Rahul Sindhwani, Indian Institute of Management – Sambalpur

Varsha Jain, ESSCA School of Management

Justin Zhang, University of North Florida

Sudhir Rana, Liwa University

This Special Issue aims to advance both theory and practice regarding consumer behavior in the age of agentic AI. Theoretically, it seeks to deepen understanding of how autonomous AI agents influence fundamental consumer processes such as decision-making, trust, perceived autonomy, and engagement.

Appel publié par Journal of Consumer Behaviour. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Consumer decision-making with autonomous AI agents
• Trust in agentic AI systems
• Perceived autonomy in AI-influenced consumer processes
• Consumer engagement with autonomous AI agents
• Theoretical frameworks for agentic AI and consumer behavior
• Practical applications of agentic AI in consumer markets
• Autonomous agents and fundamental consumer processes

Timeline

• July 1, 2027: Submission window opens
• December 31, 2027: Submission window closes

Alexandra Brintrup, University of Cambridge

Thomas Choi, Arizona State University

George Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dmitry Ivanov, Berlin School of Economics and Law

Recent advances in agentic Large Language Models have created new opportunities for autonomous decision-making in supply chains. This special issue seeks to advance rigorous research on how these AI agents can transform supply chain management by integrating perspectives from operations, AI, complexity science, and industrial engineering. While multi-agent systems have been studied for years, recent LLM breakthroughs now enable more flexible, scalable, and practical implementations that major corporations and technology providers are already exploring.

The special issue welcomes diverse research methodologies including technical solutions, modeling, empirical studies, and experimental work with practical implications. Topics span from using agentic systems for optimization and forecasting to managing risks, designing interorganizational coordination systems, and addressing technical and governance challenges such as trustworthiness, safety, and performance evaluation.

Appel publié par International Journal of Production Research. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Discourse on utilising agentic systems for complex scenarios in supply chain management: Risk and disruption management, logistics and supply chain optimisation, transportation routes, inventory management, quality control, demand forecasting, and warehouse planning and location, and cash flow predictions
• Supply network design with agentic technology: Supplier relationship configurations, agentic digital twins to simulate inventory flows, sustainability implications across the supply chain, circular supply chains, supply chain visibility, and supply chain financing
• Interorganisational agentic systems: Effective multi-agent negotiation and coordination, the design of mediative and persuasive agentic systems, preservation of organisational privacy during multi-agent communication
• Hybrid systems: Integration of agentic systems with blockchain, IoT, Omniverse, and traditional multi-agent systems
• Emergence and Complexity: Unintended consequences of agentic deployment at the system scale, governance, trustworthiness and safety, centralised versus decentralised control, human-in-the-loop agentic systems
• Technical challenges: Performance evaluation, efficient task division, ablation analysis and back testing, sensitivity analysis, agentic architectures operating in high uncertainty environments, long-term horizon reasoning, overcoming hallucinations

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Manuscript deadline