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SAGE Open Special Issue Announcement
SAGE Open Special Issue Call for Papers:
Entrepreneurial Teams: Towards a Contextualized Understanding
Background
There is considerable consensus that a large number of startups are managed, lead or started by more
than one person (Wright and Vanaelst, 2009; Klotz et al., 2014; Khan et al., 2015). Research on team
entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial teams, founding teams and new venture teams has gained
momentum in the past decade with three special issues dedicated to the field (see Cooney, 2005;
Schjoedt & Kraus, 2009; Schjoedt et al., 2013). While taking stock of this research, some clear thematic
discussions emerge. The first and foremost is a definitional aspect of what constitutes an
entrepreneurial team, which currently enjoys little consensus. Another vital however less addressed
aspect is the work done on how such teams are formed (Ben-Hafaïedh, 2012), their relevant team
emergent states and longitudinal performance. Developing insights into the topic, there have been calls
to use varied frameworks from strategic management and organizational behavior perspectives. These
frameworks (among others) include the “Input-Process-Output (IPO)”, the “Upper Echelon Perspective”
from top management team (TMT) literature and the “Input-Mediator-Output (IMO)”. While these
avenues clearly paved way for a body of knowledge, it is evident that team research within
entrepreneurship can gain from more unique insights. In other words, for research to provide
meaningful advice to entrepreneurial teams, necessitates a profound appreciation of their setting.
The entrepreneurial phenomenon is regarded as being highly contextual (Autio et al., 2014; Zahra et al.,
2014). Revitalizing entrepreneurship research from a contextual frame seems aptly justified to discern
the who, why, how and when of entrepreneurship. Dovetailing to the team scenario, a nuance
contextual view could help uncover insightful understandings and alternative explanations on collective
opportunity creation/discovery. Context is quite generally explained as any aspect or situation outside
the focal point of interest. This highlights the call to understand entrepreneurial teams in a holistic
manner to identify factors which promote and hamper their shared development. Context can have an
influence and also be influenced by an entrepreneurial activity, thereby making it a multi-level and bi-
directional interaction within entrepreneurship (Welter, 2011). This feature makes a contribution within
a team setting even more rewarding, where the presence of more than one entrepreneur brings an
additional dimension.
Special Issue Goals
This special issue seeks to advance our knowledge on how a contextual interpretation can contribute to
a greater understanding of entrepreneurial teams. In this regard, submissions from all management
disciplines (entrepreneurship, innovation management, strategy, organizational behavior/psychology,
psychology, economics, sociology etc.) are welcome to shape the discussion. Furthermore, as context
itself is multifaceted, authors are welcome to conceptualize it in a wide variety of ways; for e.g. as an
independent/dependent, process, outcome variable etc. The special issue is open to novel
methodologies in addition to theoretical (review, conceptual) and empirical (qualitative, quantitative)
manuscripts. Through this call, the goal is to delve deeper into the context and enhance our knowledge
on the word “entrepreneurial” within entrepreneurial teams.
Motivating topics include, but are not limited to:
Entrepreneurial teams in different countries/regions/localities. Possible comparative studies.
Team entrepreneurship within varied markets and industries.
Entrepreneurial Teams and cultural facets.
Role of economic and regulatory infrastructures on entrepreneurial team dynamics.
Political and institutional setting and its impact on team entrepreneurship.
Geographical distribution and virtual nature of entrepreneurial teams.
Teams of different entrepreneurial nature/composition for e.g. family business, high-tech,
social, female.
Role of time (e.g. sequencing of events) as a contextual factor in explaining entrepreneurial
teamwork.
Contextual moderator/mediator models.
Multi/Cross level relations of a combination of factors mentioned above.
Timeframe
All submissions will be handled through SAGE Open’s peer-review website at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sageopen until 15 February, 2016. If you do not already have an
account you will be asked to create one in order to submit. Please make sure to indicate that your
submission is for the special issue on “Entrepreneurial Teams” by using the appropriate manuscript type
during the submission process.
Further Information
If you would like to discuss your submissions or have any questions related to the contents of the special
issue, please contact the Guest Editor:
Dr. Mohammad Saud Khan – [email protected]
For questions regarding the submission process of the special issue please contact The SAGE Open
Editorial Office: [email protected].
SAGE Open is a peer-reviewed open-access publication from SAGE Publications that launched in 2011.
Articles span the full spectrum of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities. I encourage
you to visit http://www.sageopen.com to learn more about the journal and view the submission
guidelines.
Please note that SAGE Open accomplishes global open access (i.e., free, subscription-less access) by
using a business model in which its expenses are recovered by an author publication fee charged after
acceptance. The current fee price can be found at http://www.sageopen.com and would be paid only
after the article is reviewed and accepted for publication in SAGE Open. Please visit
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Sincerely,
Guest Editor Mohammad Saud Khan, Ph.D., University of Southern Denmark
References
Autio, E., Kenney, M., Mustar, P., Siegel, D., & Wright, M. (2014). Entrepreneurial innovation: The importance of context. Research Policy, 43(7), 1097-1108.
Ben-Hafaïedh, C. (2012). Entrepreneurial teams: A renewed research agenda. RENT XXVI conference -Research in Entrepreneurship and Small Business, Lyon.
Cooney, T. (2005). What is an entrepreneurial team? International Small Business Journal, 23(3), 226-235.
Khan, M. S., Breitenecker, R. J., & Schwarz, E. J. (2015). Adding fuel to the fire: Need for achievement diversity and relationship conflict in entrepreneurial teams. Management Decision, 53(1), 75-99.
Klotz, A. C., Hmieleski, K. M., Bradley, B. H., & Busenitz, L. W. (2014). New venture teams a review of the literature and roadmap for future research. Journal of Management, 40(1), 226-255.
Schjoedt, L., & Kraus, S. (2009). The heart of a new venture: the entrepreneurial team. Management Research News, 32(6).
Schjoedt, L., Monsen, E., Pearson, A., Barnett, T., & Chrisman, J. J. (2013). New venture and family business teams: understanding team formation, composition, behaviors, and performance. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 37(1), 1-15.
Welter, F. (2011). Contextualizing entrepreneurship—conceptual challenges and ways forward.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 35(1), 165-184.
Wright, M. & Vanaelst, I. (2009). Introduction. In M. Wright & I. Vanaelst (Eds.), Entrepreneurial teams and new business creation (Vol. 13, pp. iix–xli). Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar.
Zahra, S. A., Wright, M., & Abdelgawad, S. G. (2014). Contextualization and the advancement of entrepreneurship research. International small business journal, 32(5), 479-500.