“Beyond start-up: enterprise and entrepreneurship education for entrepreneurial careers, places and ecosystems”

Call for Papers – Special Issue: “Beyond start-up: enterprise and entrepreneurship education for entrepreneurial careers, places and ecosystems”

Journal: Education + Training
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Submission deadline: 01 March 2027

Overview

This special issue challenges the traditional focus on venture creation and start-up intention as the primary metrics for evaluating entrepreneurship education. Instead, it invites research that explores how educational practices develop capabilities for diverse entrepreneurial careers—including employment, intrapreneurship, and portfolio work—and how these practices contribute to organizational resilience and regional ecosystems.

Key Research Themes

• Career Pathways: Advancing research into how enterprise education prepares learners for roles beyond founder/start-up status, focusing on intrapreneurship and flexible career paths.

• Capability Development: Investigating mechanisms (e.g., identity, agency, network-building, and judgment) through which learning designs produce value-creating behaviors.

• Context & Ecosystems: Examining how institutional settings, labor markets, and regional ecosystems act as boundary conditions for educational success.

• Evaluation Metrics: Moving beyond descriptive program accounts to propose theoretically informed evidence of "what works, for whom, and why," utilizing longitudinal, realist, or mixed-method approaches.

Submission Details

• Submission window: 09 November 2026 – 01 March 2027.

• Submission portal: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/et

• Special Instructions: This is a curated special issue drawing on papers from the 2026 ISBE and EEUK conferences. During submission, ensure you select the special issue title from the "Please select the issue you are submitting to" drop-down menu.

Guest Editors

• Emily Beaumont, University of Gloucestershire (ebeaumont@glos.ac.uk)

• Lucy Hatt, Newcastle University (Lucy.Hatt@newcastle.ac.uk)

• Vicky Mountford-Brown, Northumbria University (victoria.mountford-brown@northumbria.ac.uk)

• Breda O'Dwyer, Munster Technological University (Breda.ODwyer@mtu.ie)

Why This Issue Matters

Most learners engage with entrepreneurship not as firm founders, but as contributors to established organizations and local ecosystems. By foregrounding these "beyond start-up" outcomes, this special issue seeks to align entrepreneurship education research with the contemporary reality of the modern workforce.

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