There has been a good recent discussion of outlets for entrepreneurship research on the list serve recently.
The reformatted Academy of Management Perspectives (formerly Academy Management Executive) is an excellent outlet and very open to entrepreneurship articles and authors should look at it as an outlet. AMP has a SCII impact factor of 1.3 and growing plus goes to all 18,000 AoM members. Thus, all articles receive wide attention.
The journal has a new format that started in 2006 so there have been three issues of the journal to date - there was an entrepreneurship article in two of those thee issues, so a high percentage of articles accepted to date have an entrepreneurial focus. The two articles published this year are cited below. These articles are great articles for the classroom for MBA and EMBA classes.
There are two major types of articles for the journal. The first tells us "what do we know" about a topic of some importance to Academy members. These would go beyond simply reviewing prior research, that is, go beyond repeating what others have said in the form of a traditional academic literature review, and add value by organizing the discussion in ways that add new insights.
The second would use original information to help us understand "new developments" in business and management. Most of these articles would provide descriptions and illustrations of some development that has not already been thoroughly studied. The trick with these articles is to find developments that are important enough to write about and new information that provides the kind of descriptive or illustrative information that is useful for readers.
AMP does not duplicate the mission of the other Academy journals. Specifically, the Academy of Management Journal which addresses traditional empirical research, and the Academy of Management Review handles articles that attempt to build theory. Thus, we do not publish articles that attempt to test theory and build traditional normal science research literature. Those should go to AMJ. Nor will it consider articles that attempt to build theory. Those should go to AMR. You can read more about the journal at
http://journals.aomonline.org/amp/ .
The two articles you should look at for your classroom use are:
An Entrepreneur's Guide to the Venture Capital Galaxy. By: De Clercq, Dirk; Fried, Vance H.; Lehtonen, Oskari; Sapienza, Harry J.. Academy of Management Perspectives, Aug 2006, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p90-112
Opportunity Recognition as Pattern Recognition: How Entrepreneurs "Connect the Dots" to Identify New Business Opportunities. By: Baron, Robert A.. Academy of Management Perspectives, Feb 2006, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p104-119
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