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International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal1,5–7,2005c 2005Springer Science+Business Media,Inc.Manufactured in The United States. Linking Entrepreneurship and Management: Welcome to the International Entrepreneurshipand Management JournalDA VID B.AUDRETSCHIndiana UniversityGAR Y J.CASTROGIOV ANNIUniversity of TulsaDOMINGO RIBEIROSALV ADOR ROIGUniversity of Valencia,SpainIt is widely recognized that the success and vitality of entrepreneurship are essential factors in measuring an economy’s progress,its quality and its future expectations. Entrepreneurship is closely related to SMEs and large companies in local,regional, national or international markets,in private and public organizations and helps lead to competitiveness in the face of the effects of globalization.Entrepreneurial activities are important in creating new economic activity which in turn increases innovation, employment,economic wealth and growth,consolidates competitiveness in advanced economies and assures social welfare in less economically developed countries.A developingfield‘Who’is an entrepreneur and‘what’constitutes entrepreneurship are subject to a hot debate that has been ongoing since the time the conceptfirst appeared in Cantil-lon’s(1755)Essai sur la nature du commerce en general.Nevertheless,research in en-trepreneurship has increased rapidly in recent decades.“Since thefirst known American entrepreneurship course was taught at Harvard University by Myles Mace in1947”(Brush,Duhaime,Gartner,Stewart,Katz,Hitt,Alvarez,Meyer and Venkataraman, 2003:310),outstanding work marking the starting point of thefield of entrepreneurship includes,Harvard Studies in Business History and the Journal of Business and Economic History,along with Explorations in Entrepreneurial History.All this culminated in 1958with the creation of the Harvard Research Center in Entrepreneurial History, with Arthur H.Cole as director.Other events which marked the growing importance of the entrepreneurshipfield were(a)thefirst conference at the University of Colorado in1956,organized by the National Council for Small Business(predecessor of the6AUDRETSCH ET AL. International Council for Small Business formed in1977),(b)the creation in1974of the Academy of Management’s Entrepreneurship Division,and(c)thefirst conference at Babson College in1981with the publication of the conference proceedings,Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research.The role of the entrepreneur has been explored in inter-national small business journals such as(a)The Journal of Small Business Management (since1963),(b)The Journal of Business Venturing(since1985),(c)Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice(since1988;previously published under the title of The American Journal of Small Business),and(d)Small Business Economics(since1989).It has also been featured,though to a lesser extent,in international management journals.For ex-ample,special issues on entrepreneurship have appeared in The Strategic Management Journal and The Journal of Management.Enter IEMJConsidering the growing importance attributed to entrepreneurship have acquired in recent times,and the recognition of“entrepreneurship as afield of study within man-agement”(Busenitz,West III,Shepherd,Nelson,Chandler and Zacharakis,2003:286), it is surprising that no existing publication specifically addresses the inextricable link between entrepreneurship and management.Furthermore,“thefields of entrepreneur-ship and strategic management have developed largely independently each other”(Hitt, Ireland,Camp and Sexton,2001:480).The International Entrepreneurship and Man-agement Journal(IEMJ)is intended tofill this gap.As its name implies,this journal will offer a fresh,innovative and exciting look at the relationship between“entrepreneur-ship”and“management,”which are basic elements of a healthy economy,and which need to be integrated(McGrath and MacMillan,2000;Meyer and Heppard,2000). Over time,we hope that this publication will become a nexus for all discussions of matters dealing with the linkage between entrepreneurship and management.IEMJ will provide a forum for new theories,technological advancements,investigations and the most relevant up-to-date case studies,based upon the utmost academic rigor.Our goal is make IEMJ the journal of choice for individuals engaged in academic study,consulting, or administration,dealing with the entrepreneurship-management interface in either the private or public sector.IEMJ will publish high quality manuscripts pertaining to entrepreneurship,in its broad sense,and the management of entrepreneurial organizations.The journal will expand the study of entrepreneurship and management by publishing innovative arti-cles based on different perspectives using a variety of methodological approaches and showing the practical implications of research for its readership.It will be unique,pro-viding a multi-disciplinary forum for researchers,scholars,consultants,entrepreneurs, businesspersons,managers and practitioners in thefield of entrepreneurship.Aspects of micro(individual),firm and macro(global)economics will be examined using a variety of perspectives—e.g.,psychological,socio-cultural or institutional(Veciana, 1999).The relationship between entrepreneurship and management will be addressed in conceptual and empirical papers,case studies of successfulfirms or other casesLINKING ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MANAGEMENT7 having important practical implications and book reviews,leading to an improvement in the understanding of international entrepreneurial perspectives of the organizations concerned.IEMJ,initially a quarterly publication with a view to increasing the number to six in the future,will publish original papers which contribute to the advancement of thefield of entrepreneurship and the interface between management and entrepreneurship,as well as articles on business corporate strategy and government economic policy.Our invitation to youWe the Editors of IEMJ seek contributions to the journal of researchers,scholars or consultants from a variety of disciplines,including economics,international business and management,organizational theory,psychology,sociology,and strategic manage-ment.Some of those works could develop new theoretical perspectives,while others could test previously unexamined theoretical explanations for successful entrepreneur-ship,entrepreneurial strategies,strategic entrepreneurship or entrepreneurial manage-ment(Stevenson and Jarillo,1990).In return,we offer timely and developmental re-views,and an international audience for your work.ReferencesBusenitz,L.W.,West III,G.P.,Shepherd,D.,Nelson,T.,Chandler,G.N.&Zacharakis,A.2003.Entrepreneur-ship research in emergence:Past trends and future directions.Journal of Management,29:285–308. 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