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From: Vanessa Ratten [mailto:
vanessaratten@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:16 PM
To:
jbunch@benedictine.edu
Cc: Leo Dana; Mary Han;
isabell.welpe@t-online.de
Subject: Please distribute this call for papers
Dear Professor John Bunch
Could you please circulate this call for papers to the ENTRE list serve.
Kind thanks, Vanessa Ratten
Call for Papers - International Journal of Innovation and Regional
Development (IJIRD)
Special Issue on: "Community-based Entrepreneurship"
Deadline: 30 June 2008
https://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=899
Guest Editors: Prof. Vanessa Ratten, Duquesne University, USA
Prof. Leo Dana, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Prof. Isabell Welpe, University of Munich, Germany
Prof. Mary Han, Ryerson University, Canada
Since Johannisson and Nilsson's (1989) seminal paper on
community-based entrepreneurship, the literature on how regional
development is facilitated by community interaction has grown. The
increasing sentiment of people and businesses worldwide to "act
locally but think globally" has meant that community-based
entrepreneurship is becoming more important in encouraging businesses
and public policy practitioners to focus on the significance of people
working together to facilitate regional development (Kapelus, 2002;
Lyons, 2002). In this special issue, we define community-based
entrepreneurship as "a community acting corporately as both
entrepreneur and enterprise in pursuit of the common good" (Peredo and
Chrisman, 2006:310). Thus, community-based entrepreneurship involves a
process through which new enterprises are created and operate in a
communities existing social structure (Peredo and Chrisman, 2006). The
economic and social role of community-based entrepreneurship has been
recognised by a growing number of disciplines, including sociology,
management and urban studies (e.g.,Bull and Winter, 1991; Johannisson
and Nilsson, 1989; Light and Karageorgis, 1994; Mezias and Kuperman,
2001; Selsky and Smith, 1994). Community-based entrepreneurship is
encouraged through personal networking that influence local venturing
processes and regional development (Johannisson and Nilsson, 1989).
The special issue takes a multi-disciplinary perspective to help
examine the role of community-based entrepreneurship in the
international context. Thus, its aim is to study how community-based
entrepreneurship is encouraging regional development as people become
part of a number of different communities worldwide. We are looking
for new theoretical insights and empirical studies that will
contribute to the literature on community-based entrepreneurship.
Subject Coverage
Papers should address research questions in the field, including but
not limited to the following topics
* Market conditions for community-based entrepreneurship (openness of
markets, regulations, transparency of market and resource
mobilisation).
* The importance of cognitions and emotions in community-based
entrepreneurship.
* The role of human resource management practices and in
community-based entrepreneurship.
* Public perception of community-based entrepreneurship.
* The antecedents and consequences of family participation in various
aspects of community-based entrepreneurship.
* How has community-based entrepreneurship influenced regional
development in global contexts and will this change in the future?
* Comparative differences in community-based entrepreneurship by
countries, city, ethnic/national subgroup, sector and periods.
* The role of social capital and social networks in community-based
entrepreneurship.
* The role of technological innovation in community-based entrepreneurship.
* The importance of communities for the perception, evaluation and
exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities.
Notes for Intending Authors
You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an
e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to the following:
Vanessa Ratten
A.J. Palumbo School of Business Administration
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh
United States
Email:
vanessaratten@gmail.com
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