International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (IJEV)
Call for Papers for a Special Issue on
?The Intersection between Entrepreneurship and Organisational Behaviour?
Guest Editors:
Dr. Michèle O'Dwyer, University of Limerick, Ireland
Dr. Leon Schjoedt, Illinois State University, USA
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Paper Submission Deadline: 5 December 2008
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About the special issue on ?The Intersection between Entrepreneurship
and Organisational Behaviour?:
The very nature of creating new organisations is anchored in actions
of individuals. Entrepreneurial behaviour as a research construct is
the concrete enactment of individual or team tasks or activities
required to start and grow a new venture. Behaviour is best understood
as discrete units of action that can be observed by others. These
activities are consciously chosen by individuals with the intention of
finding and exploiting an opportunity and forming a new organisation
of human, financial, physical, social, and intellectual resources.
This behaviour (the actions) draws upon the experience, knowledge,
skills, abilities, cognitions, intelligence, learning, intentions, and
motivations of entrepreneurial individuals and teams.
As entrepreneurs' behaviour is central to entrepreneurship and new
venture creation, it is expected that substantial research has
addressed entrepreneurs' behaviour. This is not so, however.
Fortunately, this is changing as interest in understanding how
entrepreneurs' abilities, behaviours, characteristics, and motives
influence their success is rejuvenated; and the literature on
Organisational behaviour (OB) offers invaluable assistance to scholars
in understanding entrepreneurs' behaviours. It offers an extensive
array of insights into the fundamental aspects of human behaviours and
processes that seem very relevant to entrepreneurial activities.
Research testing OB theories in the context of new ventures may
provide important new insights not readily obtained in the usual
settings of OB research - large, mature organisations. Also, it may
advance understanding of both OB and entrepreneurship by illustrating
some factors may operate similarly, while other factors may not be
applicable or may operate very differently in new ventures than in
large, mature organisations. Consequently, the purpose of this round
table is to encourage scholars to share findings and insights on how
OB theories apply in the context of new venture creation and to
advance understanding of entrepreneurs' behaviour.
Therefore, conceptual, quantitative or qualitative articles from a
broad range of areas (such as business administration, management,
psychology, sociology etc.) which advance the academic literature on
entrepreneurial behaviour, i.e. the interface between Entrepreneurship
and OB research, will be considered for publication in a special issue
of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing (IJEV).
About the Journal:
The IJEV proposes and fosters discussion on the organisational
processes surrounding the concepts of opportunity, growth and value
creation. Because the exploitation of opportunities, the subsequent
growth of organisations around these opportunities and the value
created by both processes are so vital to the creation and
redistribution of societal wealth, the development and the
dissemination of more systematic knowledge are required.
Whilst some preliminary and traditional efforts in this direction have
been taken, IJEV is open to new, creative and innovative research
approaches, designs and methods. In an attempt to bridge the gap
between research and practice, it emphasises the implications of this
new knowledge for researchers, managers, public policy makers and
business educators.
The objective of IJEV is to provide an international forum in the
field of management with the particular focus on the phenomena of
opportunity, growth and value creation by publishing quality research
articles. It also aims to promote and to coordinate developments in
these fields of management. As these areas have both economic and
societal implications, IJEV encourages the broadening and deepening of
thought in these fields.
IJEV publishes original papers, conceptual papers, empirical papers,
review papers, case studies, relevant reports, book reviews, notes,
commentaries, and news on topics from the perspectives of
entrepreneurship and innovation management. Fresh, novel ideas and new
ways of doing research are particularly welcome!
Readership:
IJEV provides a vehicle to help academics, professionals, researchers
and policy makers, working in the field of entrepreneurship, strategy,
management, and business education, to create and to disseminate
quality knowledge. The journal also provides a forum to allow
interested parties to learn from each other's work.
Specific Notes for Authors:
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All papers are refereed through a double blind process. A guide for
authors can be found here: Author Guidelines. Please send a PDF file
with 20 pages maximum.
Submission Procedure:
Since this Special Issue is connected to the European Academy of
Management (EURAM) Conference in Liverpool (UK) 2009, submission of
papers needs to be done over the following submission website:
http://www.euram2009.org/r/submission
Please be aware to select track:
E - Entrepreneurial Behaviour ? Researching the Intersection between
Entrepreneurship and Organisational Behaviour
under the selection menu (under point 2).
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