Call for Papers! for Special Issue Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal (SBEJ)! Submit by May 31, 2024!
“From Founder to Employee:
Rethinking Entrepreneurial Career Transitions.”
This special issue of Small Business Economics is open to contributions that
rigorously address important and understudied issues related to entrepreneurial
founder transitions to organizational employment. While transitions from
employment into entrepreneurship has been extensively studied, founder
transitions to organizational employment have received much less scholarly
attention
This special issue of SBEJ welcome rigorous theoretical and empirical research
from a broad spectrum of academic disciplines that address issues related to the
challenge, motivations, and opportunities faced by entrepreneurs transitioning to
organizational employment. A detailed introduction to the topic is provided below,
elucidating numerous important gaps in the literature that inform potential themes
and research questions that could be addressed in the special issue.
KEY DEADLINES
Submission of abstracts for In-Person PDW: May 31, 2024
Submission of extended abstracts for Virtual PDW: December 20, 2024
Submission of full papers: June 30, 2025
COMPLETE TIMELINE
• May 31, 2024: Extended abstracts for In-Person Paper Development Workshop (PDW)
• June 17, 2024: Decision on abstracts for In-Person PDW
• August 8, 2024: Host In-Person PDW in Chicago, IL
• November 15, 2024: Deadline to submit papers for Virtual PDW
• December 20, 2024: Decisions for Virtual PDW
• January/February, 2025 (date TBD): Host Virtual PDW
• June 30, 2025: Initial Paper Submissions Due
• October 31, 2025: First Round Decisions
• February 28, 2026: Paper Revisions Due
• June 30, 2026: Second Round Decisions
• October 31, 2026: Final Papers Due
• December 31, 2026: Final Decisions
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