Citation
(2001), "Note from the publisher", International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research, Vol. 7 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijebr.2001.16007faa.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2001, MCB UP Limited
Note from the publisher
Emerald, the new name and vision for MCB UP Ltd
For 2002 the publishers of this journal will be changing their trading name from MCB UP Ltd to Emerald. You may wonder why! Well basically it's to reflect the success of our Emerald Fulltext database – our electronic database which, along with much other material, contains current and archival content of this journal. As a reader you'll almost certainly know the Emerald name because electronic usage of the material contained in our journals has doubled every year since 1996 and the trend continues. Here are some interesting statistics representing the performance of the Emerald database in 2000:
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Nearly one million user sessions in 2000.
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Over 5.5 million articles delivered to users in 2000 (more than 16,000 per day).
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Between January 2000 and May 2001 the number of academic institutions with access to the Emerald Fulltext database more than tripled.
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Of the world's top business schools 92 per cent choose Emerald journals and 93 per cent of them have contributed articles to Emerald journals ("top" business schools based on Financial Times business school rankings 2000).
Why are we telling you this? Well, partly to explain why this journal will look different in 2002 and why it will carry a new logo. We will be introducing a new logo and giving all our titles a new cover design for 2002 to reflect the Emerald brand. More importantly, however, frequently it's the case that the users of material published in our journals are also potential suppliers (authors). If you're thinking of submitting an article for an Emerald journal in 2002 please be assured that you'll have the full reach of the Emerald Fulltext database on your side to ensure that your work reaches the widest global audience.
Special issues
The International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behaviour & Research will be publishing a special issue in 2002. This issue will be guest edited by Professor Jan Rath, co-director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMES), at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the steering committee for the IMES research programme. The papers are drawn from an International Conference held in Amsterdam focusing on aspects of migration and ethnicity which is a critical area of contemporary interest given the current patterns of migration and population change.
Articles appearing in the special issues which will be numbers 1 and 2 of 2002 are:
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"The economic embeddedness of immigrant enterprise in Britain", authored by Giles Barrett, David McEvoy and Trevor Jones.
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"Economic associations of immigrant self-employment in Canada", by Ihzak Schnell, Michael Sofer and Dan Hiebert.
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"Immigrants in real estate and real property development in Los Angeles, 1970-1999", Ivan Light.
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"Mixed embeddedness: does it really explain immigrant entrepreneurship in Western Australia?", Nonja Peters.
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"Chinese entrepreneurs: the Chinese diaspora in Australia", Jock Collins.
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"Over-embeddedness: a mode of Arab entrepreneurship in the Israeli economy", authored by Ihzak Schnell and Michael Sofer.
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"Ethnic versus creolised/cosmopolitan food. The case of Chinese restaurant ventures in Antwerp", Ching Lin Pang.
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"The competitive strategies of immigrant entrepreneurs: a conceptual analysis", Ewald Engelen.
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"Polish and Somali entrepreneurship and the building of ethnic economies in Toronto", authored by Lucia Lo, Carlos Teixeira and Marie Truelove.
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"From four-course peking duck to take-away Singapore rice: an inquiry into the dynamics of the ethnic Chinese catering businesses in Germany", Maggie Leung.
For further information please visit the journal homepage at: www.emeraldinsight.com/ijebr.htm