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Call for papers for: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research

  • 1.  Call for papers for: International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research

    Posted 08-31-2020 14:37

    Guest Editors:

    Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi, School of Strategy and Leadership, Faculty of Business and Law, Coventry University; Vahid.Jafari-Sadeghi@coventry.ac.uk

    Arun Sukumar, International Centre for Transformational Entrepreneurship, Coventry University; ac2780@coventry.ac.uk

    Leo-Paul Dana, Montpelier Business School; lp.dana@montpellier-bs.com

    Robert Brent Anderson, Levene/ Hill School of Business, University of Regina; Robert.Anderson@uregina.ca

    Aim and Scope

    In recent decades, the business environment has been characterised by, among other phenomena, the liberalisation of nations and their increasing participation in the global economy (Aulakh and Kotabe, 2008). With this increase in globalisation (Kiss et al., 2012), the interest in the field of international entrepreneurship (IE) has grown (e.g., Hisrich et al., 1996; McDougall-Covin and Oviatt, 2000; Zahra and George, 2002; McDougall and Oviatt, 2003; Knight and Cavusgil, 2004; Etemad, 2005; Dana and Wright, 2009; Dana, 2017; Jafari Sadeghi and Biancone, 2018). IE is a hybrid of internationalisation and entrepreneurship that involves making judgmental decisions about the coordination of scarce resources across international boundaries (Dana, Hamilton and Wick, 2009). Developing a model of the forces influencing the speed of internationalisation, Oviatt and McDougall-Covin (2005) define international entrepreneurship as "the discovery, enactment, evaluation, and exploitation of opportunities –across national borders– to create future goods and services". In other words, entrepreneurial activities in an existing organisation and/or in creating a new business to access the global markets to promote the internationalisation.

    In the IE literature, scholars have focused on factors that facilitate internationalisation: some on the country attributes (e.g., Bruton, Ahlstrom and Obloj, 2008; Jafari Sadeghi, Nkongolo-Bakenda, et al., 2019), others on firm attributes (e.g., Zahra and Garvis, 2000), and still others who have identified individual attributes (e.g., Manolova et al., 2002). Those in the last group have devoted special emphasis on the importance of the entrepreneur in the international development of the ventures and explored entrepreneurs' general attitude, motivation, orientation, experience and network (Andersson, 2004, Jafari-Sadeghi, 2019). In this regard, the entrepreneur is seen as a proactive individual especially crucial for firms in the early phase of the internationalisation process, especially in growth-oriented industries. Literature emphasised the entrepreneurial behaviour of individuals such as involving risk-taking, innovativeness, international vision, and motivations etc. which contribute as catalysts for internationalisation of firms (Bloodgood, Sapienza and Almeida, 1996; Madsen and Servais, 1997; Oviatt and McDougall-Covin, 1997; Jafari Sadeghi and Biancone, 2017; Jafari Sadeghi, Kimiagari and Biancone, 2019). For instance, motivation affects the entrepreneurial behaviour in three harmonious manners: first, it influences on the choice of the individual and on the priorities, i.e., the direction of the action; second, it influences the intensity of the action, based on the importance or value that the action has for the entrepreneur and the third, it impacts the persistence of action, based on the clearness of the path to achieving this value (Locke, 2000; Braga, Proença and Ferreira, 2014; Jafari Sadeghi, Biancone, et al., 2019).

    Hence, the main purpose of this special issue is to advance IE research from behavioural perspectives. To complement our theoretical and empirical understanding, this special issue calls for research on

    • International entrepreneurial orientation
    • International Entrepreneurial decision-making
    • Motivations toward international entrepreneurship
    • Gender differences and the role of women in IE
    • Knowledge transfer in IE
    • International entrepreneurial vision
    • International entrepreneurial foresight
    • International experience and network
    • International entrepreneurship and fear of failure
    • International entrepreneurship and self-efficacy
    • Other behavioural topics relevant to IE

    Multi- and interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome.

    Submission Guidelines

     Papers should be clear on the methodological approaches used for studying international entrepreneurship and provide linkages between the international entrepreneurial behaviour with the methods used and evidence offered. We are not particularly interested in theory development papers or papers that offer speculative methodological innovations that are not applied to actual settings.  All submissions are subject to the standard double-blind review process. Manuscripts must be original, unpublished works not concurrently under review for publication at another outlet and are expected to follow the standard formatting guidelines for the journal.

     

    • The call for papers opens in December 2020
    • Full paper submission must be made through the ScholarOne site at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ijebr by end June 2021.
    • Submissions should be prepared according to the IJEBR Author Guidelines
    • When submitting your manuscript, please ensure you select this special issue from the relevant drop-down menu on page four of the submission process.
    • Reviews, drafts and outcomes will be conducted through 2021, with publication for those accepted papers expected to be in 2022.

    References

    Andersson, S. (2004) 'Internationalisation in different industrial contexts', Journal of Business Venturing, 19(6), pp. 851–875. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2003.10.002.

    Aulakh, P. S. and Kotabe, M. (2008) 'Institutional changes and organisational transformation in developing economies', Journal of International Management, 14(3), pp. 209–216. doi: 10.1016/j.intman.2008.04.001.

    Bloodgood, J. M., Sapienza, H. J. and Almeida, J. G. (1996) 'The internationalisation of new high-potential US ventures: Antecedents and outcomes', Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA, 20(4), pp. 61–76.

    Braga, J. C., Proença, T. and Ferreira, J. J. M. (2014) 'Motivations for social entrepreneurship: Evidences from Portugal', Tékhne - Review of Applied Management Studies, 12(2014), pp. 11–21. doi: 10.1016/j.tekhne.2015.01.002.

    Bruton, G. D., Ahlstrom, D. and Obloj, K. (2008) 'Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies: Where Are We Today and Where Should the Research Go in the Future', Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Wiley Online Library, 32(1), pp. 1–14. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2007.00213.x.

    Dana, L.-P., Hamilton, R. T. and Wick, K. (2009) 'Deciding to export: An exploratory study of Singaporean entrepreneurs', Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 7(2), pp. 79–87. doi: 10.1007/s10843-008-0032-8.

    Dana, L. P. (2017) 'International entrepreneurship research: how it evolved and directions for the future', International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business. Inderscience Publishers (IEL), 30(4), pp. 477–489.

    Dana, L. P. and Wright, R. W. (2009) 'International entrepreneurship: research priorities for the future', International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business, 3(1), pp. 90–134. doi: 10.1504/IJGSB.2009.021572.

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    Jafari-Sadeghi, V. (2019) ' The motivational factors of business venturing: Opportunity versus necessity? A gendered perspective on European countries', Journal of Business Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2019.09.058

    Jafari Sadeghi, V., Nkongolo-Bakenda, J.-M., et al. (2019) 'An institution-based view of international entrepreneurship: A comparison of context-based and universal determinants in developing and economically advanced countries', International Business Review. Elsevier, 28(6), p. 101588. doi: 10.1016/j.ibusrev.2019.101588.

    Jafari Sadeghi, V., Biancone, P. Pietro, et al. (2019) 'International entrepreneurship by particular people "on their own terms": evidence of universal attributes of entrepreneurs in evolving economies', International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 37(2), pp. 288–308. doi: 10.1504/IJESB.2019.100109.

    Jafari Sadeghi, V. and Biancone, P. Pietro (2017) 'Exploring the Drivers of Gender Entrepreneurship: Focus on the motivational perspectives in USA, Italy and France', in Ratten, V. et al. (eds) Gender and Family Entrepreneurship. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 124–141. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Gender-and-Family-Entrepreneurship/Ratten-Ramadani-Dana-Hisrich-Ferreira/p/book/9781138228870.

    Jafari Sadeghi, V. and Biancone, P. Pietro (2018) 'How micro, small and medium-sized enterprises are driven outward the superior international trade performance? A multidimensional study on Italian food sector', Research in International Business and Finance. Elsevier, 45(July 2017), pp. 597–606. doi: 10.1016/j.ribaf.2017.07.136.

    Jafari Sadeghi, V., Kimiagari, S. and Biancone, P. Pietro (2019) 'Level of Education and Knowledge, Foresight Competency, and International Entrepreneurship: A Study of Human Capital Determinants in the European Countries', European Business Review, 32(2).

    Kiss, A. N. et al. (2012) 'International entrepreneurship research in emerging economies: A critical review and research agenda', Journal of Business Venturing. Elsevier Inc., 27(2), pp. 266–290. doi: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2011.09.004.

    Knight, G. A. and Cavusgil, T. S. (2004) 'Innovation, organisational capabilities, and the born-global firm', Journal of International Business Studies, 35(2), pp. 124–141. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8400071.

    Locke, E. A. (2000) 'Motivation, cognition, and action: An analysis of studies of task goals and knowledge', Applied Psychology. Wiley Online Library, 49(3), pp. 408–429.

    Madsen, T. K. and Servais, P. (1997) 'The internationalisation of Born Globals: An evolutionary process?', International Business Review. Elsevier, 6(6), pp. 561–583. doi: 10.1016/S0969-5931(97)00032-2.

    Manolova, T. S. et al. (2002) 'Internationalisation of Small Firms Personal Factors Revisited', International Small Business Journal. SAGE Publications, 20(1), pp. 9–31. doi: 0803973233.

    McDougall-Covin, P. P. and Oviatt, B. M. (2000) 'International entrepreneurship: the intersection of two research paths', Academy of Management Journal. Academy of Management, 43(5), pp. 902–906. doi: 10.2307/1556418.

    McDougall, P. P. and Oviatt, B. M. (2003) 'Some fundamental issues in international entrepreneurship', Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, (July), pp. 1–27. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781107415324.004.

    Oviatt, B. M. and McDougall-Covin, P. P. (1997) 'Challenges for internationalisation process theory: The case of international new ventures', Management International Review. JSTOR, pp. 85–99.

    Oviatt, B. M. and McDougall-Covin, P. P. (2005) 'Defining International Entrepreneurship and Modeling the Speed of Internationalisation', Journal of International Entrepreneurship, 29(5), pp. 537–554. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-6520.2005.00097.x.

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    Dr Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi | Lecturer in Business Strategy
    School of Strategy and Leadership | Faculty of Business and Law
    Associate Member of CBiS | Associate Course Director of Business Administration BA
    Coventry University, William Morris Building, Gosford Street, Coventry, CV1 5DL
    Email: Vahid.Jafari-Sadeghi@coventry.ac.uk | Telephone: +44 (0)24 7765 4841 (654841)
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