Ajnesh Prasad, Audencia Business School

Eric Li, University of British Columbia

Natalia Vershinina, Audencia Business School

Alejandro Centeno, American University of Beirut

This special issue examines the intersection of embodiment and business ethics within organizational contexts. The call addresses how bodies are shaped by and through work, labor, and market systems, exploring the ethical implications of emotional labor, physical strain, commodification, and disciplinary practices. It seeks to move business ethics beyond abstract and conceptual frameworks toward understanding how embodied experiences and corporeal practices generate ethical dilemmas in organizational life.

The special issue welcomes diverse methodological approaches to investigating embodied labor across various industries including modeling, sports, healthcare, and entertainment. Contributions should interrogate how organizational norms regulate bodies in ways that reflect broader inequalities related to gender, race, and class, while also considering worker resistance and alternative theoretical frameworks such as feminist ethics and affect theory that center the lived body in ethical analysis.

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Potential topics

• Ethical dimensions of emotional and relational labor through embodied experience
• The ethics of body commodification in market-driven labor contexts
• The embodied toll of labor and the ethical responsibilities of organizations
• The gendered, racialized, and classed regulation of bodies in organizations
• Participatory, sensory, or arts-based methods to research embodiment and ethics
• New theoretical perspectives on embodiment in business ethics

Timeline

• October 31, 2026: Submission deadline

Shanyong Wang, University of Science and Technology of China

Liang Wan, University of Science and Technology of China

Jun Li, Hefei University of Technology

The COVID-19 pandemic and climate disasters have revealed the limitations of market-based institutions and governments in managing systemic crises. This has prompted increased attention to corporate moral motivation and business ethics as essential for sustainable development. The special issue examines how moral adaptation, business strategy, and innovation interconnect in addressing global challenges.

The relationship between these dimensions is complex. Moral evolution and environmental justice reshape corporate strategy, yet traditional economic theory struggles to reconcile justice with efficiency and ethics with innovation. Simultaneously, businesses play an increasingly vital role in developing solutions to major societal problems, including climate change, through strategic adaptation that affects both their operations and their broader ecosystems.

The special issue calls for research reconsidering business ethics in light of contemporary environmental and social concerns. It welcomes global submissions exploring how ethics, institutional frameworks, and innovation interact to support sustainable business practices and address grand challenges.

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Potential topics

• History, ethical evolution, and innovation
• Neuro-economic foundation of ethics and the future development in business ethics
• Ethics, culture/institutions, and sustainable development
• Ethics, culture/institutions, and innovation
• Ethics and public good investments, and innovation

Timeline

• October 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Glen Whelan, ESG UQÀM

Gabriel Weber, ESSCA School of Management

Yann Truong, ESSCA School of Management

Ongoing developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) indicate that machine learning technologies will not simply match, but will potentially significantly surpass, a wide range of human cognitive abilities. Given this trend, there is reason to believe that AI could threaten humanity's hegemonic, agentic, positioning and that it could be a driver of civilizational, epochal change.

Business actors occupy a unique dual-position within this context. First, as leading architects of AI development, high-tech corporations are rebuilding the organizational structures, labour markets, and human-machinic assemblages that will define social existence for decades to come by impacting upon such fundamental concerns as democracy, peace, and human flourishing. Second, the institution of business and markets as a whole will also find itself the subject of transformative forces that it cannot control despite the fact that certain actors therewithin – such as high-tech corporations – have given rise to them.

Appel publié par Business & Society. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Speed versus safety in the rush to develop (super-intelligent) AI
• Competition and conflict over AI resources
• Defense, offense, and critical AI infrastructure
• (Rogue) AI and principal-agent misalignment
• AI and 'responsibility gaps'
• Existential threats and AI
• AI and the implicit/explicit embodiment of political goals and values
• Corporate elites (e.g., owners/founders) and the control of AI
• Corporate governance within the AI political context
• Ideological conflict in the era of AI
• The algocratic and epistocratic underpinnings of AI developments
• AI and planetary boundaries
• Environmental justice and AI
• The global south and the AI workforce
• Resource creation, extraction and commodification in the era of AI
• AI and exosomatic energy use
• AI and the changing value of human labour and human leisure
• The possibility of human excellence and flourishing in AI impacted societies
• AI and the transformation of markets for consumption and production
• The implications of AI for how we conceive and value human rights, democracy and justice
• AI and peace

Timeline

• April 1, 2026: Paper Development Workshop submission window
• May 20, 2026: Online pre-submission workshop (optional)
• September 1, 2026: Submission window opens
• September 30, 2026: Submission window closes
• January 1, 2027: Online post-submission workshop (tentative, participation optional)

Associate editors

• Simon Pek, University of Victoria

Jay Joseph, American University of Beirut

Harry Van Buren III, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Jennifer Oetzel, American University

Angelika Rettberg, Universidad de los Andes

Global peace is needed now more than ever, yet "peace" still fails to feature in mainstream business and society debates. For over 20 years, "business and peace" has led this debate in business and management studies. Business and peace has generated a broad array of research studies that link business activity to peacebuilding; however, the high volume of descriptive, case-based, and practice-based research in the field, combined with the growing number of parallel contributions to conflict and peace-related topics in general management studies, presents challenges for moving a coherent debate on peace and business forward.

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Potential topics

• Stakeholder-based theories associated with business and peace
• Systems perspectives on business and peace
• Intergroup and contact theories in business contexts
• Business and human rights frameworks
• Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and political CSR
• Governance processes in business and peace
• Organizing processes and organization studies
• Normative and ethical frameworks addressing corruption and corporate misconduct
• International business frameworks in conflict settings
• Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial models for conflict-resolution and peace
• Advanced conceptual development for conflict and peace research
• Boundary work to clarify field domains in business and peace
• Theoretical consolidation and advancement of business and peace foundations

Timeline

• June 4, 2026: 2nd Annual IABS Business and Peace Workshop and IABS Conference in Providence, RI
• January 31, 2027: Submission window opens for first submission due
• March 1, 2027: First submission due - Full paper submissions due
• June 1, 2027: Reject and resubmit decisions made for first submission
• October 1, 2027: Second submission due
• May 1, 2028: Reject and resubmit decisions made for second submission

Andreas Georg Scherer, University of Zurich

Peter Bloom, University of Essex

Cristina Neesham, Newcastle University

Yuan Li, Saint Mary's College of California

The purpose of this Special Issue is to examine the ongoing transformations of democratic societies by analyzing the political and ideological projects that position themselves against liberal democracy—be they postliberalism, (techno-)feudalism, (tech-)fascism, and other variants of illiberalism. It investigates the evolving roles of the state, executive power, digital technologies, media industries, social movements, and other non-state actors, while questioning how the moral and political responsibilities of business must be redefined amid democratic backsliding. The emerging illiberal context is marked by exclusionary practices, the erosion of participatory and deliberative norms, the refusal to recognize legitimate actors and positions, assertions of absolute truths, the rise of transgressive publics and politics, and sustained attacks on democratic institutions. While preserving the appearance of democratic legitimacy, these practices in effect consolidate a more illiberal and authoritarian form of democratic order.

Appel publié par Business Ethics Quarterly. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Corporate–state alliances in illiberal or hybrid regimes
• Technological infrastructures of authoritarianism and/or technocratic power (surveillance, algorithmic governance, platform monopolies)
• Corporate influence on public spheres, media ecosystems, and democratic deliberation
• Historical lessons from business involvement in interwar fascism
• Postliberal and technocratic ideologies shaping contemporary corporate governance
• Political CSR under conditions of eroding/decaying democracy
• Organizational culture, leadership, and the normalization of authoritarian values
• Moral agency, dissent, and resistance inside firms against illiberal corporatism
• How do contemporary corporate policies and practices contribute to authoritarian consolidation, postliberal governance, and illiberal forms of democracy?
• In what ways do managerial logics (efficiency, obedience, strong leadership) intersect with authoritarian or proto-fascist political ideologies?
• How do digital platforms function as political actors shaping public discourse, identity formation, and democratic norms?
• What forms of corporate complicity or resistance emerge in contexts of rising identity politics, far-right populism, disinformation, and illiberal governance?
• How should business ethics reconceptualize corporate political responsibility when liberal-democratic assumptions no longer hold?
• How do illiberal ideologies such as postliberalism, technofeudalism, cyberlibertarianism, or nationalist capitalism reconfigure corporate legitimacy?
• How do autocratic leaders and change agents use rhetorical tropes, arguments, and symbols to make meaning and influence a reality, to enact crises or states of emergency, and to construct a boundary between 'us' and 'them'?
• What normative frameworks can guide responsible corporate behavior under conditions of weakened institutions, captured states, or authoritarian drift?

Timeline

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• October 30, 2026: Pre-submission development online workshop application deadline
• November 26, 2026: Pre-submission development online workshop convenes
• April 30, 2027: Manuscripts submission deadline

This special issue seeks to advance research on how stakeholder theory and responsible business practices shape modern corporate governance. The editors welcome contributions that explore stakeholder-centered governance approaches within current institutional contexts, drawing on diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives.

The special issue is open to scholars from multiple disciplines including management, strategy, ethics, finance, accounting, and law who wish to contribute conceptual analyses, empirical studies, or theory-building work on these topics.

Appel publié par Corporate Governance An International Review. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Stakeholder theory and governance
• Responsible business practices
• Corporate governance in contemporary institutional environments
• Stakeholder governance frameworks
• Integration of stakeholder perspectives in corporate decision-making

Timeline

• December 1, 2026: Deadline for submissions

Tina Dacin, Wilfrid Laurier University

Robin Holt, University of Bristol

Jean Clarke, Emlyon Business School

Jaco Lok, Macquarie University

Max Ganzin, Macquarie University

This special issue examines the ethical foundations of entrepreneurship, positioning ethics as central to entrepreneurial practice rather than a constraint on it. The issue brings together entrepreneurship studies and philosophical ethics to explore how venture creation, opportunity recognition, and stakeholder engagement involve fundamental questions about responsibility, justice, and human flourishing. It investigates the tension between entrepreneurship's capacity for creativity and disruption and concerns about commodification and self-optimization.

The special issue welcomes diverse methodological and disciplinary perspectives examining how philosophical traditions such as virtue ethics, phenomenology, pragmatism, and deontology illuminate entrepreneurial practice. It particularly emphasizes entrepreneurial decision-making under uncertainty and fluidity, where ethical judgment must balance competing stakeholder interests without reliance on established protocols. The issue seeks papers exploring how entrepreneurship and ethics can deepen each other's understanding through examining contingency, creativity, authenticity, care, and emerging futures.

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

Potential topics

• Philosophical dimensions of ethics and how different philosophical traditions inform understanding of entrepreneurship as an ethical practice
• Phenomenology of the entrepreneurial experience, uncertainty, autonomy, and decision-making
• The entrepreneur and ethical subjectivity, agency, embodiment, and identity
• Ethics and rule-breaking in entrepreneurial contexts
• Stakeholder relations, trust-building, and ethical objectives
• Whether entrepreneurship is inherently ethical or exploitative
• Entrepreneurship and technological mediation in the digital age
• Ethics, value, and the framing of entrepreneurial goals and opportunities
• Temporal dimensions of entrepreneurial ethics and long-term considerations

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Submission deadline