The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, an international peer reviewed journal, has been disseminating pioneering research about entrepreneurship, enterprise and social innovation for more than 20 years. In that time, the discipline has evolved to include reference to and use of interdisciplinary approaches, drawing from all disciplines within the social sciences and management theory. Consequently, IJEI embraces an holistic approach to knowledge, theory and practice of entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship is many things, and by taking an inclusive approach to the varied understanding of entrepreneurship, IJEI publishes the following regular sections in each of its volumes:
- Research papers including Empirical and Conceptual papers that report robust and interesting research.
- Teaching Case Studies, designed for use in classes and supported by questions and recommendations for teaching. These should support balance be-tween practice and theory.
- Fresh Perspectives Research Notes that provide an opportunity for postgraduate and early career researchers to publish with the journal. These are an opportunity for scholars to write a relatively short piece voicing their own perspective and critiquing theoretical and/or methodological themes, ideas and concepts within the field.
However interpreted, entrepreneurship is a driver of social and economic participation, ranging from the spectacular in terms of economic value-added, to more modest contributions of those who employ themselves. Alongside independent enter-prise activities, entrepreneurship is observable in the strategies of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurship within organisations, and in new types of organisations and work contexts.
Key questions continuing to develop in entrepreneurship studies: Who are entrepreneurs? Why do people pursue entrepreneurship and how? What does success look like? How can it be best supported, if at all? The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation addresses these and many other questions.Of relevance as well are contributions related to innovation that are associated with entrepreneurship in new ventures or corporate venturing. Considerations of innovation networks, knowledge transfers, processes or social and environmental aspects of innovation need to be informed by a clear understanding of entrepreneurial opportunities, theory and practice. Published quarterly, IJEI provides a worldwide forum for the exploration and dissemination of ideas and research relating to the development and application of entrepreneurship.
Contributors and readers are drawn from academia and practice. In particular, IJEI appeals to scholars concerned with entrepreneurship and those whose objective is to promote and support entrepreneurial and innovative activity and to those who make their living (and sometimes their fortune) from their entrepreneurial efforts. Key topics include:
- Critical perspectives on entrepreneurship
- Social innovation
- Entrepreneurship in atypical contexts (e.g. rural and remote locations, con-strained circumstances, entrepreneurship in crisis)
- Entrepreneurship in marginalized contexts (e.g. migrant, refugee and minority entrepreneurship)
- Women and entrepreneurship
- The entrepreneur and the growing company
- Entrepreneurial success
- New forms of organization
- Entrepreneurial behaviour within organizations
- Entrepreneurship in developing countries
- Ethics and entrepreneurship, including debates on illicit, informal and illegal entrepreneurship
- Social entrepreneurship
- Supporting entrepreneurship & enterprise
- Innovative business models
- Innovation and collaboration networks
- Innovation for international entrepreneurship
- User-led innovation opportunities
