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Call for Papers 

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal 

Special Issue on: 

Beyond Entrepreneurial Intentions: Values and Motivations in Entrepreneurship 

A long time has passed since the studies by  McClelland on need for achievement and entrepreneurship. This work originated a  high interest on the motivations that lead entrepreneurs to start new businesses. For a time, it was thought that motivations, together with personal traits, would serve to predict who would be the future successful entrepreneur. However, some authors argued that the entrepreneurial process was a more promising field of research, and the interest on motivations towards entrepreneurship rapidly declined during the 1990s. However, as more entrepreneurship research is building on cognitive psychology, the personal entrepreneurial process is being recognized as highly complex and the role of motivations is being investigated again (Carsrud and Brannback 2009). 

More recently, personal values have also been pointed out as playing a relevant role in entrepreneurship. Specific actions may become  more attractive to the extent that they promote attainment of valued goals. Thus, an opportunity to attain one of these highly prioritized values will set off an automatic, positive, affective response to actions that will serve them (Schwartz2006). Even in more complex decisions involving the need to develop careful plans, values play a relevant role. More important goals induce a stronger motivation to plan thoroughly. The higher the priority given to a value, the more likely people will form action plans that can lead to its expression in behaviour (Liñán 2008).  

There are, therefore, a number of relevant gaps in knowledge about the role played by values and motivations in entrepreneurship. In particular, the articulation of values and motivations within the entrepreneurial process perspective and the widely used entrepreneurial intention models could be very promising (Fayolle et al. 2008; Moriano et al. 2012; Liñán et al. 2011). The topics of interest covered in this Special Issue include (but are not limited to) the following: 

• Values as determinants of the strength of intention 

• The influence of personal values on entrepreneurial attitudes 

• Relevant classifications of motivations in the entrepreneurial process 

• The mediating effect of goals and motivations in the intention-behaviour link 

• Alternative measures of motivations and personal values in entrepreneurship 

• Cross cultural studies on entrepreneurial motivations and values 

   

Format guidelines 

Abstracts and submissions must be prepared in line with the journal guidelines for authors: 

Timetable 

The Special Issue is scheduled to be published in 2014. The following timetable/deadline 

dates are given for your information: 

1. Submission of full papers – by 31 December 2012, preferably earlier. Early 

communication of intent (sending abstract) by prospective authors is desirable. 

2. Feedback from reviewers - by 30 April 2013 

3. Final revised submission - by 30 September 2013. 

  

Please feel free to contact the Guest Editors if you have any queries about the Special Issue. 

If you have any colleagues who you feel may be interested in submitting an article, please feel free to forward this Call to them. 

References 

Carsrud, A. L., & Brannback, M. (Eds.). (2009). Understanding the entrepreneurial mind (International studies in entrepreneurship, Vol. 24). New York: Springer. 

Fayolle, A., Barbosa, S. D., & Kickul, J. (2008). New venture creation and perceptions of entrepreneurial risk. Revue Française de Gestion, 34(5), 141-159. 

Liñán, F. (2008). Skill and value perceptions: how do they affect entrepreneurial intentions? International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 4(3), 257-272. 

Liñán, F., Santos, F. J., & Fernández, J. (2011). The influence of perceptions on potential entrepreneurs. International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 7(3), 373-390. 

Moriano, J. A., Molero, F., Topa, G., & Lévy, J.-P. (2012). The influence of transformational leadership and organizational identification on intrapreneurship. International Entrepreneurship 

and Management Journal, OnLineFirst(1-17). 

Schwartz, S. H. (2006). Les valeurs de base de la personne : théorie, mesures et applications. Revue Francaise De Sociologie, 47(4), 929-968.