International Journal of <st1:personname w:st="on">Entrep</st1:personname>reneurial Behaviour and Research seeks papers for a special issue on "Responsible <st1:personname w:st="on">Entrep</st1:personname>reneurship for Sustainable Development (RESD) ." Guest Editors are Chris Seow, Senior Lecturer in Quality, <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">East London</st1:placename>, <st1:city w:st="on">Business School</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:country-region>; and Nigel Roome, Daniel Janssen Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Solvay</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Business</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">School</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and Chair of Sustainable Enterprise and Transformation, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Prospective authors should e-mail their article to the Guest Editor Chris Seow, seow@resd.org" target="_blank">
seow@resd.org by 14 February 2007.
Recently, there has been a noticeable growth in the adoption of the notion of environmental responsibility within the global business community. Environmental responsibility can be defined as actions that seek to limit, ameliorate, or prevent damage to the existing natural environment that arise from a company's activities. It includes efforts to improve the quality or quantity of environmental resources and processes. This is now often seen as part of the wider practice of corporate social responsibility and as a form of innovation. <st1:personname w:st="on">Entrep</st1:personname>reneurship represents one of the most important driving forces for innovation, to increase market efficiencies, respond to changes and opportunities in the context of business or to lead with new technological, social and institutional processes, such as new business models. Responsible entrepreneurship therefore plays a major role in improving the efficiency of resource use, reducing risks and hazards, minimising waste, safeguarding environmental qualities and connecting environmental and business goals. Responsible entrepreneurship provides the ground to ensure the economic success of an enterprise by the inclusion of environmental and associated social considerations into an organisation's strategic and operational activities. It means satisfying present and future customer demands, whilst also managing the expectations of a diverse set of other stakeholders such as employees, suppliers, and the community around which a company operates. It implies a positive contribution to societies' environmental context by managing an enterprises' environmental impacts. Under some circumstances it can bring direct benefits to business through resource efficiencies or as a basis for innovation that secures long-term competitiveness.
Despite the rhetoric, Responsible <st1:personname w:st="on">Entrep</st1:personname>reneurship for Sustainable Development is at best at an exploratory stage, as it requires new knowledge or departures from existing skills and their integration with established business models, processes and routines. At the extreme it involves the reconfiguration of established business thinking. This call for papers seeks to highlight issues and practices surrounding how organisations practice responsible entrepreneurship for sustainable development. Papers that are conceptual or empirical, and case-study-based or industry-wide-based are welcome. Contributed papers may deal with, but are not limited to:
� Corporate Citizenship.
� Environmental Stakeholder Policy.
� Humanity and <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Enterprise</st1:place></st1:city>.
� Managing Strategic Alliances and Outsourcing for Corporate Sustainability.
� Measurement Systems and Performance Frameworks for Sustainability.
� Responsible <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Enterprise</st1:place></st1:city> Development.
� Stakeholder Outreach.
� Strategic Frameworks for Operationalising Sustainability.
� Tools and Techniques to Develop Product and Process Stewardship.
This call for papers invites the submission of original manuscripts. Authors should not submit previously published papers, or those under consideration for publication elsewhere. The call for papers employs a double blind peer review process. Articles for this call are expected to be �academic� in terms of rigour, but �managerial� in terms of readability and content. Papers are therefore invited from both research and practice. Prospective authors should e-mail their article to the Guest Editor Chris Seow, seow@resd.org" target="_blank">seow@resd.org by 14 February 2007. All manuscripts submitted by the submission deadline will be reviewed by the Guest Editors. A uthors will be notified of the initial short list by 14 April 2007. Full papers should be 4000-7000 words in length although shorter papers, particularly from practitioner authors, will be considered. This call for papers adheres to the author guidelines as stipulated in the International Journal of <st1:personname w:st="on">Entrep</st1:personname>reneurial Behaviour and Research (IJEBR) , where the special issue will be published. Preliminary notification of acceptance will be by 31 August 2007. The Guest Editors in consultation with the Editor of IJEBR will make all final decisions as to the suitability of manuscripts for this Special Issue. This Special Issue is scheduled to be published in 2008.