This issue ushers-in this journal’s volume 19 and concludes 18 years of successful uninterrupted publications. Although not formally stated, the initial aim of the journal’s founding fathers was to provide a dedicated venue for publishing the frontiers of research in the emerging and young field of International Entrepreneurship (IE) then, as many authors had found publishing their research-based articles challenging prior to the founding of the journal. By all objective indications, the Journal has passed expectations towards prominence. Starting in September 1998, some 5 years of dedicated McGill International Entrepreneurship (MIE) Conferences on ‘Researching the Frontiers of International Entrepreneurship’ had illustrated the evidence of the field’s solid emergence and expansion and the need for a dedicated Journal, as many active scholars and fundamental research were in search of journals to publish them. The existing difficulties were primarily due to the perception of the IE’s disciplinary and scholarly position at the time — i.e. whether IE was not a subfield of other disciplines and if it could become a field of scholarly inquiry of its own? Authors found it difficult to publish in the mainstream and older, well-established journals affiliated with dedicated conferences that considered IE as subfields of others open to international scholars, but they were not to entrepreneurial internationalization as a specialized field of study and development. With exception of a few publications in International Business, some journals accepted limited number of articles to expand their scope or to engage in entrepreneurship internationally. Others considered articles, for example, that had addressed aspects of strategic growth through international marketing, each of which had its own dedicated disciplinary conferences already or were a principal division in well-established multi-divisional conferences, such as the US Academy of Management (AOM) and its associated publications. In the span of two and a half decades from the first MIE inaugural and invitational conference in September 1998, the founding of JIEN in 2003 and its 18 years

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连接 IE 中的概念并跨越传统特性

本期迎来本刊第 19 卷，结束了 18 年不间断的成功出版。尽管没有正式声明，但该杂志创始人的最初目标是为当时新兴和年轻的国际创业 (IE) 领域的前沿研究提供一个专门的发表场所，因为许多作者发现发表他们基于研究的文章创刊前的挑战。从所有客观的迹象来看，《华尔街日报》的知名度已经超出预期。从 1998 年 9 月开始，为期 5 年的关于“研究国际创业前沿”的麦吉尔国际创业 (MIE) 会议已经证明了该领域的稳固出现和扩展以及对专门期刊的需求，许多活跃的学者和基础研究人员都在寻找期刊来发表它们。存在的困难主要是由于当时对IE学科和学术地位的认识——即IE是否不是其他学科的子领域，是否可以成为自己的学术研究领域？作者发现很难在主流和老牌期刊上发表文章，这些期刊附属于将 IE 视为对国际学者开放的其他子领域的专门会议，但他们并不将创业国际化作为研究和发展的专业领域。除了少数国际商务出版物外，一些期刊接受的文章数量有限，以扩大其范围或从事国际创业。其他人考虑的文章，例如，通过国际营销解决了战略增长的各个方面，每一个都已经有自己的专门学科会议，或者是成熟的多部门会议的主要部门，如美国管理学院（ AOM) 及其相关出版物。从 1998 年 9 月首届 MIE 成立暨邀请大会，到 2003 年 JIEN 成立和 18 年的两年半时间里