The Journal
of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures
Call for Papers
and Statement of Purpose
The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business
Ventures seeks to extend the focus of its predecessor, The Journal of
Entrepreneurial Finance, to emphasize the multidisciplinary nature of
entrepreneurship. Accordingly, The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance
and Business Ventures seeks submissions from all areas which focus on
entrepreneurship. Our breadth extends both to the practical and the
theoretical foundations of the field. We plan to publish both discursive
and empirical treatments as well as instructionally oriented issues.
In essence, our only limiting condition is quality,
as we will try to expose the best and most advanced thinking in this
field to broad critical analysis. As a result, we have assembled an
outstanding board of editorial advisors with a truly interdisciplinary
perspective. All this is in the interest of advancing and broadening
the study and practice of entrepreneurship.
Accordingly, we seek submissions focusing on (but not
limited to) the following areas:
- Building Functional Capabilities
- Business Planning/Capital Budgeting Issues
- Cost of Capital Determination for Entrepreneurial
Ventures
- Credit Analysis for Small Businesses
- Emerging Security Markets and Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial Training/Education
- Entrepreneurial Accounting
- Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies
- Financial Management for Entrepreneurial Firms
- Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures
- Global Entrepreneurship
- Governance, Ownership Structure and Agency Problems
for the Entrepreneurial Firm
- Information Technology (IT & Entrepreneurship)
- Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)
- Managing Beyond the Startup Phase
- Managing the Entrepreneurial Team
- Managing Partnerships & Alliances
- Managing Rapid Growth
- Managerial Succession in Entrepreneurial Firms
- Managing Working Capital in Entrepreneurial Firms
- New Ventures Feasibility Studies
- Regulations and Their Impact on Entrepreneurial
Enterprises
- Strategic Planning in New Enterprises
- Success/Failure Analysis of New Enterprises
- Small Firm Innovation
- Tax Planning
- Venture Capital and Venture Capitalists
Reflecting the new focus, in the current issue the
following articles appear: Don Bruce and Doug Holtz-Eakin try to determine
just who our entrepreneurs are. They use a 12 year panel of individual
income tax returns to study the relationship of the definition of business
form to the personal characteristics of entrepreneurs. They find, among
other things, that the choice of definition of “entrepreneur”
has little if any impact upon the observed trends in entrepreneurship.
Eleanor Xu studies venture capital finance in China. She finds that
while this avenue of investment is rather immature, substantial opportunity
for profitable growth exists. Mike Spivey and Jeff McMillan examine
the many problems involved in valuing the entrepreneurial firm and the
considerable impact resulting from definitional differences. Jean-Marie
Nkongolo-Bakenda analyzes inter-firm cooperation and networking and
finds, among other things, that the negotiating power between networking
partners stems from sources beyond available resources to considerations
of expertise. Susan Coleman uses U.S. national survey data to examine
the extent of the use of leverage by the smallest of small firms. Steven
Craig and Polly Hardee empirically explore the impact of bank size,
holding company affiliation and the degree of branching on small business
and farm lending. Finally, Mike Long and Steve Sefcik look at the significance
of the current GAAP definition of “going concern” and find
that it does not take into consideration many important factors.
As a whole we feel that the current issue well represents
a number of interesting entrepreneurial concerns and we commend it to
you.
We seek submissions focusing on (but not limited to)
the above mentioned areas. Please use
the style instructions when submitting manuscripts for publication
in The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures.
Please submit papers for consideration to the editorial
office:
Susan Dean
(Member, NBMBAA, Western New York Chapter)
Managing Editor
The Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures
Suite 400
School of Management
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-2130
USA
Phone: 315-443-1381
Fax: 315-443-5457
E-mail: sbdean@mail.som.syr.edu
Submission fees are $75.00. Submission fees must be
paid by check, drawn in US Dollars. Checks should be made out to The
Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and Business Ventures.
