Shawna Chen, Brock University

Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta

Chris Zhang, University of Houston Downtown

This special issue addresses a significant gap in entrepreneurship scholarship by focusing on 2SLGBTQIA+ entrepreneurs, whose experiences remain underexplored despite growing recognition of identity's importance in entrepreneurial processes. The special issue seeks to advance conceptual, empirical, and methodological understanding of how sexuality and gender identity intersect with entrepreneurial ecosystems and institutional structures.

The editors welcome diverse theoretical frameworks including identity theory, queer-feminist perspectives, intersectionality, and institutional theory. They are particularly interested in how 2SLGBTQIA+ entrepreneurs navigate visibility, stigma, belonging, and legitimacy within institutional contexts and across geographic scales. The issue encourages methodological diversity, including qualitative research, mixed methods, and innovative research approaches, with particular interest in collaborations between scholars and practitioners.

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Potential topics

• LGBTQ+ identity and entrepreneurial identity work
• Coming out, concealment, and impression management in venture contexts
• Intersectionality and layered entrepreneurial experiences
• Institutional barriers to legitimacy, funding, and recognition
• Emancipatory entrepreneurship and structural constraints
• Entrepreneurial ecosystems and LGBTQ+ inclusion
• Policy and programmatic responses to LGBTQ+ small business development
• Entrepreneurial wellbeing, belonging, and non-economic goals
• Comparative studies of LGBTQ+ entrepreneurship across contexts
• Methodological approaches for studying LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs

Timeline

• November 1, 2025: Opening date for manuscript submissions
• December 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscript submission

Nafisa Yeasmin, University of Oulu

Anisur Faroque, University of Vaasa

Mohammad Osman Gani, University Canada West

Waliul Hasanat, University of Lapland

Hiran Roy, Canadian University

Arctic and remote peripheral regions face demographic decline and labour shortages alongside emerging economic opportunities. Immigrant entrepreneurs play a vital role in sustaining these communities through ventures in tourism, food, logistics, and digital services, yet this phenomenon remains understudied in mainstream entrepreneurship research focused on metropolitan areas.

This special issue examines how immigrant entrepreneurs develop ventures in sparse, geographically isolated, and institutionally thin environments where they navigate regulatory complexity and fragmented support systems. The issue integrates perspectives from entrepreneurship, migration studies, regional development, and sustainability to generate new theoretical insights into entrepreneurial ecosystems in peripheral and extreme contexts.

The special issue welcomes empirical, conceptual, comparative, and policy-oriented contributions exploring how immigrant enterprises mobilize resources, adapt to uncertainty, and shape Arctic and global peripheries. It seeks to expand understanding of entrepreneurial opportunity creation, resilience strategies, and the role of digitalization in these distinctive contexts.

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Potential topics

• Entrepreneurial experiences in extreme environments
• Identifying opportunities in sparse, remote contexts
• Seasonal, climatic and infrastructure constraints on entrepreneurship
• Hybrid identities, transnational strategies and placemaking
• Indigenous and migrant cooperation and governance
• Local development agencies and support structures in remote areas
• Impacts of regulatory and migration policies on entrepreneurship
• Migrant enterprises in rural revitalization
• Circular economy models and sustainable business practices
• Tourism, food systems and creative industries in peripheries
• Digital entrepreneurship in the Arctic
• Remote work and hybrid business models
• E-commerce ecosystems in remote areas
• Arctic comparative studies and comparative perspectives from other global peripheries
• Entrepreneurial ecosystems in thin markets and institutionally thin environments
• Mixed embeddedness theory in Arctic contexts
• Peripherality, rurality, spatiality and mobility
• Micro-resilience and sustainable entrepreneurship
• Resource mobilisation and opportunity creation under spatial and institutional constraints
• Demographic renewal and regional sustainability through immigrant ventures

Timeline

• August 1, 2026: Abstract submission deadline
• February 28, 2027: Manuscript submission deadline