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Call for Papers - Special Issue on Small Business Resilience for the Journal of Small Business Management

  • 1.  Call for Papers - Special Issue on Small Business Resilience for the Journal of Small Business Management

    Posted 02-25-2021 10:27

    Apologies for cross-posting:

    Call for Papers

    Journal of Small Business Management Special Issue on Small Business Resilience: A Look from Different Levels of Analysis

     

    Guest Editors:

    Peter Gianiodis, Duquesne University

    Hao Zhao, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    Soo-Hoon Lee, Old Dominion University

    Maw-Der Foo, Nanyang Technological University 

    David B. Audretsch, Indiana University


    EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

    Entrepreneurship researchers have studied resilience across various contexts by drawing from a myriad of academic disciplines. At the micro-level, the focus has been on how small business owners and entrepreneurs cope throughout the entrepreneurial process. At the macro level, research has considered the resilience of clusters, ecosystems, and regions in response to challenging conditions. In addition to contextual and level differences, researchers have modeled resilience as positive frame-making behaviors to increase reliability, as well as rule-breaking behaviors in a proactive manner to cope with inevitable changes. Given the prior diversity of resilience research, the goal of this Special Issue is to encourage scholars to conduct broad and deep examinations to connect complex and often conflicting psychological, sociological, and economic factors influencing small business resilience at different levels of analysis. This special issue is open to, but not restricted by, data and theories relevant to small business disruptions from COVID-19 and social unrests. 

    TOPICS OF INTEREST

    We believe that this Special Issue will help small business and entrepreneurship scholars reevaluate and reorient research on resilience around a range of important issues such as:

    1. What factors influence the ways that individuals (e.g., small business owners), teams, firms, and regions or communities enact resilience, which has influenced small business survival over time and vice versa?
    2. How do actors within one level of analysis address small business resilience that influences another level of analysis? Why do they take these actions, and how do they focus their efforts? Will one level of resilience facilitate or hamper another level’s resilience efforts and effectiveness?
    3. How do contextual factors manifest and lead small business owners, teams, firms, or regions/communities to engage in developmental processes to improve resilience?   
    4. What dispositional, self-regulatory, or task-specific social-cognitive factors influence resilience? What performance-based or coping strategies enhance small business resilience after failure or continuance toward success? How do frame-making or rule-breaking behaviors serve as proactive means to develop resilience? 
    5. What is the influence of venture imprinting on small business resilience? For example, what are (some of) the path dependencies at founding that predict resilience at different stages of business development?   
    6. How do small business team cohesiveness and conflicts (e.g., with co-founders key employees) affect resilience?
    7. What theories predict the emergence of, the catalyst, and efficacy for the manifestations of resilience?
    8. What are some proactive means for small businesses to build resilience to overcome macroeconomic and other societal disruptions?  
    9. Does government aid and intervention hurt small business’s capacity to be self-reliant and develop resilient capabilities? 
    10. How do strategy, leadership, performance management, communication, problem-solving, coordination, and/or knowledge mapping build resilience in times of crisis?

    This list of issues is illustrative rather than exhaustive. This Special Issue is open to resilience in a variety of contexts, including COVID-19, social unrests, and other crises (e.g., natural disasters or financial recession). Studies that demonstrate how different mechanisms interact would be of particular interest, as would papers examining the antecedents and consequences of multiple mechanisms. We especially welcome truly innovative and path-breaking research and projects bringing together scholars from diverse research traditions or disciplines, who examine the phenomenon from different perspectives. We welcome diverse methods, including qualitative, field, survey, archival, laboratory, and computational methods as well as the study of a broad range of intra- and inter-organizational phenomena for different kinds of organizations, including not-for-profit organizations, and voluntary organizations.

    TIMELINE

    • Papers will be reviewed following the JSBM double-blind review process.
    • Papers should be prepared using the JSBM Guidelines.
    • March 31st, 2021Deadline for submission of papers.
    • June 30th, 2021 – Authors notified of initial revise and resubmit decisions and provided peer reviewer feedback.
    • Jul-December, 2021 – One or two additional rounds of revision as needed.
    • December 31st, 2021 – Final revisions due.
    • Jan 15th, 2022 – Final acceptance decisions made.

     

    Authors should submit their manuscripts through JSBM’s manuscript portal and choose this “Small Business Resilience” Special Issue. Feel free to contact Peter (gianiodisp@duq.edu), Soo (soo_h_lee@hotmail.com) or Hao (zhaoh@rpi.edu) if you have any questions.

    Also, please make a note in the Cover Letter that the paper is for the SI on Small Business Resilience.



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    Peter Gianiodis
    Associate Professor
    Duquesne University
    Pittsburgh PA
    (412) 396-6255
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