Small business economics submission fee

Elsevier recognizes the community's wide use of submission fees but remains open for dialog on this issue.
Should you have any feedback or suggestions for other ways to use submission fees, please contact Bethan Keall, Publishing Director for Economics, Finance & Accounting.

Once the article is accepted for publication, authors will have the option to choose how their article is published:

Open Access – when an article is accepted for publication, the author/s or funder/s pay an Article Processing Charge (APC).
The final version of the published article is then free to read for everyone.
Small Business Economics is actively committed to becoming a fully Open Access journal.

Try the new experience (beta) Submission fees are a common phenomenon in the fields of economics, finance and accounting:

Try the new experience (beta) Submission fees are a common phenomenon in the fields of economics, finance and accounting: a large number of publishers, societies and journals charge submission fees for submissions in these areas

(Please note that a small number of titles in other subject areas also charge submission fees

Just as entrepreneurship is a future-oriented field, at the core identity of Small Business Economics is a mandate to publish research that will be valued in the future and not just in the past

As the article makes clear, how and why Small Business Economics vets submissions is to identify and ultimately publish those papers most likely to add value to, and change thinking in, the scholarly field of entrepreneurship

While it certainly seems chaotic from the outside, it is anything but