“Re-imagining entrepreneurship as a vehicle for desirable futures”

Call for Papers – Special Issue: “Re-imagining entrepreneurship as a vehicle for desirable futures”

Journal: Futures
Publisher: Elsevier
Submission deadline: 30 June 2026

Overview

This special issue seeks to move beyond the dominant business paradigm (focused on profit and growth) and its standard critiques. Instead, it aims to reimagine entrepreneurship as a deliberate vehicle for creating radically different and desirable futures. By integrating entrepreneurship studies with the field of futures studies, the issue explores how entrepreneurs can envision and enact alternative possibilities, disrupt path dependencies, and challenge institutionalized thinking patterns.

Key Research Themes

• Integrating Futures Literacy: Using frameworks like foresight, prospecting, and futures literacy to equip entrepreneurs with the tools to engage critically with uncertain futures.

• Critical Re-evaluation: Challenging assumptions rooted in shareholder capitalism, endless growth, anthropocentrism, and Western-centric biases that have historically limited entrepreneurship's transformative potential.

• Post-Colonial & Inclusive Approaches: Investigating entrepreneurial futures through lenses that prioritize marginalized individuals, Indigenous knowledge, and equitable cross-generational interactions.

• Systems-Oriented Perspectives: Shifting the focus from individual actors to the broader systems, regional economies, and future-oriented processes that produce entrepreneurship, including stakeholder engagement and purpose-driven organizational models.

Submission Details

• Submission window: Open now until 30 June 2026.

• Submission portal: https://www.editorialmanager.com/futures/default.aspx

• Special Instructions: During the submission process, you must select the article type “VSI: Entrepreneurship & Futures”. Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis and published immediately upon acceptance.

Guest Editors

• Julia Vögele, MCI The Entrepreneurial School® (Julia.Voegele@mci.edu)

• Kathleen Randerson, Audencia Business School

• Marcela Ramírez-Pasillas, Tecnológico de Monterrey

• Hans Lundberg, EGADE Business School

• Franziska Günzel, Aarhus University

• Antje Bierwisch, MCI The Entrepreneurial School®

Why This Issue Matters

Entrepreneurship is often viewed as a driver of economic growth, but its capacity to reconfigure how we relate to the future remains underexplored. By fostering interdisciplinary dialogue, this collection seeks to equip both researchers and practitioners with new ways to imagine and construct futures that are sustainable, responsible, and equitable.

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