ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSSUE: CROSS BORDER ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN BORDER REGIONS
Guest Editors
Professor David Smallbone, Small Business Research Centre (SBRC), Kingston University, UK
Professor Friederike Welter, JIBS, Jönköping University, Sweden
The Journal
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development provides a multi-disciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners in the field of entrepreneurship and small business development, with a regional development orientation. The journal focuses on the diverse and complex characteristics of local and regional economies, which lead to the emergence of entrepreneurship, innovation and economic vitality. Entrepreneurship and Regional Development is included in the ISI Citation Index.
Special Issue
The aim of the special issue is to make a critical contribution to the evidence base on cross border co-operation and entrepreneurship, as well as to wider debates about the role of public policy with respect to entrepreneurship and regional development. A further aim is to assess the relevance of existing theories of internationalisation of SMEs to the phenomenon of cross border entrepreneurship.
The editors welcome conceptual and empirical papers on any aspect of cross border entrepreneurship, which is linked to economic development in border regions. Papers related to one or more of the following topics are particularly welcome:
· The role of trust in the establishment and development of cross border entrepreneurship
· The role of formal and informal institutions in fostering and impeding cross border entrepreneurship
· Regional case studies of cross border co-operation, with focus on the implication for entrepreneurship development
· Critical analysis of the role of public policy in influencing cross border entrepreneurship in border regions
· Analysis of the role of governance structures in influencing the nature and extent of cross border entrepreneurship
· The role of individual and institutional learning (and de-learning) in the development of cross border co-operation
· The role of identity as an enabling/constraining force on cross border entrepreneurship
Process for Submission of Papers
Papers submitted must not have been published/accepted for publication or currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Submissions should be between 6000 and 8000 words in length. Full papers should be submitted by Email word attachment to the special issue editors. The first page must contain the title, author(s) and contact information for the lead author. For additional guidelines, see 'Instructions for Authors' from a recent issue of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development or visit http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0898-5626&linktype=44.
Papers suitable for publication in the special issue will be subjected to a double-blind review, so that author should not identify themselves in the main body of the paper.
Authors should submit a 2-3 page abstract to the special issue editors before writing the paper, in order to receive feedback on its suitability and orientation. Abstracts should be submitted by 30 June 2009 and feedback will be sent to authors by 14 August 2009 at the latest.
Deadline for receipt of full paper
31 December 2009
Please address any further questions to the special issue editors:
David Smallbone
Small Business Research Centre
Kingston University
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey KT2 7LB
UK
(tel: +44(0)20 8547 7218; fax +44(0)20 8547 7140; Email: d.smallbone@kingston.ac.uk)
Friederike Welter
JIBS
Sweden
(Tel: +46(0)36 10 1934; fax: +46(0)36 101888, Email: Friederike.Welter@ihh.hj.se)
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