Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal

Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

Initial Manuscript Submission

Beginning, January 1, 2009, all manuscripts considered for submission must be sent to SEJ's online submission site http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sej

In case of questions, please contact:

Lois Gast
SEJ Managing Editor
Krannert Graduate School of Management
Purdue University
West Lafayette IN 47907
USA
Telephone: 765-496-2324
Email: lgast@wiley.com

Authors must also supply:

• permission grants (PGs) are needed at the time of submission if the manuscript contains extracts, including illustrations, from other copyright works (this includes material from online or intranet sources). It is the author's responsibility to obtain written permission from the owners of the publishing rights to reproduce such extracts using the Wiley Permission Request Form , available for downloading from the SEJ Web site.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been previously published and should not be submitted for publication elsewhere while they are under consideration by SEJ.

To be sure that manuscripts move through the review process smoothly and quickly, we ask authors to observe basic formatting and style requirements when submitting manuscripts. Submissions that do not follow SEJ guidelines may have to be returned for revision and resubmission in order to ensure the timely flow of manuscripts through the editorial process.

We suggest that you circulate your manuscript among colleagues before submitting to SEJ , and make revisions based on their thoughtful suggestions. The reviewers should not be your first readers.

If your paper is accepted, the author identified as the formal corresponding author for the paper will receive an email prompting them to login into Author Services; where via the Wiley Author Licensing Service (WALS) they will be able to complete the license agreement on behalf of all authors on the paper.

For authors signing the copyright transfer agreement

If the OnlineOpen option is not selected the corresponding author will be presented with the copyright transfer agreement to sign.  The terms and conditions of the copyright transfer agreement can be previewed below:

Copyright Transfer Agreement

Please do not complete this PDF until you are prompted to login into Author Services as described above.

Note to Contributors on Deposit of Accepted Version

Funder arrangements                   

Certain funders, including the NIH, members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) and Wellcome Trust require deposit of the Accepted Version in a repository after an embargo period.  Details of funding arrangements are set out at the following website: http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement.  Please contact the Journal production editor if you have additional funding requirements.

Institutions       

Wiley has arrangements with certain academic institutions to permit the deposit of the Accepted Version in the institutional repository after an embargo period.  Details of such arrangements are set out at the following website:   http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement

For authors choosing OnlineOpen

If the OnlineOpen option is selected the corresponding author will have a choice of the following Creative Commons License Open Access Agreements (OAA):

Creative Commons Attribution License OAA

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License OAA

Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial -NoDerivs License OAA

To preview the terms and conditions of these open access agreements please visit the Copyright FAQs hosted on Wiley Author Services http://authorservices.wiley.com/bauthor/faqs_copyright.asp and visit http://www.wileyopenaccess.com/details/content/12f25db4c87/Copyright--License.html.

If you select the OnlineOpen option and your research is funded by The Wellcome Trust and members of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) you will be given the opportunity to publish your article under a CC-BY license supporting you in complying with Wellcome Trust and Research Councils UK requirements.  For more information on this policy and the Journal’s compliant self-archiving policy please visit: http://www.wiley.com/go/funderstatement.

SEJ Guidelines

The language of the journal is American English. Your submission needs a title. Please use a 12-point readable font, 1-inch margins on all sides, double spacing, and left-justification of text and titles. Please avoid bulleted lists in the text and do not number sections.

Although SEJ does not have formal limits on article length, manuscripts that are longer than about 30 pages of text (before references, figures, and tables) are almost always clearer and stronger when shortened. Editors reserve the right to return overly long articles for revision.

Figures and Tables: Figures and tables should appear at the end of the manuscript after the references section. Within the text, please include only a placement note, such as ‘Insert Table 1 here,’ where appropriate.

Title Page: Please list the full names, titles, and affiliations (with complete addresses) of all authors, including e-mail, telephone, and fax information on the title page. Please identify the corresponding author. A running head of your choice (a short title of up to 60 characters to be used at publication) should appear on the title page as well. For indexing purposes, include six keywords that describe your paper.

Research Notes and Commentaries: Notes and commentaries should not exceed a total of fifteen manuscript pages (other than figures and tables). This will ensure that the published work will be ten or fewer Journal pages. Research notes and commentaries do not require running heads.

Abstract: Please supply a one-paragraph abstract of up to 200 words for all articles, research notes, and commentaries. Abstracts should provide a precise summary of your entire paper, not just your conclusions, and must be able to stand alone, separate from the rest of the paper. SEJ policy is that no citations to other works are used in the abstract.

Acknowledgements: The names of any sponsors of your research, including grant numbers, and/or people you would like to thank, may be included in an acknowledgements section that should appear immediately before your list of references.

Reference Style: SEJ uses the author-date style of citation. Citations in the text appear as name and date within parentheses (e.g., Schendel, 1999) and complete references are listed alphabetically at the end of the paper. When a cited work has four or more authors, use the form (main author et al., year). Three or fewer authors should be written out at the first text citation and et al. used thereafter (italicize et al., whenever used). Please do not use ampersands (&) unless it is a commonly used expression (e.g., R&D), part of a universally used product (e.g., M&Ms), or included in a company name (e.g., Standard & Poor’s). When reference is made to more than one work by the same author(s) published in the same year, identify each citation in the text in the following manner: (Schendel, 2005a, 2005b). Online citations should include the date of access. Please be sure that cited works that are chapters in a book or articles in a magazine include page numbers. References should contain titles and subtitles. If necessary, cite unpublished or personal work in the text, but please do not include personal work in the reference list.

SEJ will do all it can to assist authors in all phases of their work. To help your manuscript move smoothly through the editing process please be sure that your references are complete, accurate, and written in SEJ reference style. Examples of correct style include:

Badaracco JL. 1991. The Knowledge Link: How Firms Compete Through Strategic Alliances. Harvard Business School Press: Boston, MA.

Bagozzi R, Phillips L. 1982. Representing and testing organizational theories: a holistic construal. Administrative Science Quarterly 27 (3): 459-489.

Baldwin CY, Clark KB. 2003. Where do transactions come from? Working paper, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA.

Bleeke J, Ernst D (eds). 1993. Collaborating to Compete: Using Strategic Alliances and Acquisitions in the Global Marketplace. John Wiley & Sons: New York.

Bowman EH, Singh H. 1990. Overview of corporate restructuring: trends and consequences. In Corporate Restructuring, Rock L, Rock RH (eds). McGraw-Hill: New York; 1–16.

Child J, Yan Y. 1999. Predicting the performance of international alliances: an investigation in China. Working paper, Chinese Management Centre, University of Hong Kong.

Collis D. 1996. Organizational capability as a source of profit. In Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage, Moingeon B, Edmondson A (eds). Sage: London, U.K.: 139-163.

D'Eredita M, Misiolek N, Siow J. 2005. States of mind as stages of team development: making sense of strategies for building a virtual team. In Proceedings of the 5th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Business, Honolulu, HI. Available at: http://www.hicbusiness.org.

Grant, RM. 1996. Toward a knowledge-based theory of the firm. Strategic Management Journal, Winter Special Issue 17 :109-122.

Jensen M, Zajac EJ. 2004. Corporate elites and corporate strategy: how demographic preferences and structural position shape the scope of the firm. Strategic Management Journal 25 (6): 507–524.

Misiolek N. 2003. Knowledge management and the corporate university: insights from the knowledge-based view of the firm. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Seattle, WA.

Rumelt RP, Schendel D, Teece DJ. 1994. Fundamental Issues in Strategy: A Research Agenda. Harvard Business School Press: Boston MA.

Van Brundt J. 2001. The many facets of co-development. Signals Magazine 19 May: 1-6. http://www.signalsmag.com/signalsmag.nsf [6 June 2005].

For more information regarding proper formatting and other author guidelines, please consult the articles.