Advances in Entrepreneurship and Communication

Communication is the process of creating and maintaining meanings, and is central to entrepreneurial activities at all levels. Entrepreneurial activities range from the creation of small businesses to new scalable start-ups; new entities within large enterprises; social ventures designed to address pressing societal issues; and the infrastructures to stimulate all of these activities. In turn, communication enables or constrains the actions of individuals, organizations, and societies engaged in entrepreneurship, including through micro- (mindsets, communication skills of entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial identity), meso- (organizational socialization, roles, interaction rituals, and entrepreneurial ecosystems), and macro-levels (cultural and media discourses, genres, language of entrepreneurship, social construction of risk, and success and failure).

This Research Topic promotes research in communication that creates, sustains, and transforms entrepreneurship at all levels, from the founder to the firm and to the entrepreneurial ecosystem embedded in a larger society. Communication is conceptualized as a collaborative, dialogic process organizing entrepreneurial activities at different levels, rather than representing entrepreneurs, entrepreneurial ideas, or entrepreneurial organizations simply as vectors of information. This problematization of communication responds to a call to treat communication in entrepreneurial activities as more complex, nuanced, and emergent, through addressing the unstable, ongoing construction of entrepreneurial identity, the porous boundaries of entrepreneurial ecosystems shaped by communication, and how ventures are both process and outcome of communication practices, for example. This conceptualization of communication opens opportunities for conducting further research on entrepreneurship and communication outside traditional domains, including entrepreneurship that: arises in non-Western contexts; addresses social issues; and responds to widespread challenges (system shocks and crises).

Authors should centralize communication—or the process to create or maintain meaning in entrepreneurial activities. We welcome submissions that address the intersections of entrepreneurship and communication from all types of organizations. Empirical projects may apply either qualitative or quantitative methods. Conceptual pieces, including integrative literature reviews and theory or model development, are also invited. Potential authors can consult with the guest editors regarding the fit with the Research Topic.

Example topics of interest for the Research Topic include, but are not limited to, the following:

• entrepreneurial mindset and influences of communication
• leadership, entrepreneurship, and communication
• entrepreneur identity and communication
• social innovation/social entrepreneurship and communication
• organizational conflict communication and entrepreneurship
• career socialization, communication, and entrepreneurship
• entrepreneurs' use of information and communication technologies (ICTs)
• resilience, entrepreneurship, and communication
• entrepreneurial meanings of diversity, equity, inclusion (DEI)
• entrepreneurial communication in uncertain or disruptive times
• global entrepreneurship and communication.