NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Special Issue on: "Entrepreneurial Orientation"
Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) has emerged as a prominent example of a stabilized concept in organizational science (Basso, Bouchard, & Fayolle, 2009). However, despite a large and growing body of research on the concept, key knowledge voids remain (Covin & Lumpkin, 2011). The purpose of this call for papers is to focus attention on hitherto unexplored issues in the EO literature. Specifically, we encourage researchers to submit manuscripts dealing with issues and problems pertaining to EO that have not been addressed in literature yet.
This special issue will focus on EO, broadly defined. Both micro- and macro-level studies are invited, and both quantitative and qualitative approaches are welcome. We encourage authors from around the world to come forward with emerging and groundbreaking topics to diversify and widen EO research.
Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
• Theoretical perspectives on EO, and linking EO with performance
• Measurement issues in the EO literature
• The performance construct in EO
• EO and corporate entrepreneurship
• EO and social entrepreneurship
• Gender and EO
• Ethical issues in EO
• Control variables in the EO literature
• EO and levels-of-analysis
• EO and economic growth
• EO in non-traditional firms (not-for-profits, public sector, state-owned enterprises)
• EO in developing and transition countries
Notes for Prospective 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 rigorous developmental peer review process.
All papers must be submitted online. Submission guidelines are available at http://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/neje/policies.html.
Important Dates
Submission of manuscripts: 31 July, 2015
Notification to authors: 15 September, 2015
Final versions due: 20 February, 2016
Questions can be directed to the Special Issue editors:
Vishal Gupta (vgupta@binghamton.edu)
Devkamal Dutta (dev.dutta@unh.edu)