Rethinking Entrepreneurial Finance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives in a Transforming Financial Landscape
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Call for Papers
Rethinking Entrepreneurial Finance: Multidisciplinary Perspectives in a Transforming Financial Landscape
Journal: Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Submission Opens: 4 January 2027
Submission Deadline: 30 April 2027
This Special Issue invites multidisciplinary research examining how digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI), sustainability pressures, and evolving financial systems are reshaping entrepreneurial finance, SMEs, and new ventures.
About the Special Issue
Entrepreneurial finance is undergoing significant transformation as emerging technologies and new financing mechanisms change how ventures access, evaluate, and mobilize capital.
The Special Issue seeks to strengthen dialogue across entrepreneurship, finance, accounting, behavioural research, sustainability, and digital innovation, with particular attention to SMEs and new ventures.
Conceptual articles, systematic literature reviews, bibliometric analyses, and empirical studies using quantitative, qualitative, experimental, or mixed methods are welcome. Longitudinal, cross-national, and multi-level studies are particularly encouraged.
Key Research Areas
Environmental and social disclosure in SMEs
Access to capital and financing decisions
Behavioural, cognitive, and psychological determinants of entrepreneurial finance
Gender, ethnicity, geography, and financial inclusion
Financial reporting and intangible assets
Creditworthiness of innovative small businesses
Regulatory and institutional frameworks for entrepreneurial finance
Crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending
Tokenized assets and alternative financing mechanisms
AI-driven credit scoring and risk modelling
AI-based investment screening for small businesses
AI-powered venture creation
Resource mobilization and capital structure
Platform-based startups and venture legitimacy
Digital transformation and entrepreneurial finance
Sustainability and SME financing
Guest Editors
Enrico Battisti, Francesco Schiavone
Key Dates
Opening Date for Manuscript Submissions: 4 January 2027
Closing Date for Manuscript Submissions: 30 April 2027
Submission Information
Full manuscripts should be submitted through the Journal of Small Business and Enterprise Development ScholarOne system. Authors must select the relevant Special Issue title during submission and follow the journal's author guidelines.
Submitted manuscripts must be original and must not be under consideration elsewhere while under review.
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