Center for International Scientific Research of VŠO and VŠPP
Prepare your manuscript for International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge.
Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.
Checked 2026-07-15
Article types
Research Article
Review
Perspective
Letter
Readiness requirements
Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.
Abstract length
- The papers should include an Abstract and Keywords.
Keywords
- Include or confirm the keywords required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.
Reference style
- Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
- Review: It should be positioned on the final page of the submission, above the References section, to facilitate anonymous peer review.
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- Research Ethics Policies Regarding Human Participants and Participant Approval: The declaration should include the approving ethics committee(s) name(s), approval date, and reference number, if available.
Figure and table rules
- Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
Funding statement
- Authors should ensure that: the paper includes funding acknowledgment in case an institution or grant supported the paper.
Competing interests
- Authors should ensure that: there is no conflict of interest between the co-authors or with third parties.
Ethics statement
- Add or confirm the author-written Ethics statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
- A standard declaration such as "This study did not require research ethics approval" can be utilized.
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- These manuscripts must include information on informed consent for publishing patient data and images and specify if written consent was obtained.
- Authors should ensure that: the paper includes a declaration about research ethics approval or a statement that the study did not require research ethics approval.
- Research Ethics Policies Regarding Human Participants and Participant Approval: Manuscripts reporting studies involving human participants and data, covering studies that entail the primary acquisition of personal data, such as surveys or interviews, must indicate whether the relevant authorized body dealing with research ethics issues (further referred to as the ethics committee) approval was obtained (or waived).
- Research Article: Research Ethics Policies Regarding Human Participants and Participant Approval: Authors of empirical research articles involving human participants and data, covering studies that entail the primary acquisition of personal data, such as surveys or interviews, should expressly state whether the participants provided informed consent and specify its form (written or verbal).
Blinded manuscript
- Review: The papers that have passed the Desk review are blind peer-reviewed by at least two independent reviewers.
Title page and author information
- Provide the author, affiliation, and correspondence details for the separate title page; Articlo creates the editable companion file.
- Authors must prepare their manuscripts using the official International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge template, ensuring that all text is inserted into the template while maintaining its formatting; all required information, including author details and ORCID identifiers, must be fully included.
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- All team members: do not disclose any information regarding a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding Author, Reviewers, potential Reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the Publisher, when appropriate.
Preprints and prior publication
- Anyone who believes that research published by the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Knowledge has not been carried out in line with the Guidelines on good publication practice and Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing should raise their concerns with the relevant editor or email info@ijek.org.
Artificial intelligence disclosure
- According to the statement, AI tools should not be attributed authorship of a paper since they are not accountable for the content produced.
- Moreover, the use of AI tools must be disclosed in respect of transparency standards.
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- The use of AI tools cannot meet the set criteria for authorship since they are not able to take on responsibility for the work submitted.
- Authors using AI tools in manuscript, image creation, creating graphical elements, or data collection and analysis must transparently disclose the use of AI in the Materials and Methods section of the presented work.
- Lacking legal status, AI tools cannot manage copyright and licensing agreements, and do not bear responsibility for the presence or absence of transparency.
Other submission requirements
- Authors should ensure that: they accept the publishing rights to use the paper transferred to the publisher (according to CC BY 4.0).
- The papers should have been proofread and corrected for errors and will be regarded as accurate; authors are responsible for factual content.
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- Topics include (but are not limited to): Entrepreneurship and SME development; start-ups/scale-ups; incubation and acceleration; family business.
- Topics include (but are not limited to): Entrepreneurial behaviour, intention, and decision-making; competencies, skills, and entrepreneur profiles.
- Topics include (but are not limited to): Social and ecological impact of entrepreneurship; regional and international perspectives.
- The authors must submit the papers through the journal platform ( make a submission ).
- The authors must send (upload with the submission) the signed Author declaration and statement of copyrights/related rights ( available here ).
- Authors should ensure that: the paper is original and written by them.
- Authors should ensure that: the paper has not been published in any other journal and has been submitted for consideration to this journal only.
- Authors should ensure that: the data is original and not manipulated.
- Authors should ensure that: all sources used in the paper are clearly cited.
- Authors should ensure that: the paper does not break any copyrights of others.
- Authors should ensure that: they agree with minor corrections to the contents, including the title, phrasing, style, etc.
- Review: Submissions must clearly state the entrepreneurship/SME/business development relevance of their theory, sample/setting, or implications; otherwise, they may be rejected at desk review.
- Topics include (but are not limited to): Innovation and business models; digital entrepreneurship and digital transformation; knowledge management and organizational learning (including in SMEs and entrepreneurial firms).
- Topics include (but are not limited to): Entrepreneurial finance, performance, growth, and value creation; international entrepreneurship; international trade, finance, and firm internationalization.
- Topics include (but are not limited to): Marketing, branding, customer behaviour, and market strategies in the context of entrepreneurial firms, SMEs, and growth-oriented ventures.
- Topics include (but are not limited to): HRM, leadership, training, and organizational behaviour with demonstrated relevance to innovation, entrepreneurship, SMEs, or entrepreneurial performance.
- Topics include (but are not limited to): Corporate governance, CSR/ESG, sustainability reporting, and green management practices where linked to performance, competitiveness, or entrepreneurial/SME contexts.
- Topics include (but are not limited to): Policy, institutions, and macroeconomic environment affecting entrepreneurship and business development (e.g., labour markets, inflation/unemployment dynamics, investment climate/FDI, taxation and regulation).
- Submission Preparation Checklist As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- Papers that do not match the focus of the Journal and/or do not meet formal requirements will be rejected.
Manuscript structure
- Above that, the manuscripts presenting the results of medical research involving human participants or data should comply with: WMA Declaration Of Helsinki – Ethical Principles For Medical Research Involving Human Subjects.
- Above that, the manuscripts presenting the results of medical research involving human participants or data should comply with: International Committee of Medical Journal Editors’ Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals.
Submission forms and permissions
- Authors should ensure that: the data has been obtained by the authors directly, or they have all legal permissions to use the data obtained from private businesses or other independent sources.
Authorship and originality
- Authors should ensure that: addition, deletion, or order rearrangement of the authors’ names in the authorship list are approved in advance by the whole team.
- Authors should ensure that: authorship of the paper is accurately stated, all authors must send (upload with the submission) the signed Author declaration and statement of copyrights/related rights ( available here ) as an expression of their agreement to publication of the paper in this particular journal.
What your package checks
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Ethics
Source transparency
This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.
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