Dear Colleague
We would like to invite you to contribute a book chapter for a volume
titled Exploration and Exploitation in Early-Stage Ventures and SMEs.
This volume will be volume 14 in the book series of Technology, Innovation,
Entrepreneurship and Competitive Strategy to be published by Emerald. The
deadline for the book chapter is October 1, 2013. All papers submitted will
undergo peer‐review and the book is expected be published by Aug 2014
This volume is devoted to research aimed at understanding the implications
of Exploration and Exploitation activities in early-stage ventures and
small-and-medium enterprises (SMEs). We seek chapters that explore how such
organizations engage the general paradox of having to balance their
exploration and exploitation activities. This paradox may intensify in such
firms as they generally lack an abundance of resources and capabilities
driving them away from balancing these activities and towards either
exploration or exploitation.
Potential research topics might include but are not limited to research
that offer insights into the performance implications of balancing
exploration and exploitation; balancing mechanism; strategies of early-
stage ventures for building firm-level resources and competencies (Human
resources, financial capital, etc.); creating dynamic capabilities; and
implications to organizational creativity and innovativeness. We welcome
contributions that tackle these and related issues from a variety of
theoretical and empirical perspectives. Contributions to this TIE-CS volume
may take a range of forms, may focus on different levels of analysis, and
may employ both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
Depending on the scope that you wish to present, the chapter should be
around 30‐40 double‐spaced pages including any illustrations, figures,
tables and graphs (for the format of the please see the Harvard Reference
system). If you need to exceed the number of pages please let us know as
soon as you can.
If you wish to contribute, please email your study by October 1st to Uriel
Stettner(
urielste@tau.ac.il) or Barak Aharonson (
aharonson@tau.ac.il).
Feel free to contact us should you have any questions.
Thank you for your consideration and we look forward to your reply.
Yours sincerely,
Uriel Stettner, Tel-Aviv University, Recanati School of Business, Israel
Barak S. Aharonson, Tel-Aviv University, Recanati School of Business, Israel
Terry Amburgey, University of Toronto, Canada
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