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Special issue: ‘Rural entrepreneurship theory in the developing world’ - International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  • 1.  Special issue: ‘Rural entrepreneurship theory in the developing world’ - International Journal of Entrepreneurship & Innovation

    Posted 06-14-2015 18:04

    Hi,

     

    I'd like to remind any interested colleagues that abstract submission for the following call is due at the end of this month:

     

    Rural entrepreneurship theory in the developing world

     

    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 predominantly focused on the developed world (Pato and Teixeira, 2014). To put this into context, 20% of the population in OECD countries live in rural areas, compared with 63% in Sub-Saharan Africa.

     

    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 special issue aims for a realignment of boundaries between them.

     

    The special issue calls for original multidisciplinary papers that explore the explanatory power of concepts common to either rural entrepreneurship or international development in the broader theoretical context. Papers should 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 be submitted by 30 June 2015, with final papers due by 30 October 2015. 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 look at: 'Catalysing international entrepreneurship', Vol 10, No 3, and 'Listening to voices from the margins of entrepreneurship', Vol 8, No 4.

     

    References

     

    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, Vol 32, No 1, pp 1–14.

     

    Pato, M., and Teixeira, A. (2014), 'Twenty years of rural entrepreneurship: a bibliometric survey', Sociologia Ruralis, DOI:10.1111/soru.12058.

     

    Many thanks,

     

    Robert Newbery, Juliana Siwale and Andrew Henley

     

    Dr Robert Newbery

    Futures Entrepreneurship Centre

    Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Development

    203 Futures Entrepreneurship Centre
    Plymouth - Devon PL4 8AA - United Kingdom

    T +44(0) 1752 585748

    Web CV: http://www5.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/robert-newbery Web: Plymouth Business School

     

    Deputy Director of the Service and Enterprise Research Centre

     

     

     



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