Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal at 10: Retrospect and Prospect

• Author: Chris Zott,Rajshree Agarwal,Mike Wright,Gary Dushnitsky,G. T. Lumpkin
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/sej.1260
• Published date: 01 September 2017
• Date: 01 September 2017

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal at 10: Retrospect

and Prospect

Rajshree Agarwal,

1

Gary Dushnitsky,

2

G. T. Lumpkin,

3

Mike Wright,

4,5

*and Chris Zott

6

1

Management and Organization, University of Maryland, College Park,

Maryland

2

London School of Business, London, U.K.

3

Entrepreneurship & Economic Development, College of Business,

University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

4

Center for Management Buyout Research, Imperial College Business

School, Imperial College, London, U.K.

5

Department of Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship, ETH,

Zurich, Switzerland

6

Entrepreneurship, IESE, Barcelona, Spain

Recent decades have witnessed a remarkable increase

in interest in entrepreneurship research, practice, and

policy. Since its founding in 2007, Strategic Entre-

preneurship Journal (SEJ) has sought to contribute

by publishing high-quality papers on a range of

themes relating to strategic entrepreneurship, broadly

defined. The 10-year anniversary of SEJ provides an

opportunity both to reflect on the road travelled so

far and to chart out future directions for the route

ahead. We are pleased to do so in this special issue,

which draws on themes of enduring and emerging

interests to scholars at the interface of strategy and

entrepreneurship.

Apropos to the evolution of the journal, the first

of the special issue articles begins with a retrospec-

tive article by founding editor Mike Hitt and former

editor Mike Wright. Hitt and Wright (2017) pro-

vide the rationale for creating SEJ and the

10 themes identified at founding. They review the

development of these themes through published

articles over the last 10 years and provide evidence

on progress in terms of key trends, including

submissions, rejection and acceptance rates, and

downloads. Salient in the journal’s growth trajec-

tory are critical milestones such as the journal’s

inclusion in the Social Science Citation Index and

the Financial Times’list of top 50 business school

journals. Hitt and Wright also discuss some general

developments in strategic entrepreneurship and

their implications for future research.

The remaining articles in this special issue

delve deeper into the content areas of specific

themes in the area of strategic entrepreneurship,

with an eye toward agenda setting. In selecting

both the themes and authors represented in these

articles, the current SEJ coeditor team sought to

build on emerging trends in strategy and entrepre-

neurship scholarship both within SEJ and in the

broader scholarly community. The authors of the

articles represent a mix of established and emer-

ging scholars, all of whom represent domain

experts within the themes. All articles were sub-

ject to the rigorous double-blind review process of

SEJ. We are delighted at the depth and breadth of

scholarly thought of the special issue articles,

which provide a big picture lens of “taking stock”

of existing work and identify of potential research

avenues for the future. Within and across articles,

the themes represent a diversity of theoretical

Keywords: strategic entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship

*Correspondence to: Mike Wright, Imperial College Business

School, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, U.K. E-mail: mike.

wright@imperial.ac.uk

Copyright © 2017 Strategic Management Society

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Strat. Entrepreneurship J., 11: 197–199 (2017)

Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com). DOI: 10.1002/sej.1260