Bringing entrepreneurship and family business fully into a home in management departments

Abstract

Many young entrepreneurship and family business scholars reside in management departments. However, too often these departments do not recognize publications on entrepreneurship and family business as equivalent to publications in management journals. Such arguments around journal quality are more than simply esoteric debates. Indeed, the acknowledgement of entrepreneurship/family business journal quality is critical since young scholars’ progress to tenure and promotion around the world hinges on publications in high quality journals. However, since scholars in business are evidence-based we argue that academics’ views can be shifted. Therefore, we initially present evidence on three facts about the entrepreneurship journals whose domains partially include family business. We should shift the view of management scholars on these journals’ quality. We then discuss the implications of these arguments for the dedicated family business journals and how they also can enter the top tier of academic publications.