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Linking Entrepreneurship and Management: Welcome to the International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal
DAVID B. AUDRETSCH Indiana University GARY J. CASTROGIOVANNI University of Tulsa DOMINGO RIBEIRO SALVADOR ROIG University of Valencia, Spain

It is widely recognized that the success and vitality of entrepreneurship are essential factors in measuring an economys progress, its quality and its future expectations. Entrepreneurship is closely related to SMEs and large companies in local, regional, national or international markets, in private and public organizations and helps lead to competitiveness in the face of the effects of globalization. Entrepreneurial activities are important in creating new economic activity which in turn increases innovation, employment, economic wealth and growth, consolidates competitiveness in advanced economies and assures social welfare in less economically developed countries.

A developing eld Who is an entrepreneur and what constitutes entrepreneurship are subject to a hot debate that has been ongoing since the time the concept rst appeared in Cantillons (1755) Essai sur la nature du commerce en general. Nevertheless, research in entrepreneurship has increased rapidly in recent decades. Since the rst known American entrepreneurship course was taught at Harvard University by Myles Mace in 1947 (Brush, Duhaime, Gartner, Stewart, Katz, Hitt, Alvarez, Meyer and Venkataraman, 2003: 310), outstanding work marking the starting point of the eld of entrepreneurship includes, Harvard Studies in Business History and the Journal of Business and Economic History, along with Explorations in Entrepreneurial History. All this culminated in 1958 with the creation of the Harvard Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, with Arthur H. Cole as director. Other events which marked the growing importance of the entrepreneurship eld were (a) the rst conference at the University of Colorado in 1956, organized by the National Council for Small Business (predecessor of the

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International Council for Small Business formed in 1977), (b) the creation in 1974 of the Academy of Managements Entrepreneurship Division, and (c) the rst conference at Babson College in 1981 with the publication of the conference proceedings, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research. The role of the entrepreneur has been explored in international small business journals such as (a) The Journal of Small Business Management (since 1963), (b) The Journal of Business Venturing (since 1985), (c) Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice (since 1988; previously published under the title of The American Journal of Small Business), and (d) Small Business Economics (since 1989). It has also been featured, though to a lesser extent, in international management journals. For example, special issues on entrepreneurship have appeared in The Strategic Management Journal and The Journal of Management.

Enter IEMJ Considering the growing importance attributed to entrepreneurship have acquired in recent times, and the recognition of entrepreneurship as a eld of study within management (Busenitz, West III, Shepherd, Nelson, Chandler and Zacharakis, 2003: 286), it is surprising that no existing publication specically addresses the inextricable link between entrepreneurship and management. Furthermore, the elds of entrepreneurship and strategic management have developed largely independently each other (Hitt, Ireland, Camp and Sexton, 2001: 480). The International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal (IEMJ) is intended to ll this gap. As its name implies, this journal will offer a fresh, innovative and exciting look at the relationship between entrepreneurship and management, which are basic elements of a healthy economy, and which need to be integrated (McGrath and MacMillan, 2000; Meyer and Heppard, 2000). Over time, we hope that this publication will become a nexus for all discussions of matters dealing with the linkage between entrepreneurship and management. IEMJ will provide a forum for new theories, technological advancements, investigations and the most relevant up-to-date case studies, based upon the utmost academic rigor. Our goal is make IEMJ the journal of choice for individuals engaged in academic study, consulting, or administration, dealing with the entrepreneurship-management interface in either the private or public sector. IEMJ will publish high quality manuscripts pertaining to entrepreneurship, in its broad sense, and the management of entrepreneurial organizations. The journal will expand the study of entrepreneurship and management by publishing innovative articles based on different perspectives using a variety of methodological approaches and showing the practical implications of research for its readership. It will be unique, providing a multi-disciplinary forum for researchers, scholars, consultants, entrepreneurs, businesspersons, managers and practitioners in the eld of entrepreneurship. Aspects of micro (individual), rm and macro (global) economics will be examined using a variety of perspectivese.g., psychological, socio-cultural or institutional (Veciana, 1999). The relationship between entrepreneurship and management will be addressed in conceptual and empirical papers, case studies of successful rms or other cases

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having important practical implications and book reviews, leading to an improvement in the understanding of international entrepreneurial perspectives of the organizations concerned. IEMJ, initially a quarterly publication with a view to increasing the number to six in the future, will publish original papers which contribute to the advancement of the eld of entrepreneurship and the interface between management and entrepreneurship, as well as articles on business corporate strategy and government economic policy. Our invitation to you We the Editors of IEMJ seek contributions to the journal of researchers, scholars or consultants from a variety of disciplines, including economics, international business and management, organizational theory, psychology, sociology, and strategic management. Some of those works could develop new theoretical perspectives, while others could test previously unexamined theoretical explanations for successful entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial strategies, strategic entrepreneurship or entrepreneurial management (Stevenson and Jarillo, 1990). In return, we offer timely and developmental reviews, and an international audience for your work. References
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