Editorial: Advancing the field of entrepreneurship: The primacy of unequivocal “A” level entrepreneurship journals

Matthew S. Wood

Journal of Business Venturing, 2020, vol. 35, issue 5

Abstract: In this editorial, I seek to inform entrepreneurship scholars about the significance of unequivocal “A” level entrepreneurship journals for the continued ascent of entrepreneurship as a universally recognized “mainstream” academic field. Drawing insights from research on intellectual movements and the evolution of academic fields, I take stock of entrepreneurship as a community of scholars mobilizing elements of distinctiveness and legitimacy to elevate the status of the field. Doing so, I offer three field level observations on the primacy of unequivocal “A” journals for advancing the field. I then delineate a set of role related implications for members of the community, including authors, senior scholars, and newcomers to the field. Finally, I entertain some common objections to emphasizing journal status as a mechanism in entrepreneurship's upsurge to “mainstream” academic field.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Academic field; Journal; Community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jbusvent.2020.106019

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