A. R. Shaheen Hosany, Hult International Business School

Seongsoo Jang, Cardiff University

The environmental crisis is reshaping how people consume, yet a persistent gap exists between consumers' stated sustainability values and actual behaviour. Marketing research must move beyond measuring intentions to understanding how sustainability is enacted in real-world contexts, where affordability, convenience and competing priorities constrain behavioural change.

This special issue seeks research examining the intersection of sustainability theory and practice, particularly studies exploring lived experiences of sustainable consumption and marketing's role in enabling meaningful behavioural change. The issue welcomes conceptual, qualitative, quantitative, experimental and mixed-methods contributions that connect rigorous theoretical development with real-world sustainability challenges and generate actionable implications for businesses, policymakers and communities.

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Potential topics

• Consumers, everyday practices and sustainability transitions: How climate vulnerability reshapes consumer identities, aspirations, lifestyles and consumption practices; role of social influence, norms and communities; consumer willingness to sacrifice and pay for sustainability; emergence of repair, reuse, sharing and non-consumption
• Firms, brands, innovation and circular consumption: Translating sustainability theory into products and services; designing feasible and affordable sustainable practices; marketing strategy for repair and circular consumption; systemic change beyond individual responsibility
• Sustainability, inequality and systemic transformation: Moving beyond individual behavioural change to systemic transformation; distribution of sustainability transition costs; inequalities in capacity to participate; marketing contributions to policy design
• Digital technologies, marketing communications and behavioural change: Role of digital technologies, AI and platforms in sustainable consumption; social media and influencers shaping sustainability perceptions; digital marketing facilitating behaviour change without manipulation; creating conditions for sustainable behaviour
• Real-world evidence, experimental research and new methodological approaches: Transaction and behavioural data revealing actual consumption; causal impact of sustainability marketing interventions; natural experiments from environmental disruptions; data-driven discovery and theory development; mixed-methods approaches integrating qualitative and quantitative analysis

Timeline

• September 20, 2027: Submissions open
• December 20, 2027: Manuscript deadline

This special issue in Marine Policy focuses on transdisciplinary approaches to understanding and addressing the impacts of climate change on coastal societies. The call invites research that bridges multiple disciplines to examine how climate change affects coastal communities and what integrated solutions can be developed to support adaptation and resilience in these vulnerable regions.

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Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue examines the global energy transition from fossil fuels to low-carbon technologies, addressing the systemic transformation required to mitigate climate change and achieve sustainable development. The call seeks applied, problem-solving research that explores the interplay between technological innovation, policy frameworks, market dynamics, and geopolitical factors across different geographical contexts.

The special issue welcomes contributions on energy sector management, simulation tools, circular economy approaches, and integrated models that assess economic and environmental pathways. Research should address challenges such as green finance, supply chain resilience, carbon neutrality, and policy mechanisms for successful energy transitions, as well as emerging topics including leadership development, gender issues, and professional training in the energy sector.

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

Potential topics

• Fossil Low Carbon Structural Shift in Energy Sector
• Future Agenda & Bibliometric Reviews on Energy Transition
• Energy Asset Prioritization & Modernization for Energy Development
• Technological Innovation in Renewables For Future Energy Markets
• Solutions to Bottlenecks for Sustainable Energy Efficiency Models
• Simulation & Digital Tools in Energy Transition Assessment
• Energy Transition Shift: The Market & Pricing Dynamics
• Resilience in Renewable Supply Chain Management
• Green & Climate Finance interface of Energy Transition
• Energy-Climate-Environment Nexus
• Economic-Environmental Policy Pathways
• Carbon Emissions & Neutrality
• Future and Emerging Models of Circular Economy & Waste Management
• Corporate Energy Practice Attraction: Board Level Decision, Policy Dilemmas & Geopolitics
• Leadership, Gender & Human Capital

Timeline

• April 15, 2026: Abstract Submission Openings
• July 31, 2026: Abstract Submission Deadline
• August 15, 2026: Notification of Abstract Acceptance
• September 30, 2026: Full Paper Submission Open Date
• November 30, 2026: Closing Date of Full Paper Submission
• March 31, 2027: Notification of Acceptance of Full Paper

Marco Marabelli, Bentley University

Robert Davison, City University of Hong Kong

Federico Iannacci, University of Sussex

Shahla Ghobadi, University of Leeds

Zhongyun Zhou, Tongji University

Vanessa Cooper, RMIT University

This special issue examines how information systems scholarship can address environmental concerns related to generative AI. While GAI offers significant benefits for efficiency and automation, its rapid development has created substantial environmental challenges, including high electricity consumption, water use for cooling, and electronic waste from obsolete computing hardware. These impacts disproportionately affect vulnerable populations and regions in the Global South.

The issue seeks studies adopting an eco-socio-technical perspective to explore both the negative environmental effects of GAI and its potential benefits for weather forecasting, agriculture, and urban management. Contributors are encouraged to investigate how organizations, governments, individuals, and communities can implement and use GAI responsibly, examining tradeoffs between technological benefits and environmental costs. Research employing primary data, various methodologies, and practitioner perspectives are welcomed.

Appel publié par Information Systems Journal. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Local and global policies associated with data centers, outsourcing, and offshoring practices, including legal, managerial, and economic perspectives
• Business models relying on or incentivizing GAI across specific industries such as healthcare, automotive, robotics, and aerospace, focusing on efficiency versus responsible use tradeoffs
• Individual-level practices of responsible GAI use in organizational and private citizen contexts, and how users understand environmental consequences
• GAI applications in smart cities, including traffic and parking optimization while addressing surveillance concerns
• GAI use in public administrations to streamline processes such as document production and benefit eligibility checks
• Existential short-term and long-term eco-socio-technical effects and the role of IS discipline in mitigating environmental and societal risks from large-scale GAI diffusion
• Collective action and activism strategies for promoting green development and responsible GAI use by major technology developers and deployers

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Submission deadline for extended abstracts
• June 30, 2027: Submission deadline for full papers

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.

Appel publié par Managerial and Decision Economics. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

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

This is a special joint initiative between the British Journal of Management and the International Journal of Operations & Production Management, focusing on how organisations and supply chains are being reshaped in response to interconnected polycrisis challenges involving climate, geopolitical, economic, and technological shocks.

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

Timeline

• November 1, 2026: Paper submission window opens
• January 31, 2027: Paper submission window closes

Fred Basso, London School of Economics and Political Science

Nil Özçağlar-Toulouse, Université de Lille

Julien Troiville, ESG Université du Québec À Montréal

This special issue addresses the urgent need to rethink marketing's role in a post-growth future. With humanity facing catastrophic climate change caused primarily by human activity, marketing must shift from promoting unlimited consumption to supporting genuinely sustainable lifestyles. Post-growth, increasingly studied across environmental sciences, economics, and social sciences, challenges societies' dependence on economic growth and questions the link between prosperity and consumerism.

The special issue seeks contributions exploring three interconnected questions: how marketing can challenge growth-oriented systems and critique its own pro-growth practices; how marketing can support degrowth transitions and transform economic practices; and how marketing can function within a post-growth economy while meeting human needs within planetary boundaries. Contributions should bridge theory and practice, examining tensions between individual and systemic responsibility, alternative practices, and marketing's evolving role.

Appel publié par Recherche et Applications en Marketing (French Edition). Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• How marketing can challenge the status quo and question growth-oriented practices, including the critique of desire creation, ethical marketing practices, and the individualization of consumer responsibility
• How marketing can engage in degrowth practices and implement transformative strategies, including conceptual clarification of degrowth-related concepts and reinventing marketing practices and education
• How a post-growth economy can be maintained, including the transition from unlimited desires to meeting human needs within consumption corridors and the role of marketing in supporting sufficient lifestyles
• Critical examination of marketing's role in climate change and planetary boundaries, questioning the relationship between prosperity, productivism, and economic growth
• Marketing education and pedagogy in the context of post-growth transitions, including decolonial and indigenous perspectives
• Empirical and conceptual research addressing post-growth marketing from various theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary angles
• Research in non-WEIRD contexts and with decolonial and indigenous perspectives

Timeline

• May 1, 2026: Submission platform opens
• July 1, 2026: Special issue publication date
• January 15, 2027: Submission deadline

Sarah Meier, ETH Zurich

Eric Strobl, University of Bern

Robert J. R. Elliott, University of Birmingham

Wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent and intense in many regions due to climate change, land-use shifts, and expanding human settlements in fire-prone areas. Their economic impacts extend far beyond direct suppression costs, affecting labour productivity, supply chains, tourism, housing markets, and public health through smoke exposure. Rising public expenditures on prevention and recovery, combined with evolving policy debates around insurance and risk financing, underscore the need for rigorous economic analysis.

This special issue seeks empirical research that quantifies the welfare consequences of wildfires and smoke, particularly in regions facing emerging risks and in developing economies. The call welcomes interdisciplinary work grounded in environmental and resource economics that evaluates adaptation and management strategies, leveraging new data sources and innovative methodologies including remote sensing and AI-based technologies.

Appel publié par Environmental and Resource Economics. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Labour productivity, sectoral employment shifts, and worker mobility
• Housing markets, mortgage risk, and migration and other behavioural responses to wildfire risk and exposure
• Natural capital and ecosystem service valuation, including impacts on biodiversity, recreation, and forest asset pricing
• Inequality, information access, and distributional impacts of exposure and monitoring technologies
• Public finance, insurance markets, and the fiscal consequences for local and regional governments
• Institutions, governance, and risk-sharing arrangements, including coordination across jurisdictions, public-private roles, and firm responses to wildfire risk
• Prevention, suppression, and adaptation strategies, including land-use planning, prescribed burning, indigenous fire stewardship, and advanced monitoring and management technologies
• Welfare losses from smoke exposure, including physical and mental health outcomes and associated human capital effects

Timeline

• January 31, 2027: Submission deadline

Paul Tae-Woo Lee, Zhejiang University

International organizations have implemented regulations requiring decarbonization of transportation and logistics industries. The special issue addresses net-zero emissions implementation through multimodal transport networks, where major cargo owners and stakeholders have committed to zero-emission transportation. AI and big data technologies are identified as catalysts for digital transformation and carbon reduction optimization.

The special issue aims to fill research gaps concerning net-zero pathway implementation, particularly around three key challenges: direct emissions reduction, higher capital and operating costs for green technologies, and establishing sustainable green energy supply chains. The collection seeks comprehensive and integrated approaches to enable logistics and transportation industries to achieve carbon reduction and multimodal network sustainability.

Researchers are invited to explore how AI, digitalization, new technologies, and policy mechanisms can support decarbonization. The special issue targets the research community and practitioners in transport, logistics, and supply chains to provide managerial insights and expand literature on net-zero pathways.

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

Potential topics

• Decarbonization pathways for transport and logistics services
• Zero-emission freight transport
• Decarbonization and digitalization in transport and logistics services
• Application of AI & big data for decarbonization
• Green shipping and digital corridors
• Green transport and logistics models
• Green fuel supply chains, comprising supply, transport, and storage
• Green energy transitions in smart cities
• Sustainable procurement for net-zero transitions
• Regenerative supply chain design and resilient networks
• Electrification of transport fleets and charging infrastructure challenges
• Policy, regulation, and carbon pricing impacts on logistics decarbonisation
• Safety and environmental monitoring

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Paper proposal submission deadline
• April 30, 2027: Manuscript deadline

Associate editors

• Kai-Chieh Hu, Soochow University
• Kyoung-Suk Choi, Jeonbuk National University