Contribution Framing (jbv-contribution-framing)

When to trigger

• Results exist but the "so what for entrepreneurship theory" is thin or implicit
• A reviewer or handling editor calls the contribution "incremental" or "a setting, not a contribution"
• You cannot state in one sentence what the field now knows about entrepreneurship that it did not
• You need to write the contribution paragraph of the intro and the theoretical-implications section

The JBV contribution bar

JBV is a discipline-defining FT50 flagship, so the theory bar is high: the paper must clarify assumptions, expose tensions, or challenge orthodoxies about the entrepreneurial phenomenon. State the contribution explicitly — it cannot be left implicit.

• Phenomenon-centered: the contribution must be to understanding entrepreneurship — venture creation, entrepreneurial cognition/behavior, financing, teams, social/sustainable/international entrepreneurship, or ecosystems — not a generic organizational insight that merely used a startup sample.
• What changes: name the assumption you overturn, the tension you resolve, or the new mechanism you reveal in the entrepreneurial process.
• Multidisciplinary reach: because JBV spans economics, psychology, and sociology, articulate which conversation(s) the contribution advances and whether it travels across lenses.

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