Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation (JEBI) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published by Macrothink Institute as one annual volume each year. It publishes research on how new ventures are created, financed and scaled, and on the innovation and business-model choices through which firms grow. Its unit of analysis is the venture and the entrepreneur: new and early-stage firms, small and medium-sized enterprises, and the institutions and ecosystems that support them. The journal gives preference to work that explains mechanisms — why some ventures grow and others do not — over work that describes a sector or a single firm.

Scope

Contributions are organised around six themes:

  • Entrepreneurial process and new venture creation. Opportunity recognition, business formation, start-up teams, early-stage survival, and the transition from informal to formal enterprise.
  • Small business growth, performance and survival. Firm growth and productivity, employment, exporting, family-business succession, and the constraints that hold small firms back.
  • Innovation, technology and business-model change. Product and process innovation, digital transformation, commercialisation, platform and circular business models, and technology adoption by small firms.
  • Entrepreneurial finance and markets for new ventures. Venture capital and angel investment, crowdfunding, microfinance, credit constraints, and the valuation and governance of young firms.
  • Entrepreneurial strategy and internationalisation. Competitive strategy, scaling, international new ventures, born globals, and market entry by small firms.
  • Entrepreneurship policy, ecosystems and support institutions. Incubators and accelerators, entrepreneurial universities, regional and national policy, regulation, and the evaluation of support programmes.

Method and evidence

JEBI publishes empirical and conceptual work. Empirical papers should state the venture population studied, the data source and period, and the method used. Conceptual papers should state the mechanism they theorise and the kind of evidence that would test it. Quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method and comparative designs are equally welcome, as are rigorous single-case studies that speak to a wider entrepreneurial question.

Boundaries

General management studies, macro-economic policy analysis, and descriptive business cases without an entrepreneurial question fall outside the journal's scope. Studies of large established corporations are considered only where the entrepreneurial process — formation, innovation, scaling or exit — is the object of explanation.

Article types

Original research articles; review articles that synthesise evidence on a defined entrepreneurial question; and case studies with an explicit analytical framework. Short descriptive company profiles and unsolicited book reviews are not published.

 

Section Policies

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Peer Review Process

The journal uses double-anonymized system for peer-review; both reviewers and authors' identities remain anonymous. The paper will be peer-reviewed by three experts; two reviewers from outside and one editor from the journal typically involve in reviewing a submission.

 

Publication Frequency

JEBI uses continuous publication. Articles accepted for the current volume are published online as soon as they are ready and added to the Table of Contents of that volume. The volume is closed in December, when a cumulative Table of Contents for the year is issued.

Since 2025 the journal has published one annual volume per year. It began in 2014 with a single December issue and appeared semi-annually, in June and December, from 2015 to 2024.

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

 

Indexing

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation has linked its papers to references by DOI (Digital Object Identifier) numbers. All articles carry DOIs in the journal prefix 10.5296.

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Special Issue Proposals

To foster academic collaboration and advance scholarly research, we welcome special issue proposals from scholars, researchers, and academic or research institutions. Those interested in organizing a special issue are invited to submit their inquiries and proposals to the journal’s editorial office via email: jebi@macrothink.org