Entrepreneurship Research Journal

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There are at least two ways for you to participate in building our new journal:

• First, we encourage you to submit cutting-edge work, both conceptual and empirical. Please email us directly via this ERJ website and please encourage others to seek information. We would also like you to encourage submissions from your immediate/direct colleagues and other scholars that you know and/or have worked with
• Second, we encourage less traditional and more risky areas of cutting-edge research. Please let us as Editors and/or Editorial Board members know of possible such topics or foci and who is working in these areas.

We look forward to receiving your manuscript!

Co-Editors:

Rania Labaki, EDHEC Business School
Thomas S. Lyons, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Martha Martinez-Firestone, DePaul University
Chandra S. Mishra, Florida Atlantic University
Xiaoyu Yu, School of Management, Shanghai University
Ramona K. Zachary, Baruch College, The City University of New York

Advisory Board:

Howard E. Aldrich, University of North Carolina
William J. Baumol, New York University (1922 to 2017) (2011 founding AB member)
Frank Hoy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Editorial Board:

Anca Otilia Dodescu, University of Oradea
Dilek Cetindamar, University of Technology Syndey
Kevin C. Cox, Florida Atlantic University
Rob Hallak, University of South Australia
Sarah Jack, Stockholm School of Economics
William E. Jackson III, University of Alabama
George W. Haynes, Montana State University
Jolien Huybrechts, Maastricht University
Joan Lockyer, Coventry University
Erik Lundmark, Macquarie University
Martha Martinez-Firestone, DePaul University
Nava Michael-Tsabari, Tel Aviv University
Olimpia Meglio, University of Sannio
Esra Memili, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Nancy J. Miller, Colorado State University
Daniela Montemerlo, University of Insubria
Tian Li, Nankai University
Juliet Osuji, North Carolina A&T State University
Oleg V. Pavlov, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Suncica Oberman Peterka, J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek
Norman Walzer, Northern Illinois University
Dianne H. B. Welsh, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Paul Woodfield, University of Auckland (Australia)
Wencang Zhou, Montclair State University

Associate Editorial Board:

Philip Alford, Southampton University
Sebastian Aparicio, Durham University
Unai Arzubiaga, University of the Basque Country in Bilbao
Lauren Aydinliyim, Baruch College, The City University of New York
Juliana Binhote, University of Louisville
Jasper Brinkerink, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Chris James Carter, The University of Nottingham
Donella Caspersz, The University of Western Australia
Bruce Dye, Crest Business Development, Ltd.
Giovanna Campopiano, Lancaster University Management School　　
Morgan Clevenger, Hiram College
Michael Fortunato, Creative Insight Community Development
Kun Fu, Loughborough University London
Mark A. Gagnon, The Pennsylvania State University
Daniel E. Goldberg, Temple University
Bin Ma, IE Business School, IE University
Natanya Meyer, University of Johannesburg
Md Imtiaz Mostafiz, Sheffield Hallam University
Fabio Quarato, Bocconi University　
Coen Rigtering, Utrecht University
Philip Roundy, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Henry Shi, The University of Adelaide
Christina Theodoraki, TBS – Toulouse Business School
David Urbano, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Bin Wang, Curtin University
Tao Wang, Grenoble Ecole de Management
Xinchun Wang, West Virginia University
Yi Wang, University of Southern Denmark
Shubin Wu, The University of Liverpool Management School
Jun Yang, Zhejiang University
Miles Yang, Macquarie University
Shu Yang, Hofstra University
Xin-an Zhang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Xin-yuan Zhao, Sun Yat-sen University

ERJ Co-Editors’ Bios

Rania Labaki, EDHEC Business School

Rania Labaki, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Management at EDHEC Business School, Director of EDHEC Family Business Research Centre, and Family Business Fellow at Cornell University - Smith Family Business Initiative. Her current research, teaching and advising interests focus on the interplay between family dynamics and financial, social, entrepreneurial and succession decisions. Rania is actively involved in several international organizations, including her role as Board Member of the International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA), Advisor at Lansberg Gersick & Associates, Head of the academic committee at FBN France, and Co-Editor of Entrepreneurship Research Journal.
Among her past appointments, Rania was Associate professor at the University of Bordeaux where she served as Director of the Financial and Wealth Management Master Program. She was also the Director of the Family Business Global Executive MBA at EDHEC Business School. She served as academic expert for several organizations including The Family Business Network and Business Families Foundation and contributed to the program development of more than 20 conferences on family business topics.
She has numerous academic publications ranging from book chapters, research reports, pedagogical cases to articles in the leading family business academic journals such as Family Business Review and Journal of Family Business Strategy. Her research and educational insights on family business topics were featured in the international media, professional and press outlets such as Les Echos, Le Figaro, CampdenFB, Tharawat, The Conversation, Le Nouvel Obs and Financial Times.
Rania holds a Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Bordeaux in France. She is recipient of numerous awards, grants and distinctions supporting and recognizing her contributions to the family business field, including the prestigious Barbara Hollander Award in 2020.

Thomas S. Lyons, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Thomas S. Lyons, Ph.D., is the Clarence E. Harris Chair of Excellence in Entrepreneurship and Professor of Marketing & Entrepreneurship in the Gary W. Rollins College of Business at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His research interests are entrepreneurship skills measurement and development, the relationship between entrepreneurship and community economic development, and social entrepreneurship. He is the co-author of fourteen books and numerous articles and papers on these subjects, and has edited a three-volume set on social entrepreneurship (Social Entrepreneurship: How Businesses Can Transform Society, 2012). His co-authored book Understanding Social Entrepreneurship, now in its third edition, is the leading textbook on this subject, used at over 80 universities around the world. He was an early scholar of the concept of "entrepreneurial communities," or "entrepreneurial ecosystems," and he continues to conduct research on this subject. In 2011, Dr. Lyons received the Ted K. Bradshaw Outstanding Research Award from the Community Development Society. He is a practicing entrepreneur, who has co-founded two companies. He holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Chandra S. Mishra, Florida Atlantic University

Chandra S. Mishra, Ph.D., is Professor of Management in the Department of Management Programs, College of Business, Florida Atlantic University. He is co-author of The Theory of Entrepreneurship (2014), and author of Getting Funded (2015) and Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage (2017). His interests include finance, strategy, and entrepreneurship, including venture design, venture capital, management incentives, technology commercialization, private equity, corporate governance, and mergers and acquisitions. Professors Chandra S. Mishra and Ramona K. Zachary co-founded the Entrepreneurship Research Journal in 2011.

Xiaoyu Yu, School of Management, Shanghai University

Professor Xiaoyu Yu is Professor and Chair in Entrepreneurship and innovation at the School of Management at Shanghai University. He is Founding Director of Research Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship of Shanghai University, and Vice Dean of School of Management of Shanghai University. He has been Research Associate at Neeley School of Business of Texas Christian University from 2013 to 2014, and Visiting Scholar at Jönköping International Business School of Jönköping University in 2011. He received his PhD from Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Professor Yu has taught in China, as well as the United States, Sweden, and South Korea, and has extensive teaching experience at all levels—undergraduate, MBA, PhD, executive, and faculty training programs. He won the First Prize of Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award in 2017. His course "Entrepreneurial Failure Management" won the Outstanding Innovation and Entrepreneurship Course Award from China National MBA Education Supervisory Committee in 2019. His twenty teaching cases have won One Hundred Excellent Management Case Awards in China.
Professor Yu’s research interests lie at the nexus of entrepreneurship and strategy. He is best known for his development of entrepreneurial failure research and his insights on the new venture growth strategy in emerging economies. His work has been published in leading journals, including Journal of Organizational Behavior, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Medical Internet Research, Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Business Research, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Internet Research, and Electronic Markets.
Professor Yu has served on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Management Studies, and JIIM: Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He also serves as editorial board member of Chinese leading journals, including Industrial Engineering and Management, Foreign Economics and Management, as well as section editor of Journal of Management Case Studies. He has guest-edited several special issues for Chinese leading journals, including Quarterly Journal of Management (2017), South China Journal of Economics (2017-2020), and R&D Management (2019). He has co-chaired the Entrepreneurship and Marketing Session in Guangzhou (2019) for China Marketing International Conference (CMIC), and the Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management Track in Shanghai (2019) for the Sixth Chinese Management Science Forum.
Professor Yu has received numerous honors, awards, and grants. They include Emerald Literati Awards for Excellence (Highly Commended Paper) in 2018, Best Session Paper Award in CMIC in 2019, Best Paper Award at the Forum on Case-based and Qualitative Research in Business Administration in China in 2019, First Prize of Outstanding Paper in China Innovation and Enterpris Growth Conference in 2019, Second Prize of the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation for Outstanding Young Teachers of Higher Education in 2018, Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award in 2017, Shanghai Yucai Award in 2016. He has received five Talent Grants known as Young TopNotch Talents (2017), Young Eastern Scholar (2016), Pujiang Talent Program (2015), Shuguang Scholar Program (2015), Chenguang Scholar Program (2011), and four grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).

Ramona K. Zachary, Baruch College, The City University of New York

Ramona Kay Zachary, Ph.D., is the Peter S. Jonas Distinguished Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management of the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College, The City University of New York located in New York City. Before joining Baruch College in 2001, Dr. Zachary was Professor and the J. Thomas Clark Fellow of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. At Baruch College from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2017, Professor Zachary was the Chair of the Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management. For nine years from September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2017, she also served as the Academic Director of the Lawrence N. Field Programs in Entrepreneurship. Professors Chandra S. Mishra and Ramona K. Zachary co-founded the Entrepreneurship Research Journal in 2011, which was 100 years post the seminal writings of Joseph A. Schumpeter (1911). Both ERJ co-founders have served and currently continue as ERJ Co-Editors.
Professor Zachary teaches and conducts research related to entrepreneurial and family firms including foci on the owning family's internal social and economic dynamics, the effects of the family on the family firm viability over time, the economic impact of entrepreneurial and family firms on communities, minority business ownership, and gender issues. Dr. Zachary has authored or co-author 26 peer-reviewed research articles in leading journals in her field of study with 12 journal articles and three Special Issues in premier journals. She published four FT50 articles including three articles and a Guest Editorship for a Special Issue in Journal of Business Venturing and one article in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. Dr. Zachary has also published four additional articles in the Family Business Review which is currently ranked #15 out of 121 journals on the SSCI Business List. Her Google Scholar citations count currently hovers around 5300 citations. She has also published numerous articles on family business, home-based businesses, family labor force, family management and decision-making theory and public and private policies related to businesses and families. Dr. Zachary has co-authored a book titled, The Theory of Entrepreneurship: Creating and Sustaining Entrepreneurial Value as well as two edited books entitled, Home-Based Employment and Family Life and The Entrepreneurial Family. She received her Ph.D. from Purdue University and has served several professional organizations including the International Family Enterprise Research Academy and has served on its Board and as the Director of Research and Publications Subcommittee.

ERJ Advisory Board Members’ Bios

Howard E. Aldrich, University of North Carolina

Howard E. Aldrich is Kenan Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he won the Carlyle Sitterson Award for Outstanding Teaching in 2002. He is chair of the Department of Sociology and Adjunct Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, in the Kenan Flagler Business School and a Faculty Research Associate in the Strategy Area of the Duke University Fuqua School of Business. In 2000, he received two honors: the Swedish Foundation of Small Business Research named him the Entrepreneurship Researcher of the Year and the Organization and Management Division of the Academy of Management presented him with an award for a Distinguished Career of Scholarly Achievement. His 1999 book, Organizations Evolving, won the Academy of Management George Terry Award as the best management book published in 1998-99, and was co-winner of the Max Weber Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work. His 1979 book, Organizations and Environments, was reprinted in 2007 as a "classic" by Stanford University press. His books have been translated into Japanese and Farsi.
His research focuses on the conditions under which new ventures are founded, with special attention to the composition of startup teams. Over the past decade, he has been a co-investigator in two large panel studies of nascent entrepreneurs: The Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics I and II. Using these nationally representative multi-wave data sets, he has collaborated with Martin Ruef and Nancy Carter to investigate the extent to which new venture teams are homophilous by gender, race, and occupational composition. Using the PSED I with Phillip Kim, he's investigated the relative influence of human capital, social capital, and financial capital on participation in new venture creation. In another project with Steve Bradley, Dean Shepherd, and Johan Wiklund, published in the Strategic Management Journal, he has investigated the impact of organizational founding conditions on the extent to which new firms can survive radical environmental changes. That study showed that independent new firms have higher initial mortality rates but survive environmental turbulence btter than new subsidiaries of other firms. Beginning in the 1980s, he pioneered the cross national study of social networks and new venture creation, focusing particularly on gender differences in networking strategies.

William J. Baumol, New York University (1922 to 2017) (2011 founding AB member)

William J. Baumol was the Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship and Academic Director of the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Stern School of Business at New York University; and senior economist and professor emeritus at Princeton University.
Professor Baumol's primary areas of research included economic growth, entrepreneurship and innovation, industrial organization, antitrust economics and regulation, and economics of the arts. He authored more than 40 books and more than 500 articles in professional journals and newspapers. His most recent books included, The Microtheory of Innovative Entrepreneurship, 2010; The Invention of Enterprise: Entrepreneurship from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern Times, 2010; Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and The Economics of Growth and Prosperity (with Robert E. Litan and Carl J. Schramm), 2007; The Free-Market Innovation Machine: Analyzing the Growth Miracle of Capitalism, 2002; and Global Trade and Conflicting National Interests (with Ralph E. Gomory), 2000.
Professor Baumol was a former president of the American Economic Association, the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, the Eastern Economic Association and the Atlantic Economic Society. His honors and awards included twelve honorary degrees and membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei (Italy), and the British Academy. In May of 2009, two Chinese universities, Wuhan University and Zhejiang Gongshang University, named Centers for Entrepreneurial Research in Professor Baumol's honor.
Professor Baumol was born on February 26, 1922 in New York City and lived until May 4, 2017. He received his Bachelor of Social Science from the College of the City of New York in 1942 and his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of London in 1949. He has been teaching at NYU for more than 36 years and taught at Princeton University for 43 years, where he was the Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Economist.

Frank Hoy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Frank Hoy is the Paul R. Beswick Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship and Director of the Collaborative for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in the United States. Prior to joining WPI, he was dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Texas at El Paso, and before that he served as director of the Small Business Development Center for the state of Georgia in the U.S. Professor Hoy is co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Family Business and the Handbook of Research on Franchising, both published in 2017. He is co-author of Small Business Management: Launching & Growing Entrepreneurial Ventures, currently in its 19^th edition (2020). Professor Hoy is a past editor of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. His primary research areas are family business, franchising, and technology entrepreneurship.

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