The Journal of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation (JEBI) invites submissions for Volume 14 (2027). JEBI is an international, open access journal published by Macrothink Institute (ISSN 2332-8851, DOI prefix 10.5296). The unit of analysis is the venture or the entrepreneur. The journal publishes work that explains mechanisms: why some ventures grow and others do not. JEBI uses continuous publication. Accepted articles are published online as soon as they are ready and added to the annual volume; the volume is closed in December with a cumulative Table of Contents. Scope
Contributions are organised around six themes: 1. Entrepreneurial process and new venture creation
Opportunity recognition, business formation, start-up teams, early-stage survival, transition from informal to formal enterprise. 2. Small business growth, performance and survival
Firm growth and productivity, employment generation, exporting, family-business succession, constraints that hold small firms back. 3. Innovation, technology and business-model change
Product and process innovation, digital transformation, commercialisation, platform and circular business models, technology adoption by small firms. 4. Entrepreneurial finance and markets for new ventures
Venture capital and angel investment, crowdfunding, microfinance, credit constraints, valuation and governance of young firms. 5. Entrepreneurial strategy and internationalisation
Competitive strategy, scaling, international new ventures, born globals, market entry by small firms. 6. Entrepreneurship policy, ecosystems and support institutions
Incubators and accelerators, entrepreneurial universities, regional and national policy, regulation, evaluation of support programmes. Method and evidence
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. Article types
Original research articles; review articles that synthesise evidence on a defined entrepreneurial question; case studies with an explicit analytical framework; conceptual papers that set out a testable mechanism. Short descriptive company profiles and unsolicited book reviews are not published. Out of scope
General management studies, macro-economic policy analysis, and descriptive business cases without an explicit entrepreneurial question will be returned without review. Studies of large established corporations are considered only where the entrepreneurial process (formation, innovation, scaling or exit) is the object of explanation. Submissions that fall outside the six themes listed above will be returned as out of scope without review. Peer review
Submissions are assessed under a double-anonymous model by at least two independent external referees. The first decision is normally issued four to ten weeks after submission. All submissions are screened with iThenticate before they are sent for review. The journal follows COPE guidance. Open access and fees
Articles are published open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0); authors retain copyright. The article processing charge is USD 100, payable only after acceptance. There is no submission fee. Waivers are available for editorial members and reviewers of the journal, and for corresponding authors affiliated in economies classified by the World Bank as low or lower-middle income. Manuscript requirements
- Abstract of 150 to 250 words
- 4 to 6 keywords
- Prepared according to the manuscript template available on the journal's About page
- Original work, not under consideration elsewhere How to submit
Submit through the online submission system (registration required). Authors who cannot use the system may send their manuscript to jebi@macrothink.org. Submission enquiries: jebi@macrothink.org |
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