About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The scope of the Entrepreneurship-Education journal covers issues of broadly understood entrepreneurship, in particular its importance in the development of various spatial systems (local, regional, domestic - especially Central and Eastern European countries, European and global) and the role of entrepreneurship in the functioning of institutions and enterprises representing different sectors of the economy. We also invite authors who undertake research on the determinants of business development. Reflection on these issues we attempt to adapt to the teaching objectives for improving the content and methods of teaching entrepreneurship in connection with the teaching content of related subjects. Therefore, we particularly invite to the submission of papers on the issues of developing entrepreneurial attitudes and entrepreneurship education at all levels - from kindergarten, primary and secondary schools to higher education and lifelong learning. We are also open to presenting the didactic experience of the teachers or trainers interested in entrepreneurship and its place in the education system.
The journal also presents case studies on the operating of selected enterprises, special economic zones, economic centers and the role of selected sectors of industry and services in the development of various spatial systems of Poland and the world, with particular emphasis on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the emerging markets.
We welcome to submit your articles!

Peer Review Process

Only previously unpublished papers will be accepted. Your paper must describe new research results and not simply discuss already published data. The first stage of the review process consists of the editor-in-chief issuing an opinion. This opinion may alternatively be issued by another member of the editorial council. The editor-in-chief or another member of the editorial council will make a preliminary decision to either accept the paper for further review or reject the paper. The author will be notified of the decision as soon as possible. In certain situations, this decision will be made following consultation with a member of the editorial council specializing in a given area of research. The next stage of the review process involves the drafting of at least two independent reviewers not associated with the author’s parent institution. In the case of papers written in a foreign language, at least one of the reviewers will be affiliated with an institution from outside of the author’s home country. Reviews are conducted using a double-blind review process. This process is based on the rule that the author does not know the identity of the reviewer and vice versa. Each review is issued in written form and ends with an unambiguous recommendation to publish the paper without changes, publish only if certain changes are made or not publish.

Paper is accepted for publication without changes only in case at least 7 out of 13 criteria were evaluated positive and no criterion was evaluated negative. Paper is not eligible for publication which is obligatory in case at least 7 out of 13 criteria were evaluated negative. In other cases the reviewer qualify article to a correction.

In addition to the recommendations made by reviewers, the author may receive additional suggestions from the editor-in-chief, another editor appointed by the editor-in-chief, volume subject editor or statistics editor if the paper contains statistics. Every paper due to be printed is also reviewed by a language editor.

Duties of the reviewers duties of the authors are pesented in: Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement.

Paper_internal_review & decision_form (login required): doc, pdf

Paper review form (login required): doc, pdf

Papper second review form (login required): doc, pdf

Open Access Policy

The journal is published on the principles of open access, to be able to free to use the of its resources, while maintaining respect for copyright creators, so the readers are required to apply general principles of relying on the source. 

The authors give the publishing house a license to publish the article in accordance with Polish copyright law. Copyright Transfer Agreement need to be signed by authors prior the publication. Articles are published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution – NoDerivs (CC BY-ND 4.0) License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/

Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement

Our journal publishes peer-reviewed articles. We uphold the best standards of publication ethics and take all possible measures against publication malpractices.

Our ethic statements are based on Elsevier recommendations and on COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.

Publication decisions

The editor is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editor may be guided by the policies of the journal's editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision.

Fair play

An editor at any time evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality

The editor and any editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used in an editor's own research without the express written consent of the author.

 

DUTIES OF REVIEWERS

Contribution to Editorial Decisions

Peer review assists the editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and excuse himself from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor.

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate. Referees should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Any statement that an observation, derivation, or argument had been previously reported should be accompanied by the relevant citation. A reviewer should also call to the editor's attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Disclosure and Conflict of Interest

Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

 

DUTIES OF AUTHORS

Reporting standards

Authors of reports of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to permit others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.

Data Access and Retention

Authors may be asked to provide the raw data in connection with a paper for editorial review, and should in any event be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism

The authors should ensure that they have written entirely original works, and if the authors have used the work and/or words of others that this has been appropriately cited or quoted.

Multiple, Redundant or Concurrent Publication

An author should not in general publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or primary publication. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is unacceptable.

Acknowledgement of Sources

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work.

Authorship of the Paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where there are others who have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors.

Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest

All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript (statement: doc,pdf). All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed in statement (doc, pdf).

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

 

Steps designed to prevent unethical practices in science including “ghostwriting” and “guestauthorship”.

The editors wish to make sure that readers can be certain that authors are presenting their research results in a manner that is transparent and ethical. This is especially true of co-authored papers. We pay particular attention to information on entities responsible for the publication. This includes both scientific and financial input. Practices such as ghostwriting and guest authorship are considered unethical. Ghostwriting is defined as the practice where someone contributes substantially to the creation of a paper but is not listed as one of the authors or not mentioned in the acknowledgments section. Guest authorship or honorary authorship is defined as the practice where someone does not meaningfully contribute to a paper or does not contribute at all but remains listed as the main author or co-author of the publication. In light of the above, authors wishing to publish are required to follow this procedure:

1. Must reveal the amount of input from each co-author (list affiliation and describe contribution– who authored the main idea, key assumptions, key methods, etc…). Please note that the corresponding author bears most of the responsibility. Statement 1:doc, pdf.

2. Must reveal sources of financing, contribution from research institutions and associations (financial disclosure) as well as other entities. Statement 2:doc, pdf.

3. If ghostwriting, guest authorship or other types of unethical behavior (violations of commonly accepted ethics rules in science) are detected, the authors’ employers will be notified.

Information on the processing of personal data of the Author / Authors

Based on Article. 13 (or / and) 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46 / EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (Journal of Laws EU L.2016.119.1 of 04.05.2016
- further: GDPR or Regulation), we would like to inform you that:
I. Personal Data Administrator:
The Administrator of Personal Data of the Author / Authors / Reviewers is Pedagogical University of KEN in Krakow
(address: ul. Podchorążych 2, 30-084 Kraków, website: www.up.krakow.pl). The Personal Data Administrator can be contacted via the e-mail address: info@up.krakow.pl or in writing to the correspondence address indicated in the first sentence.
II. Data Protection Officer:
Author / Authors / Reviewers may contact the Data Protection Officer appointed by the Administrator in matters concerning: processing of personal data, exercising rights regarding the processing of personal data by writing to the electronic address iod@up.krakow.pl, or the Data Administrator's address indicated in point I.
III. The purposes of processing personal data:
The university processes personal data in order to prepare and implement the publishing agreement in accordance with art. 6 clause 1 letter b) of the Regulation (EU), in particular:
- response to information sent to the Publisher using the contact form / email,
- implementation of the publishing process related to the publication of the Author / Authors' work,
- publication of the name, surname, degree or academic title and affiliation of the Author / Authors,
- sharing data with other entities related to the publishing process, to databases and other information, promotional and scientific portals,
- sending original numbers of printed works.
Providing your personal data is a condition for the performance of the contract, order, publication of the work of your authorship / co-authorship or where you acted as Reviewer / Editor / Member of the Scientific Council. You are obliged to provide them, and the consequence of not providing personal data will be the Publisher's refusal to publish or accept the article / review.
IV. Recipients of personal data:
The collected personal data may be shared with public entities and bodies authorized to process data
personal data based on the provisions of generally applicable law and entities processing personal data
at the administrator's request in connection with the performance of the task entrusted to them.
V. Period of storage of personal data of the Author / Authors:
Personal data collected on the basis of art. 6 paragraph 1 lit. b) Regulations (EU), i.e. they will be processed for a maximum of 50 years from the date of signing the contract.
VI. Rights of data subjects:
Author / Authors have the right to:
- access to your data (information about data processed by the Administrator), including obtaining a copy of the data. The law will be implemented to the extent technically and legally possible,
- correction (correction of data when it is inconsistent with the actual state),
- delete or limit data processing in cases provided for by law.
The collected personal data is not subject to automated decision making, including profiling.
VII. Supervisory authority regarding personal data:
The supervisory body in the field of personal data is the President of the Office for Personal Data Protection. The Author / Authors, if it is considered that the processing of personal data violates the provisions of the Regulation, has the right to lodge a complaint to the abovementioned supervisory body.

Journal History

The journal has been published since 2005 by the Department of Entrepreneurship and Spatial Management at the Institute of Geography (Pedagogical University of Cracow) and Nowa Era Publishers.

Each issue of Entrepreneurship - Education includes, among others, research results and discussions from entrepreneurship conferences held in Cracow since 2004.