Do you use Austrian School ideas and insights in management or entrepreneurship research? If yes, this call for papers is for you.
Austrian economics is a widely respected school of thought in organizational (Elias et al. 2020; Foss, Klein & Linder 2015) and entrepreneurship (Klein & Bylund 2014; Foss, Klein & McCaffrey 2019) research. Since the publication of Jacobson (1992), management and entrepreneurship researchers have looked towards insights from the Austrian school on a number of important issues. Scholars studying competitive dynamics, organizational flexibility, and resource heterogeneity have benefited from taking an Austrian perspective (Smith, Ferrier, & Ndofor, 2001). Following the works by Venkataraman (1997) and Shane and Venkataraman (2000), entrepreneurship scholars have produced much research at the so-called individual-opportunity nexus, building on concepts and ideas from Israel Kirzner (1973, 1997), an Austrian economist, and Joseph Schumpeter (1934), trained by prominent Austrian scholars. The Austrian influence continues in more recent works in the form of radical subjectivist view (Chiles, Bluedorn, & Gupta, 2007) based on Austrian economist Ludwig Lachmann and judgment-based approach (Foss & Klein, 2015) inspired by Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises (1998). Many prominent scholars predict a vital role for Austrian ideas in 21st-century scholarship (e.g., Eisenhardt 2002).
Despite the enthusiasm for Austrian insights in organizational and entrepreneurship research (Chiles et al., 2007; Foss et al., 2019; Venkatraman, 1997), much needs to be done. Austrian scholars have not adequately engaged with the latest developments in organizational and entrepreneurship inquiry (Bylund 2019; 2020). At the same time, organizational and entrepreneurship scholars have not fully grasped the usefulness of Austrian ideas for their research. This edited book seeks to advance scholarship by facilitating scholarly discourse about Austrian ideas in organizational and entrepreneurship research. We specifically target the overlap, which has heretofore been a largely overlooked area of study.
If you are interested in submitting to this edited volume, please email a one-page proposal by November 15, 2023 to Vishal Gupta (vkgupta@cba.ua.edu), co-editor for the volume. If the proposal is accepted, full papers will be due April 30, 2024. Submissions should be prepared in accordance with AMJ's style guide. Questions regarding any aspect of the book may be directed to the co-editors: Vishal K. Gupta (vkgupta@ua.edu) or Per L. Bylund (per.bylund@okstate.edu).
See attached call for papers for more information!
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Vishal Gupta
Professor
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa AL
(205) 348-8427
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