Call for papers, Special issue of Journal of Business Venturing Insights:
Beyond Bridging Rigor and Relevance: The Three-Body Problem in Entrepreneurship
Through this Special Issue, we seek to bring attention to design as a third body of knowledge that complements theory and practice, and to the value of more reflective efforts to translate general theory into actionable design interventions in order to make them useful for entrepreneurial practice and policy. We encourage scholars to complement theoretical and practical knowledge by pursuing a body of knowledge that focuses explicitly on pragmatic design principles.
The Special Issue addresses the tension between the theoretical ambitions of academic scholars and the concerns of practitioners by (1) outlining a distinct third body of knowledge in the form of pragmatically oriented entrepreneurial design principles, (2) discussing if and how it can complement established knowledge bases of entrepreneurship theory and practice, and (3) exploring its interfaces with both the more abstract causal mechanisms of entrepreneurship theory and the complex realities of entrepreneurial practice, as illustrated below.
This is a virtual special issue (VSI) in that papers being submitted operate as part of the normal flow of the journal, but are designated (tagged) as being submitted to and, if successful, as part of the special issue. If accepted, articles will be published in the first available regular issue and simultaneously appear in a new section specifically dedicated to the VSI. Thus, the content of the special issue can be called up at any time and it will be continuously expanding. Unlike a retrospective special issue in which previously published papers that address a particular topic can be collated into a finite collection, this is a prospective special issue in that it will be live and continuously evolving.
We look to receive a first batch of papers by 1 September 2018, to appear in the December issue. In line with JBVI's commitment to go from submission to publishing in 3 months, papers submitted to the VSI will be processed immediately. Under the JBVI's article-based publishing process, they will become permanently citable (with their actual issue number and page numbers) as soon as they appear online.
For more details, see our full opening editorial here.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Best wishes,
Henrik Berglund, Dimo Dimov, Karl Wennberg
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Dimo Dimov
University of Bath, United Kingdom
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