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Use when shaping or stress-testing a research question for the Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) — confirming the entrepreneurial phenomenon is central, picking a multidisciplinary lens, and checking fit before investing in theory or data. Defines the question; it does not build the mechanism (jbv-theory-development) or frame the contribution (jbv-contribution-framing).

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# Topic Selection & JBV Fit (jbv-topic-selection)

## When to trigger

- You have an idea or a dataset but are unsure it belongs in JBV rather than a general management or strategy outlet
- A co-author asks "is this really an entrepreneurship paper?"
- You want to pick which disciplinary lens (economics, psychology, sociology) drives the question
- A desk reject said the work is "off-topic" or "entrepreneurship is incidental"

## The JBV fit test

JBV publishes research on the **entrepreneurial phenomenon in its myriad of forms** — the antecedents, mechanisms, and consequences of entrepreneurship. Before anything else, pass this gate:

- **Centrality**: Is the creation of new ventures or new economic activity (or entrepreneurial cognition, behavior, financing, teams, social/sustainable/international entrepreneurship, or ecosystems) the heart of the contribution? If entrepreneurship is merely the empirical setting for a general theory of organizations, JBV is the wrong venue — that distinction is the single most common desk-reject reason at this FT50 flagship.
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