Journal of Business Venturing zaprasza do nadsyłania artykułów do dwóch numerów specjalnych - 'Corporate Entrepreneurship in the Digital Era' oraz 'Scale-Ups, Scaling, and Scalability: Entrepreneurial Scaling in the Digital Age'

Redakcja Journal of Business Venturing (200 pkt, Impact Factor 12.065) ogłosiła nabór tekstów do dwóch numerów specjalnych: 'Corporate Entrepreneurship in the Digital Era' oraz 'Scale-Ups, Scaling, and Scalability: Entrepreneurial Scaling in the Digital Age'. Zapraszamy do zapoznania się ze stroną internetową czasopisma i wskazówkami dla autorów.

 

Scale-Ups, Scaling, and Scalability: Entrepreneurial Scaling in the Digital Age

In this special issue, we aim to explore how certain firms, behaviors, and capabilities exemplify entrepreneurship: scale-ups, scaling, and scalability. This focus reflects our limited knowledge of the role and nature of scaling, particularly in a contemporary digital context. And, with the tendency to refer to all high-growth firms as scale-ups, what it means to scale has become unclear. Although being ‘scalable’ or having ‘scalability’ are now commonly used terms, these constructs remain poorly defined and, to date, they have not been operationalized nor measured in any meaningful way. Thus our goals for this special issue are to: 1) stimulate research to address this knowledge gap of theoretical and practical significance for researchers, entrepreneurs, managers, investors, and policy-makers; and 2) unpack if and how scaling firms (and their implications) are distinct from high-growth firms. Given JBV is a multi-disciplinary, multi-functional, and multi-contextual journal, we invite submissions from multiple theoretical perspectives. We are open to conceptual papers or empirical studies drawing on any relevant source of data (in-depth interviews, cases, surveys, secondary data, etc.). Comparative studies are of particular interest in order to identify and understand any distinctions between scale-ups and high-growth firms.

Termin wysyłania artykułów to 1 lutego 2022 roku. Zapraszamy do zapoznania się z pełnym ogłoszeniem Call for papers.

 

 

Corporate Entrepreneurship in the Digital Era

This Special Issue will depart from a key assumption in the traditional CE literature that categorizes technologies as mere additional resources. Instead, the Special Issue will focus on the foundations of modern technology-based CE that needs to categorize technologies not only as enablers of experimentation to aid simultaneous exploration and exploitation, but also as non-human actors that actively influence the decisions and activities of firms. Indeed, advanced technologies such as AI are now capable of making some important decisions that were previously made by humans (Athey et al., 2020), and thus require the (cognitive and emotional) trust of humans in the organization (Glikson & Woolley, 2020). We encourage submissions that develop theory on modern technology-based CE or empirically investigate this phenomenon to shed light on (1) how emerging technologies influence firms to rethink their approaches to CE in developing new strategies and business models; (2) recent best practices initiated by firms to create value using digitalized assets and digital technologies to achieve corporate renewal via CE; (3) the most appropriate organizational structures and contexts for engaging in digital CE; (4) the role employees play in “bottom-up” strategy making and how digital adoption changes bottom-up CE; and (5) the outcomes associated with digital CE and corporate renewal. We encourage theoretically and phenomenologically motivated manuscripts that use a variety of research methods, including mathematical modeling, simulations, experiments, and qualitative studies, in addition to traditional quantitative approaches, to examine this topic.

Termin wysyłania artykułów to 31 sierpnia 2022 roku. Zapraszamy do zapoznania się z pełnym ogłoszeniem Call for papers.