Abstract
Plain English SummaryPublishing entrepreneurship research is not just important but challenging. Longstanding experts in the field can provide helpful advice. As borders between academic fields blur, research fields are increasingly global in their perspective, knowledge, and findings, thus enabling robust participation in research fields at a scale previously unimaginable. Drawing on the experience, insights, and perspectives of three seasoned editors, we try to reconcile the seemingly incoherent and inherent frustration experienced by researchers, on the one hand, with the very purposeful and self-aware process of at least one scholarly journal, Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal, on the other, to provide guidelines and insights to aspiring authors in what they should consider in crafting their research for submission with the goal of publication. In providing this sage council, the paper provides guidance to researchers on the process of publishing their results.
Highlights
Globalization has rendered many, if not most, research fields to be global in their perspective, knowledge, and findings, which has enabled robust participation in research fields at a scale unimaginable just a few years ago
The mandate for Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal is to advance the scholarly field of entrepreneurship and small business by publishing articles that make a substantial and significant contribution to the literature
To say that Small Business Economics welcomes all types of research focusing on entrepreneurship and small business, without regard to underlying methodologic, geographic, or industrial context, is not the equivalent of saying that all types of research are valued and equivalently
Summary
As if undertaking research were not challenging enough, authors typically find the publication process to be daunting, fraught with confusion and ambiguities. Globalization has rendered many, if not most, research fields to be global in their perspective, knowledge, and findings, which has enabled robust participation in research fields at a scale unimaginable just a few years ago This same globalization, combined with the growing recognition worldwide that knowledge and ideas matter immensely, has resulted in a concomitant increase in the rejection rates of submitted manuscripts. As the article makes clear, how and why Small Business Economics vets submissions is to identify and publish those papers most likely to add value to, and change thinking in, the scholarly field of entrepreneurship. While it certainly seems chaotic from the outside, it is anything but. We hope that this paper will provide aspiring researchers and authors with a guiding star in the turbulent seas of publication
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