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Special Issue 

of 

BUSINESS HISTORY 

Taylor & Francis Group


"THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON BUSINESS LONGEVITY" 

DEADLINE
FOR SUBMISSION OF FINAL PAPER: SEPTEMBER, 30TH 2013 

 GUEST EDITORS


Maria Rosaria Napolitano (UniversityofSannio-Italy) 

VittoriaMarino
(UniversityofSalerno-Italy) 

Jari Ojala (UniversityofJyväskylä-Finland)


The special issue (targeted publication date: April, 2014) is aimed at
investigating firms' longevity factors. 

The importance of longevity
has been highlighted by earlier studies on family business by focusing
on their difficulties to overcome the third generation, thus becoming
enduring enterprises. Hence the strong interest in literature, on the
one hand for business succession in family enterprises, on the other for
the identification of enduring firms' distinctive features. In order to
fill both a theoretical and an empirical gap, several contributions have
attempted to model the values of longevity and their role in the
entrepreneurial transition processes of succeeding family businesses
through cross-national comparisons and, above all, by using the
localization variable as a cultural activator for longevity. 

The
stream of studies on firms longevity has gradually gained autonomy with
respect to family business, expanding the research perspective to SMEs
and entrepreneurial orientation, processes of organizational learning in
global strategic alliances, growth paths of large firms through
alliances and networking and the relationship between longevity and
financial crises. Moreover, the study of firms longevity has been
enriched by the fertilization of multidisciplinary approaches that have
been continuing to investigate the phenomenon through conceptual
matrixes of different cultural backgrounds, contributing to the
development of knowledge on the subject. 

We are inviting papers, both
empirical and theoretical, that examine longevity in a wide range of
enterprises of different types of ownership, activities and sizes.
Internationally comparative papers and those exploring longevity within
particular regional and national contexts are particularly welcome. 


SUBJECT COVERAGE 

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:


_Sources of competitive advantage and firms' longevity_ 

_Business
and longevity_ 

_SMEs' longevity factors_ 

_Corporate Entrepreneurship
and longevity_ 

_Internationalization processes and longevity_


_Corporate reputation and longevity_ 

_Country-Specific succession
processes in family business_ 

_Succession phases and business
survival_ 

_Entrepreneurial transition processes towards the
descendants_ 

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS 

Submitted papers should not
have been previous published nor be currently under consideration for
publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed through a peer review
process. 

A guide for authors and other relevant information for
submitting papers are available on web page
(http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0007-6791&linktype=44
[1]) 

For more information, contact Maria Rosaria Napolitano
([log in to unmask]) or Vittoria Marino 

([log in to unmask]).


CONFERENCE IN ITALY 

Some authors of selected papers will be invited
to present the results of their researches at the Conference "Historic
companies and histories of companies" to be held at University of Sannio
(Benevento - Italy) on December 2013.

EDITORS AND NOTES 

You may send
one copy in the form of a PDF file attached to an email to the
following: 

Maria Rosaria Napolitano, _Professor of Strategy_


Department of Economic, Law and Social Studies 

Faculty of Economics
and Business Sciences 

UniversityofSannio 

Italy 

e-mail:
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VittoriaMarino, _Professor of
International Marketing_ 

Department of Management 

Faculty of
Economics 

UniversityofSalerno 

Italy 

e-mail: [log in to unmask] [3]


Jari Ojala, _Professor of History_ 

Department of History and
Ethnology 

UniversityofJyväskylä 

Finland 

e.mail: [log in to unmask]
[4] 

Please include in your submission the title of the Special Issue.


-- 
Vittoria Marino
Associate Professor of International
Marketing
Faculty of Economics
University of Salerno
Via Ponte don
Melillo
Fisciano 84084 (SA)
ITALY
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