Romeo Bandinelli, University of Florence

Monica Rossi, Politecnico di Milano

Claudio Sassanelli, Politecnico di Bari

Virginia Fani, Universitas Mercatorum

This special issue addresses how Product Lifecycle Management systems must evolve to support Industry 5.0's three foundational principles: human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience. Traditional PLM systems, designed primarily for data integration and process efficiency, lack mechanisms to support operator well-being, embed circular economy strategies, ensure regulatory compliance, or enable rapid adaptation during disruptions.

The special issue introduces PLM 5.0 as a strategic governance platform that integrates lifecycle data, human interaction, sustainability metrics, and adaptive decision-making across industrial ecosystems. It seeks conceptual, empirical, methodological, and case-based contributions that explore how PLM systems should be redesigned, how organizations can integrate circular economy principles, what governance frameworks are needed, and how manufacturing can build resilience through lifecycle management.

Appel publié par Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Redesigning PLM Systems for Industry 5.0
• Human-Centric PLM and Operator Development
• Circular Economy Integration within PLM
• Sustainable Lifecycle Assessment and Net-Zero Strategies
• Resilient Manufacturing and Adaptive Lifecycle Management
• Governance, Interoperability, and Data Management Frameworks
• Decision-Support and Managerial Transformation
• Sector-Specific Applications with Cross-Industry Implications

Timeline

• May 6, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• October 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission

An Le, Massey University

Niluka Domingo, Massey University

Sepani Senaratne, Western Sydney University

Soojin Yoon, Oklahoma State University

This special issue addresses the fragmented nature of current decarbonisation efforts in the built environment, which typically focus on isolated phases rather than adopting a comprehensive lifecycle perspective. The editors seek research that demonstrates how building design can serve as a central mechanism for reducing emissions throughout all stages, from initial conception through construction, operation, and eventual deconstruction.

Contributions should explore holistic design approaches that integrate carbon assessment early in the design process, alongside strategies for managing buildings during operation and end-of-life phases. The issue particularly emphasizes the importance of cross-cutting enablers such as multidisciplinary collaboration, workforce development, and supportive policy and financial frameworks that facilitate the transition toward net-zero carbon buildings.

Appel publié par Building Research & Information. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Holistic design and planning: Integrating lifecycle carbon assessment in early-stage design; design management strategies for net-zero carbon pathways; forecasting and modelling; circular economy strategies; holistic approaches.
• Operation and deconstruction: Smart operations, digital twins, data-driven analytics and IoT-enabled building management for carbon reduction. Post-occupancy evaluation and facilities management for sustained low-carbon outcomes. Designing for adaptability, disassembly, and material recovery at end-of-life.
• Cross-cutting enablers: Multidisciplinary collaboration and stakeholder engagement across the building lifecycle; workforce skills and competences for low-carbon design and delivery; financial, business, and policy mechanisms to support lifecycle decarbonisation initiatives.

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Deadline for submission
• December 31, 2026: Deadline for review: First round
• March 31, 2027: Deadline for revised submission
• May 31, 2027: Deadline for approval final manuscript

Rui Torres de Oliveira, Deakin University

Agnes Toth-Peter, University of Queensland

Martie-Louise Verreynne, University of Queensland

David Audretsch, Indiana University

Domenico Dentoni, MBS School of Business

Andrea Chiarini, University of Verona

This special issue explores how systems thinking tools and methodologies can address interconnected challenges of sustainability, digitalization, and resilience, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. The collection seeks to move beyond superficial adoption of systems thinking toward genuine systemic change that integrates digital technologies, circular economy principles, and collaborative multi-stakeholder approaches to tackle complex, wicked problems.

The special issue invites theoretical and empirical research demonstrating real applications of systems thinking frameworks such as causal loop diagrams, system dynamics models, and participatory methods. Contributions should illuminate how holistic, systems-level perspectives can uncover hidden leverage points and foster innovative solutions that align digital transformation with sustainability goals while building organizational resilience.

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

Potential topics

• Applications of systems thinking tools, such as causal loop diagrams, system archetypes, and system dynamics modeling, in addressing sustainability challenges
• Development and validation of systems-level frameworks and methodologies for sustainable development
• Case studies demonstrating the impact of systems thinking on real-world sustainability and/or digitalisation initiatives
• Use of group model building and participatory system dynamics to support interdisciplinary and ecosystem solutions
• Exploration of system archetypes and system dynamics models to identify leverage points for driving transformational change and to investigate levers in cross-boundary settings
• The role of digital technologies, including IoT, AI, big data, and blockchain, in enabling systems-level insights and solutions in the circular economy and sustainability initiatives
• Integration of digitalisation with circular economy strategies and Industry 5.0 principles and potentials
• Innovative approaches to digital transformation that promote sustainable development
• Cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary research to foster collaboration in bridging sustainability and digitalisation, using systems thinking
• The role of ecosystems in sustainable business models and the boundaries of entrepreneurial ecosystems
• Methodologies for recognising, assessing and addressing the interconnectedness of environmental, economic, and social systems
• Open innovation in new sustainable businesses, considering distinct institutional contexts and economic systems, such as emerging and developed economies

Timeline

• October 1, 2026: Rolling submissions open
• May 31, 2027: Manuscript deadline

Luc Brès, Université Laval

Raymond Paquin, Université Concordia

Thomas Bauwens, Université Erasmus

Emmanuel Raufflet, HEC Montréal

Adriane MacDonald, Université Concordia

Bart van Hoof, Université des Andes de Bogota

Appel publié par Management international. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• March 6, 2025: |Call for papers announcement date

Kannan Govindan, University of Southern Denmark

This special section addresses the integration of sustainable development goals into supply chain management through advanced operations research methods. Organizations face mounting pressure to balance economic growth with resource conservation and environmental protection while addressing poverty and societal issues. The seventeen sustainable development goals adopted in 2015 target achievement by 2030, with significant implications for how supply chains are designed and operated across the globe.

The special section invites research on how optimization models, decision-making algorithms, and novel operations research techniques can support the implementation of sustainable supply chain management. Contributions should explore policy design with multiple stakeholders, innovative sustainability practices, and governance mechanisms for monitoring progress toward sustainable goals in different economic and geographical contexts. The work should demonstrate how efficient resource utilization and environmental responsibility can be achieved while improving organizational and societal outcomes.

Appel publié par Annals of Operations Research. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Designing and policymaking in sustainable development goals through stakeholder support
• Implementing sustainable development goals in supply chains through innovative strategies and practices
• Monitoring supply chain governance and implications with a focus on sustainable development goals
• Multi-attribute decision making approaches for sustainable supply chain management
• Multi-objective decision making approaches for sustainable supply chain management
• Green supply chain management strategies
• Lean supply chain approaches
• Resource conservation and efficiency in supply chains
• Circular economy in supply chain contexts
• Sustainable supplier selection and evaluation
• Carbon emissions reduction in supply chains
• Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chains
• Sustainable procurement practices
• Environmental impact assessment in supply chains
• Social and economic sustainability in supply chain operations

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Submission deadline

Günter Prockl, Copenhagen Business School

Alexander Pflaum, University of Bamberg

Haozhe Chen, Iowa State University

Marcel Papert, University of Bamberg

Modern supply chains face unprecedented disruptions while simultaneously confronting environmental limits and resource scarcity. This requires a fundamental transformation toward more responsive and circular systems. Digital technologies including IoT, AI, digital twins, and blockchain are critical enablers for building resilient supply chains that adapt quickly to change while reducing resource consumption and closing material loops.

The special issue seeks papers demonstrating how digital and data-driven solutions implement these responsive and circular supply chains, along with their associated business models. Contributions should explore digital technologies across multiple supply chain tiers, with particular emphasis on industry-specific applications and the integration of responsiveness, servitization, and sustainability goals.

Appel publié par Electronic Markets. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Contribution of digital technologies to responsiveness, agility, flexibility, adaptability, improvisation, and resilience, sustainability, circularity, and regeneration
• Increasing supply chain visibility based on digital technologies
• AI methods supporting forecasting, planning, decision making and optimization
• Division of labour and interactions between humans and machines in AI-supported supply chains
• Virtualization and simulation of supply chains based on digital twins
• Blockchain and smart contracts in logistics and supply chain management
• The role of digital platforms in supply chain management
• Effects of smart product-service-systems on supply chains and supply chain management
• Ecosystems and federated data ecosystems enabling new data-driven R strategies
• Models, methods and tools enabling the triple transformation of supply chains
• Barriers and challenges hindering digitalization, servitization and transition to sustainability and circularity
• Data security and cyber security challenges in digital supply chain structures
• Legal aspects within the digital, servitized, circular supply chain
• Potential of digital technologies for ensuring compliance with legal requirements in the context of sustainability and circularity
• Relationship management mechanisms and governance structures in the era of digitalized supply chains

Timeline

• October 15, 2026: Submission deadline

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

Timeline

• October 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Yasser Dessouky, San Jose State University

Masood Fathi, University of Skövde

Taha Arbaoui, INSA Lyon

Khaled Hadj-Hamou, INSA Lyon

Ming-Lang Tseng, Asia University

This special issue addresses the critical challenge of transitioning manufacturing to net-zero operations by integrating circular economy principles with smart production technologies. The issue seeks research on how organizations can move from sustainability commitments to practical implementation strategies that reduce emissions, minimize waste, and create climate-neutral industrial systems.

The collection welcomes original research, case studies, and reviews that demonstrate emerging technologies and system-wide transformation frameworks. Topics range from Industry 4.0 applications and AI-driven optimization to supply chain decarbonization, renewable energy integration, and the role of regulatory policies in driving sustainable manufacturing practices.

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

• Closed-loop supply chains and waste reduction initiatives for low-carbon and climate-resilient manufacturing
• Industry 4.0-enabled smart operations for net-zero manufacturing transformation
• Life-cycle assessment of sustainable manufacturing processes
• AI-driven optimization for energy-efficient production
• Big data analytics and decision support for carbon footprint reduction
• Renewable energy integration into industrial production systems
• Electrification of industrial processes for carbon neutrality
• AI-powered energy forecasting and optimization in manufacturing
• The impact of carbon pricing and regulatory policies on production systems
• Economic incentives and financial mechanisms for green manufacturing
• Cross-sectoral collaboration for achieving net-zero industry goals
• Policy-driven roadmaps for industrial decarbonization
• Multi-criteria decision-making for net-zero manufacturing strategy development

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Manuscript submission deadline

Elizabeth Couzineau-Zegwaard, PPA Business School

Nathalie Fabbe-Costes, Aix-Marseille Université

Olivier Meier, Université Paris-Est Créteil

This special issue examines how supply chains are being transformed by regulatory pressures and sustainability imperatives. The convergence of resource scarcity, climate urgency, and increasingly stringent European regulations—including CSRD, CSDDD, and the Digital Product Passport—requires companies to integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance into their supply chain strategies. However, this integration raises significant methodological and operational challenges around impact measurement, traceability, and inter-organizational coordination.

The call seeks contributions exploring the tensions and synergies between extra-financial performance requirements and supply chain management from academic, regulatory, and managerial perspectives. Recent regulatory uncertainty, including the proposed Omnibus simplification package, creates new research questions around regulatory path dependency, stranded costs, and the trade-offs between anticipatory compliance and operational greenwashing versus greenhushing strategies.

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

Potential topics

• Sustainable regulations and supply chain management strategies: impacts of CSRD, CSDDD, and European taxonomy on supply chain structuring and logistics choices (relocation, supplier diversification), integration of ESRS in extra-financial reporting, compliance tools and methodologies
• Circular economy and innovation: circular business models (reuse, repair, recycling), eco-design levers, contribution of digital technologies (blockchain, AI, IoT) to transition toward more sustainable or regenerative supply chains
• Measurement, transparency and risks: impact assessment indicators and methodologies (Scope 3, biodiversity, human rights), comparative uses of GRI, SASB and ESRS frameworks, identification of greenwashing signals and best practices for credibilizing ESG commitments, disclosure strategy for objectives versus results in supply chain extra-financial performance
• Extra-financial performance measurement and supply chain management: impact of extra-financial performance measurement on supply chain design and decisions, trade-offs between cost control, profitability and value creation beyond financial returns, does work on measuring and improving extra-financial performance stimulate logistics innovations?

Timeline

• November 15, 2026: Manuscript submission deadline

Achieving net-zero targets poses significant challenges for economies, governments, and societies worldwide. Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are central actors in this transition, both as developers and adopters of renewable energy and low-carbon technologies. As primary boundary spanners, they manage global value chains and partnerships across diverse institutional contexts and consumer markets. MNEs increasingly navigate a complex landscape of incentives, sanctions, and regulatory barriers that vary by sector, technology platform, country, and region. Politically motivated disruptions—including shifting tariff and non-tariff barriers and uneven low-carbon policies—compound these challenges, placing premium value on managerial capabilities.

Two emerging developments motivate this Special Issue. First, digital technologies offer new potential to enhance firm-level capabilities for coordinating and adapting cross-border networks, while reshaping competitive dynamics between incumbents, startups, and scale-ups. Second, China's ascendancy as both innovator and regulator—particularly in new energy technologies—and its growing geopolitical influence demand renewed scholarly attention.

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

Potential topics

• Multinational enterprises
• Sustainability
• Circular economy
• Global value chains
• Digitalization
• Geopolitics
• Institutions
• China
• Emerging industries
• How do MNEs navigate and shape the complex policy and stakeholder landscape accelerating net-zero goals?
• What roles do digital technologies play in advancing sustainability and circularity, and what new complexities do they introduce?
• How do governance differences and regulatory regimes affect firms, sectors, and stakeholders differently?
• Are international innovation races helpful or harmful, and to what extent are they regionally demarcated?
• Do MNEs customize practices locally or transfer superior practices across regions, and with what strategic implications?

Timeline

• January 7, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• October 20, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission