Entrepreneurship and Small Business Review (ESBR)

Focus and Scope

The Entrepreneurship and Small Business Review (ESBR) provides an outlook of research advancements and understandings in the field of accounting and finance. It publishes articles, case studies and book reviews that consider issues regarding Accounting and Finance and all sister fields of finance. It includes papers those are interdisciplinary in nature but the major disciplines covered by ESBR are:

• Accounting for small businesses
• Entrepreneurial behaviors
• Entrepreneurial decision making
• Entrepreneurial education
• Entrepreneurial finance
• Entrepreneurial intentions
• Entrepreneurial leadership
• Entrepreneurial management practices
• Entrepreneurial marketing
• Entrepreneurial practices
• Entrepreneurial theory and practice
• Families businesses
• Financial aspects of small businesses
• Health and entrepreneurship
• Idea generation and creativity
• Personalities and entrepreneurship
• Psychological issues and entrepreneurship
• Small business management
• Small business marketing

The prime goal of ESBR is to disseminate the ideas and thoughts about finance to academicians, researchers, practitioners and all those who can benefit from it. It aims to include paper from all over the world without any discrimination. Papers will be preferred which can be applied at any level and can benefit society.

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

After plagiarism check with Turnitin and a preliminary editorial review, articles are sent to two/three referees for double blind review. Authors are informed about comments of the referees for revising the article accordingly, if required. The review process may take two to three months.

Publication Frequency

Bi-Annual

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...

Foreign/International Editorial Board

Prof. Dr. Mohd Hizam Hanafiah
Deputy Dean (Postgraduate)
Faculty of Economics and Management
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, MALAYSIA
Dr. Nor Aisha Buang
Faculty of Education
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)
Bangi, Malaysia

NURITA BINTI JUHDI

Muhammad Mohiuddin, DESA (MPhil), PhD.
Associate Professor of International Business and Global Strategy
Faculty of Business Administration
& Director, Research Group on Contemporary Asia (GÉRAC)
Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
Dr. Irfan Saleem
Assistant Professor - Faculty of Business,
Sohar University, Oman

Dr. Syed Ahmad Ali
Assistant Professor/Director
University of Management & Technology (UMT), Lahore

MOHD. HIZAM BIN HANAFIAH
Faculty of Economics and Management, Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia, 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor D.E., MALAYSIA

Local/National Editorial Board

Dr. Syed Ahmad Ali
PhD (Mgt), MBA,
Assistant Professor/Director MS Management Programs
University of Management & Technology,
Lahore Pakistan

Prof. Dr. Rana Muhammad Ayyub
Chairman
Department of Economics & Business Management
Director CAPRIL (Center for Applied Policy Research in Livestock & Poultry)
Faculty of Life-Sciences Business Management FLSBM)
University of Veterinary & Animal Sciences UVAS), Lahore, Pakistan.

Abidullah Khan
Assistant Professor
Islamic Finance at Sukkur IBA University

Dr. Muhammad Ahmed
Head of Department (Management Sciences)
47-C, Civic Centre, Johar
Town, Management Science Dept.,
Bahria University, Lahore, Pakistan

Abidullah Khan
Assistant Professor Islamic Finance
Sukkur IBA University

Review Policy

After plagiarism check with Turnitin and a preliminary editorial review, articles are sent to two/three referees for double blind review. Authors are informed about comments of the referees for revising the article accordingly, if required. The review process may take two to three months.

Review Guidelines

Reviewers should respond with in stipulated time frame, which is one week (7 days) for the journal.
Reviewers should try to fill in all the parts of reviewers report so that a fair judgment regarding the quality of the paper can be made
As review is essential step towards publication process, every reviewer is therefore supposed to be fair in reviewing.
Any reviewer who feels him/herself as unqualified, or not having judgment idea or deficit of time should inform editor promptly, so that the paper can be forwarded elsewhere.
The review should be objective one, and personal feelings, judgments or biasness should not affect the review and its outcomes.
A reviewer should not review a paper that discusses any point that might have conflict of opinion with reviewer.
No manuscript should be reviewed which is authored, co-authored or authored by some known person/s, in order to avoid biasness.
A manuscript sent for review is confidential document, so it should be treated fairly and secretary and should not be shown somewhere else.
Reviewers should comment on each point clearly so that the judgment regarding acceptance/rejection or changes may be made on the basis of review
If reviewer notices any similarity with any other paper published in any other journal, containing same contents and that issued should be addressed to editor.