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Call for papers - special issue on Rural Entrepreneurship in the developed and developing world IJEI

  • 1.  Call for papers - special issue on Rural Entrepreneurship in the developed and developing world IJEI

    Posted 03-31-2015 07:11

    Call for papers – Special issue of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Rural Entrepreneurship theory in the developing and developed world

     

    Guest editors: Robert Newbery, Juliana Siwale, Andrew Henley

     

    Rural entrepreneurship plays a key role in capturing innovation, maintaining and developing communities, providing job opportunities and moderating the relationship between farming, land-use, community and economic development. Despite this importance, as an academic field rural entrepreneurship is predominately one focused on the developed world (Pato and Teixeira, 2014). To put this in context, 20% of the population in OECD countries live in rural areas, whilst in Sub-Saharan Africa 63% of the population live in rural areas.

     

    It has been suggested that entrepreneurship research either ignores emerging economies or at best uses them as test-beds for theories established in mature economies (Brunton et al, 2008). The theoretical crossover between research into rural entrepreneurship and international development through entrepreneurship is limited and this call aims for a realignment of boundaries between them.

     

    The special issue calls for original multi-disciplinary papers that explore the explanatory power of concepts common to either rural entrepreneurship or international development within the broader theoretical context. Papers should aim to encompass the developing and developed rural contexts and may relate to ontology / epistemology, 'grand theory', or key concepts in Rural Entrepreneurship or International Development and may take the form of:

     

    1.       Rural Entrepreneurship approaches in the context of International Development

    2.       International Development approaches in the context of Rural Entrepreneurship

    3.       Methodological approaches suitable to both fields that enable comparative analysis

    4.       A teaching case that explores key issues common to both domains

    We welcome papers from any methodology and strongly encourage collaboration between colleagues in developing and developed countries.

     

    Abstracts should initially be submitted by the 30th June 2015, with final papers due 30th October. The special issue will be published during 2016. Contact robert.newbery@plymouth.ac.uk for further information. For more on the journal: http://www.ippublishing.com/ijei.htm, for previous special issues of relevance in IJEI look at: Catalysing International Entrepreneurship, 10(3), and Listening to voices from the margins of entrepreneurship, 8(4)

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    Brunton, G., Ahlstrom, D. and Obloj, K. 2008, Entrepreneurship in emerging economies: Where Are We and Where Should the Research Go in the Future, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 32(1), pp1-14

     

    Pato, M. and Teixeira, A. 2014, Twenty Years of Rural Entrepreneurship: A Bibliometric Survey, Sociologia Ruralis, DOI:10.1111/soru.12058

     

    Regards,

     

    Robert Newbery



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