About the Editors

Gerard McElwee, PhD is Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Huddersfield. He is interested in illegal rural entrepreneurship, rural sustainability and farm diversification. He has written over 85 journal articles, books and book chapters. He is the founding editor of The International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Robert Smith is Professor of Enterprise and Innovation at the University of the West of Scotland. He is a graduate of Aberdeen University and Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. His research interests primarily focus upon entrepreneurship in different settings and applications including the socially constructed nature of entrepreneurship and thus entrepreneurial identity, gender and entrepreneurship, rural entrepreneurship, criminal-entrepreneurship, semiotics, narrative and storytelling in organizations including small and family business. He has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters to date many of which have narrative themes.