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JCE Special Issue: 'Management Issues in Entrepreneurial Process for Chinese New Ventures'

Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship
ISSN 1756-1396
Special Issue on ‘Management Issues in Entrepreneurial Process for Chinese New Ventures’

Guest Editors: Prof. Yuli Zhang and Prof. Yonggui Wang

The Journal of Chinese Entrepreneurship is the first internationally refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancement of entrepreneurship research in China and aimed at researchers and entrepreneurs.

Entrepreneurship, the nexus between the processes of opportunity discovery, evaluation and exploitation; and the set of individuals who discover, evaluate, and exploit them, is emerging as a distinctive field of study drawing upon different disciplines. However, entrepreneurship research, in particular, on topics such as entrepreneurial process, is still largely based on Western contexts, with limited attempts addressing the domains outside the developed economies. The proliferation of new ventures and small businesses in China in recent years presents an exciting and unique environment for researchers in and outside China to explore the nature, evolution and practices of entrepreneurial process. Given the rising entrepreneurship-driven economic growth in present China, this special issue offers a window on the management issues in entrepreneurial process for Chinese new ventures.

Specific topics related to this special issue may include, BUT are not limited to:

(1) Environments for entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial activities in China

The development and evolution of entrepreneurship in China in the past 30 years since its open-door policy
Evolution of environments for entrepreneurship in China and the development of Entrepreneurial policies of China
Emerging issues in Entrepreneurial processes in China, such as: Entrepreneurial processes relevant to rural workers, college graduates, graduates returned from foreign countries; the innovative economy and entrepreneurial processes, and entrepreneurial process in relation to competences and education, etc.

(2) Empirical test of key issues in western entrepreneurial research in the Chinese context, for example:

Entrepreneurial intent, e.g. heuristics and biases
Opportunity discovery, e.g. entrepreneurial alertness
Resource acquisition, e.g. bricolage
Entrepreneurial behavioral logic, e.g. effectual rationality
Organizational capability development in new ventures, e. g. entrepreneurial learning

(3) Other entrepreneurial activities in the Chinese new ventures, for example:

Social capital and opportunity discovery
The interaction between entrepreneurs and opportunities
The formation and evolution of entrepreneurial teams
Innovation process on venture financing
Technological entrepreneurship in China
New venture growth process

Paper submission:

Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for journal publication elsewhere. As an author, you are responsible for understanding and adhering to our submission guidelines. You can access them from http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/author_guidelines.htm?id=jce. Please thoroughly read these before submitting your manuscript. Each paper will go through a rigorous review process.

Important Dates

Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 20 Aug. 2009
Approximate date for final submission of accepted manuscripts: 1 December 2009

Editors and Notes

You may put all contents in one file and send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an e-mail to the guest editors

Prof. Yuli Zhang
Nankai University
Email: ylzhang@nankai.edu.cn or
yulinankai@hotmail.com

Prof. Yonggui Wang
University of International Business and Economics
Email: JCEwang@gmail.com