International Small Business Journal
journal
The International Small Business Journal (ISBJ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the fields of economics and entrepreneurship, especially small businesses. The journal's editor-in-chief is Robert Blackburn (Kingston University). It was established in 1982 and is currently published by SAGE Publications. The ISBJ is a member of the 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 The Guardian. 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.
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The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents, the Business Periodicals Index, the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index.
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