European Journal of International Management
Special Issue on Entrepreneurship in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>
Guest Editors:
Frank Hoy, <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Texas</st1:placename> at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">El Paso</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">USA</st1:country-region></st1:place>
and
Matti Koiranen, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">University of Jyväskylä</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Finland</st1:country-region></st1:place>
Paper Submission Deadline: November 15, 2007
According to the Entrepreneurship Action Plan adopted by the European Union in 2004, Entrepreneurship is a major driver of innovation, competitiveness and growth. Entrepreneurship and small businesses are, particularly for the European economy a key source of jobs, business dynamism and innovation.
Today, <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>s competitive performance is lagging behind. To achieve objectives of meaningful development, the EU needs more growth, more new firms, more entrepreneurs willing to embark in innovative ventures, more high-growth SMEs.
Apart from the lack of Entrepreneurial mindsets in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>, there are other reasons hindering the full exploitation of the EUs entrepreneurial potential. Starting from the strong stigma attached to business failure, the complexities and obstacles to getting started but also the difficulties to access finance or the high over-proportional burden on small businesses of many bureaucratic procedures in day-to-day business.
The implementation of the Entrepreneurship Action Plan resulted in a number of initiatives, including promoting the role of mini-companies in secondary schools, gathering expertise on ways of preventing bankruptcy, proposing tax policies that are friendly to ownership transfers of family businesses, finding ways to facilitate access to capital by women entrepreneurs, and others.
The main objective of EJIM is to establish an outlet for scholars interested in a variety of topics in international management in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>. Thus, papers submitted for the special issue should address the international implications of entrepreneurship in <st1:place w:st="on">Europe</st1:place>.
Subject Coverage
Examples of topics appropriate to the theme of entrepreneurship include:
- Education aimed at fostering entrepreneurial mindsets
- Access to finance, especially by women and ethnic minority populations
- The impact of government regulations and policies on venture creation and growth
- Family-owned businesses, particularly regarding ownership transfer
- Failures of small businesses, consequences and remedies
- Strategic alliances and other cooperative activities between SMEs and with larger corporations and government entities
- SME clustering activities, especially in border regions
- Networking and innovation
- Case studies of European entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial ventures
Notes for Intending Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page (http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31).
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 November 2007
Editors and Notes
You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail (details in Author Guidelines) to:
Frank Hoy
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Texas</st1:placename> at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">El Paso</st1:place></st1:city>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">El Paso</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Texas</st1:state> <st1:postalcode w:st="on">79968</st1:postalcode></st1:place>
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>
Tel: 1-915-747-7727
With and email copy only to:
EJIM Editorial Team
and
IEL Editorial Office
Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue, the title of the Journal and the name of the Guest Editor.