Call for papers for a practitioner-oriented journal on small business and entrepreneurship
Dear Colleague,
We would like to invite you to submit a paper to a journal oriented to practitioners: The Small and Medium-sized Enterprises and Entrepreneurship Review (SMEE Review). The SMEE Review is a new journal created by the Canadian Council for Small Business and entrepreneurship (CCSBE-CCPME) and will publish articles and information directly useful to practitioners. Without being simplistic recipes, the SMEE articles will be theoretically and/or empirically grounded, but written in the practitioner's language. They will address subjects that are importan
When writing your paper for submission, please ensure that esoteric terminology, acronyms, and academic language are replaced by more accessible language and presentation. To this end, the following eight principles will be useful:
i) Aggregate findings into as few key concepts as possible
ii) Turn key concepts from words into pictures
iii) Link key process instructions directly to key concepts
iv) Provide application scenarios that are indicative but not prescriptive
v) Keep guidelines broad, allowing room for provision of detail dependent upon resources and circumstances
vi) Give the source of information, but keep in mind that practitioners are more interested to how to do rather than on what Aristotle and Plato have said.
vii) The methodology must be an appendix to the article to assist reviewers in article assessment. If the article is accepted, the editorial board will help reduce the methodology to a short sidebar relevant to practitioners.
viii) If possible, the editorial board will help you to rewrite your article in order to adapt its style and content to the journal's primary audience
For more details on some of these principles, please see, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 2004, 17(4): pp. 261-266 and pp. 267-276.
Submission guidelines
Format
- SMEE Review encourages electronic submission (e-mail SMEE.Review@uregina.ca). Manuscript should be submitted in Microsoft Word Format (doc or rtf).
- Article should have 2000-2500 words (including references and notes)
- Manuscript submissions should include the mailing and e-mailing addresses and a one paragraph summary of the article
- Notes, citations and references should be numbered in the text and compiled at the end of the text following the Academy of management style. In the case of uncertainty, follow recommendations by Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations. Six
Style:
- Articles should be as jargon-free as possible
- Three descending levels of headings should be used consistently throughout the article
- Tables, charts, diagrams, and other graphics should be used for providing necessary information or clarification of central concepts.
Please note that your paper will be reviewed by a editorial board composed of academics, practitioners, and service providers in the area of SMEs and entrepreneurship. The deadline for submission for the next issue of the SMEE Review is <st1:date month="8" day="15" year="2007">August 15, 2007</st1:date>.
I look forward to hearing from you.
If you have any questions on the special issue please feel free to contact us.
Jean-Marie Nkongolo-Bakenda, Ph.D.
CCSBE President
Associate Professor
Faculty of Business Administration
<st1:place><st1:placetype>University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename>Regina</st1:placename></st1:place>
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<st1:country-region><st1:place>Canada</st1:place></st1:country-region> S4S 0A2
Phone: 306-585-4721
Fax: (306)-585-5361
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