The ''International Small Business Journal'' (ISBJ) is a

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that covers the fields of

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

and

entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...

, especially

small business Small businesses are types of corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships which have fewer employees and/or less annual revenue than a regular-sized business or corporation. Businesses are defined as "small" in terms of being able to ap ...

es. The journal's

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is Robert Blackburn ( Kingston University). It was established in 1982 and is currently published by

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. The ISBJ is a member of th
Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

About

The journal was founded in 1982, under the former name European Small Business Journal, but had been changed to the International Small Business Journal in 1983. It was founded and originally published by Clive Woodckck, a journalist for ''

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''. The papers published in the ISBJ are submitted by international academics (from a broad range of disciplines) covering theoretical, methodological and empirical studies of small firms. The ISBJ places emphasis on research excellence in the field of enquiry, to publish the highest quality original research papers, on small business and entrepreneurship. The ISBJ endeavours to provide a critical forum for world class contributions on the analysis of small firms as the articles in the ISBJ important to academics, policy makers, practitioners and analysts in government and organizations, seeking to understand small businesses, entrepreneurial processes and outcomes.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in

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, the Business Periodicals Index, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences,

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, and the

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. According to the ''

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'', its 2016

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is 3.677, ranking it 24th out of 121 journals in the category "Business" and 26th out of 193 journals in the category "Management".

Virtual Issues

The ''International Small Business Journal'' has brought together several collections of research, previously published in the journal, in 'virtual issues' centered on key themes in the field. Recent virtual issues include ''Female Entrepreneurship'', which explores the journal's contribution to female entrepreneurship research and ''Remembering Jason Cope'' which celebrates the life, and academic legacy, of the late entrepreneurship scholar.

Best Paper Award

In 2008 ''The International Small Business Journal'' founded the ISBJ Best Paper Prize, which is awarded annually to the authors of one paper, published in the journal, in the year of the award. The papers are assessed in terms of "focus �� theoretical positioning; methodological rigour; policy and or practitioner implications; and interest for future research activity". The ISBJ Best Paper Prize of is currently awarded to: Alex Kevill, Kiran Trehan, Shelley Harrington and Selen Kars-Unluoglu (2021) for their paper o
"Dynamic managerial capabilities in micro-enterprises: Stability, vulnerability and the role of managerial time allocation".

Editors

*Editor-in-chief: Robert Blackburn *Editors: Susan Marlow and Robert Wapshott *Consulting Editors: Dirk De Clercq, Rachel Doern, Francis Greene, Robert T Hamilton, Liang Han, Dilani Jayawarna, Peter Jennings, Steffen Korsgaard, Tatiana Manolova, Alexander Newman, Niina Nummela, Dean Patton, Erno Tornikoski *Review Editor: Jarna Heinonen *Social Media Editor: Angela Martinez Dy, Lorna Treanor

References

External links

* {{Official website, 1=http://isb.sagepub.com/ SAGE Publishing academic journals English-language journals Publications established in 1982 Business and management journals Bimonthly journals Small business