Although the 2021 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor reports that nearly half of early-stage entrepreneurs globally are raising children, parenthood remains a surprisingly underexamined dimension of entrepreneurial life. Existing scholarship has advanced our understanding of motherhood and work-family conflict, yet the broader terrain such as fatherhood, household dynamics, non-normative family forms, intergenerational transmission, and the institutional contexts that shape parent-entrepreneurs, remains theoretically and empirically underexplored.
We welcome work across underexplored areas including:
🔹 Fatherhood, "dadpreneurs," and entrepreneurial masculinities
🔹 Single-parent, LGBTQ+, and non-normative family configurations
🔹 Household dynamics and intergenerational transmission of entrepreneurial resources
🔹 Children as "silent stakeholders"
🔹 Regional ecosystems as enablers or constraints
🔹 Discursive and media representations of parent-entrepreneurs
Both explanatory/causal and interpretive/social constructivist traditions are encouraged. Conceptual, qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, longitudinal, comparative, and multilevel designs are all welcome.
Guest Editors Shuang Lu Frost - Aarhus University, Denmark • Magdalena Markowska - King's College London, UK & Umeå University, Sweden • Kai Roland Green - Aarhus University, Denmark • Kimberly Eddleston - Northeastern University, USA • Alisa Jno-Charles - Babson College, USA • Haibo Zhou - University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China • Ulla Hytti - University of Turku, Finland
🗓 Key Dates:
Online information session: 24 June 2026, 14:00 CET (abstract required to attend)
Developmental feedback from editors: at FERC, NCSB, IFERA, AOM, EURAM, RENT (May–Nov 2026)
Full manuscript submission: Due 1 July 2027
🔗 More info & submission portal: https://think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues/parenthood-and-entrepreneurship-a-new-research-agenda/
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Shuang Frost
Associate Professor
Aarhus University, Denmark
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