Lifestyle Entrepreneurship: Turning what you Love into a Business
Journal of Management Studies Submission Deadline: 15 January 2026
BACKGROUND, AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE
Practitioner and academic interest in new ventures formed by those seeking fulfilment through entrepreneurship increased dramatically over the past decade. Defined as "the creation of new ventures to engage in activities that the entrepreneurs find rewarding and/or to allow them to live in desired locations" (Ivanycheva, Schulze, Lundmark and Chirico, 2024: 2257), lifestyle ventures range from those based on creative expression and the delivery of recreational services, to those relying on the attractiveness of a certain location, such as hospitality and tourism. Critically, lifestyle entrepreneurship involves turning one's love, passion, or dream into a business that enhances life's meaning. The purpose of this special issue to solicit contributions that connect lifestyle entrepreneurship research with the entrepreneurship, strategic management, and management literatures, thereby enhancing our understanding of lifestyle entrepreneurship's drivers, processes, and outcomes.
Link to Call for Special Issue: http://www.socadms.org.uk/special-issue-call-for-papers-lifestyle-entrepreneurship-turning-what-you-love-into-a-business/
Guest Editors:
William Schulze, University of Utah, William.Schulze@business.utah.edu
R. Duane Ireland, Texas A&M University, direland@mays.tamu.edu
Francesco Chirico, Macquarie University/Jönköping University, francesco.chirico@mq.edu.au
Kimberly Eddleston, Northeastern University, k.eddleston@northeastern.edu
Erik Lundmark, Macquarie University/Linköping University, erik.lundmark@mq.edu.au
Julio De Castro, IE University, Julio.Castro@ie.edu
For questions relating to the Special Issue, proposed topics, and potential fit with the Special Issue objectives, please contact the Guest Editors. For questions about submissions, please contact the JMS editor: Paolo Aversa, King's College London, paolo.aversa@kcl.ac.uk
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William Schulze
University of Utah
Salt Lake City UT
(801) 585-5588
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