Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Strat. Entrepreneurship J., 4: 105 (2010) Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/sej.85
INTRODUCTION TO VOLUME 4, ISSUE 2 DAN SCHENDEL,1* MICHAEL A. HITT,2 and JAY B. BARNEY3 1 Krannert Graduate School of Business, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A. 2 Department of Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, U.S.A. 3 Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A.
Now in its fourth volume and year, the SEJ is well on its way to meeting its goal of becoming a top scholarly journal, publishing work in the broadly defined area of strategic entrepreneurship. As stated in the introductory volume, we see entrepreneurship as having particular meaning. It is worth repeating our words from our first issue: ‘Strategic entrepreneurship starts with imagination, insight, and ideas that lead to inventions that are deemed as innovations of societal import.’ And we intend to include organizations of all types making a societal impact, not business organizations alone. And, we went on to say, ‘What makes entrepreneurship strategic is adding new value to society, i.e., changing societal life in ways that have significant, sustainable, and durable consequence.’ We urge all of our readers to keep in mind the full scope of the vision statement made in our first issue. It is this statement that guides our content, and the rigor comes from the doubleblind review process used to develop the content published in the SEJ. In this, the June issue, you will find five papers that have resulted from SEJ’s rigorous editorial process. As is often the case with special issues, more suitable papers are submitted and developed than the specific special issue has space to publish. Rather than lose such high-quality submissions, we continue worthy papers in the developmental review *Correspondence to: Dan Schendel, Krannert Graduate School of Business, Purdue University, West Lafayettte, IN 47907 U.S.A. E-mail:
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process and, when successful, later publish them in our regular issues. Such happened with our recent special issue, International Entrepreneurship: Managerial and Policy Implications, so ably handled by Guest Coeditors Douglas Cummings, Donald Siegel, and Mike Wright, with our Associate Editor Harry Sapienza acting as the Advisory Editor. In this issue and its five papers, we have four articles originally submitted for the special issue published last December, which were carried through the review process for publication in this issue. We want to thank the guest and advisory editors for their insightful editorial leadership and energy in continuing their work with these papers. The fifth article we believe complements these four and continues the international theme of the special issue. We hope you enjoy reading the work. As the SEJ moves forward, we will soon announce three forthcoming special issues. The subjects will be technology entrepreneurship, public entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial activities in the informal economy. These are targeted for publication in the next several years. We expect that they will be as successful as the one developed by our most recent guest editors. We are indeed excited about the development of the SEJ to date and its potential for the future. This implies, of course, that we are excited about the work going on in the field, as we hope you are, both in terms of what you read in these pages and in the work you submit to the SEJ for review and publication.
