About this journal

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship is included in the following ranking indexes:

Scopus

The Chartered ABS Academic Journal Guide (Chartered Association of Business Schools, UK)

FNEGE (Foundation Nationale pour l'Enseignement de la Gestion des Entreprises, France)

VHB-JOURQUAL 3 (Verband der Hochschullehrer fur Betriebswirtschaft, Germany)

ABDC Master Journal List (Australian Business Deans Council, Australia)

Excellence in Research for Australia (Australia Research Council, Australia)

Asian Science Citation Index 

Objectives

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship is a double-blind reviewed and scholarly Journal dedicated to publishing in English and French original and outstanding studies that improve knowledge and understanding of entrepreneurship and small business management and, eventually, shape these fields of research.

Studies published might be theoretical pieces, qualitative and quantitative empirical work, and/or case studies. Given that the objective of the Journal is to push the boundaries of current entrepreneurial and small business management thoughts, case studies to be published in JSBE must have a theoretical perspective. The onus of proving the theoretical contribution of the case lies on the author who, to this end, can introduce the case with a short text of 250-500 words. The theoretical contribution can be related to the fact that the case challenges the existing theory or highlights it better. Consequently, cases and teaching notes that are written just for a didactic purpose as an illustration of a theory in classroom will not fit to being published in the JSBE .

Scope

Studies published in the JSBE can be from and based on Canada or other countries of the world. They can cover topics related to matters such as:

A. Start-up and resource gathering for an SME

• Starting, buying and selling an SME

• Financing, funding, banking, venture capital, audit and accounting in SMEs

• Entrepreneur characteristics, leadership and work-life balance

• Identification of business opportunities, business incubators and mentorship

• Support services to entrepreneurship and SMEs

B. Functional management and growth of an SME

• Sales and marketing in SMEs

• Human resource management in SMEs

• Operation management in SMEs

• Innovation, knowledge management, learning and fast growth in SMEs

• New technologies, Internet, and communication in SMEs

• Regulation and taxes for SMEs

• Growth of SMEs

C. Strategic management and change in an SME

• Strategic Management in SMEs

• International entrepreneurship and SME internationalization

• Networks, alliances and relationships with government and large enterprises

• Managing change in an uncertain and changing environment

• Factors of success and failure in SME and entrepreneurial firms

D. New trends in entrepreneurship and SME management

• Social entrepreneurship

• Gender and female entrepreneurship

• Indigenous entrepreneurship

• Ethnic/diaspora/immigrant entrepreneurship

• Youth and student entrepreneurship

• Entrepreneurship in emerging/transition markets

• Franchises, sport, health, consulting and other emerging types of SMEs

• Corporate entrepreneurship

E. Special topics in entrepreneurship and SME management

• Family-based business

• Social responsibility, environmental protection, governance, and ethics in SMEs

• SMEs and regional, urban, rural, and national development

• Entrepreneurship education

• Epistemology, general theory development, and methods of research in entrepreneurship and SMEs

• Entrepreneurship and sustainable development

Peer Review Statement

Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship is an international, peer-reviewed journal which publishes high quality, original research. All manuscript submissions are subject to initial appraisal by the Editors, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double blind and submission is online via Editorial Manager.

Editor-in-Chief

Howard X. Lin, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

Associate Editors

Ikpe (Justice) Akpan, Kent State University, USA ( [email protected])
Malin Brännback, Åbo Akademi University, Finland ( [email protected])
Alan Carsrud, Carsrud & Associates, USA ( [email protected])
Marco Cucculelli, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy ( [email protected])
Kalinga Jagoda, University of Guelph, Canada ( [email protected])
Quan Jin, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics, China ( [email protected])
Senevi Kiridena, University of Wollongong, Australia ( [email protected])
Charlene L. Nicholls-Nixon, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada ( [email protected])
Robert A. Opoku, Red Deer College, Canada ( [email protected])
Matthias Pepin, Université Laval, Canada ( [email protected])
Syed Abidur Rahman, University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirate ( [email protected])
Vanessa Ratten, La Trobe University, Australia ( [email protected])
Amon Simba, Nottingham University Business School, UK ( [email protected])
Etienne St-Jean, Université du Québec a Trois-Rivieres, Canada ( [email protected])
Félix Zogning, University of Sherbrooke, Canada ( [email protected])

Founding Editor
Raymond W. Y. Kao , McMaster University, Canada


Editorial Review Board

David Alexander, University of Waterloo, Canada
Robert Anderson, University of Regina, Canada
Alpha Ayande, Innovation & Strategy Consortium / ESG - UQAM, Canada
Tounés Azzedine, INSEEC School of Business & Economics, France
Godfrey Baldacchino, University of Malta, Malta
Marijana Baric, University of Buckingham, UK
Thomas A. Bryant, Rutgers University, USA
François Brouard, Carleton University, Canada
Louise Cadieux, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
Shiv Chaudry, Birmingham City University, UK
Gianni Romani Chocce, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
Elie Chrysostome, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, USA
David Crick, University of Ottawa, Canada
James Cunningham, Robert Gordon University, UK
Leo-Paul Dana, Montpellier Business School, France
Devkamal Dutta, University of New Hampshire, USA
Monica Diochon, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Alain Fayolle, EMLYON Business School, France
João Ferreira, University of Beira Interior (UBI), Portugal
Louis-Jacques Filion, HEC Montréal, Canada
Dennis Foley, University of Newcastle, Australia
María del Mar Fuentes Fuentes, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, Spain
Craig Galbraith, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA
Kadia Georges Aka, Institut de Recherche sur les PME, Canada
Patricia G. Greene, Babson College, USA
Anjula Gurtoo, Indian Institute of Science, India
Hala Hattab, British University in Egypt, Egypt
Benson Honig, McMaster University, Canada
Pierre-André Julien, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
Nancy Jurik, Arizona State University, USA
Bob Kayseas, First Nations University of Canada at Regina, Canada
Gerry Kerr, University of Windsor, Canada
Norris Krueger, Entrepreneurship Northwest, USA
François Labelle, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
Jean-François Lalonde, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Wadid Lamine, Toulouse Business School, France
Eric Liguori, University of Tampa, USA
Howard Lin, Ryerson University, Canada
Gabriel Linton, Örebro University, Sweden
Pacha Malyadri, Osmania University, India
Colin Mason, University of Glasgow, UK
Gerard McElwee, University of Huddersfield, UK
Teresa Menzies, Brock University, Canada
Naranchimeg Mijid, Central Connecticut State University, USA
Michael Morris, University of Florida, USA
Gustavo de Oliveira Almeida, Getulio Vargas Foundation - FGV, Brazil
J. Hanns Pichler, Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration, Austria
Yves Robichaud, Laurentian University, Canada
Christopher Ross, Concordia University, Canada
Stefan Schaltegger, Leuphana University, Germany
Leon Schjoedt, The Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York
Francine Schlosser, University of Windsor, Canada
Claire Elizabeth Anne Seaman, Queen Margaret University, UK
Jean-Pierre Segers, PXL University College / PXL-UHasselt StudentStartUP, Belgium
Jennifer M. Sequeira, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
Muhammad Shehryar, Lahore University of Management Science, Pakistan
Amon Simba, Nottingham Trent University, UK
David J. Storey, University of Sussex, UK
Chris Street, University of Regina, Canada
Lavanchawee Sujarittanonta, Shinawatra University, Thailand
Alessandra Tognazzo, University of Padua, Italy
Olivier Toutain, Burgundy School of Business, France
Maripier Tremblay, Université Laval, Canada
Howard Van Auken, Iowa State University, USA
Marcus Wagner, University of Augsburg, Germany
Colin C. Williams, University of Sheffield, UK
Yanjiao Yang, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), China
Roxanne Zolin, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

News, offers and calls for papers

News and offers

• Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship is included in the following ranking indexes
• Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship was established in 1983 by the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE/CCPME)
• The CCSBE/CCPME was formed in 1979 as the first affiliate of the International Council for Small Business

The Canadian Council for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (CCSBE)/Conseil Canadien de la PME et de l'entrepreneuriat (CCPME) is the only national membership-based organization in Canada whose goals are to promote and advance the development of small business and entrepreneurship through research, education and training, networking and dissemination of scholarly & policy-oriented information.

The CCSBE/CCPME was formed in 1979 as the first affiliate of the International Council for Small Business. Its members include academics, educators, representatives of small business support organizations, researchers, government officials, students of entrepreneurship, and policy makers. Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship will enhance the CCSBE/CCPME’s ability to pursue these goals, nationally and internationally.

The organization maintains a bilingual website ( www.ccsbe.org) and offers a number of benefits to members including free online access to all JSBE papers.