In an article in the current issue of the Research Policy specialist journal, the renowned American sociologist Howard E. Aldrich underlines the importance of the Internationales Gewerbearchiv journal, the forerunner to the Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship (ZfKE), thus reinforcing the reputation of the University of Liechtenstein as its publisher.
In an article in the current issue of the Research Policy specialist journal, the renowned American sociologist Howard E. Aldrich underlines the importance of the Internationales Gewerbearchiv journal, the forerunner to the Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship (ZfKE), thus reinforcing the reputation of the University of Liechtenstein as its publisher.
In his article “The emergence of entrepreneurship as an academic field: A personal essay on institutional entrepreneurship” in Research Policy, he says: “Until 1980, there were virtually no scientific journals specializing in entrepreneurship. One of the first journals on the subject was published in Europe: Internationales Gewerbearchiv, which first appeared in 1952.”
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The journal, which first appeared in 1952, is one of the oldest entrepreneurship journals in the world and a forerunner to the current Zeitschrift für KMU und Entrepreneurship (ZfKE). Since July 2010, the journal has been published by the University of Liechtenstein in conjunction with the University of St. Gallen.
The ZfKE is the only German-language journal focusing on entrepreneurship. It is published four times a year by Berlin-based Duncker & Humblot, with a circulation of 700. Articles published in it meet high academic standards but are also relevant in practice. Since it first appeared, the specialist journal has been consistently developed. Today, the ZfKE is the leading academic journal on SMEs and entrepreneurship in the German language.
Renowned international researcher
In his article, Howard E. Aldrich, who has been Professor and Department Chair, Sociology, and Adjunct Professor of Management in the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina since 1982, focuses on scientific research in entrepreneurship from its roots in the 1950s to today. The sociologist is particularly interested in the evolutionary aspect of entrepreneurship.
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