Special Issue Call for Papers: Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
Entrepreneurship and Crises: Business as Usual?
The aim of this Special Issue is to examine more closely the relationship between entrepreneurial activity and crises. Crises tend to have severe consequences for businesses, generating ambiguity and decision-making time pressures (Weick, 1988; Pearson and Clair, 1998). Crises of relevance to entrepreneurial activity range from the personal to the social or natural, and broadly include “disasters, business interruptions, catastrophes, emergency or contingency” (Herbane, 2010: 46), the impacts of which range from the individual to society in scope. It is argued that crises are becoming an integral part of business activity (Smallbone, North and Kalantaridis, 1999), and responses to a crisis can mean the difference between business survival and failure (Doern, 2014). As a key journal in the field, Entrepreneurship & Regional Development has been a leader on academic publications that investigate how context shapes entrepreneurial behaviour, and has published some contributions of relevance to this Special Issue (e.g. Williams and Vorley, 2014; Suire and Vincente, 2014). Our Special Issue would build on this previous work by bringing together multi-disciplinary approaches and examinations of entrepreneurship, crises and resilience, across different levels of analysis.
For the full Call for Papers see: https://goo.gl/bFM2ip
Guest Editors:
Rachel Doern (Goldsmiths University of London, UK), Nick Williams (University of Leeds, UK), and Tim Vorley (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Papers regarded as potentially suitable for publication in the Special Issue will be double-blind reviewed following the ERD's review process guidelines. Manuscripts must be received by no later than February 28th 2017. General queries may be directed to any of the Special Issue editors ([log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]).
Prof. Tim Vorley
Chair in Entrepreneurship
Sheffield University Management School
University of Sheffield
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