Agentic AI and Entrepreneurship: Bright and Dark Sides Across the Venture Cycle

Call for Papers

Agentic AI and Entrepreneurship: Bright and Dark Sides Across the Venture Cycle

Journal: Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 01 December 2026

The Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies invites submissions for its Special Issue on Agentic AI and Entrepreneurship: Bright and Dark Sides Across the Venture Cycle.

About the Special Issue

This Special Issue explores how Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming entrepreneurship across the entire venture lifecycle—from opportunity recognition and venture creation to business model innovation, scaling, internationalisation, and exit. Unlike conventional AI, agentic AI can independently plan, coordinate, learn, and support entrepreneurial decision-making, creating new opportunities for innovation while introducing significant governance and ethical challenges.

The issue welcomes theoretical and empirical research examining both the benefits and risks of agentic AI in entrepreneurship. It encourages studies from emerging and developed economies that investigate human-AI collaboration, entrepreneurial ecosystems, digital transformation, sustainability, and responsible AI adoption while advancing entrepreneurship theory and practice.

Topics of Interest

Submissions may include, but are not limited to:

• Agentic AI and opportunity recognition

• Entrepreneurial decision-making under uncertainty

• Human-AI co-agency and entrepreneurial judgment

• AI-enabled venture creation

• AI-native startups and autonomous venture development

• Business model innovation through agentic AI

• Venture scaling, growth, and internationalisation

• Agentic AI and entrepreneurial exit decisions

• Benefits of agentic AI, including efficiency, creativity, and resource mobilisation

• Risks including algorithmic bias, dependency, accountability, and digital inequality

• Entrepreneurial cognition, identity, and creativity

• Trust, adoption, and resistance toward agentic AI among entrepreneurs and SMEs

• Agentic AI and entrepreneurial ecosystems

• AI adoption in emerging economies

• Sustainable, social, and inclusive entrepreneurship

• Governance, regulation, and responsible AI use

• Methodological approaches including experiments, longitudinal studies, qualitative research, mixed methods, fsQCA, SEM, ANN, and digital trace data

Preferred Article Types

The journal welcomes:

• Original Research Articles

• Conceptual Papers

• Theoretical Studies

• Empirical Research

• Qualitative Studies

• Quantitative Studies

• Mixed-Methods Research

• Comparative Studies

Submission Information

• Manuscript Submission Opens: 01 September 2026

• Manuscript Submission Deadline: 01 December 2026

• Manuscripts must be submitted through ScholarOne Manuscripts.

• Authors must select the appropriate Special Issue title during submission.

• All submissions must follow the journal's official Author Guidelines.

• Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.

Guest Editors

• Prof. Dr. Victor Tiberius

• Dr. Alhamzah Al Sayed Noor

• Prof. Dr. Mumtaz Ali Memon

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