征稿期刊

Journal of Business Venturing

期刊级别

SSCI (JCR 2023)

IF 7.7

Q1 (BUSINESS 29/302)

征稿主题

Theory as usual? Entrepreneurial futures in the AI age

细分领域

Entrepreneurial Knowledge

What types of AI offer reliable knowledge-generating devices? In what contexts, industries and domains of application?

What is the role (and limits) of AI-powered scientific methods in the pursuit of entrepreneurial knowledge?

What are the major epistemic risks associated with the use of AI in entrepreneurial contexts?

How does AI affect the use of heuristics or redefine ways of being rational in conditions of uncertainty?

Opportunity Types

What are the newly emergent types of opportunities associated with AI advances?

Do new technologies change the opportunity landscape in terms of frequency of emergence, the temporal window of their existence or the optimal timing of action?

How might AI tools be reliably used in processes of opportunity search and pursuit?

Do entrepreneurs and investors evaluate proposed opportunities generated by AI and human actors differently?

How does AI change the balance between Kirznerian and Schumpeterian conceptions of entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurial work

What are the new faces of entrepreneurial work and modes of opportunity actualization?

What parts of entrepreneurial work can be more meaningfully automated or augmented?

To what extent does the use of AI systems in entrepreneurship involve new units of analysis, including entrepreneur-machine networks, AI-augmented platform entrepreneurship, among other novel forms?

What is the appropriate mode of symbiosis of human and artificial forms of intelligence? Does this symbiosis differ across opportunity types and contexts?

Entrepreneurial Process Dynamics

To what extent does AI transform or challenge existing lifecycle or process dynamics in entrepreneurship?

How will the data-hungry, quantitative computational approaches in existing AI systems challenge or transform entrepreneurial ideation, customer discovery, product design and prototyping, or even entrepreneurial growth strategies?

When, how, and why will AI impact the speed, scale, and scope of entrepreneurial learning?

Entrepreneurial Creativity & Cognition

What is the role (if any) of human creativity in an era of artificial creativity?

Are there types of creativity in which humans will retain a competitive advantage due to foundational limitations of AI systems?

How do different types of AI complement, enhance, or even challenge entrepreneurial judgment, decision-making, and other related cognitive processes?

Under what conditions does the growing use of AI tools in entrepreneurship impact entrepreneur psychological, social, and economic well-being, transforming the nature and role of entrepreneur identities and action?

How can we use AI to train future entrepreneurs and raise their creativity? Could this be achieved experimentally in the lab or in real-world entrepreneurial settings?

Entrepreneurial Imagination

Can AI tools facilitate enhanced clarity of desired futures? If so, does this clarity affect the predisposition to initiate action?

Can AI-induced imagination of nonactual world states help improve entrepreneurs’ moral imagination and cultivate a stakeholder-centric mindset?

How can we meaningfully conceive and theorize the concepts of artificial imagination and artificial agency in the domain of entrepreneurship?

Whether apparent or actual agency, to what extent might current or near-future AI systems engage in agentic entrepreneurial action in a manner that challenges or transform existing paradigms?

Does AI spark new ways of studying entrepreneurial imagination? Can we integrate AI as a new tool kit and, possibly, as a new paradigm, in entrepreneurial imagination research?

Entrepreneurs

Can AI tools help democratize access to opportunities by eliminating any knowledge or creativity barriers?

If not, what system-level interventions can ensure equal participation in the entrepreneurial arena?

What are the unique resources and entrepreneurial skills in the face of a future of expanding AI capabilities?

To the extent AI tools significantly enhance entrepreneurial productivity by enhancing the speed, scale, and scope of entrepreneurial action, what are the conditions under which AI systems alleviate versus exacerbate existing resource inequalities?

Grand challenges

Could AI-driven entrepreneurship provide meaningful solutions to grand challenges, such as, technology-induced unemployment?

Are there dystopic entrepreneurial futures associated with the AI revolution? If yes, how can their emergence be prevented and/or mitigated?

Can large-scale AI tournaments induce quality solutions to grand challenges? If yes, what is the optimal design of such tournaments?

What are the key challenges posited by AI in terms of ethics, sustainability and inclusion?

重要时间

Submission Deadline: 1 November 2025

原文：https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-business-venturing/about/call-for-papers#theory-as-usual-entrepreneurial-futures-in-the-ai-age