ETP: Transformative AI and Entrepreneurship

📢 New 𝐄𝐓𝐏 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐈𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐈 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩: Entrepreneurship Ex Machina: Transformative Artificial Intelligence for Theory and Practice

• 𝐂𝐟𝐏 𝐨𝐮𝐭: CfP Journal Link (Proposals can already be submitted)
• "We invite interested scholars to submit frontier-of-science manuscripts that specifically seek to advance academic knowledge about the dynamics, implications, and/or meaning of transformative AI for entrepreneurship theory and practice."
• Virtual and in-person workshops planned (attending a workshop is not a precondition for submission of proposals (or acceptance of manuscripts) to this Special Issue)
  
• Guest editors: Martin Obschonka (University of Amsterdam), Moren Lévesque (York University), Frédéric Ooms (HEC Liège), Jeffrey M. Pollack (NC State University), Denis A. Grégoire (HEC Montréal), Tara S. Behrend (Michigan State University), Boris Nikolaev (Colorado State University)
  

📢 Two-step Submission Process 

•     -   Authors are invited to submit proposals at any time (final deadline for proposal submissions: January 31, 2026; early submissions encouraged).
•      - Full papers (invited based on successful proposals) will be reviewed on a rolling basis (early submissions encouraged, preferably within 6 months after proposal submission).
•      - All submissions (proposal and full paper) should be submitted through ETP manuscript central system  (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/etp).

📢  Some illustrative themes and questions include but are not limited to:

• • Theorizing on “algorithmic entrepreneurship” 
• • Mechanisms of external enablement of entrepreneurship via AI (e.g., generative AI)
• • Can AI help reduce the destructive aspects of entrepreneurship (e.g., societal and personal costs)?
• • Can AI create resource abundance, overcoming typical entrepreneurial resource scarcity and challenging leading startup methods (e.g., effectuation/bricolage, bootstrapping, lean startup)?
• • Do classic research findings and theories (e.g., on the role of knowledge and human and social capital in entrepreneurship) still hold in the new AI era?
• • How can AI impact entrepreneurial finance (e.g., AI-powered financial planning for entrepreneurs, VC investment portfolio management and decisions) and resource acquisition (e.g., entrepreneurs’ pitch preparation, investors’ due diligence, etc.)?
• • Does AI change the age curve associated with entrepreneurship (does it replace the advantage of industry experience, and do we therefore see an AI-empowered rise of youth entrepreneurs)?
• • How can AI contribute to equality and diversity (e.g., neurodiversity, closing the gender gap)?
• • Ethical and legal issues of “algorithmic entrepreneurship” and AI-supported research
• • How can AI support entrepreneurs’ cognition, decision making, and psychological well-being?
• • Will the emerging AI economy of abundance replace entrepreneurship / human entrepreneurs?

📢  For additional resources, check out our community website (will be updated continuously) : https://www.entrepreneurship-ex-machina.org