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Call for Book Chapters

Foundational Articles in Entrepreneurship Studies

Lead Editor: Golshan Javadian

While entrepreneurship, broadly defined as business creation and ownership, has a long and checkered history (Neergaard & Ulhoi, 2007), research endeavors in the field have had a much recent origin (Low, 2001; Chiles, Gupta, & Bluedorn, 2007), with the first academic book on entrepreneurship appearing in the 1930s and the first academic presentation in the 1950s (Jennings & Brush, 2013). Starting from humble beginnings, entrepreneurship research gradually gained momentum as the field acquired increasing legitimacy. Entrepreneurship is now a popular field of serious academic inquiry and with a growing community of researchers contributing from a broad spectrum of scholarly disciplines. Given the increasing popularity of the academic field of entrepreneurship, it would be beneficial to review and analyze the articles that are considered classics within the discipline. Analyzing classics allows for the recognition of substantive advances in entrepreneurship research and provides an opportunity to delve on the academic progress achieved in understanding entrepreneurial phenomena.

The purpose of this is book is to draw attention to the seminal (classic) articles that have made a profound contribution to the development of entrepreneurship as a serious academic discipline. In this vein, we aim for contributions from scholars on articles published on the formative years of entrepreneurship research, specifically the 1970s and 1980 (papers from 1990s will be considered on a case-by-case basis). Each book chapter will identify a classic paper, discussing why and how the ideas therein are still relevant to the field and how future research can build on the insights the paper suggested, and in ways that continue to resonate in the field.

Proposal Submission Deadline: June 15, 2016

Interested authors are invited to submit a short one-page chapter proposal to golshan.javadian@morgan.edu stating the classic article they would like to cover, a short summary of the article, and the reasons why they consider their particular article a classic. The classics should preferably be from the 1970s and 1980s but papers from the 1990s are accepted on a case-by-case basis. Feedback on proposals will be provided by July 30th, 2016. Authors of selected proposals are highly encouraged to join us during this year's Academy Meetings at the AoM caucus for classic entrepreneurship articles (details will be provided).

Full Chapters Due: January 31, 2017

Authors are responsible for submitting a well-written and edited final draft to the editor. Each chapter should be 7000 to 8000 words long. The chapters will undergo a double blind peer review.