The Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship was founded in 2001. It is the journal of the Academy of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. It is an independent, bilingual (French/English) digital peer-reviewed journal. In its almost 20 years of existence, the journal has achieved a high level of quality in the articles it publishes and is recognized within the management science community. It is ranked 2 by the FNEGE (2019) and joined the SCOPUS ranking in 2022.

Its aim is to enable researchers in entrepreneurship, innovation, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to communicate, exchange, and critically appraise their thoughts and research on the state of knowledge on entrepreneurial and innovative practices, focusing on actors, contexts, and support and management systems. It is aimed at researchers, lecturers, and students in management sciences; a wide audience of company directors, association managers, and employees; and entrepreneurs (whatever their status) and players in local authorities and public institutions, curious about the evolution of knowledge.

Articles published in the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship must demonstrate rigor in their conceptual and theoretical framing and in the methodology employed. The results must be realistic and relevant to the world we live in. The journal publishes cutting-edge research on current issues and challenges facing our society, in the field of entrepreneurship, in connection with other disciplines in management and the humanities and social sciences. The Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship aims to publish multi-disciplinary and multi-contextual scientific works on entrepreneurship, the entrepreneurial phenomenon, and innovation in SMEs (not exclusively). The Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship accepts both theoretical and empirical articles. It is open to critical approaches to the literature, as well as to conceptualization and theoretical reflections. It values qualitative as well as quantitative approaches. Articles can be drawn from the various epistemologies that make up the richness of management sciences. The implications and stakes of the research are particularly specified. The Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship publishes two types of format: the academic article and the research note (short format reviewing an emerging theme – details of this format are given in the instructions to authors).

The journal’s ethical rules are set out on the website. The submission and evaluation processes are also clearly set out on the website. The governance of the journal is organized around three circles beneath the Direction of the journal, which is the responsibility of the President of the Académie de l’Entrepreneuriat et de l’Innovation (Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors Committee, Scientific Committee, Reviewers Committee).

The Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship, while remaining predominantly French-speaking, does not intended to restrict its publications to French-speaking authors and contexts. As part of this international outlook, contributions from foreign researchers and comparative studies are welcome. The journal’s authors include many colleagues with an international reputation and contributions with a high citation rate. Special issues by internationally renowned guest editors are particularly popular. After validation of the themes and teams of guest editors by the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship Associate Editors’ Committee, these issues are intended to offer a homogeneous editorial project, on topical themes within the academic world and in line with the concerns of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship practitioners. To this end, we encourage all-English special issues led by teams of guest editors of different nationalities and/or associated with international scientific events. Each year, the magazine issues a call for proposals for special issues, the precise criteria of which are defined on the magazine’s website.

The aim is to place the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship among the most active international journals on emerging themes and to increase its influence and distribution via digital tools.

The Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship is owned by the Académie de l’Entrepreneuriat et de l’Innovation (AEI) since 2001. In its 20 years of existence, the journal has achieved a high level of quality in the articles it publishes and is recognized within the management science community. It is indexed at rank 2 in the FNEGE 2019 ranking and joined the SCOPUS ranking in 2022. The publication is headed by AEI President Jean-François Sattin (Professeur des Universités, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) for the 2023–2026 term. Since June 2020, the Académie de l’Entrepreneuriat et de l’Innovation has been the publisher of the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship. This means that the copyright to published articles is assigned by the authors to the Académie de l’Entrepreneuriat et de l’Innovation. This assignment is formally made at the time of publication of the article in the Review. This interweaving ensures coherence and cross-communication between the journal and the research association, with the shared aim of promoting high-quality research in entrepreneurship.

The governance of the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship is divided into several circles. Each mandate is for three years, renewable once.

1. Editors-in-chief (1^st circle of governance): Cyrine Ben Hafaïedh (Associate Professor, IESEG School of Management, Paris) and Anaïs Hamelin (Professor, University of Strasbourg).

The editors-in-chief represent the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship in dealings with various institutions and partners. They are responsible for managing submissions: desk rejects, assigning submissions to reviewers, monitoring and managing the flow of submissions, arbitrating in the event of disagreement between reviewers, and drafting editorial notices. They manage and organize the publication of issues. They lead the committee of associate editors. In liaison with AEI, they develop the methods of distributing the Review’s articles.

• # Editorial secretary: Jean-Loup Soula (Associate Professor, EM Strasbourg Business School, University of Strasbourg)

The editors work closely with an editorial secretary, who is responsible for monitoring the process (from submission to publication) and liaising between the editors, associate editors, authors, and reviewers. The secretary is also in charge of communications for the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship, notably on social networks, and liaises with CAIRN’s Manuscript Manager platform, in coordination with AEI.

2. Editorial committee – Associate editors (2^nd circle of governance)

The editors-in-chief bring together a team of colleagues committed to disseminating and promoting the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship. This team participates in defining the magazine’s strategy and policy (notably through the formalization of processes). The associate editors, according to their areas of expertise, are responsible for monitoring evaluations and proposing editorial decisions to the editors-in-chief.

The decisions in which they participate concern the editorial line, international openness, bilingual positioning, choice of special issues, mode of distribution, and actions to increase the impact factor and maintain or even increase the position of the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship in the rankings. For the 2020–2023 term, the associate editors are:

• ● Céline Barrédy (Professor, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France)
• ● Andrea Calabrò (Professor, IPAG, France)
• ● Bérangère Deschamps (Professor, Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble, France)
• ● Dimo Dimov (Professor, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom)
• ● Cécile Fonrouge (Professor, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada)
• ● Julie Hermans (Professor, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium)
• ● Martine Hlady-Rispal (Professor, University of Limoges, France)
• ● Nabil Khelil (Professor, Caen University, France)
• ● Vincent Lefebvre (Associate Professor HDR, Audencia Nantes, France)
• ● Nathalie Schieb-Bienfait (HDR Senior Lecturer, University of Nantes, France)
• ● Orestis Terzidis (Professor, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany)
• ● Erno Tornikoski (Professor, University of Exeter Business School, Exeter, UK)

These governance circles are interwoven, insofar as members involved in the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship may move from one circle to another. Future editors-in-chief may be found in the associate editors’ committee, which is fed by members who contribute to the journal, particularly in terms of evaluation.

3. Academic committee (3^rd circle of governance)

The Scientific Committee brings together the leading researchers in the field of entrepreneurship, ensuring that the journal remains firmly rooted in this field. One category of colleagues stands out in this circle: honorary members, who are now emeritus but who have made a major contribution to the development of the journal and the field of entrepreneurship.

Its current composition, which may change in the future, is as follows:

• ● Laurice Alexandre, Professor, Université Paris Cité
• ● Bruno Amann, Professor, University of Pau
• ● Mohamed Bayad, Professor, CNAM
• ● Pierre-Jean Benghozi, Professor, Ecole Polytechnique
• ● Robert Blackburn, Professor, University of Liverpool, UK
• ● Jean-Pierre Boissin, Professor, Grenoble Alpes University
• ● Hamid Bouchikhi, Professor, ESSEC business school
• ● Sonia Boussaguet, Professor, NEOMA Business School
• ● Sophie Boutillier, Senior Lecturer (HDR), Université du Littoral
• ● Louise Cadieux, Professor, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
• ● Marie-Christine Chalus-Sauvannet, Professor, Lyon 3 University
• ● Régis Coeurderoy, Professor, ESCP-EUROPE
• ● Léo-Paul Dana, Professor, Montpellier Business School
• ● Aude D’Andria, Senior Lecturer -HDR, University of Evry
• ● Julien De Freyman, Professor, South Champagne Business School
• ● Alfredo De Massis, Full Professor, University of Bozen Bolzano
• ● Clay Dibrell, Associate Professor, University of Mississippi State
• ● Sandrine Emin, Senior Lecturer, University of Angers
• ● Olivier Germain, Professor, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
• ● Gaël Gueguen, Professor, Toulouse Business School
• ● Valérie Inès de la Ville, Professor, IAE Poitiers
• ● Philippe Desbrières, Professor, University of Burgundy
• ● Véronique Favre-Bonte, Professor, Université Savoie Mont Blanc
• ● Benoît Gailly, Professor, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
• ● Gilles Garel, Professor, CNAM Paris
• ● William B. Gartner, Professor, Babson College, USA
• ● Gilles Guieu, Professor, Aix Marseille University
• ● Frank Hermann, Professor, University of Vienna, Austria
• ● Kevin Hindle, Professor, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
• ● Annabelle Jaouen, Associate Professor, Montpellier Business School, France
• ● Frank Janssen, Professor, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
• ● Estelle Jouison Lafitte, Senior Lecturer, University of Bordeaux
• ● Jill Kickul, Professor, USC Marshall School of Business, USA
• ● Hans Landstrom, Professor, Lund University, Sweden
• ● Typhaine Lebègue, Senior Lecturer, IAE Tours
• ● Séverine Leloarne, Professor, Grenoble Ecole de Management
• ● Frédéric Le Roy, Professor, University of Montpellier I
• ● Pierre Louart, Professor, University of Lille I
• ● Gerard McElwee, Professor, Huddersfield University, UK
• ● Ulrike Mayrhofer, Professor, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
• ● Bachir Mazouz, Professor, ENAP Montreal, Canada
• ● Karim Messeghem, Professor, University of Montpellier 1
• ● Caroline Mothe, Professor, Savoie Mont-Blanc University
• ● Simon Parker, Professor, Ivey Business School at Western University, Canada
• ● Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Professor, Audencia Nantes
• ● Pascal Philippart, Professor, University of Lille
• ● Kathleen Randerson, Associate Professor, Audencia Nantes, France
• ● Christophe Schmitt, Professor, Université de Lorraine
• ● Ali Smida, Professor, Université Paris 13
• ● Isabelle Royer, Professor, University of Lyon 3
• ● Olivier Torrès, Professor, University of Montpellier 1
• ● Catherine Thévenard-Puthod, Professor, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc
• ● Azzedine Tounès, Professor, INSEEC Lyon
• ● Dimitri Uzunidis, Professor, Université du Littoral
• ● Thierry Verstraete, Professor, University of Bordeaux
• ● Peter Wirtz, Professor, University of Lyon 3
• ● Shaker Zahra, Professor, Carlson School of Minnesota, USA

• # Honorary members

• ● Camille Carrier, Professor, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Canada
• ● Alain Desreumaux, Professor, University of Lille I
• ● Emile-Michel Hernandez, Professor, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne France
• ● Alain Fayolle, Professor, EM Lyon
• ● Louis Jacques Filion, Professor, HEC Montréal, Canada
• ● Yvon Gasse, Professor, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
• ● Michel Marchesnay, Professor, Université Montpellier I
• ● Bertrand Saporta, Professor Emeritus, Bordeaux IV University

4. Assessors’ Committee (4^th circle of governance)

Eventually, this committee will be made up of committed French- and English-speaking reviewers who respect reviewer guidelines. At the end of each year, the latest issue will list the reviewers who have contributed to the journal during the calendar year. In this way, the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship recognizes the commitment and valuable work of colleagues in ensuring the smooth running of the journal.

• # Former editorial teams:

• ● 2020–2023:
  • - Céline Barrédy, Professor, Université Paris Nanterre, Nanterre, France
  • - Bérangère Deschamps, Professor, Grenoble Alpes University, Grenoble, France
  • - Hedi Yezza, Assistant Professor, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada
• ● 2014–2020:
  • - Didier Chabaud, Professor, IAE de Paris, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
  • - Sylvie Sammut, Professor, Institut Montpellier Management, University of Montpellier
  • - Jean-Michel Degeorge, HDR Senior Lecturer, Mines Saint-Etienne
• ● 2009–2014:
  • - Jean-Pierre Boissin, Professor, Pierre Mendès France University, Grenoble
  • - Alain Fayolle, Professor, EM Lyon, Visiting Professor at Solvay Business School, Université Libre de Bruxelles
  • - Karim Messeghem, Professor, Université Montpellier 1
• ● 2006–2009:
  • - Robert Paturel, Professor, Université de Toulon et du Var
  • - Alain Fayolle, Professor, EM Lyon, Visiting Professor at Solvay Business School, Université Libre de Bruxelles
• ● 2001–2006:
  • - Robert Paturel, Professor, Université de Toulon et du Var
  • - Bertrand Saporta, Professor Emeritus, Bordeaux IV University

Publication ethics and publication malpractice statement

All PUF journals follow policies and practices that reflect the current best principles of transparency and integrity (COPE).

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The Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship is an international bilingual journal. The articles are published in two languages (French and English). To increase the visibility of authors published in the Revue de l’Entrepreneuriat / Review of Entrepreneurship we develop the submission of articles in English. For this, we ask authors whose articles are accepted for publication in French to translate them into English. The authors finance the fees related to the copy-editing to ensure the quality of the English. Articles can be submitted directly in English.

The full text of the submitted article should be in Word version and is made completely anonymous. It includes an abstract in French and in English of 100 words maximum and 5 keywords. A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should concisely indicate the gap in the literature (what?), why it is important that the gap be filled (why?), and how the current paper does so (including theoretical lens and/or research method) (how?). The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major contributions, theoretical and managerial. References should be avoided as uncommon abbreviations.

The final selection of articles admitted for publication is made by the editors in coordination with the associate editors and on the recommendation of the reviewers after an anonymous review process using at least two different reviewers. The recommendations and content of the evaluations are available to the authors. For each article submitted, the editors send a letter of response to the authors as well as the reports of each reviewer.

Before submitting papers, authors must follow the instructions on this link
Online submission: https://re.manuscriptmanager.net/

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