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Entrepreneurial Resourcefulness:

Competing with Constraints

Volume 15 of Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth

Closing Date: June 30, 2012

Editors:

Andrew Corbett, Babson College; Jerome Katz, Saint Louis University

Advances in Entrepreneurship, Firm Emergence and Growth provides an annual examination of the major current research, theoretical, and methodological efforts in the field of entrepreneurship, and its related disciplines, including firm emergence and new firm growth research. The Advances series also publishes papers from other fields, such as strategy, organizational behavior, or sociology that use entrepreneurial samples or concepts and make a significant contribution to entrepreneurial theory or research.

Volume 15 will examine how entrepreneurs compete under situations with limited resources, major constraints, or both.  Entrepreneurs are known for their creativity.  Often, the creativity displayed by entrepreneurs is driven by a lack of resources that necessitates novel or innovative product and/or process solutions.  Prior research has examined how entrepreneurs cope with limited resources by examining concepts and constructs such as creativity, adaptation, improvisation, bricolage, effectuation, innovation, intuition, bootstrapping and trial-and-error learning, to name a few examples of entrepreneurial resourcefulness.   Both theoretical and empirical manuscripts that consider resource constraints and aspects of the above concepts are encouraged. We also welcome conceptual or empirical papers challenging the fundamental premise of the volume.  A representative, but by no means exhaustive, listing of relevant topics includes:

            How do limited resources (financial, human, social, etc.) effect the entrepreneurial process or how entrepreneurs compete;

            How do the limits of time effect the entrepreneurial process and how entrepreneurs successfully compete;

            Conceptualizations and measures of varied forms of entrepreneurial "resourcefulness" to support emergence of a coherent body of research;

            Patterns of action and behavioral repertoires that enhance or impede resourcefulness;

            The limits of resourcefulness;

            Relationships between opportunity recognition, evaluation, creation and competing under constraints;

            Relationships between failure and competing under constraints;

            Psychological factors and competing under constraints;

            Sociological factors and competing under constraints;

            Economic factors and competing under constraints;

            The need for and/or building of networks when competing with limited resources;

            Cross-cultural comparative studies of competing with limited resources;

            Theoretical and conceptual models of constrained entrepreneurial competition;

            Entrepreneurship education research focused on competing with limited resources; and

            Entrepreneurial resources constraints in different contexts – corporate, social, sustainable, family business, etc.

The papers in Advances reflect many state-of-the-art topics and approaches, and are written by leading researches in the field, making each volume an important source of information for virtually all entrepreneurship researchers. The distinctive competence of research volumes such as Advances is that the chapters can be published without page restrictions allowing for greater detail in the background, development, and implementation of ideas than is possible in journal articles. This provides authors with the opportunity to fully express their key ideas, provide much more complete support, and include relevant multi-page appendices. In effect, the Advances series provides authors the opportunity to publish an "article of record" of their major theoretical or empirical ideas, and see it disseminated to a wide audience. Today, the series is in the libraries of virtually all of the schools with active Ph.D. programs in entrepreneurship, as well as the majority of AACSB accredited schools with MBA concentrations in entrepreneurship and related fields.

We welcome the opportunity to discuss paper ideas with interested researchers.   Contact information for the editors:  Andrew Corbett, acorbett@babson.edu; and Jerry Katz, katzja@slu.edu.