--- name: journal-of-business-venturing description: Use when targeting Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) or deciding whether an entrepreneurship / new-venture manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics. --- # Journal of Business Venturing (journal-of-business-venturing) ## Journal positioning Journal of Business Venturing (JBV), published by Elsevier, is one of the two flagship entrepreneurship journals and the premier outlet for research on the entrepreneurial process — new venture creation, opportunity identification and evaluation, and the behaviors and cognition of entrepreneurs. It rewards work that makes a clear contribution to entrepreneurship theory backed by rigorous empirics (or, less often, strong conceptual development). JBV is distinctively focused on the act and process of venturing, not generic small-business management or a strategy paper set among startups. The audience is entrepreneurship scholars, so the contribution must be entrepreneurship-central and theoretically grounded. This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Elsevier / JBV site and the submission system. ## When to trigger - The author names JBV (or the entrepreneurship flagship tier) as the venue. - A paper studies the entrepreneurial process — opportunity identification, venture creation, entrepreneurial cognition/behavior, founding teams, or new-venture growth. - A management/strategy paper set in startups needs re-framing around an entrepreneurship-theory contribution. - The author needs JBV's desk-reject risks and a credible `entrepreneurship-theory-and-practice` / `strategic-management-journal` / `academy-of-management-journal` alternative list. ## Scope & topic fit - Opportunity identification, evaluation, and exploitation; the venture-creation process; effectuation and entrepreneurial decision-making. - Entrepreneurial cognition, behavior, motivation, and identity; founders and founding teams. - New venture emergence, growth, financing (angels, VC at the venture level), and exit. - Entrepreneurship across contexts (corporate, social, technology, international) when the entrepreneurial process is central. ## Method & evidence bar - The contribution must advance entrepreneurship theory and turn on the entrepreneurial process, not a generic management effect observed in startups. - Empirical rigor is high — sound design, identification or careful inference, construct validity, and treatment of the selection and survivorship problems endemic to venture data. - Process and longitudinal designs are valued; cross-sectional survey work must address common-method bias and causality. - Conceptual papers must be genuinely novel and rigorously argued. ## Structure & house style - The front end frames an entrepreneurship-theory problem about the venturing process and develops hypotheses or a grounded model with explicit logic. - A strong JBV paper states its contribution to entrepreneurship theory and bounds its conditions. - Methods address venture-data hazards (selection, survival, small/skewed samples); exhibits make the process legible. - House style rewards clear, theory-forward writing focused on the entrepreneurial phenomenon. ## Official-submission checklist - Before giving submission-ready advice, read `../../resources/source-basis.md` and `../../resources/official-source-map.md`; start from the official source anchors for this journal family, then cite the current journal-specific page you checked. - Search the live site for "Journal of Business Venturing submission guidelines / Elsevier guide for authors" and follow the current version. - Re-check word/length limits, abstract format, anonymization for double-blind review, reference style, and data/code availability expectations. - Re-check current open-science, data-availability, and AI-use disclosure policies, and any article-type rules. - If the live official instructions conflict with this skill, the official instructions win. ## Pre-submission self-check - [ ] One sentence stating the contribution to entrepreneurship theory — and confirming the entrepreneurial process is central. - [ ] Methods address selection, survivorship, and the hazards of venture data. - [ ] Hypotheses (or the inductive model) follow from explicit theoretical logic. - [ ] The paper is entrepreneurship-central, not a strategy/OB paper set among startups. - [ ] Framing, references, and anonymization match the current JBV guide. ## Common desk-reject triggers - A generic strategy/OB study set in startups with no entrepreneurship-theory contribution. - Venture data analyzed without addressing selection/survivorship bias. - A descriptive small-business study with no theoretical contribution. - Cross-sectional survey with unaddressed common-method bias and weak causal logic. ## Re-routing decision - Theory-driven entrepreneurship across diverse methods, including more conceptual work → `entrepreneurship-theory-and-practice`. - Entrepreneurship with a firm-strategy/performance core → `strategic-management-journal`; theory-driven management empirics → `academy-of-management-journal`. - Pure entrepreneurship theory, no data → `academy-of-management-review`; review of the entrepreneurship stream → `academy-of-management-annals`. - Org theory of new organizations → `organization-science`; broad management empirics → `journal-of-management-en`; international new ventures → `journal-of-international-business-studies`; innovation-driven venturing → `research-policy`. ## Output format ```text [Fit] High / Medium / Low (one-line reason) [Target] Journal of Business Venturing [Topic tags] <2–3 closest topics> [Method/evidence] [Top risk] [Official items to re-check] [Re-route suggestion] ```