Ludvig Levasseur, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Moren Lévesque, York University

Paul Spee, University of Queensland

Ute Stephan, King's College London

Matthew Wood, University of Oklahoma

This special issue seeks manuscripts advancing our understanding of time in entrepreneurship. Research on the duration, pace, timing, and speed of action calibration in entrepreneurial processes such as opportunity realization are key examples of the role temporal dynamics play in entrepreneurship. Time is equally critical when examining decisions about the timing of growth while managing external events and shocks alongside slowly or rapidly evolving industry trends and customer preferences. Further lines of inquiry concern the pace, timing, and speed of exit decisions, or decisions to pursue venturing activities over time. Entrepreneurs' subjective perceptions of time, and their own and their stakeholders' orientations towards the short- vs. long-term, the past, present or future shape how they navigate entrepreneurship.

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Potential topics

• How do objective dimensions such as duration, pace, timing, speed, and window of opportunity impact the entrepreneurship process?
• How do they shape links between entrepreneurs' subjective time perspective, their biological time (chronotype), and cognitive processes related to information scanning and learning?
• How do entrepreneurs' subjective time perspectives relate to their cognitions including information scanning and search, entrepreneurial learning, information associations and connections, and opportunity evaluation and judgment?
• How do time perspectives relate to informal investors' and venture capitalists' decision to provide funding?
• How do investors' time perspectives shape who they invest in, and the timing and size of their investments?
• With what pace and speed do failure consequences vary with institutional and cultural contexts?
• How does the timing of these consequences vary across groups of entrepreneurs including minoritized groups and differently abled entrepreneurs?
• When and how does time perspective lead to unhealthy persistence in entrepreneurship and undermine well-being?
• How do entrepreneurs' perception of time and the temporal development of the business impact venture emergence, business sustainability, and social entrepreneurship?
• Do we see variations in temporal profiles and differences across industries and cultures?
• How do the pacing of external events and entrepreneurs' own time perspective relate to how they manage equity, diversity, decolonization, and inclusion within their ventures?

Timeline

• September 30, 2027: Submission deadline

Kieran Conboy, University of Galway

Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, The University of Texas at Austin

Brian T. Pentland, Michigan State University

Efpraxia D. Zamani, Durham University

Digital technologies have fundamentally transformed how we experience time and temporality, influencing work, life, and identity through accelerated communication and constant connectivity. While temporality—encompassing speed, duration, sequencing, rhythm, and timing—is central to how information systems are designed and studied, IS research has largely treated it simplistically, focusing narrowly on clock-time, speed, and duration rather than engaging with its complex, multifaceted nature.

The field lacks cumulative theoretical development on time despite growing recognition of its importance. IS researchers quickly highlight technology's impact on organisational speed but are slow to address temporal complexity comprehensively. Time remains theoretically elusive, often excluded or treated as a hidden dimension in contemporary IS studies. This special issue seeks to advance theoretical understanding of how temporal dynamics influence IS phenomena across multiple scales, from micro-temporal moment-to-moment interactions to macro-temporal institutional transformations.

Appel publié par European Journal of Information Systems. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• How digital interfaces, notifications, and data streams reconfigure everyday temporal experience, including attention, interruption, multitasking, and asynchronous collaboration
• How people make sense of their digital pasts through data archives or online traces, and how they anticipate algorithmic or digitally mediated futures
• How workflow systems, dashboards, collaboration platforms, enterprise analytics, and predictive tools recalibrate shared temporal expectations and influence coordination
• How temporal orientations embedded in tools or analytics shape decision processes, innovation, or strategic flexibility
• Temporal properties of digital artefacts including update cycles, data retention logics, algorithmic refresh rates, and security time horizons
• How data governance, privacy regimes, or AI systems handle conflicting temporal demands
• Why certain digital transformations accelerate rapidly while others evolve slowly and unevenly
• How digital standards, platforms, and protocols sediment, diffuse, or become institutionalised over time
• How temporal imaginaries, time horizons, or long-term digital trajectories shape fields, industries, and societies
• Theoretical and methodological discussions of time in IS research, including flows, sequences, rhythms, tempos, trajectories, paths, and path nets
• How IS research can theorise and design for extended temporal horizons to address grand challenges like climate change, pandemics, inequality, and social movements
• How temporal assumptions are embedded in IS through algorithmic schedules, design methods like agile and continuous development, and real-time vs. asynchronous communication
• How such temporal assumptions align or collide with individual or cultural constructions of time
• Methodological approaches for studying temporal complexity, including computational techniques and trace data analysis

Timeline

• November 1, 2026: Initial paper submission deadline
• February 1, 2027: First round authors notification
• April 15, 2027: Invited revisions deadline
• July 15, 2027: Second round authors notification
• September 30, 2027: Final revision deadline

Associate editors

• Jeremy Aroles, University of York
• Reza M. Baygi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Catriona Burke, University of Limerick
• Omar El Sawy, University of Southern California
• Anne-Laure Fayard, NOVA School of Business and Economics
• Thomas Grisold, Vienna University of Economics and Business
• Amir Haj-Bolouri, University West
• Susan Hilbolling, Aarhus University
• Robin Holt, University of Bristol
• Astri Moksnes Barbala, SINTEF
• Rohit Nishant, Queen's University
• Mahya Ostovar, University of Galway
• Omid Omidvar, Warwick Business School
• Henri Pirkkalainen, Tampere University
• Frantz Rowe, University of Nantes
• Markus Salo, University of Jyväskylä
• Yingqin Zheng, University of Essex
• Aljona Zorina, NEOMA