CALL FOR PAPERS
Entrepreneurship & Regional Development
Special Issue: “Community-Based, Social & Societal Entrepreneurship”
Deadline: December 31, 2008 (full paper)
Guest Editors:
Leo-Paul Dana, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Isabell M. Welpe, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, Germany/ Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Germany
Vanessa Ratten, Duquesne University, United States
Mary Han, Ryerson University, Canada
We plan to publish 4 to 6 papers in a special issue on Community-Based, Social & Societal Entrepreneurship. We are seeking papers with sound theoretical contributions. The literature on how regional development has been facilitated by community, societal and social entrepreneurship has grown significantly in the past decade (Hemingway, 2005) Peredo and Chrisman, 2006). People and businesses globally are increasingly being influenced by societal and community interaction (Johannisson and Nilsson, 1989; Spear, 2006). More businesses and public policy practitioners are focusing on how people work together to encourage regional development (Bulla and Starr-Glass, 2006) Lyons, 2002). In this special issue we classify community, societal and social entrepreneurship as when people act corporately to pursue a common purpose. Other disciplines have recognized the important economic role of community, societal and social entrepreneurship (e.g., Bull and Winter, 1991; Johannisson and Nilsson, 1989; Light and Karageorgis, 1994; Mezias and Kuperman, 2001; Selsky and Smith, 1994). Thus, the topic of community-based, social and societal entrepreneurship has been a recurring theme in various Entrepreneurship and Regional Development papers since 1990. For example, Stone and Stubbs (2007) focused on how societal entrepreneurship in the form of lifestyle migration has encouraged regional development in Southern Europe. Likewise, Frank, Lueger and Korunka (2007) examined the role of social and societal entrepreneurship in shaping a person’s personality and business success.
Thus, this special issue encompasses many ideas that have been discussed previously in Entrepreneurship & Regional Development but collates them into specific theme on community, societal and social entrepreneurship; the aim in the special issue is to demonstrate how different forms of entrepreneurship (community-based, societal and social) impact on a region’s growth and development rate. We are looking for new theoretical insights and empirical studies that link these important areas together.
Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:
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What is the nature of community-based, social and societal entrepreneurship?
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How has community-based, social and societal entrepreneurship influenced regional development in global contexts and will this change in the future?
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Comparative differences in community-based, social and societal entrepreneurship by countries, city, ethnic/national subgroup, sector and periods.
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The role of social capital and social networks in community-based, social and societal entrepreneurship.
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The role of technological innovation in community-based, social and societal entrepreneurship.
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The importance of communities and society for the perception, evaluation and exploitation of entrepreneurial opportunities.
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Community-based and social women entrepreneurs – challenges, profile and differences with regard to male community entrepreneurs.
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Market conditions for community-based, social and societal entrepreneurship (openness of markets, regulations, transparency of market and resource mobilisation).
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The importance of cognitions and emotions in community-based, social andsocietal entrepreneurship.
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The role of human resource management practices and in community-based,social and societal entrepreneurship.
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Public perception of community-based, social and societalentrepreneurship.
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The antecedents and consequences of family participation in various aspects of community-based, social and societal entrepreneurship.
Manuscripts must be received by December 31, 2008. Authors should prepare manuscripts in accordance with Entrepreneurship & Regional Development guidelines. Please submit manuscripts in a word-compatible format electronically. Questions may be addressed to any of the special issue editors (leo.dana@canterbury.ac.nz, welpe@econ.mpg.de, mhan@ryerson.ca, rattenv@duq.edu).
Notes for Prospective Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All papers are refereed through a double-blind peer review process.
References
Bull, I., and F. Winter (1991), “Community Differences in Business Births and Business Growths,” Journal of Business Venturing 6 (1), pp. 29-43.
Bulla, M. and D. Starr-Glass (2006,) “Marketing and Non-Profit Organizations in the Czech Republic”, European Journal of Marketing, 40(1/2): 130-144.
Frank, H., M. Lueger and C. Korunka (2007), “The Significance of Personality in Business Start-Up Intentions, Start-Up Realization and Business Success”, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 25: 227-251.
Hemingway, C.A. (2005) “Personal Values as a Catalyst for Corporate Social Entrepreneurship”, Journal of Business Ethics, 60: 233-249.
Johannisson, B, and A. Nilsson (1989), “Community Entrepreneurship – Networking for Local Development,” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Regional Development 1 (1), pp. 1-19.
Kapelus, P. (2002), “Mining, Corporate Social Responsibility and the ‘Community’: The Case of Rio Tinto, Richards Bay Minerals and the Mbonambi,” Journal of Business Ethics 39, pp. 275-298.
Light, I., and S. Karageorgis (1994), “The Ethnic Economy,” in Handbook of Economic Sociology, N. Smelser and R. Swedberg (Eds), Princeton U.P., and Russell Sage.
Lyons, T. (2002), “Building Social Capital for Rural Enterprise Development:Three Case Studies in the United States,” Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship 7 (2), pp. 193- 217.
Mezias, S. J., and J. C. Kuperman (2001), “The Community Dynamics of Entrepreneurship: The Birth of the American Film Industry, 1895-1929,” Journal of Business Venturing 16 (3), pp. 209-233.
Peredo, A. M., and J. J. Chrisman (2006), “Toward a Theory of Community-Based Enterprise,” Academy of Management Review 31 (2), pp.309-328.
Selsky, J. W., and A. E. Smith (1994), “Community Entrepreneurship: A Framework for Social Change Leadership,” The Leadership Quarterly 5 (3-4), pp. 277-296.
Spear, R. (2006), “Social Entrepreneurship: A Different Model?”, International Journal of Social Economics 33(5/6): 399-410.
Stone, I., and C. Stubbs (2007), “Enterprising Expatriates: Lifestyle Migration and Entrepreneurship in Rural Southern Europe”, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, 18: 433-450.
