Academic Journal
Q1Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
About Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal is a scholarly journal published by John Wiley & Sons Inc.. SCImago 2025 places it in Q1 with an SJR of 3.821 and an H-index of 82.
Its listed coverage is 2008, 2011-2026 and its research categories include Business and International Management (Q1); Economics and Econometrics (Q1); Strategy and Management (Q1). The 2025 dataset reports 44 documents and 881 citations across the latest three-year reporting window.
The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ) is a leading academic publication dedicated to the intersection of strategic management and entrepreneurship. Published by Wiley in association with the Strategic Management Society (SMS), SEJ has earned a global reputation for its high-impact research that shapes business practices, policy-making, and future academic inquiry.
What is the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal?
Launched in 2007, the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal focuses on exploring how firms can create and sustain competitive advantages through innovation, entrepreneurial initiatives, and strategic decision-making. The journal serves as a bridge between strategy and entrepreneurship, fields that are often studied in isolation but are deeply interconnected in the real business world.
SEJ is peer-reviewed and publishes original research, theoretical papers, and empirical studies that address key topics like:
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Entrepreneurial strategy
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Innovation and technology management
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Corporate entrepreneurship
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New venture creation and growth
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Strategic decision-making
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Organizational learning and change
Who Should Read the SEJ?
The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal is a valuable resource for:
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Researchers and academics looking for groundbreaking insights into entrepreneurship and strategic management.
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Business professionals and corporate leaders interested in applying the latest research to real-world strategy.
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Entrepreneurs and startup founders seeking evidence-based practices to drive business growth.
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Policy-makers who aim to support innovation ecosystems and economic development.
Journal Impact and Rankings
SEJ is ranked among the top journals in business and management, with a strong impact factor that reflects the high quality and relevance of its articles. It is included in key indexes such as Web of Science, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). The journal’s impact factor continues to rise, reinforcing its role as a leader in the field.
Submission and Publication
The journal welcomes submissions that offer novel theoretical insights or rigorous empirical contributions. Authors are encouraged to explore new ideas, test innovative frameworks, and challenge conventional thinking in the field of strategic entrepreneurship.
Submissions go through a double-blind peer-review process, ensuring academic rigor and fairness. Accepted articles are published both in print and online, increasing accessibility and visibility for authors.
Why Strategic Entrepreneurship Matters
In today's rapidly changing business environment, strategic entrepreneurship is more important than ever. Companies that combine strategic vision with entrepreneurial agility are better positioned to navigate uncertainty, exploit emerging opportunities, and drive long-term success.
The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal plays a crucial role in advancing this understanding, offering a platform where scholars and practitioners come together to shape the future of business strategy and entrepreneurship.
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Aims & Scope
The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal (SEJ) is a premier scholarly publication that serves as a leading platform for academic and practitioner-oriented research at the intersection of strategy and entrepreneurship. Launched in 2007, SEJ is jointly published by the Strategic Management Society (SMS) and Wiley, and it continues to grow in reputation and influence within the global academic community. The scope of SEJ is broad but focused, aiming to advance understanding of how opportunity-seeking and advantage-seeking behaviors can be integrated to drive organizational success and economic growth.
Key Focus Areas of SEJ
The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal covers a wide range of topics that explore the synergy between strategic management and entrepreneurship. These include:
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Innovation and Organizational Learning
SEJ publishes research on how organizations create, manage, and exploit innovations to gain competitive advantage. Topics often explore technological innovation, knowledge management, and learning mechanisms that fuel long-term growth. -
Opportunity Identification and Exploitation
Central to entrepreneurship, SEJ investigates how firms and individuals discover and act upon opportunities, particularly in uncertain and dynamic markets. -
Strategic Resource Management
The journal examines how resources are acquired, developed, and deployed strategically to support entrepreneurial ventures and corporate renewal efforts. -
Corporate Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship
SEJ gives significant attention to how established firms foster entrepreneurial thinking internally to maintain relevance and competitiveness in changing markets. -
Business Model Innovation and Strategic Renewal
Articles frequently analyze how firms reconfigure their business models or renew strategic directions to adapt and thrive. -
Social and Sustainable Entrepreneurship
With increasing global focus on sustainability, SEJ also welcomes work that explores the intersection of social impact, strategic innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Methodological Diversity
The journal is open to a wide array of methodological approaches, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research. It values theoretical rigor, empirical depth, and practical relevance. From case studies to longitudinal datasets, SEJ encourages robust and innovative research designs that push the boundaries of traditional scholarship.
Global and Cross-Disciplinary Reach
One of the key strengths of SEJ is its interdisciplinary and international orientation. Scholars from economics, sociology, psychology, and organizational behavior contribute to the journal, offering diverse perspectives on entrepreneurship and strategy. SEJ also emphasizes global perspectives, inviting research that compares entrepreneurial ecosystems, institutional influences, and strategic behaviors across countries and regions.
Audience and Impact
The Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal targets a global audience of academics, practitioners, policy-makers, and students interested in cutting-edge research. With a rising impact factor and growing academic recognition, SEJ serves as an essential resource for those who aim to understand and influence the entrepreneurial strategies that shape the modern business landscape.
Recent Research Articles
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Women own differently: How women's decision‐making authority shapes owner teams' strategic choices in private firms
Jannis von Nitzsch, Miriam Bird
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70043Decomposing venture evaluation: Learning about belief formation
Thomas Åstebro, Andrew Funck, Francesco Giordano
2026-08-26 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70042Novelty and its genealogy: The role of discarded prototypes as repositories of innovation
Demetrius Lewis, Giacomo Negro, Isin Guler
2026-07-31 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70037When stakeholders are imposed: Non‐chosen stakeholder orientation and venture performance
Myeongho David Park, Per L. Bylund, Eunkwang Seo
2026-07-30 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70041Unleashing the value of a “scientific approach” to entrepreneurship: Building an empirical research agenda
Arnaldo Camuffo, Alfonso Gambardella, Thomaz Teodorovicz
2026-07-24 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70038Experimentation on a leash: How stakeholder influence shapes entrepreneurial experimentation across the venture lifecycle
Hyeonsuh Lee, Gianluigi Viscusi, Christopher L. Tucci
2026-07-20 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70039Ignited or depressed? Entrepreneurs' status inconsistency and philanthropic giving
Jianhua Ge, Eric Yanfei Zhao, Wei Lei
2026-07-19 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70040Mixed feelings, mixed outcomes? When emotionally ambivalent framing enhances idea appreciation
Donato Cutolo, Denise Falchetti, Henrik Wesemann Lekkas
2026-07-07 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70036Co‐explorers of the imaginary: How fictional framing legitimates radical novelty by connecting entrepreneurial imagination to stakeholder possibilistic thinking
Violina P. Rindova, Meenal Banga, Luis L. Martins
2026-06-15 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70035Hatching and fledging? A meta‐analysis of the performance effects of business incubators
Jorge‐Vinicio Murillo‐Rojas, Jan Brinckmann, Marc van Essen
2026-06-12 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70032Why theory matters for causal inference? Rethinking endogeneity in entrepreneurship research
Daniel Tzabbar
2026-06-09 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70033Issue Information
2026-06 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70019Toward a theory of Bayesian experimentation in early‐stage ventures
Andrea Contigiani, Lien Denoo, Márton Hablicsek
2026-05-20 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70031Dancing to multiple tunes: Establishing legitimacy with first‐time and repeat backers in crowdfunding campaigns
Stephanie Hepp, Alexander Vossen, Lien Denoo
2026-05-19 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70029Correction to “Are non‐economic goals and financial performance friends or foes in hybrid ventures? A duality perspective on academic spin‐offs”
2026-06 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70027Getting aggressive abroad through CEO and outside director stock options: An incentive‐based view of post‐entry internationalization pace of young entrepreneurial post‐IPO firms
Orhun Guldiken, Stav Fainshmidt, Dasol Sim, Le Xu et al.
2026-05-10 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70030Learning to innovate: How and when firms transform intellectual capital into exploratory and exploitative innovation
Gholamhossein (Amir) Mehralian, Arash Sadeghi, Ralf Wilden
2026-04-24 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70028It's a match! Similarity in personality traits in the business angel–founder dyad and follow‐on funding
Angela Altmeier, Christian Fisch
2026-04-10 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70025Two hearts that beat as one: Signals, narratives, and financing (less) novel ventures via equity crowdfunding
Jiahe Wang, Lien Denoo, Joris Knoben
2026-04-07 · DOI: 10.1002/sej.70026Reviews
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