From: Domingo Ribeiro [mailto:
Domingo.Ribeiro@uv.es]
Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 6:48 AM
Dear Colleagues,
We are sending you the Call for Papers included below in the hope that it
may be of interest to you for future research projects. Small Business
Economics will be publishing a special issue entitled "Globalization of
Entrepreneurship in Small Organizations".
Although there is still some time before the deadline, approximately two
years, we hope that this gap will allow you to plan your projects around the
special issue in Small Business Economics Journal.
We are happy to answer any questions you have on the Call for Papers.
Thank you for your time.
Best wishes,
Domingo Ribeiro (
domingo.ribeiro@uv.es) and Salvador Roig
(
salvador.roig@uv.es)
University of Valencia, Spain
www.domingoribeiro.com
www.uv.es/roigs
Small Business Economics Journal (SBEJ) Special Issue:
Globalization of Entrepreneurship in Small Organizations
Guest Editors: Professor Domingo Ribeiro and Professor Salvador Roig
University of Valencia, Spain
The study of the globalization of entrepreneurship in small organizations
will be the focus of a Small Business Economics Journal special issue
scheduled for 2009. The link between entrepreneurship and small business,
and vice-versa is a relatively recent one, although studies by Vesper
(1974), along with the International Symposium on Entrepreneurship and
Enterprise Development that appeared in June 1975, were among the first
scientific sources to indicate the presence of such a relationship. In this
issue, we will attempt to analyze the current state of this relationship in
the face of new factors that characterize today's international economic
climate. The idea that small and medium-sized organizations can adapt more
easily to changes in the environment due to their more manageable size and
can compete perfectly with large organizations through specialization and
networks provided by new technology has been widely demonstrated in recent
years Changes that have affected the market and businesses, such as the
sweeping tide of globalization, must be analyzed and documented in the near
future so that the empirical studies and theories expounded in this special
issue may constitute a guide for researchers, scholars, consultants,
entrepreneurs, businessmen, managers, government agencies, policy makers and
practitioners pertaining to a multi-disciplinary forum in the field of
business. The issue will deal with the diverse and complex characteristics
of entrepreneurship in small organizations focusing on both the for-profit
and non-profit areas in SMEs in local, regional, national or international
markets that lead to competitiveness in the face of the effects of
globalization.
Small organizations are the most common type of firm found in today's global
economy. Porter indicated that the success of SMEs, under the effects of
globalization, depended on the formulation and implementation of strategies.
Some of these strategies take the form of marketing and innovation.
Marketing strategy may be better supported when management has an
entrepreneurial bias. Small businesses represent a path towards innovation
as Acs and Audretsch have shown in their extensive research (Acs and
Audretsch, 1990; Audretsch, 1995). Thus, as Schumpeter also pointed out,
small organizations are a vehicle for entrepreneurship. Manuscripts that
deal with entrepreneurial orientation and innovation among SMEs affected by
globalization would be suitable for this special issue.
Editors urge authors to pose research that makes significant contributions
to the literature. Such research includes developing and testing core
elements of existing theories, resolving conflicting predictions from
multiple theories, or integrating different theories, propositions,
contributions and findings. This can be done using different samples or
measures, to then seek conclusions that break new ground and provide a major
and lasting impact. Submissions could report on single-country studies or
multiple country comparisons. In particular we would welcome articles on:
· Interfaces between small business and entrepreneurship, and
vice-versa in the present global market.
· Entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy for small
organizations.
· Educational entrepreneurship in small business.
· Institutional aid and policy initiatives to entrepreneurship in
small organizations.
· Small business and entrepreneurship networks
· Promoting entrepreneurship in emerging economies.
· Specific management practices that small organizations need to
utilize to achieve entrepreneurship.
· Interdisciplinary approaches to the study of entrepreneurship in
SMEs.
· Entrepreneurship and its relation to human resources in small
business.
· Innovation in small organizations.
· Ethical context of entrepreneurship in small business.
· Small franchisor organizations.
· Entrepreneurship in the small not-for-profit sector.
· Implications of management in the entrepreneurial small
public-sector.
· Comparison of entrepreneurship development in countries
· Entrepreneurship training for emerging small organizations.
· Entrepreneurship in microenterprises.
· New tendencies and research in entrepreneurship and small
business.
Papers must be electronically submitted to the Small Business Economics
Manuscript website, which is located at:
http://www.editorialmanager.com/sbej -while submitting, please choose "Glob.
of Ent. in Small Org" as the article type from the drop down menu box.
Full information about the journal, including links to the SBEJ style
guidelines, which must be followed, can be found on the web at
http://journal.sbej.mpg.de/
Full papers are due by June 30, 2008. All papers must be based on original
material not under consideration by any other journal and will go through
the regular double-blind review process to ensure its relevance and quality.
Guest Editors Contact Details: Domingo Ribeiro or Salvador Roig, University
of Valencia-Facultad de Economía, Campus de los Naranjos, Avenida de los
Naranjos, 46021 Valencia, Spain. Email to
domingo.ribeiro@uv.es or
salvador.roig@uv.es; Fax: +34 963 828 333
REFERENCES
Acs, Zoltan J.and David B. Audretsch, 1990, Innovation and Small Firms, MIT
Press, Cambridge, MA.
Audretsch, David B., 1995, Innovation and Industry Evolution, MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA.
Vesper, Karl H., 1974, ´Entrepreneurship, a Fast Emerging Area in Management
Studies´, Journal of Small Business Management 12, 8-15.
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Thanks very much! Hope your summer is going well. Look forward to seeing
you shortly.
Best regards,
Domingo
Domingo Ribeiro Soriano
University of Valencia, Spain
www.domingoribeiro.com
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