Review Process (jbv-review-process)

When to trigger

• You want to set expectations before or after submitting to JBV
• You received a decision letter and need to interpret it
• You are unsure who decides and what the bar is
• You want to gauge desk-reject risk before submitting

How JBV review works

• Area-editor routing: ScienceDirect lists current Co-Editors-in-Chief Sophie Bacq and Simon Parker and an editorial-board structure with area editors by domain. Fit with the relevant area shapes both routing and outcome — make your home conversation obvious so the paper reaches a sympathetic, expert editor.
• Double-anonymized review: suitable manuscripts are sent to a minimum of two reviewers; neither side sees identities. Off-fit or insufficiently theorized papers may be desk-rejected by the editor before review — common at this FT50 flagship.
• The bar: reviewers and the handling editor judge whether the paper advances theory about the entrepreneurial phenomenon, not just whether the method is clean. "Entrepreneurship is only the setting" is a frequent reject rationale.

Likely decision outcomes