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International Journal of Economics and Business Research

 

Special Issue on: "Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Firm Formation, Firm Growth, and Firm Transformation"

Guest Editor:
Ho-don Yan, Feng Chia University, Taiwan

Current theories or strategies of entrepreneurship for firms mostly focus on advanced economies and rarely on emerging markets. The ongoing trend of globalization provides great opportunities for entrepreneurs in emerging markets to engage in the global production chain and to learn technology and managerial skills from advanced countries. Many small and medium-sized firms have been created and some have grown and transformed into successful global enterprises in emerging markets, such as Southeast Asia and Latin America .

The Schumpeterian gale of creative destruction led by entrepreneurs can also be witnessed in many transition economies, such as China , East European countries, and Russia , which used to suffer from institutional predicaments of promoting entrepreneurship. Related topics in emerging markets, such as what the entrepreneurial process for successful firms is, how networks facilitate entrepreneurial performance, how ongoing institutions affect entrepreneurial behaviour and in turn how entrepreneurs shape the institutional environment, etc., are some of many outstanding ones still to be explored.

This special issue intends to provide a forum to show how entrepreneurship exerts its influence on firm formation, firm growth, and firm transformation in emerging markets.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited to:

• Entrepreneurial discovery and firm formation in emerging markets.
• Entrepreneurial strategies and firm growth in emerging markets.
• Entrepreneurial leadership and firm transformation from subcontracting firms to global branding.
• Networks and entrepreneurship in emerging markets.
• Industrial clusters and entrepreneurship in emerging markets.
• The interaction between Institutions and entrepreneurs in emerging markets.

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper was not originally copyrighted and if it has been completely re-written).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process. A guide for authors, sample copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are available on the Author Guidelines page

Important Dates

Submission of abstracts: 30 November 2011

Submission of full paper: 31 March 2012

Submission of revisions: 31 August 2012