征稿期刊

International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research

期刊级别

SSCI (JCR 2023)

IF 4.5

Q1 (BUSINESS 75/304)

Q1 (MANAGEMENT 99/407)

征稿主题

Is entrepreneurship healthy or unhealthy? Contemporary perspectives on health and well-being in entrepreneurial contexts

细分领域

This special issue aims to stimulate interdisciplinary research by connecting entrepreneurship to less explored disciplines. Biological and physiological perspectives could provide insight into how physical health and fitness can positively impact entrepreneurial outcomes. Furthermore, biological and clinical perspectives can provide important alternative viewpoints to complement our current understanding of the relationship between entrepreneurship and well-being. Such perspectives can assist in “filling in the gaps” that currently hinder our ability to develop a comprehensive understanding of these relationships. Moreover, keeping with recent efforts investigating neurodiversity within entrepreneurial contexts, additional research could examine how certain elements of neurodiversity can either help or hinder individual’s well-being at various stages in the entrepreneurial process. 

The psychological perspective could also inform how to use body-based approaches in an entrepreneurial environment, to help entrepreneurs recover/prevent trauma and create resilient entrepreneurs. Relatedly, recent research highlights the relationship between play and well-being/performance in the workplace and provides a call to contextualize the diversion/performance association to an entrepreneurship setting. Finally, sociological approaches could offer a deeper understanding of inequalities and entrepreneurs’ health and well-being. For instance, whether and how those grappling with (multiple) disadvantages can achieve health and well-being in entrepreneurship. 

Dynamic contextual landscapes may also influence how each of the above perspectives operate in entrepreneurship. For example, increasing academic and practitioner interest in AI underpins each of these opportunities – how is the rise of AI affecting these underlying health and well-being processes? Likewise, entrepreneurial effort is actively occurring in contexts of war, refugee camps, and extreme poverty. How do these circumstances intersect with biological, clinical, and physiological components associated with entrepreneurial health?

Academic research also calls to advance knowledge following a salutogenic (vs) pathogenic approach (Stephan et al., 2023; Torrès & Thurik. 2019), making the case for promoting and protecting positive mental health to prevent mental illness and to improve overall psychosocial functioning. Along these lines, research can further explore the development of salutogenic outcomes like eudaimonic well-being and individual and organizational resilience. Likewise, research can investigate steps that avoid pathogenic outcomes, such as the three R’s of recovery interventions (Respite, Reappraisal, and Regimen; Williamson et al., 2021).

重要时间

Submission Deadline: 31 March 2025

原文：https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/entrepreneurship-healthy-or-unhealthy-contemporary-perspectives-health-and-well