Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
Small Business/Entrepreneurship
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal for conceptual and empirical research that develops, tests or extends theory relating to entrepreneurship, broadly defined. Article Topics include, but are not limited to:
- New Venture Creation, Development, Growth, and Performance
- Characteristics, Behaviors and Types of Entrepreneurs
- Small Business Management
- Family-Owned Businesses
- Corporate, Social, and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
- National and International Studies of Enterprise Creation
- Research Methods in Entrepreneurship
- Venture Financing
| Johan Wiklund | Syracuse University, USA |
| Amanda J Williamson | The University of Waikato, NZ |
| Candida Brush | Babson College, USA |
| James Chrisman | Mississippi State University, USA |
| Markku Maula | Aalto University, Finland |
| Friederike Welter | IfM Bonn and Universitat Siegan, Germany |
| Karl Wennberg | Linköping University, Sweden |
| Pia Arenius | RMIT University, Australia |
| Bat Batjargal | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Gaylen Chandler | Wichita State University, USA |
| Sarah Jack | Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden |
| Franz Kellermanns | University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA |
| Moren Levesque | York University, Canada |
| Sophie Manigart | Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School, Belgium |
| Susan Marlow | Nottingham University Business School, UK |
| Tomasz Mickiewicz | Aston Business School, UK |
| Danny Miller | HEC Montreal, Canada |
| Robert S. Nason | Concordia University, Canada |
| Donald O. Neubaum | Florida Atlantic University, USA |
| Holger Patzelt | Technical University Munich, Germany |
| Jeff Pollack | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Andreas Rauch | University of Sydney, Australia |
| Erik Stam | Utrecht University, Netherlands |
| Wouter Stam | VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Ute Stephan | Kings College, UK |
| Marilyn Uy | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| Bill Wales | SUNY Albany, USA |
| Joakim Wincent | Hanken School of Economics, Finland |
| Mujtaba Ahsan | San Diego State University, USA |
| Matt Allen | Babson College, USA |
| Gry Agnete Alsos | University of Nordland, Norway |
| Allen C. Amason | Georgia Southern University, USA |
| Brian Anderson | University of Missouri at Kansas City, USA |
| John Angelis | Elizabethtown College, USA |
| Jean-Luc Arrègle | EMLYON Business School, France |
| Jonathan Arthurs | Oregon State University, USA |
| Sophie Bacq | Northeastern University, USA |
| Robert A. Baron | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Massimo Bau | Jönköping University, Sweden |
| Judith Behrens | Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Belgium |
| Heiko Bergmann | University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Joern Block | Universität Trier, Germany |
| Steven W. Bradley | Baylor University, USA |
| Anna Brattström | Lund University, Sweden |
| Malte Brettel | RWTH Aachen University, Germany |
| Nicola Breugst | Technical University Munich, Germany |
| Keith Brigham | Texas Tech University, USA |
| Jan Brinckmann | ESADE, Spain |
| Keith Brouthers | Kings College London, UK |
| Peter Bryant | IE Business School, Spain |
| Amanda Bullough | University of Delaware, USA |
| Lowell W. Busenitz | University of Oklahoma, USA |
| Albert A. Cannella, Jr. | Texas A&M University, USA |
| Melissa Cardon | University of Tennessee, USA |
| Michael Carney | Concordia University, Canada |
| Jon Carr | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Gary Castrogiovanni | Florida Atlantic University, USA |
| Elsa Chan | City University Hong Kong, China |
| Francesco Chirico | Jönköping International Business School, Sweden |
| Veroniek Collewaert | Vlerick Business School, Belgium |
| Mark A. Conley | Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden |
| Andrew Corbett | Babson College, USA |
| Nicole Coviello | Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada |
| Jeffrey G. Covin | Indiana University, USA |
| Cristina Cruz Serrano | IE Business School, Spain |
| Joshua J. Daspit | Texas State University, USA |
| Per Davidsson | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Blakley Davis | Virginia Commonwealth University, USA |
| Alfredo De Massis | Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy |
| Caroline Decker-Lange | The Open University, UK |
| Frederic Delmar | EMLYON Business School, France |
| Dawn DeTienne | Colorado State University, USA |
| Stanislav Dobrev | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA |
| Anne Domurath | Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada |
| Evan Douglas | Griffith University, Australia |
| Sarah Drakopoulou Dodd | University of Strathclyde, UK |
| Kim Eddleston | Northeastern University, USA |
| Linda Edelman | Bentley University, USA |
| Amanda Elam | Galaxy Diagnostics |
| Prescott C. Ensign | Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada |
| Saul Estrin | London School of Economics, UK |
| Hanqing Fang | Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA |
| Riccardo Fini | University of Bologna, Italy |
| Eileen Fischer | York University, Canada |
| Robert Garrett | University of Louisville, USA |
| William B. Gartner | Babson College, USA |
| Marco van Gelderen | VU University, Netherlands |
| Violetta Gerasymenko | Oregon State University, USA |
| Michael Gielnik | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| David Gras | Texas Christian University, USA |
| Denis Gregoire | HEC Montreal, Canada |
| Arent Greve | Norwegian School of Economics, Norway |
| Christina Guenther | WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany |
| Vishal Gupta | University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
| Isabella R. Hatak | University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Helen Haugh | Cambridge University, UK |
| Diana Hechavarria | Univerrsity of South Florida, USA |
| Daniel Hjorth | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Keith Hmieleski | Texas Christian University, USA |
| Timothy Holcomb | Miami University, USA |
| Benson Honig | McMaster University, Canada |
| Peter Jaskiewicz | University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Anna Jenkins | University of Queensland, Australia |
| David Jiang | Georgia Southern University, USA |
| Mikaela Backman Jönköping | International Business School, Sweden |
| Amol Joshi | Oregon State University, USA |
| Nadine Kammerlander | WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management, Germany |
| Tomas Karlsson | Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| Shoko Kato | Rutgers University, USA |
| Teemu Kautonen | Aalto University School of Business, Finland |
| Ewald Kibler | Aalto University, Finland |
| Roland Kidwell | Florida Atlantic University, USA |
| Phillip Kim | Babson College, USA |
| Kim Klyver | University of Southern Denmark, Denmark |
| Mirjam Knockaert | Ghent University, Belgium |
| Josip Kotlar | Politecnico di Milano, Italy |
| Patrick Kreiser | Iowa State University, USA |
| Isabelle Le Breton-Miller | HEC Montreal, Canada |
| In Hyeock (Ian) Lee | Loyola University Chicago, USA |
| Claire Leitch | Lancaster University, UK |
| Mike Lerman | Iowa State University, USA |
| Benyamin Lichtenstein | University of Massachusetts-Boston, USA |
| Dominic Lim | University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| Francisco Liñán | University of Seville, Spain |
| Andy Lockett | Warwick Business School, UK |
| Franz Lohrke | Auburn University, USA |
| Carina Lomberg | Technical University of Denmark, Denmark |
| Rebecca Long | Mississippi State University, USA |
| G. T. Lumpkin | University of Oklahoma, USA |
| Kincy Madison | Oklahoma State University, USA |
| Malin Malmstrom | Lulea University, Sweden |
| Tatiana Manolova | Bentley University, USA |
| Lou Marino | University of Alabama, USA |
| Laura Marler | Mississippi State University, USA |
| Bruce Martin | Thompson Rivers University, Canada |
| Matthew Marvel | Ball State University, USA |
| Andrew Maxwell | University of Waterloo, Canada |
| Matthew McCaffrey | University of Manchester, UK |
| Brian McCann | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Miguel Meuleman | Vlerick Business School, Belgium and Imperial College, UK |
| Tomasz Mickiewicz | Aston University, UK |
| J. Robert Mitchell | University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| Ronald K. Mitchell | Texas Tech University, USA |
| Erik Monsen | University of Vermont, USA |
| Todd Moss | Syracuse University, USA |
| Charles Murnieks | Oregon State University, USA |
| Lucia Naldi | Jönköping International Business School, Sweden |
| Meyyappan Narayanan | Lahehead University, Canada |
| Helle Neergaard | Aarhus University, Denmark |
| Charlene Nicholls-Nixon | Ryerson University, Canada |
| Boris Nikolaev | Baylor University, USA |
| Mattias Nordqvist | Jönköping International Business School, Sweden |
| Leslie E. Palich | Baylor University, USA |
| J. Ari Pandes | University of Calgary, Canada |
| Pankaj Patel | Villanova University, USA |
| Dean Patton | Bournemouth University, UK |
| Tyge Payne | Texas Tech University, USA |
| John Pearce | Villanova University, USA |
| Ana Maria Peredo | University of Victoria, Canada |
| Torsten Pieper | University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA |
| Maija Renko | DePaul University, USA |
| Rebecca Reuber | University of Toronto, Canada |
| Mikko Rönkkö | University of Jyväskylä, Finland |
| Saadat Saeed | Durham University Business School, UK |
| Leon Schjoedt | Mahasarakham University, Thailand |
| William S. Schulze | University of Utah, USA |
| Andreas Schwab | Iowa State University, USA |
| Susan Schwarz | Aston University, UK |
| Denis Schweizer | Concordia University, Canada |
| Christian Schwens | Heinrich-Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany |
| Armin Schwienbacher | SKEMA Business School, France |
| Salvatore Sciascia | Università Cattaneo – LIUC, Italy |
| Pramodita Sharma | University of Vermont, USA |
| Dean A. Shepherd | Notre Dame University, USA |
| Nadav Shir | Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden |
| Galina Shirokova | St. Petersburg University, Russia |
| Philipp Sieger | University of Bern, Switzerland |
| Sharon Simmons | University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA |
| Mark Simon | Oakland University, USA |
| Ana Cristina Siqueira | William Paterson University |
| Brock Smith | University of Victoria, Canada |
| Jeffrey E. Sohl | University of New Hampshire, USA |
| Vangelis Souitaris | City University London, UK |
| Ute Stephan | Kings College, UK |
| Chris Stevens | Gonzaga University, USA |
| Annapoornima Subramanian | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Christopher Sutter | Miami University, USA |
| Evangelos Syrigos | University of Zurich, Switzerland |
| Marcus T. Wolfe | University of Oklahoma, USA |
| Siri Terjesen | American University, USA |
| Roy Thurik | Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Erno Tornikoski | University of Exeter, UK |
| David Townsend | Virginia Tech, USA |
| Paul Tracey | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Roxana Turturea | Aalto University, Finland |
| Deniz Ucbasaran | Warwick Business School, UK |
| Lorraine Uhlaner | EDHEC Business School, France |
| Tom Vanacker | Ghent University, Belgium |
| James Vardaman | University of Memphis, USA |
| Ingrid Verheul | RSM, The Netherlands |
| Silvio Vismara | Bergamo University, Italy |
| Wim Voordeckers | Hasselt University, Belgium |
| Justin Webb | University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA |
| Jon M. Werner | University of Wisconsin - Whitewater, USA |
| Page West | Wake Forest University, USA |
| Trent Williams | Indiana University, USA |
| Zhenyu Wu | University of Manitoba, Canada |
| Jeffrey York | University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
| Wei Yu | National University Singapore, Singapore |
| Anica Zayen | University of London, UK |
| Thomas Zellweger | University of St. Gallen, Switzerland |
| Yanlong Zhang | Peking University, China |
| Wubiao Zhou | Newcastle University, UK |
This Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics
Please read the guidelines below then visit the Journal’s submission site to upload your manuscript. Please note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned.
Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice will be reviewed.
As part of the submission process you will be required to warrant that you are submitting your original work, that you have the rights in the work, that you are submitting the work for first publication in the Journal and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and has not already been published elsewhere, and that you have obtained and can supply all necessary permissions for the reproduction of any copyright works not owned by you.
To submit your manuscript, please go to the following link: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/etp
- What do we publish?
1.1 Aims & Scope
1.2 Article types
1.3 Writing your paper - Editorial policies
2.1 Peer review policy
2.2 Authorship
2.3 Acknowledgements
2.4 Declaration of conflicting interests - Publishing policies
3.1 Publication ethics
3.2 Contributor's publishing agreement
3.3 Open access and author archiving - Preparing your manuscript
4.1 Formatting
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
4.3 Supplementary material
4.4 Reference style
4.5 English language editing services - Submitting your manuscript
5.1 ORCID
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
5.3 Permissions - On acceptance and publication
6.1 SAGE Production
6.2 Online First publication
6.3 Access to your published article
6.4 Promoting your article - Further information
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) is a leading scholarly journal in Entrepreneurship. The journal's mission is to publish original conceptual and empirical research that contributes to the advancement of entrepreneurship. ETP is consistently ranked as one of the most influential business journals of the Journal Citation Reports and by the Financial Times as one of the top journals.
Before submitting your manuscript to Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice (ETP) is an interdisciplinary scholarly journal for conceptual and empirical research that develops, tests or extends theory relating to entrepreneurship, broadly defined. Article topics include, but are not limited to:
- New Venture Creation, Development, Growth, and Performance
- Characteristics, Behaviors, and Types of Entrepreneurs
- Small Business Management
- Family-Owned Businesses
- Corporate, Social, and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
- National and International Studies of Enterprise Creation
- Research Methods in Entrepreneurship
- Venture Financing
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice publishes full length articles, research notes and editorials.
It is difficult to state exactly what is expected from a paper submitted ETP because ETP is an eclectic and multidisciplinary journal that welcomes many different types of papers (e.g., both empirical papers, using qualitative and quantitative analyses, and conceptual papers). However, keep in mind that because ETP is a leading journal, competition for publishing space is intense. Less than 10% of all papers submitted get accepted for publication, meaning that most submitted papers get rejected. The best way of getting a sense of expectations is probably to review previous papers published in the journal. In addition, make sure to review the aims and scope of the journal and remember that ETP is a scholarly journal for conceptual and empirical research that develops, tests, and/or extends theory relating to entrepreneurship, broadly defined, in a way that significantly contributes to knowledge.
In 2011, the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ) published a series of editorials providing recommendations for authors aiming to publish in the journal. Although the scope of AMJ is different, these recommendations largely apply to ETP as well (see From the Editors: Publishing in AMJ – Part 1-7).
ETP publishes three types of papers: Full papers, research notes, and editorials. Full papers are typically no more than 40 pages, double-spaced 12 point Times New Roman font, with 1 inch margins. If you are submitting a short note pertaining to some aspect of entrepreneurship research rather than developing new theory, choose Research Note. Editorials are typically written by members of the editorial team or by guest editors of special issues by invitation of the Editor-in-Chief.
The SAGE Author Gateway has some general advice and on how to get published, plus links to further resources.
1.3.1 Make your article discoverable
When writing up your paper, think about how you can make it discoverable. The title, keywords and abstract are key to ensuring readers find your article through search engines such as Google. For information and guidance on how best to title your article, write your abstract and select your keywords, have a look at this page on the Gateway: How to Help Readers Find Your Article Online
As part of the submission process you will be asked to provide the names of 3 peers who could be called upon to review your manuscript. Recommended reviewers should be experts in their fields and should be able to provide an objective assessment of the manuscript. Please be aware of any conflicts of interest when recommending reviewers. Examples of conflicts of interest include (but are not limited to) the below:
- The reviewer should have no prior knowledge of your submission
- The reviewer should not have recently collaborated with any of the authors
- Reviewer nominees from the same institution as any of the authors are not permitted
Please note that the Editors are not obliged to invite/reject any recommended/opposed reviewers to assess your manuscript.
All parties who have made a substantive contribution to the article should be listed as authors. Principal authorship, authorship order, and other publication credits should be based on the relative scientific or professional contributions of the individuals involved, regardless of their status. A student is usually listed as principal author on any multiple-authored publication that substantially derives from the student’s dissertation or thesis.
All contributors who do not meet the criteria for authorship should be listed in an Acknowledgements section. Examples of those who might be acknowledged include a person who provided purely technical help, or a department chair who provided only general support.
Please supply any personal acknowledgements separately to the main text to facilitate anonymous peer review.
2.4 Declaration of conflicting interests
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice encourages authors to include a declaration of any conflicting interests and recommends you review the good practice guidelines on the SAGE Journal Author Gateway
For guidance on conflict of interest statements, please see the ICMJE recommendations here
SAGE is committed to upholding the integrity of the academic record. We encourage authors to refer to the Committee on Publication Ethics’ International Standards for Authors and view the Publication Ethics page on the SAGE Author Gateway
3.1.1 Plagiarism
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and SAGE take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. We seek to protect the rights of our authors and we always investigate claims of plagiarism or misuse of published articles. Equally, we seek to protect the reputation of the journal against malpractice. Submitted articles may be checked with duplication-checking software. Where an article, for example, is found to have plagiarised other work or included third-party copyright material without permission or with insufficient acknowledgement, or where the authorship of the article is contested, we reserve the right to take action including, but not limited to: publishing an erratum or corrigendum (correction); retracting the article; taking up the matter with the head of department or dean of the author's institution and/or relevant academic bodies or societies; or taking appropriate legal action.
3.1.2 Prior publication
If material has been previously published it is not generally acceptable for publication in a SAGE journal. However, there are certain circumstances where previously published material can be considered for publication. Please refer to the guidance on the SAGE Author Gateway or if in doubt, contact the Editor at the address given below.
3.2 Contribuor's publishing agreement
Before publication, SAGE requires the author as the rights holder to sign a Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement. SAGE’s Journal Contributor’s Publishing Agreement is an exclusive licence agreement which means that the author retains copyright in the work but grants SAGE the sole and exclusive right and licence to publish for the full legal term of copyright. Exceptions may exist where an assignment of copyright is required or preferred by a proprietor other than SAGE. In this case copyright in the work will be assigned from the author to the society. For more information please visit the SAGE Author Gateway
3.3 Open access and author archiving
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice offers optional open access publishing via the SAGE Choice programme. For more information please visit the SAGE Choice website. For information on funding body compliance, and depositing your article in repositories, please visit SAGE Publishing Policies on our Journal Author Gateway.
4. Preparing your manuscript for submission
Regular paper submissions are typically no more than 40 pages, double-spaced 12 points Times New Roman, with 1 inch margins, all inclusive. For research notes, the corresponding page length is typically no more than 25 pages with the same formatting guidelines.
4.2 Artwork, figures and other graphics
For guidance on the preparation of illustrations, pictures and graphs in electronic format, please visit SAGE’s Manuscript Submission Guidelines
Figures supplied in colour will appear in colour online regardless of whether or not these illustrations are reproduced in colour in the printed version. For specifically requested colour reproduction in print, you will receive information regarding the costs from SAGE after receipt of your accepted article.
This journal is able to host additional materials online (e.g. datasets, podcasts, videos, images etc) alongside the full-text of the article. For more information please refer to our guidelines on submitting supplementary files
Please read the attached letter from the editor regarding publishing multiple papers from the same dataset.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice adheres to the APA reference style. View the APA guidelines to ensure your manuscript conforms to this reference style.
If you use EndNote to manage references, you can download the SAGE Harvard EndNote output file [OR] the SAGE Vancouver EndNote output file
4.5 English language editing services
Authors seeking assistance with English language editing, translation, or figure and manuscript formatting to fit the journal’s specifications should consider using SAGE Language Services. Visit SAGE Language Services on our Journal Author Gateway for further information.
Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice is hosted on SAGE Track, a web based online submission and peer review system powered by ScholarOne™ Manuscripts. Visit https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/etp to login and submit your article online.
IMPORTANT: Please check whether you already have an account in the system before trying to create a new one. If you have reviewed or authored for the journal in the past year it is likely that you will have had an account created. For further guidance on submitting your manuscript online please visit ScholarOne Online Help.
As part of our commitment to ensuring an ethical, transparent and fair peer review process SAGE is a supporting member of ORCID, the Open Researcher and Contributor ID. ORCID provides a unique and persistent digital identifier that distinguishes researchers from every other researcher, even those who share the same name, and, through integration in key research workflows such as manuscript and grant submission, supports automated linkages between researchers and their professional activities, ensuring that their work is recognized.
The collection of ORCID iDs from corresponding authors is now part of the submission process of this journal. If you already have an ORCID iD you will be asked to associate that to your submission during the online submission process. We also strongly encourage all co-authors to link their ORCID ID to their accounts in our online peer review platforms. It takes seconds to do: click the link when prompted, sign into your ORCID account and our systems are automatically updated. Your ORCID iD will become part of your accepted publication’s metadata, making your work attributable to you and only you. Your ORCID iD is published with your article so that fellow researchers reading your work can link to your ORCID profile and from there link to your other publications.
If you do not already have an ORCID iD please follow this link to create one or visit our ORCID homepage to learn more.
5.2 Information required for completing your submission
You will be asked to provide contact details and academic affiliations for all co-authors via the submission system and identify who is to be the corresponding author. These details must match what appears on your manuscript. At this stage please ensure you have included all the required statements and declarations and uploaded any additional supplementary files (including reporting guidelines where relevant).
Please also ensure that you have obtained any necessary permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. For further information including guidance on fair dealing for criticism and review, please see the Copyright and Permissions page on the SAGE Author Gateway
6. On acceptance and publication
Your SAGE Production Editor will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. Please note that if there are any changes to the author list at this stage all authors will be required to complete and sign a form authorising the change.
Online First allows final articles (completed and approved articles awaiting assignment to a future issue) to be published online prior to their inclusion in a journal issue, which significantly reduces the lead time between submission and publication. Visit the SAGE Journals help page for more details, including how to cite Online First articles.
6.3 Access to your published article
SAGE provides authors with online access to their final article.
Publication is not the end of the process! You can help disseminate your paper and ensure it is as widely read and cited as possible. The SAGE Author Gateway has numerous resources to help you promote your work. Visit the Promote Your Article page on the Gateway for tips and advice.
Any correspondence, queries or additional requests for information on the manuscript submission process should be sent to Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice Editor-in-Chief, Johan Wiklund: etp@syr.edu