through rigorous meta-analytic and systematic review methodologies. The call invites researchers to synthesize existing empirical findings in entrepreneurship, identifying patterns, contradictions, and knowledge gaps across the field. Meta-analyses can help consolidate fragmented research literatures and provide more robust conclusions about entrepreneurial phenomena.

The special issue is particularly interested in quantitative syntheses that examine both the drivers and outcomes of entrepreneurship, comparative assessments of different entrepreneurial approaches, and methodological innovations in applying meta-analytic techniques to entrepreneurship research. Contributions should leverage meta-analysis to advance theoretical understanding and practical knowledge in the entrepreneurship domain.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Meta-analytic approaches to entrepreneurship research
• Systematic reviews of entrepreneurship literature
• Quantitative synthesis of entrepreneurship findings
• Methodological advances in meta-analysis applied to entrepreneurship
• Integration and reconciliation of conflicting entrepreneurship research findings
• Meta-analyses examining antecedents and consequences of entrepreneurial behavior
• Comparative effectiveness of entrepreneurial interventions and strategies
• Temporal trends and evolution of entrepreneurship research

This special issue invites research focused on health and well-being outcomes for entrepreneurs, emphasizing intervention-based studies that bridge academic research with practical impact. The call seeks to advance understanding of how entrepreneurs' physical and mental health can be improved through targeted interventions and evidence-based approaches that have meaningful real-world applications.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• October 31, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue addresses how artificial intelligence is transforming and reshaping the conceptual and practical boundaries within entrepreneurship research. The call invites scholars to explore the implications of AI for understanding entrepreneurship, challenging established assumptions and frameworks in the field.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• August 1, 2027: Submission deadline

This special call invites review papers for the Journal of Business Venturing Insights that move beyond traditional literature summaries to offer fresh analytical perspectives. The journal seeks papers that reimagine how researchers approach synthesis and interpretation of entrepreneurship scholarship, transforming accumulated knowledge into actionable insights for the field.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Review papers that synthesize existing knowledge on entrepreneurship and business venturing topics
• Papers that provide new theoretical frameworks or perspectives on established research areas
• Systematic analysis and critical assessment of entrepreneurship literature
• Integration of diverse research streams in business venturing and related fields
• Papers addressing gaps or contradictions in existing entrepreneurship research

This special issue in the Journal of Business Venturing Insights focuses on entrepreneurialism and its development. The call invites research contributions that explore various dimensions of how entrepreneurial capabilities, mindsets, and practices emerge and evolve.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• December 15, 2026: Submission deadline

This section of the Journal of Business Venturing Insights features debate-format content examining contemporary issues and contrasting perspectives in entrepreneurship and business venturing research.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

This call invites research that challenges conventional entrepreneurship scholarship by incorporating perspectives and phenomena typically considered outside mainstream academic discourse. The special issue seeks contributions that engage with unconventional approaches and ideas to advance our understanding of entrepreneurial processes and outcomes.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

This special issue examines entrepreneurial dimensions of community events such as First Fridays, festivals, and farmer's markets. It seeks to understand the motivations driving entrepreneurs to participate in these events, the dynamics of how these events operate and evolve, and their outcomes for entrepreneurs and communities.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing Insights. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Submission deadline

While quantitative, positivist approaches have traditionally dominated entrepreneurship research, they often fail to capture the lived experiences of marginalized entrepreneurs who remain underrepresented in scholarship despite their significant contributions to local economies. Qualitative research is better suited to exploring the meanings, practices, and organizing processes that hypothesis-driven designs typically obscure.

This special issue invites qualitative research that examines entrepreneurship at the margins as a site for theory-building. The focus encompasses marginalized entrepreneurs across gender, race, migration, disability, age, and Indigenous contexts, particularly in Global South settings where research access challenges are compounded by institutional barriers and epistemic dominance of Global North perspectives.

Contributions should treat marginality as an analytical lens rather than merely a research setting, bringing together reflexive scholarship that advances cumulative qualitative understanding of entrepreneurship as organizing while exploring core themes of power, inequality, agency, legitimacy, and meaning-making.

Appel publié par Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Entrepreneurship as organizing under conditions of marginalization
• Lived experience and everyday practices of entrepreneurs at the margins
• Marginality as an analytical lens for qualitative theory-building
• Power, inequality, and access in entrepreneurial organizing
• Informal, community-based, and non-market entrepreneurial activity
• Gendered, racialized, Indigenous, and migrant entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship in Global South and under-researched contexts
• Legitimacy, stigma, and boundary work in marginalized entrepreneurship
• Resourcefulness, bricolage, and survival strategies under constraint
• Care, affect, ethics, and relational practices in entrepreneurial organizing
• Methodological challenges and innovations in researching entrepreneurship in marginalized populations

Timeline

• April 20, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• February 28, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Enis Elezi, University of Westminster

Knowledge-intensive organisations face mounting complexity from resource constraints, digitalisation, accountability demands, and geopolitical pressures. Existing research on these challenges remains fragmented across disciplinary silos and often lacks systemic understanding of how these institutions observe, interpret and respond to complexity.

This special issue integrates typically isolated scholarly conversations about leadership, governance, risk, knowledge and entrepreneurship within a cybernetic framework. It explores the interconnected processes of observation, communication, decision and learning that enable organisations to adapt and remain viable across sectors including universities, health systems, research institutes and public agencies.

Appel publié par Kybernetes. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Leadership and governance as systemic architectures of observation, decision and learning
• Enterprise-wide risk management, knowledge management and entrepreneurship as interconnected cybernetic processes
• Cross-sector analyses of universities, health systems, research institutes, public agencies and professional service firms as complex learning systems
• Reflexive and second-order perspectives on how organisations construct and revise their own governance arrangements
• Theory-as-method applications using cybernetics, systems thinking or complexity frameworks

Timeline

• January 26, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• December 26, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Lifestyle entrepreneurship represents a growing but fragmented research area that extends beyond traditional profit-maximization approaches to encompass quality of life, personal fulfillment, and work-life balance. These entrepreneurs prioritize autonomy and alignment with personal values while establishing ventures often in tourism, hospitality, crafts, and creative sectors, frequently in rural or low-density areas where they contribute to local economic development and cultural preservation.

Despite increasing recognition of its significance, existing research lacks an integrated perspective examining both entrepreneur characteristics and their operational ecosystems. Lifestyle entrepreneurs face persistent challenges including financial instability, seasonal market dependence, and insufficient institutional support, while contextual factors such as social networks, public policies, and cultural influences significantly shape their business structures and community interactions.

Appel publié par Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Profile of lifestyle entrepreneurs: sociodemographic characteristics, values and experiences
• Motivations for lifestyle entrepreneurship: sense of belonging (roots) to the territory, maintaining the culture and traditions of the territory, quality of life, self-fulfillment, balance between personal and professional life
• Contextual factors: impact of social networks, public policies, local entrepreneurial ecosystems and socioeconomic environment
• Challenges faced: financial instability, lack of institutional support, technological and market barriers, lack of qualified human resources
• Impact of lifestyle entrepreneurship on local development: job creation, stimulation of the circular economy and contribution to sustainability
• Resilience and adaptation strategies: innovative and sustainable solutions adopted by entrepreneurs in territories
• Comparative case studies between different regions and sectors

Timeline

• October 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscript submissions

This special issue examines how emotions influence entrepreneurial judgment and decision-making, particularly in community-based and localized ecosystems. While existing research has focused on positive emotions like passion and resilience, the issue seeks to explore understudied emotional domains such as despair, awe, humility, guilt, empathy, and regret that shape entrepreneurs' strategic choices, resilience, and ethical judgments.

The special issue welcomes interdisciplinary research on how diverse emotional experiences affect entrepreneurial cognition and behavior within small businesses, family firms, and social enterprises. It invites both quantitative approaches examining causal relationships and qualitative studies exploring contextualized experiences, alongside theoretical contributions offering new frameworks for understanding emotions in entrepreneurship.

Insights from this research aim to inform policy-making, entrepreneurial education, and support structures by revealing how emotional dynamics drive sustainable business practices, ethical decision-making, and community engagement in localized entrepreneurial ecosystems.

Appel publié par Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Entrepreneurial Decision Making in Digital and Algorithm-Driven Environments
• Emotion Regulation in Crisis and Disruptive Contexts
• Impact of Virtual and Augmented Reality on Entrepreneurial Emotion and Judgment
• Cross-Generational Differences in Emotional Decision-Making in Family Businesses
• Entrepreneurial Emotion and Decision-Making in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
• Emotional Labor and Well-being in Serial Entrepreneurship
• Role of Synthetic and AI-Generated Emotions in Entrepreneurial Decision-Making
• Humility in Entrepreneurial Learning and Adaptation
• Empathy and Ethical Decision-Making in Social Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial Despair: Causes and Consequences
• Pride and Self-Efficacy in Sustained Entrepreneurial Motivation
• Envy in Competitive Strategy and Innovation
• Entrepreneurial emotional dilemma: social or conventional/traditional entrepreneurship?
• Inner accomplishment and entrepreneurship

Timeline

• September 1, 2026: Opening date for manuscript submissions
• December 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscript submissions

Stefano Bresciani, University of Turin

Vincenzo Capizzi, University of Piemonte Orientale

Christian Fisch, University of Luxembourg

Lars Hornuf, TUD Dresden University of Technology

Ciro Troise, University of Turin

This special issue invites research exploring the evolving landscape of crowdfunding as both a financing mechanism and investment vehicle. The call seeks to understand how crowdfunding is changing and will change in the future, particularly considering technological advancements and their differential impacts across crowdfunding models.

Submissions should address topics spanning the complete crowdfunding lifecycle, from venture development and investor performance through post-investment relationships, as well as broader themes including sustainability, internationalization, regulatory developments, and the role of academic institutions. The special issue welcomes contributions from diverse disciplinary and methodological perspectives that shed light on opportunities and challenges within the crowdfunding ecosystem.

Appel publié par Venture Capital. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Designing the crowdfunding of the future
• The future of crowdfunding
• Impact and effects of new technologies on different types of crowdfunding
• New venture development and performance in the post crowdfunding campaign phase
• Consequences for investors and firms of unsuccessful crowdfunding campaigns
• Entrepreneurs preferences in seeking one crowdfunding form over another
• Failures and post-failure scenarios of crowdfunding initiatives
• Challenges and opportunities for crowdfunded ventures
• Internationalization processes and strategies through crowdfunding
• Benefits and risks for existing and prospective crowdfunding investors
• Performance of crowdfunding investments
• Investors post-investment relationships
• Role of investors in the post-campaign phase
• Academic institutions and crowdfunding
• Sustainability and crowdfunding
• Innovation in crowdfunding
• Digital transformation solutions for crowdfunding
• Regulatory reforms and perspectives, policy tools

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Manuscript deadline

This special issue in the Journal of Business Venturing examines how new ventures undergo professionalization and the implications of this organizational development. The call seeks research exploring the processes through which entrepreneurial firms adopt more formal structures, systems, and practices, as well as the strategic tradeoffs involved in professionalization efforts and their effects on organizational performance.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• January 8, 2028: Submission deadline

This multi-journal collection explores how entrepreneurship can contribute to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 8, which focuses on productive employment and decent work for all. The initiative recognizes that labor markets and employment quality are shaped by societal, environmental, political, and economic factors, and that entrepreneurial activity could be instrumental in creating better working conditions, fair compensation, and improved job opportunities across diverse contexts.

The collection invites research examining the interconnections between entrepreneurship and working conditions, seeking to understand mechanisms through which new ventures and small businesses can foster employment quality. Contributions may be research or review articles submitted to one of nine participating journals, with rigorous peer review conducted according to each journal's standards.

Appel publié par Small Business Economics. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Equal pay for work of equal value
• Gender discrimination in employment
• Immigration and employment
• Labor shortages after COVID-19
• Modern slavery and child labor
• Labor policy
• Entrepreneurial enterprises, SMEs, and family businesses
• Global entrepreneurial firms: organization design, emerging conceptions in entrepreneurship (i.e. born globals), globalization's challenges and opportunities, cultural differences
• Remote work
• Opportunity entrepreneurship as a direct way to generate high quality employment
• Measuring and dealing with positive and negative externalities of new businesses

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Submission deadline

Philippe Aghion, Collège de France

Martin Andersson, Blekinge Institute of Technology

David B. Audretsch, Indiana University

Maksim Belitski, University of Reading

Pontus Braunerhjelm, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

This special issue seeks to advance Schumpeterian research that integrates entrepreneurial activities across multiple levels of analysis. It focuses on connecting individual entrepreneurs and firms with regional innovation ecosystems and industrial dynamics, while also considering broader institutional and policy frameworks.

The issue welcomes research on the full lifecycle of ventures, including formation, growth, contraction, and failure, with particular emphasis on how these dynamics drive productivity improvements. It also invites studies that enrich the Aghion-Howitt growth model with contemporary entrepreneurship research insights.

Appel publié par Small Business Economics. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• New venture formation and post-entry dynamics
• Scaling, displacement, and exit in entrepreneurial firms
• Reallocation dynamics and productivity growth
• The Aghion-Howitt framework and entrepreneurship research
• Multi-level analysis connecting micro (entrepreneurs and firms), meso (regional ecosystems and industrial structure), and macro (institutional configurations and policy regimes) levels
• Innovation and its transformation into productivity growth within the Schumpeterian tradition

Timeline

• November 1, 2026: Submission deadline

Jasmine Jaim, Jahangirnagar University

Huriye Yeröz, De Montfort University

Bronwyn Wood, United Arab Emirates University

This special issue challenges the predominant narrative in scholarship on women entrepreneurs facing crises, which typically emphasizes their vulnerabilities and capacity to endure hardship. Instead, the call invites research that positions women entrepreneurs as active agents driving meaningful change across individual, familial, community, regional, national, and global levels.

The special issue seeks contributions examining both the positive and negative dimensions of entrepreneurship during crises, spanning the crisis period itself as well as pre- and post-crisis contexts. It aims to advance understanding of how gender intersects with entrepreneurship and crisis experiences, filling gaps in existing theory, empirical knowledge, and policy recommendations.

Appel publié par Gender Work and Organization. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Crisis and entrepreneurial or societal opportunities
• Crisis and women entrepreneurs' identities, strengths and strategies
• Crisis and women entrepreneurs' contributions to society
• Crisis and a more gender equitable society through women's entrepreneurship
• Post-Crisis and women entrepreneurs in peacebuilding and regeneration
• Post-Crisis and impact of resilience
• Post-Crisis and women entrepreneurs' better work-life balance, improved wellbeing concern and healthier relationships with employees
• Crises, women's entrepreneurship and power relations
• Crisis and dark sides of women's entrepreneurship
• Women's entrepreneurship, crises, and entrepreneurial eco-systems
• Women's entrepreneurship, crises, and other-than-humans
• Women's entrepreneurship, crises and entrepreneurial education
• Women's entrepreneurship, crises, and feminist perspectives

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Martin Obschonka, University of Amsterdam

Moren Lévesque, York University

Frédéric Ooms, HEC Liège

Jeffrey M. Pollack, NC State University

Denis A. Grégoire, HEC Montréal

Tara S. Behrend, Michigan State University

Boris Nikolaev, Colorado State University

Transformative Artificial Intelligence (AI) — that is, the use of AI tools that have such inherent capabilities that they could induce societal transitions similar to that of the agricultural or industrial revolutions — has become an omnipresent topic of interest. Because these tools offer order-of-magnitude efficiency improvements over prior ways of performing various human tasks, important research opportunities arise for better understanding their transformative impact.

Appel publié par Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Theorizing on algorithmic entrepreneurship
• Mechanisms of external enablement of entrepreneurship via AI (e.g., generative AI)
• Can AI help reduce the destructive aspects of entrepreneurship (e.g., societal and personal costs)?
• Can AI create resource abundance, overcoming typical entrepreneurial resource scarcity and challenging leading startup methods (e.g., effectuation/bricolage, bootstrapping, lean startup)?
• Do classic research findings and theories (e.g., on the role of knowledge and human and social capital in entrepreneurship) still hold in the new AI era?
• How can AI impact entrepreneurial finance (e.g., AI-powered financial planning for entrepreneurs, VC investment portfolio management and decisions) and resource acquisition (e.g., entrepreneurs' pitch preparation, investors' due diligence, etc.)?
• Does AI change the age curve associated with entrepreneurship (does it replace the advantage of industry experience, and do we therefore see an AI-empowered rise of youth entrepreneurs)?
• How can AI contribute to equality and diversity (e.g., neurodiversity, closing the gender gap)?
• Ethical and legal issues of algorithmic entrepreneurship and AI-supported research
• How can AI support entrepreneurs' cognition, decision making, and psychological well-being?
• Will the emerging AI economy of abundance replace entrepreneurship/human entrepreneurs?

Timeline

• January 31, 2026: Final deadline for proposal submissions

Ludvig Levasseur, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Moren Lévesque, York University

Paul Spee, University of Queensland

Ute Stephan, King's College London

Matthew Wood, University of Oklahoma

This special issue seeks manuscripts advancing our understanding of time in entrepreneurship. Research on the duration, pace, timing, and speed of action calibration in entrepreneurial processes such as opportunity realization are key examples of the role temporal dynamics play in entrepreneurship. Time is equally critical when examining decisions about the timing of growth while managing external events and shocks alongside slowly or rapidly evolving industry trends and customer preferences. Further lines of inquiry concern the pace, timing, and speed of exit decisions, or decisions to pursue venturing activities over time. Entrepreneurs' subjective perceptions of time, and their own and their stakeholders' orientations towards the short- vs. long-term, the past, present or future shape how they navigate entrepreneurship.

Appel publié par Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• How do objective dimensions such as duration, pace, timing, speed, and window of opportunity impact the entrepreneurship process?
• How do they shape links between entrepreneurs' subjective time perspective, their biological time (chronotype), and cognitive processes related to information scanning and learning?
• How do entrepreneurs' subjective time perspectives relate to their cognitions including information scanning and search, entrepreneurial learning, information associations and connections, and opportunity evaluation and judgment?
• How do time perspectives relate to informal investors' and venture capitalists' decision to provide funding?
• How do investors' time perspectives shape who they invest in, and the timing and size of their investments?
• With what pace and speed do failure consequences vary with institutional and cultural contexts?
• How does the timing of these consequences vary across groups of entrepreneurs including minoritized groups and differently abled entrepreneurs?
• When and how does time perspective lead to unhealthy persistence in entrepreneurship and undermine well-being?
• How do entrepreneurs' perception of time and the temporal development of the business impact venture emergence, business sustainability, and social entrepreneurship?
• Do we see variations in temporal profiles and differences across industries and cultures?
• How do the pacing of external events and entrepreneurs' own time perspective relate to how they manage equity, diversity, decolonization, and inclusion within their ventures?

Timeline

• September 30, 2027: Submission deadline

Explore current calls for Special Issues of ISBJ and contribute to advancing small business and entrepreneurship research.

Appel publié par International Small Business Journal Researching Entrepreneurship. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

James Bort, DePaul University

Veroniek Collewaert, Vlerick Business School

Yuval Engel, University of Amsterdam

Evy Van Lancker, Ghent University

Johan Wiklund, Syracuse University

The startup workforce represents a distinct and consequential stakeholder in entrepreneurship that has been systematically understudied relative to founders and funders. Early insights from the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies revealed how organizational changes within startups disproportionately impacted long-tenured employees. This pioneering work laid the foundation for understanding how startups differ from established firms in their approach to human capital, including fundamental aspects such as compensation, staffing, and performance management.

Contemporary research has deepened our understanding of the unique dynamics between startups and their employees. Whereas early research identified demographic patterns, illustrating that startup employees tend to be younger and risk-tolerant, recent work has uncovered more nuanced dynamics. For example, experienced employees often join startups when they have partners with stable careers, but can also command wage premiums as firms grow. Startup employees are drawn in by passionate founders, opportunities for greater freedom and responsibility, and the potential for significant financial upside.

Appel publié par Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Employee motivations and retention across venture stages
• Recruitment, employer branding, and the role of prior affiliations in startup hiring
• The influence of early employees on organizational culture, routines, and strategic direction
• Compensation structures, equity arrangements, and evolving psychological contracts
• Workforce well-being, occupational stress, and founder-employee emotional spillovers
• The impact of hybrid and remote work on startup employment dynamics
• The opportunities and adversity of AI in light of startup employment and work ethic, and workforce diversity, inclusion, and the role of HR professionalization in early-stage ventures
• Worker voice, collective action, and power asymmetries in startups, including unionization, whistleblowing, hustle culture and exploitation, equity and vesting disputes, and the dark side of founder–employee relations
• The regulatory and institutional environment of startup employment, including non-compete enforcement, worker classification, equity taxation, and visa regimes
• Non-standard and hybrid labor forms, including contractors, fractional executives, agencies, platform and ghost work, and globally distributed teams
• Post-startup career trajectories, including employee mobility, alumni networks, and entrepreneurial spawning after exit, acquisition, or failure
• The scaleup transition and its workforce implications, including when and how a startup workforce ceases to be one and how HR professionalization reshapes the employment relation
• AI-native ventures as a new organizational form, where a small number of humans operate agentic systems and the category of workforce is itself reconstituted
• Startup workforces outside North America and Western Europe, including emerging-economy, informal, and cross-border contexts

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Academy of Management PDW
• December 31, 2026: Extended abstracts due for participation in May workshop
• May 1, 2027: Special issue editorial workshop for invited participants based on proposals (hosted in United States)
• August 30, 2027: Full papers due for submission following second workshop
• November 1, 2027: Special issue editorial workshop for invited participants based on full papers (hosted in Europe)
• January 1, 2028: Full papers invited for submission

Julie Hermans-Pouplard, Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation

Guillaume Thévenet, Académie de l'Entrepreneuriat et de l'Innovation

Ce numéro spécial a pour vocation de mettre en lumière les perspectives nouvelles et les recherches innovantes de la nouvelle génération de chercheurs en entrepreneuriat issus de nos communautés scientifiques.

Fidèle à la mission de la revue de soutenir sa communauté et de favoriser le développement académique de ses membres, ce numéro spécial offre aux jeunes chercheurs une opportunité privilégiée de publier leurs travaux et de les faire connaître auprès de la communauté scientifique.

Afin de contribuer au développement des talents des jeunes chercheurs, tous les articles soumis à ce numéro spécial bénéficieront d'un processus d'évaluation accéléré.

Appel publié par Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Perspectives nouvelles en entrepreneuriat
• Recherches innovantes de la nouvelle génération de chercheurs en entrepreneuriat
• Travaux de doctorants en fin de thèse et jeunes docteurs

Timeline

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• September 30, 2026: Date limite de soumission

Guillaume Thévenet, Aix-Marseille Université

The Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship invites you to submit proposals for special issues. Proposals must be submitted in English.

Appel publié par Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• September 1, 2026: Deadline for special issue proposals

Jean-Loup Soula, Université de Strasbourg

The Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat invites submissions of special issue proposals. The detailed call is available on the journal's LinkedIn page or can be requested via email. Proposals must be written in English.

Appel publié par Revue de l'Entrepreneuriat. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• December 15, 2025: Deadline for special issue proposals

Marion Polge, Université de Montpellier

Isabelle Calmé, Université de Tours

Colette Fourcade, Université de Montpellier

Appel publié par Revue internationale P M E Économie et gestion de la petite et moyenne entreprise. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Trajectoires stratégiques atypiques et diversification des profils de dirigeants de TPE : profils, motivations, rapport au travail et au risque, bifurcations de parcours
• Redéfinition de la performance dans les TPE : indicateurs alternatifs, refus de la croissance, équilibre de vie, ancrage territorial, relations au vivant
• TPE, écologie et raréfaction des ressources : modèles économiques frugaux, économie circulaire, décroissance choisie, entreprise régénérative, impact écologique
• TPE et technologies : appropriation, marginalisation ou résistance face à la numérisation, à l'intelligence artificielle, à l'ubérisation ou à la plate-forme-économie
• Formes alternatives d'organisation et d'innovation : bricolage, mutualisation, coopération, hybridation des statuts, pratiques informelles ou hybrides
• Rôle des TPE dans les transitions sociales et territoriales : résilience locale, dynamiques d'inclusion, réponses aux crises systémiques, justice économique
• Méthodologies et épistémologies de recherche adaptées aux TPE : recherches partenariales, approches critiques, récits de vie, ethnographie entrepreneuriale

Timeline

• October 30, 2026: Dépôt des articles complets, répondant aux normes de la revue, sur la plate-forme numérique de la RIPME
• November 13, 2026: Décision de rejet ou envoi en évaluation
• January 15, 2027: Décision sur la 1re évaluation transmise aux auteurs
• March 26, 2027: Retour 2e version et envoi en évaluation si nécessaire
• June 1, 2027: Décision transmise aux auteurs
• September 20, 2027: Retour 3e version et évaluation finale par le comité de rédaction
• November 20, 2027: Réception des versions finales

Joëlle Bissonnette, Université du Québec à Montréal

Elen Riot, Université Paris 8

Christian Makaya, Ascencia School of Business

Céline Barredy, Université Paris Nanterre

Vanessa Serret, Université de Lorraine

Appel publié par Revue internationale P M E Économie et gestion de la petite et moyenne entreprise. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Personal narratives, emotions and individual artistic trajectories and their influence on entrepreneurial practices
• Context as a creative resource and entrepreneurial catalyst: how artists transform contextual constraints into opportunities
• Individual-collective dynamics in artistic entrepreneurship: articulation between individual artistic expression and community engagement
• Artistic entrepreneurship as a response to contemporary challenges: resilience strategies, alternative economic models, and sustainable development
• Artists' relationship with their personal histories, emotions, identity negotiations and bifurcations, and their influence on entrepreneurial practices
• How broader contextual dynamics (social, technological, environmental, political) shape and inspire artists' entrepreneurial trajectories
• Interaction dynamics between individual artistic interests and collective action, particularly regarding tensions between personal creative expression and collaborative community engagement
• Hybrid organizational models emerging between individual creation and collective action
• Collaborative practices and their role in generating collective intelligence and artistic innovation
• Governance mechanisms in artistic collectives for balancing individual expression and shared objectives
• Role of artistic interventions in community resilience and social transformation
• Artists' strategies for resisting and adapting to market pressures while maintaining economic viability
• Balance between creative integrity and institutional or commercial commitments
• Social and environmental innovations developed by artist-entrepreneurs
• Contributions of artistic entrepreneurship to sustainable development objectives

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Launch webinar for the call for contributions
• July 1, 2026: Submission of complete articles meeting journal standards on the RIPME digital platform
• July 15, 2026: Decision of rejection or sending for evaluation
• October 15, 2026: Communication of first decision to authors
• January 15, 2027: Submission of revised version and, if applicable, second evaluation
• March 1, 2027: Communication of decision to authors
• April 1, 2027: Reception of final versions

Masatoshi Kato, Kwansei Gakuin University

David Audretsch, Indiana University

Roy Thurik, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Maksim Belitski, University of Reading

Alex Coad, Waseda Business School

Eric Liguori, Florida State University

This special issue examines how firms of different sizes and stages organize themselves to achieve exceptional performance amid rapid technological change, globalization, and ecosystem interdependencies. The collection seeks theoretical and empirical research on novel organizational forms, structures, and governance models that enable firms to outperform competitors, innovate, and scale effectively. Particular emphasis is given to understanding organizational innovations in hidden champions, niche leaders, scaleups, and other exceptional performers.

The issue welcomes research investigating how novel organizational forms emerge and function across diverse geographical and economic contexts, including high-cost developed economies, emerging economies, and developing regions. Special attention is paid to underrepresented areas beyond OECD countries, recognizing that many Asian economies have cultivated distinctive organizational models through national initiatives. Research should address how factors like leadership, internal collaboration structures, technology adoption, ecosystem relationships, and policy environments shape organizational choices and performance outcomes.

Appel publié par Journal of Small Business Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Leadership and decision architecture
• Internal microstructures and governance
• Make-buy-ally organizational design
• Collaboration diversity and external partnerships
• Digitalization and AI in process organization
• Resilience and productivity through technology
• Ecosystem embedment and alliances
• Global value chain orchestration
• Government relationships and policy
• Cluster governance and institutions
• Business model innovation patterns
• Niche leaders and hidden champions
• Organizational forms across regions and industries
• Scaling and firm growth
• Innovation and productivity frontier

Timeline

• November 1, 2026: Manuscript submission opens
• January 31, 2027: Manuscript submission deadline

Tina Dacin, Wilfrid Laurier University

Robin Holt, University of Bristol

Jean Clarke, Emlyon Business School

Jaco Lok, Macquarie University

Max Ganzin, Macquarie University

This special issue examines the ethical foundations of entrepreneurship, positioning ethics as central to entrepreneurial practice rather than a constraint on it. The issue brings together entrepreneurship studies and philosophical ethics to explore how venture creation, opportunity recognition, and stakeholder engagement involve fundamental questions about responsibility, justice, and human flourishing. It investigates the tension between entrepreneurship's capacity for creativity and disruption and concerns about commodification and self-optimization.

The special issue welcomes diverse methodological and disciplinary perspectives examining how philosophical traditions such as virtue ethics, phenomenology, pragmatism, and deontology illuminate entrepreneurial practice. It particularly emphasizes entrepreneurial decision-making under uncertainty and fluidity, where ethical judgment must balance competing stakeholder interests without reliance on established protocols. The issue seeks papers exploring how entrepreneurship and ethics can deepen each other's understanding through examining contingency, creativity, authenticity, care, and emerging futures.

Appel publié par Journal of Business Ethics. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Philosophical dimensions of ethics and how different philosophical traditions inform understanding of entrepreneurship as an ethical practice
• Phenomenology of the entrepreneurial experience, uncertainty, autonomy, and decision-making
• The entrepreneur and ethical subjectivity, agency, embodiment, and identity
• Ethics and rule-breaking in entrepreneurial contexts
• Stakeholder relations, trust-building, and ethical objectives
• Whether entrepreneurship is inherently ethical or exploitative
• Entrepreneurship and technological mediation in the digital age
• Ethics, value, and the framing of entrepreneurial goals and opportunities
• Temporal dimensions of entrepreneurial ethics and long-term considerations

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Diego Matricano, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

This multi-journal collection brings together cross-disciplinary research on entrepreneurship and its role in shaping the future. It welcomes contributions from researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who examine entrepreneurship as a means to tackle significant global challenges and understand how entrepreneurial activities create expected and realized changes across different contexts.

Papers in this collection analyze entrepreneurship at multiple levels of analysis—from individual and organizational (micro) to industry and regional (meso) to national and global (macro)—to explore how entrepreneurship can drive positive transformation and address contemporary issues.

Appel publié par International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Entrepreneurship as a mechanism for addressing global issues
• Impact of entrepreneurship on future development
• Micro, meso, and macro levels of entrepreneurial analysis
• Expected and realized changes in entrepreneurship phenomena
• Implications of entrepreneurship for society and economy

Timeline

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Maksim Belitski, Loyola University New Orleans

James Cunningham, Newcastle University

Riccardo Fini, University of Bologna

Simon Mosey, University of Nottingham

Phillip H. Phan, Johns Hopkins University

This special collection seeks research on technology transfer and innovation that emerges from collaborations between academic researchers and practitioners, policymakers, or other non-academic stakeholders. The collection particularly welcomes papers co-authored by academics working alongside technology transfer professionals, innovators, investors, and other industry experts, as such partnerships offer unique access to emerging phenomena and practical contexts.

The collection aims to publish rigorous, peer-reviewed scholarship that leverages collaborative engagement to develop new theories, access distinctive data, and address important questions in technology transfer while maintaining the journal's standards for methodological rigor and empirical credibility. Papers should demonstrate how boundary-spanning collaboration contributes novel, impactful insights relevant to both scholarship and practice.

Appel publié par The Journal of Technology Transfer. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Technology transfer and collaboration between academics and non-academic actors
• Entrepreneurship and innovation emerging from academic-practitioner-policymaker interactions
• Boundary-spanning collaborations in technology transfer research
• Co-authored research involving technology transfer professionals, policymakers, entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, industry experts, platform managers, R&D managers, and innovation intermediaries
• Development of new theory through collaborative engagement
• Access to distinctive data and empirical analysis enriched by collaboration
• Policy and practice-relevant insights from technology transfer scholarship
• Methodological rigor combined with practical applicability in innovation research

Timeline

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Appel publié par Journal of Business Venturing. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• October 1, 2027: Submission deadline

This special issue examines how government policies shape the development, effectiveness, and sustainability of business incubation and acceleration systems across different national contexts. The focus is on understanding the policy frameworks that influence the structure, operations, and outcomes of these critical entrepreneurial support mechanisms.

Appel publié par Technovation. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Government policy frameworks and their impact on business incubation ecosystems
• Regulatory environments that support or hinder business acceleration
• National policies promoting entrepreneurship and startup development
• Policy mechanisms for fostering innovation and economic growth
• Comparative analysis of government support systems across countries
• Public sector investment in incubation and acceleration infrastructure
• Policy barriers and enablers in startup ecosystems

Timeline

• March 31, 2027: Submission deadline

Appel publié par Journal of Innovation & Knowledge. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• December 31, 2029: Submission deadline

Bingbing Ge, Lancaster University Management School

Hanqing Fang, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Alfredo De Massis, D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara

Junsheng Dou, Zhejiang University

Winnie Qian Peng, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Appel publié par Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Indigenous Theorizing and Concept Development: Building indigenous theories rooted in Chinese cultural, institutional, and geopolitical conditions, drawing from Confucian ethics, guanxi logics, or dynastic continuity as explanatory mechanisms
• Entrepreneurship as Constraint and Renewal: Exploring how institutional and cultural elements such as filial obligation, demographic legacies, and social perceptions shape entrepreneurial succession
• History-informed research: Taking a history-informed perspective to understand entrepreneurship and family business practices, including innovation through tradition
• Regional Heterogeneity: Incorporating regional institutional heterogeneity as a central explanatory factor in family entrepreneurship across China's varied development models and cultural norms
• Purpose in Chinese Business Families: Theorizing Chinese family offices and their approaches to transgenerational wealth through multi-enterprise portfolios and informal arrangements
• Gender and Patriarchal Paradoxes: Theorizing gendered pathways of leadership specific to the Chinese context and female successors' roles in patriarchal traditions
• Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Communal Orientation: Understanding how cultural embeddedness shapes responsibility, CSR, and legitimacy in Chinese family firms
• Geopolitical Turbulence as Institutional Hybridity: Theorizing how family firms navigate global turbulence under conditions of institutional hybridity and restricted learning opportunities

Timeline

• February 1, 2026: Extended abstract submission deadline for workshop participation
• March 1, 2026: Workshop acceptance notification
• April 11, 2026: Abstract deadline
• April 11, 2026: ERD Special Issue Workshop at Zhejiang University, China
• September 1, 2026: Full paper submission deadline

Shuang Lu Frost, Aarhus University

Magdalena Markowska, King's College London

Kai Roland Green, Aarhus University

Kimberly Eddleston, Northeastern University

Alisa Jno-Charles, Babson College

Haibo Zhou, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Ulla Hytti, University of Turku

Nearly half of early-stage entrepreneurs globally are raising children, yet the intersection of parenthood and entrepreneurship remains underexplored in research. Parent-entrepreneurs face unique tensions between childcare demands and business pressures at individual, family, and societal levels, while entrepreneurship often intensifies rather than resolves work-family conflict. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for developing effective support systems and policy frameworks that recognize the dual roles many founders navigate.

The special issue seeks both explanatory and interpretive research examining how parenthood shapes and is shaped by entrepreneurial activity across diverse family forms, parental roles, and regional contexts. Key areas include motherhood and entrepreneurship (beyond work-family balance), underexplored topics such as fatherhood, single parenthood, and LGBTQ+ parenting, household dynamics between partners and across generations, and how institutional frameworks and welfare policies influence parent-entrepreneurs differently across regions.

Appel publié par Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• How do parent-entrepreneurs negotiate entrepreneurial and parental identities across gender, culture, and sexuality?
• How do emerging models of fatherhood/motherhood shape entrepreneurship?
• What role does founder identity transformation play in the transition to entrepreneurial parenthood?
• How do single parents, LGBTQ+ parents, and individuals in non-normative family forms experience entrepreneurial entry and growth?
• How is role conflict or role enrichment experienced differently by mothers and fathers in entrepreneurial families?
• How do partner dynamics and household egalitarianism shape entrepreneurial decisions?
• What specific resources (cognitive, financial, human, social capital) are transmitted from entrepreneurial parents to children?
• What are the lived experiences and well-being outcomes of children growing up in entrepreneurial households?
• How do macro-level factors (e.g., economic instability, policy frameworks) interact with household dynamics to influence children's outcomes and orientations?
• In what ways do interparental interactions and household role negotiations shape children's perception of entrepreneurship?
• How do entrepreneurial households balance opportunity creation with potential stress or instability for children?
• How do regional policies, parental leave systems, and childcare infrastructure shape entrepreneurial entry, continuation, and exit among parents?
• How do parent-entrepreneurs' experiences differ across welfare regimes (liberal, social-democratic, conservative, developing-country contexts)?
• What role do informal institutions and extended family networks play in enabling or constraining parental entrepreneurship?
• How does the portrayal of parent-entrepreneurs in media, public discourse, and cultural narratives affect entrepreneurial motives and sources of satisfaction?
• How does the self-representation and identity work of parent-entrepreneurs on social media and in entrepreneurial communities contribute to their business success and well-being?
• How do discursive ideals of 'good motherhood' or 'involved fatherhood' constrain or enable entrepreneurial action?
• What are the longitudinal effects of entrepreneurship on family well-being, and vice versa?
• How does parenthood influence innovation, creativity, or business performance?
• How do entrepreneurial career trajectories differ based on family status, parenting roles, and the timing of parenthood relative to venture creation?

Timeline

• June 1, 2026: Abstract deadline
• May 15, 2027: Submission window opens
• July 1, 2027: Manuscript deadline

James Vardaman, University of Memphis

Feigu Zhou, University of Montevallo

Eric Liguori, Florida State University

Shuai Jin, Jiangsu University

Weiwen Li, Sun Yat-sen University

This special collection examines Chinese family businesses navigating intergenerational succession as they approach the 50-year anniversary of China's economic reforms. The collection addresses how family firms balance continuity with renewal as founders transfer leadership to successors, focusing particularly on socioemotional wealth—the noneconomic priorities that family firms pursue, such as preserving family control, maintaining family identity, and ensuring transgenerational continuity.

Chinese family firms provide a distinctive context for advancing family business theory. Unlike Western family enterprises that evolved within stable institutional environments, contemporary Chinese firms emerged after market reforms and now experience large-scale waves of succession amid shifts in economic institutions, governance expectations, and societal values. Successors assume leadership while navigating the coexistence of traditional Confucian principles emphasizing family continuity with modern market logics, professional management practices, and global stakeholder expectations.

Appel publié par Journal of Small Business Management. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Founder succession and leadership transfer in post-reform family firms
• Successor identity formation and legitimacy
• Preservation versus erosion of SEW during succession
• Tensions between family control and professionalization
• Emotional attachment, family identity, and transgenerational intentions
• SEW and strategic renewal
• Long-term consequences of Reform and Opening for family enterprise
• State–family business relationships over time
• Family and nonfamily employee experiences
• Shared identity and organizational identification

Timeline

• October 15, 2026: Extended abstract submission deadline
• May 1, 2027: Full manuscript submission deadline