The Journal of Small Business & Enterprise Development is an international scholarly outlet dedicated to the advancement and evolution of entrepreneurship theory, practice, and policy.
Aims and scope
The Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development (JSBED) advances theory, practice, and policy by publishing scholarly contributions in the area of entrepreneurship.

JSBED publishes rigorous and bold entrepreneurship research, with the aim of bringing its contributions and implications worldwide to scholars, practitioners, policymakers, students, and the entrepreneurial leaders of today and tomorrow.

We welcome the submission of manuscripts representing a wide spectrum of approaches and formats, including theory-based research, large-scale empirical studies, pedagogical scholarship, dialectics and debates, engaging provocative questions with evidence, rigorous summaries of best practices, regional and international studies, and more.

Papers accepted for publication at JSBED will have been double-blind peer-reviewed by the Editorial Board and examined by multiple levels of the Editorial Team. Additionally, to promote the relevance of the papers it publishes, JSBED employs an Entrepreneur and Practitioner Advisory Board, composed of entrepreneurs and members of entrepreneurial teams, which offers feedback on the practical implications of manuscripts prior to publication.

Submissions likely to be reviewed favourably at JSBED must have strong conceptual or theoretical foundations. Any empirical research methods must be linked rationally and appropriately to those foundations and also executed properly. Finally, JSBED places a high value on papers that make bold claims and promise to have a large and lasting impact on their realm of focus within the field of entrepreneurship.

Example topics of papers suitable for submission to JSBED include:

International entrepreneurship that transcends boundaries
Entrepreneurship education and pedagogy
Technology entrepreneurship and technology commercialisation
Family business contexts and generational entrepreneurship
Social enterprise, community-based research, and impact
Entrepreneurial finance and new approaches to financing
Human aspects of entrepreneurship and team composition
Internal and external communication at various levels
Public-private partnerships and aspects of the state
Historical approaches to future entrepreneurial challenges
New organisational forms based on emerging technologies
Entrepreneurship in informal socioeconomic systems
Accounting and resource management in entrepreneurial firms
Authors are encouraged to carefully put manuscripts into the proper format using the Emerald Publishing formatting guidelines. To promote a standard and professional formal review process, submitting authors may be asked to reformat manuscripts before the submissions can be reviewed fully at JSBED.