Dear all,
Now that the AoM conference deadlines have passed, I would like to draw your attention on our Special Issue titled: Entrepreneurial decision-making and behavior under radical uncertainty: Boundaries and boundlessness of diving into the unknown in Strategic Change. Strategic Change typically works with (relatively short) articles that contain 3,000-5,000 words.
The Special Issue aims for contributions on uncertainty in entrepreneurship that goes beyond "moderate" uncertainty. When entrepreneurs are dealing with novel situations (e.g. completely novel strategies, nascent venturing, corporate venturing for radical innovation, adaptation to shocks (e.g. volatility from market shocks, war conditions, or a pandemic) uncertainties can be perceived extremely subjectively, such that entrepreneurs bear a lack of predictable, meaningful, qualitative information cues and/or quantitative information. Entrepreneurs may also experience an inability to predict the nature of the impact of radical changes, which is vital in entrepreneurship as certain events may entirely disrupt the status-quo (e.g. Black Swans). These uncertainties represent additional ignorance – a lack of information, knowledge, and/or awareness of response options about events and/or an inability to predict the likely consequences of a response choice that lack ex ante descriptions.
Although there has been growing recognition of the need for elaboration on novel decision making perspectives for highly uncertain problems that have focused on epistemological matters, unknown unknowns, Black Swans, crises and eristics, we need to understand better what radical uncertainty is, what it is not, and how it unfolds in entrepreneurship.
Please find attached the Call for Papers with a full description of the topic, possible research questions, and submission deadlines.
We are looking forward to receive your submissions!
On behalf of the other Guest Editors,
Bob Bastian
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Bob Bastian
Eindhoven
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