On November 29, 2002, the Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship/Conseil canadien des PME et de l’entrepreneuriat (CCSBE/CCPME), acquired ownership of the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The CCSBE/CCPME was formed in 1979 as the first affiliate of the International Council for Small Business.

Its members include academics, educators, representatives of small business support organizations, researchers, government officials, students of entrepreneurship, and policy makers. The council’s goals are to promote and advance the development of small business and entrepreneurship through research, education and training, networking and dissemination of scholarly & policy-oriented information. The Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship will enhance the CCSBE/CCPME’s ability to pursue these goals, nationally and internationally.

The Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship was established in 1983 and has been published continuously since. The founding editor was Raymond Kao. In recent years, the journal has been published by the Centre of Entrepreneurship (Centennial College) under the editorship of Mitch Lenko. While based in Canada, the journal has an international reach with more than half its subscribers and over 50 percent of its articles from outside the country.

The CCSBE/CCPME has appointed five associate editors: Denis J. Garand, Université Laval; Teresa Menzies, Brock University; Eric Morse, University of Western Ontario; Peter Robinson, University of Calgary; and Christopher Ross, Concordia University, and a managing editor, Robert Anderson, University of Regina. The editorial review board is made up of respected scholars from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania.

The CCSBE/CCPME has entered into an agreement with the Faculty of Administration of the University of Regina to publish the journal for the next three years (2003-05). The CCSBE/CCPME and the Faculty of Administration will begin publishing the Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship with Volume 16, Issue 3/4 which will be available in April 2003. Volume 17 Issue 1 will be published in October 2003. Volume 17 Issues 2, 3 and 4 will be published in February, June and October 2004. Thereafter, four issues will be published each year in January, April, July, and October. Articles will be published in French or English

The Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship is interested in research that pushes the boundaries of current entrepreneurial thought – theoretical pieces, qualitative and quantitative empirical work, and/or case studies. If you are interested in submitting a paper or subscribing to the journal, please contact the managing editor.