The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Other sites of interest:
University Industry Innovation Network
European University Network on Entrepreneurship
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iei.
The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, an international peer reviewed journal, has been disseminating pioneering research about entrepreneurship, enterprise and social innovation for more than 20 years. In that time, the discipline has evolved to include reference to and use of interdisciplinary approaches, drawing from all disciplines within the social sciences and management theory. Consequently, IJEI embraces an holistic approach to knowledge, theory and practice of entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship is many things, and by taking an inclusive approach to the varied understanding of entrepreneurship, IJEI publishes the following regular sections in each of its volumes:
- Research papers including Empirical and Conceptual papers that report robust and interesting research.
- Teaching Case Studies, designed for use in classes and supported by questions and recommendations for teaching. These should support balance be-tween practice and theory.
- Fresh Perspectives Research Notes that provide an opportunity for postgraduate and early career researchers to publish with the journal. These are an opportunity for scholars to write a relatively short piece voicing their own perspective and critiquing theoretical and/or methodological themes, ideas and concepts within the field.
However interpreted, entrepreneurship is a driver of social and economic participation, ranging from the spectacular in terms of economic value-added, to more modest contributions of those who employ themselves. Alongside independent enter-prise activities, entrepreneurship is observable in the strategies of entrepreneurs and intrapreneurship within organisations, and in new types of organisations and work contexts.
Key questions continuing to develop in entrepreneurship studies: Who are entrepreneurs? Why do people pursue entrepreneurship and how? What does success look like? How can it be best supported, if at all? The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation addresses these and many other questions.Of relevance as well are contributions related to innovation that are associated with entrepreneurship in new ventures or corporate venturing. Considerations of innovation networks, knowledge transfers, processes or social and environmental aspects of innovation need to be informed by a clear understanding of entrepreneurial opportunities, theory and practice. Published quarterly, IJEI provides a worldwide forum for the exploration and dissemination of ideas and research relating to the development and application of entrepreneurship.
Contributors and readers are drawn from academia and practice. In particular, IJEI appeals to scholars concerned with entrepreneurship and those whose objective is to promote and support entrepreneurial and innovative activity and to those who make their living (and sometimes their fortune) from their entrepreneurial efforts. Key topics include:
- Critical perspectives on entrepreneurship
- Social innovation
- Entrepreneurship in atypical contexts (e.g. rural and remote locations, con-strained circumstances, entrepreneurship in crisis)
- Entrepreneurship in marginalized contexts (e.g. migrant, refugee and minority entrepreneurship)
- Women and entrepreneurship
- The entrepreneur and the growing company
- Entrepreneurial success
- New forms of organization
- Entrepreneurial behaviour within organizations
- Entrepreneurship in developing countries
- Ethics and entrepreneurship, including debates on illicit, informal and illegal entrepreneurship
- Social entrepreneurship
- Supporting entrepreneurship & enterprise
- Innovative business models
- Innovation and collaboration networks
- Innovation for international entrepreneurship
- User-led innovation opportunities
| Laura Galloway | Heriot-Watt University, UK |
| Deema Refai | Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds, UK |
| Gerard McElwee | Professor, York St John, UK |
| James Cunningham | Robert Gordon University, UK |
| Peter Gittins | University of Leeds, UK |
| Christian Harrison | University of Bolton, UK |
| Endrit Kromidha | University of Birmingham, UK |
| Dr Vahid J. Sadeghi | Aston University, UK |
| Anne Smith | Glasgow Caledonian University, UK |
| Pattanapong Tiwasing | Keele University, UK |
| Alex Kevill | University of Leeds, UK |
| Steven Pattinson | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Doyin Olorunfemi | University of Sunderland in London, UK |
| Moheeb Abualqumboz | Oryx Universal College in partnership with Liverpool John Moores University |
| Haya Al-Dajani | Prince Mohammad Bin Salman College (MBSC), Saudi Arabia |
| Jo Bensemann | Massey University, New Zealand |
| David Brown | Heriot-Watt University, UK |
| Tom Cooney | Technological University Dublin, Ireland |
| Simon Down | Anglia Ruskin University, UK |
| Alain Fayolle | EM Lyon, France |
| Lene Foss | The Arctic University of Norway, Norway |
| Radi Haloub | University College London |
| Christian Harrison | University of Bolton, UK |
| Ulla Hytti | University of Turku, Finland |
| Paul Jones | Swansea University, UK |
| Jill Kickul | University of Southern California, USA |
| Sascha Kraus | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy |
| John Lever | University of Huddersfield, UK |
| Gideon Maas | Coventry University, UK |
| Nnamdi Madichie | Bloomsbury Institute London, UK |
| Susan Marlow | Nottingham University Business School, UK |
| Lynn Martin | Anglia Ruskin University, UK |
| Harry Matlay | Global Independent Research, UK |
| Susan Mayson | Monash University, Australia |
| Pauric McGowan | University of Ulster, UK |
| Kevin Mole | University of Warwick, UK |
| Michael Morris | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Robert Newbery | Northumbria University, UK |
| Mette Nielsen | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
| Leo Paul Dana | University of Canterbury, New Zealand |
| David Pickernell | University of Portsmouth, UK |
| Annie Roos | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden |
| Wai-sum Siu | Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong |
| Anne Smith | Glasgow Caledonian University, UK |
| Robert Smith | Independent Scholar, UK |
| George Solomon | Geroge Washington University, USA |
| Kiran Trehan | University of York, UK |
| Peter van der Sijde | Free University Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Natalia Vershinina | Audencia Business School, France |
| Geoff Whittam | Glasgow Caledonian University, UK |
| Colin Williams | University of Sheffield, UK |
Manuscript Submission Guidelines: The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics
Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iei to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation will be reviewed.
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
- What do we publish?
1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
1.3 Writing your paper - Editorial policies
2.1 Peer review policy
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Declaration of conflicting interests - Publishing policies
3.1 Publication ethics
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving - Preparing your manuscript
4.1 Formatting
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.3 Supplementary material
4.4 Reference style
4.5 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
5.1 ORCID
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
5.3 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
6.1 SAGE Production
6.2 Online First publication
6.3 Access to your published article
6.4 Promoting your article - Further information
Before submitting your manuscript to The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.
Each issue of The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation includes four to six double-blind peer-reviewed articles. Articles should preferably be in the region of 6,000 - 8,000 words, including tables and references.
In addition to research articles, the journal also publishes:
Case studies of no more than 5,000 words. Such contributions will be especially welcome from practising entrepreneurs. Designed for use in the 'classroom', case studies will be supported by questions, provided either by the author or the editor. The case studies will be diverse in coverage and approach. They may, for example: (1) describe a process whereby an entrepreneurial activity has succeeded or failed; (2) outline the stages involved in establishing a new enterprise: innovation, start-up, maturation, growth and decline; or (3) analyse a particular facet of a new enterprise (e.g. a human resource issue or the financing of the enterprise). Case studies should be accompanied by a set of questions and model answers (see previous issues for clarification). Please click here for Case Study submission guidance.
The Internet Review: this section identifies and reviews websites of interest for those interested in research on entrepreneurship, small firms and innovation in an international context.
Book Reviews
Book reviews should be no more than 750 words and should be headed with the name of the author, title of the book, publisher and place of publication, number of pages and price.
The SAGE Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources.
1.3.1 Make your article discoverable
When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online
For academic papers, the journal adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties. Papers by authors who are not academics (such as submissions from practicing entrepreneurs) will also be subject to peer review before acceptance, but their distinct nature and aims will be fully taken into account.
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.
2.3.1 Writing assistance
Individuals who provided writing assistance, e.g. from a specialist communications company, do not qualify as authors and so should be included in the Acknowledgements section. Authors must disclose any writing assistance – including the individual’s name, company and level of input – and identify the entity that paid for this assistance. It is not necessary to disclose use of language polishing services.
2.4 Declaration of conflicting interests
The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway.
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway
3.1.1 Plagiarism
The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
3.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the SAGE Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway
3.3 Open access and author archiving
The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation offers optional open access publishing via the SAGE Choice programme. For more information please visit the SAGE Choice website. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
The preferred format for your manuscript is Word. LaTeX files are also accepted. Word and (La)Tex templates are available on the Manuscript Submission Guidelines page of our Author Gateway.
Please note that single inverted commas should be used for secondary quotes and double inverted commas for primary quotes.
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines.
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files
The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation adheres to the SAGE Harvard reference style. View the SAGE Harvard guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the SAGE Harvard EndNote output file.
4.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using SAGE Language Services. Visit SAGE Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation is hosted on SAGE Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/iei to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process SAGE is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities ensuring that their work is recognised.
We encourage all authors to add their ORCIDs to their SAGE Track accounts and include their ORCIDs as part of the submission process. If you don’t already have one you can create one here
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the SAGE Author Gateway
6. On acceptance and publication
Your SAGE Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. Please note that if there are any changes to the author list at this stage all authors will be required to complete and sign a form authorising the change.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the SAGE Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
6.3 Access to your published article
SAGE provides authors with online access to their final article.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The SAGE Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice. In addition, SAGE is partnered with Kudos, a free service that allows authors to explain, enrich, share, and measure the impact of their article. Find out how to maximise your article’s impact with Kudos.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation editorial office as follows:
Professor Gerard McElwee
g.mcelwee@hud.ac.uk