Call for Papers - Journal of Business Economics Special Issue
"Bringing Light to the Shadows: Understanding and Overcoming the Dark Side of Entrepreneurship"
Entrepreneurship is widely celebrated as a driver of innovation, economic growth, and societal progress. Yet entrepreneurial action can also involve substantial psychological, interpersonal, and societal costs. A growing stream of research highlights the dark sides, downsides, and destructive consequences of entrepreneurship.
This Special Issue invites empirical and theoretical contributions that advance our understanding of these challenges across individual, team, and organizational levels, as well as the mechanisms that help entrepreneurs cope with, mitigate, or overcome them.
The Special Issue will be published in the Journal of Business Economics (ABDC Ranking: B).
Full Call for Papers and submission details:
https://link.springer.com/collections/bbfhajdabf
Submission deadline: July 31, 2026
Guest Editors
Julia M. Kensbock (University of Bremen)
Anika Thurow (University of Bremen)
Christoph Stöckmann (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano)
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