Call for Papers
Vol. 7, No. 1
(Spring 2017)

Special Issue –
The Ethics of Social Entrepreneurship
Donald W. Caudill, Executive Editor (Godbold School of Business, Gardner-Webb University), invites authors to submitpapers for a special issue of the Journal of Ethics & Entrepreneurship  on The Ethics of Social Entrepreneurship (Vol. 7 No. 1, Spring 2017).
 
Mission of the Journal of Ethics and Entrepreneurship
The mission of the JEE is to publish (double-blind, peer reviewed) interdisciplinary scholarly research (conceptual, theoretical, empirical) or teaching cases that connect entrepreneurship and ethics and appeal to both the academic and the practitioner.
Special Issue Call for Papers
This Special Issue is being offered in conjunction with the Special Interest Group in Social Entrepreneurship of the United States Association of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) and the issue will be celebrated at the January 2017 USASBE Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA.
Social entrepreneurship has become a dynamic force in positively addressing market and institutional social and economic failures as well as providing beneficial solutions for those living on the margins of society.  At the heart of this growing field are the promotion of the social good and the rectifying of social injustices. This focus places social entrepreneurship at the intersection of ethics and entrepreneurship.
JEE is soliciting scholarly manuscripts which explore ethical issues associated with social entrepreneurship. We welcome conceptual, empirical, and pedagogical submissions that blend ethics and social entrepreneurship. Possible research topics can include, but are not limited to:
  • How does an ethical perspective on social entrepreneurship enhance social enterprise opportunity recognition?
  • How do ethics help us understand social venture creation and operations?
  • What ethical questions arise when traditional nonprofit organizations move to an earned income revenue model of operations?
  • What ethical questions arise when social enterprises move from nonprofit legal forms to a for profit legal form?    
  • What are the ethical implications of competing logics within hybrid organizations?
  • What are the links between social entrepreneurship theories and ethical theories?
  • Which ethical theories aid in our understanding of social venturing?
  • How can an ethical lens for social entrepreneurship best be utilized to address significant social change?
  • How can ethics be brought into the social entrepreneurship classroom?
We cast a wide net for differing perspectives on both ethics and social entrepreneurship and invite contributions from all business disciplines and social sciences, including but not limited to Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Accounting, Finance, Information Systems, Sociology, and Economics.
Acceptance Notification: within 60 days from the date of manuscript submission
Submission deadline:  June 1, 2016
Submit manuscript in APA format to the Special Issue editors Kenneth Wm. Kury or Robert S. D’Intino atkkury@sju.edu or dintino@rowan.edu