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European Journal of International Management
Special issue on Internationalization of Social entrepreneurship
Guest Editors:
Domingo Ribeiro Soriano, University of Valencia, Spain
Daniel M. Miller, North Carolina A&T State University, USA
Miguel-Ángel Galindo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Call for Papers
Entrepreneurship is an important source of wealth and job creation in
an economy. It often results in innovative ideas that challenge
existing processes and procedures. The proverbial “thinking outside
of the box” that is often associated with entrepreneurship can lead
people to explore opportunities beyond traditional approaches and
geographies. In particular, social entrepreneurship is a phenomenon
often creates initiatives that connect local and global resources to
provide solutions to societal problems. Due to the nature of social
entrepreneurship, it is plausible to increase the global movements of
workers, products and services that impact economic activity, social
welfare and quality of human conditions.
Social entrepreneurs play an important role in attempting to solve
challenging social issues (e.g., improving quality of life and
economic development). Social entrepreneurs often look for ways to
satisfy social needs in a sustainable manner. Therefore, they must be
creative and innovative with the use of resources, human and social
capital.
Given the current global economic crisis, many governments have been
forced to introduce cuts in their public grants and public
expenditures. This has had a devastating impact on social services.
Therefore, social entrepreneurship may have a new and even more
important role to assist in the reinvigoration of economic markets.
In some ways, these people can be seen as catalysts, economic agents,
that supply these public services, reducing the burden on
governmental agencies that are no longer in the position to support
social programs at traditional levels of funding. In fact, the
solutions for supporting social services may look very different as
social entrepreneurs continue to impact the landscape, both locally
and globally.
From a global perspective, social entrepreneurs transform communities
across boundaries of governments and countries. They are creating
ways to connecting international resources, navigating cross-
culturally and across policy contexts, economic, and political
situations that are quite different from region to region. Given
that there are such differences in global regions, social
entrepreneurs that operate on a global scale must be innovative
across the spectrum of society and innovation processes and
strategies that will ultimately impact some great challenges of
improving the quality of life for very diverse sets of people and
social contexts. This special issue aims to advance our theoretical
and empirical understanding of the internationalization of social
entrepreneurship activities. We encourage theoretical and empirical
approaches. We also encourage submission from authors from all over
the world. Literature reviews and state-of-the-art papers, discussing
theoretical aspects, and/or empirical studies are welcomed.
Subject Coverage
The following list of topics is indicative of the types of
contributions that would be considered for inclusion in this special
issue. However, the list is not intended to be exhaustive.
- The role of the institutions on social entrepreneurship activity.
- Income distribution and its effects on social entrepreneurial
activity.
- Social capital and international entrepreneurship.
- Economic development and social entrepreneurship.
- The relationship between entrepreneurship and economic growth.
- Globalization of social entrepreneurship.
- Psychological aspects in the social entrepreneurial activity and
its consequences on economy.
- Social entrepreneurship.
- Culture aspects and its effects on entrepreneurial activity.
- Governance.
- Philosophical aspects of social entrepreneurship.
-Leadership: what sorts of leadership qualities are needed for
transnational social entrepreneurs?
-Education: how does education and pedagogy impact the receptivity
and effectiveness of global social entrepreneurs?
-Policy: How to policy contexts influence the effectiveness of global
social entrepreneurial efforts?
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 peer review process.
A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for
submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page
(http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31).
Important Dates
Final paper submission deadline: May 1, 2013
Editors and Notes
You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-
mail (details in Author Guidelines) to:
Miguel-Ángel Galindo, University of Castilla-La Mancha
Faculty of Derecho and Ciencias Sociales
Department of Applied Economics
Ronda de Toledo, s/n
13071 Ciudad Real
Spain
Email:
miguelangel.galindo@uclm.es
With an email copy only to:
EJIM Editorial Team
Email:
editors@ejim-global.org
and
IEL Editorial Office
Email:
ejim@inderscience.com
Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the
title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editors.
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