jbv-workflow
Journal of Business Venturing Workflow (jbv-workflow)
Overview
This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill; it tells you which jbv- skill to use right now* for your JBV manuscript.
Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as the Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) — an FT50 flagship in entrepreneurship and new venture creation, published by Elsevier (print ISSN 0883-9026, online ISSN 1873-2003). Current ScienceDirect metadata lists Sophie Bacq and Simon Parker as Co-Editors-in-Chief. JBV's defining bar is phenomenon-driven: a paper must illuminate the "entrepreneurial phenomenon in its myriad of forms" and advance theory about it. Entrepreneurship must be central to the contribution, not an incidental setting — this is what distinguishes JBV from general management journals that accept any well-identified organizational study. The journal is self-consciously multidisciplinary (grounded in economics, psychology, and sociology) and welcomes "theories, narratives, and interpretations," so reviewers ask "what new theory of entrepreneurship do we learn?" as insistently as "is the method sound?"
Routing reality: manuscripts are routed through the current Co-EIC / area-editor structure. Review is double-anonymized. Verify the current masthead, Guide for Authors, APC, and metrics on ScienceDirect before author-facing advice.
When to trigger
- "What should I do next?" with a half-built JBV manuscript
- You have venture data and a result but no clear entrepreneurship-theory story
- A reviewer or handling editor pushes on "is entrepreneurship really central?" and you are unsure which stage is the bottleneck
- You received a JBV decision letter (R&R or reject) and need to switch into response mode
- You keep bouncing between theory, method, and writing without a plan