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.

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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

Frederike Scholz, HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht

Joanna Szulc, Gdańsk University of Technology

Paulina Segarra, Universidad Anáhuac México

Zuzanna Staniszewska, Kozminski University

Richard Longman, The Open University Business School

This special issue addresses debates about how management and organizational research is conducted and evaluated, particularly regarding inclusion and equity. It builds on participatory and emancipatory research traditions—including disability studies, feminist approaches, and arts-based methodologies—centered on the principle that research should not be conducted about marginalized groups without their participation. The issue argues that conventional methodologies can sideline or misrepresent lived experience, and seeks to open new possibilities for research that is attentive to power, voice, and epistemic justice.

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Potential topics

• Inclusive Research and Co-Creation of Knowledge: Collaborative methodologies that engage underrepresented groups as partners in the research process
• Intersectional Approaches: Research attending to intersectional reflexivity and how researchers' and participants' shifting identities shape the research process
• Researcher Reflexivity and Positionality: Critical examination of the researcher's role, including biases, assumptions, and relational positioning
• Ethical Considerations: Work addressing ethical tensions of inclusive research, including consent, access, representation, and power
• Longitudinal and Mixed-methods Approaches: Research tracing lived experience over time and/or challenging rigid separations through integrative designs
• Creative and Arts-Based Methods: Research examining use of creative and arts-based approaches including storytelling, photography, poetry, music, drawing, and multimodal practices
• Digital Tools and Immersive Technologies: Contributions exploring digital and immersive methods with critical reflections on accessibility, participation, and power
• Activism and Advocacy: Work examining how research operates as intervention and contributes to social change through non-traditional communication
• Researching and Writing Differently: Contributions challenging conventional academic forms and experimenting with multimodality, dialogue, and collective-authored texts

Timeline

• June 1, 2026: Call for special issue is released
• April 1, 2027: Deadline for submission of manuscripts
• September 3, 2027: First round of editorial decisions (with reviews)
• December 3, 2027: Resubmission deadline
• April 3, 2028: Second round of editorial decisions
• July 1, 2028: Final resubmission
• October 1, 2028: Final decision