jbv-workflow

Journal of Business Venturing Workflow (jbv-workflow)

Overview

This is the router. It does not replace any specialized skill; it tells you which jbv- skill to use right now* for your JBV manuscript.

Default assumption: unless the user says otherwise, treat the target as the Journal of Business Venturing (JBV) — an FT50 flagship in entrepreneurship and new venture creation, published by Elsevier (print ISSN 0883-9026, online ISSN 1873-2003). Current ScienceDirect metadata lists Sophie Bacq and Simon Parker as Co-Editors-in-Chief. JBV's defining bar is phenomenon-driven: a paper must illuminate the "entrepreneurial phenomenon in its myriad of forms" and advance theory about it. Entrepreneurship must be central to the contribution, not an incidental setting — this is what distinguishes JBV from general management journals that accept any well-identified organizational study. The journal is self-consciously multidisciplinary (grounded in economics, psychology, and sociology) and welcomes "theories, narratives, and interpretations," so reviewers ask "what new theory of entrepreneurship do we learn?" as insistently as "is the method sound?"

Routing reality: manuscripts are routed through the current Co-EIC / area-editor structure. Review is double-anonymized. Verify the current masthead, Guide for Authors, APC, and metrics on ScienceDirect before author-facing advice.

When to trigger

• "What should I do next?" with a half-built JBV manuscript
• You have venture data and a result but no clear entrepreneurship-theory story
• A reviewer or handling editor pushes on "is entrepreneurship really central?" and you are unsure which stage is the bottleneck
• You received a JBV decision letter (R&R or reject) and need to switch into response mode
• You keep bouncing between theory, method, and writing without a plan

Routing table

Current symptom	Next skill
Idea is vague; unclear if entrepreneurship is central or JBV-fit	jbv-topic-selection
Mechanism is thin; no multidisciplinary theory of the phenomenon	jbv-theory-development
Front end reads as gap-spotting; the entrepreneurship conversation absent	jbv-literature-positioning
Design may not fit a venture-creation question (level, timing, selection)	jbv-methods
Have data; unsure about survival/selection, attrition, endogeneity	jbv-data-analysis
Results exist but the "so what for entrepreneurship theory" is thin	jbv-contribution-framing
Tables/figures cluttered, off Elsevier style, or not self-explanatory	jbv-tables-figures
Prose buries the phenomenon; passive; jargon-heavy	jbv-writing-style
Ready to submit; need the Editorial Manager preflight	jbv-submission
Want to understand how JBV area-editor review works before/after submit	jbv-review-process
Received an R&R; need to plan and draft the response	jbv-rebuttal

Default order

1. jbv-topic-selection — lock a phenomenon-driven question with JBV fit
2. jbv-theory-development — build a multidisciplinary mechanism; derive the argument
3. jbv-literature-positioning — engage the entrepreneurship conversation
4. jbv-methods — match design to the venture question (level, timing, selection)
5. jbv-data-analysis — survival/selection/panel, attrition, endogeneity, robustness
6. jbv-contribution-framing — turn results into a contribution to entrepreneurship theory
7. jbv-tables-figures — finalize main exhibits in Elsevier house style
8. jbv-writing-style — full-manuscript prose polish (phenomenon-forward, active voice)
9. jbv-submission — Editorial Manager preflight (anonymization, declarations, files)
10. jbv-review-process — set expectations for the area-editor / handling-editor, multi-round process
11. jbv-rebuttal — after an R&R, plan revisions then draft the response letter

jbv-tables-figures and jbv-writing-style are late-stage polish. Do not invoke them while the entrepreneurial phenomenon, theory, or identification is still unsettled.

Decision shortcuts

• "I have a finding but no entrepreneurship story" → jbv-topic-selection then jbv-theory-development
• "Reviewer says entrepreneurship is just the setting" → jbv-topic-selection / jbv-contribution-framing
• "My intro says 'no one has studied X in startups'" → jbv-literature-positioning
• "Venture-survival sample with heavy attrition" → jbv-data-analysis
• "Selection into founding may be endogenous" → jbv-methods then jbv-data-analysis
• "Submitting tomorrow" → jbv-submission
• "Got an R&R from a handling editor" → jbv-review-process then jbv-rebuttal

Difference vs. general management / strategy stacks

• JBV: entrepreneurship/new venture creation must be central; multidisciplinary; welcomes narratives and interpretations; Elsevier Editorial Manager; double-anonymized; area-editor routing.
• AMJ/AMR/ASQ/SMJ: an entrepreneurship paper can fit those venues, but only JBV requires the entrepreneurial phenomenon itself to be the contribution. If entrepreneurship is incidental to your study, JBV is the wrong venue.

Anti-patterns

• Do not treat entrepreneurship as a convenient empirical setting for a general theory.
• Do not let jbv-tables-figures beautify exhibits before the model and contribution settle.
• Do not let jbv-rebuttal draft a response before you have actually revised.
• Do not assume a single deductive template — JBV also rewards strong narrative/interpretive theorizing.

Routing output

【Stage】topic | theory | positioning | methods | analysis | framing | exhibits | writing | submission | review
【Bottleneck】entrepreneurship central? mechanism? identification?
【Route】jbv-<skill>