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.

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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