Itohan Esther Aigwi, Auckland University of Technology

Timothy O. Adekunle, University of Utah

Funmilayo Ebun Rotimi, Auckland University of Technology

This special issue seeks to develop integrated approaches combining digital innovation with sustainability in construction. Rather than examining these areas separately, it aims to establish comprehensive frameworks that connect digital technologies with measurable sustainability outcomes, including enhanced benchmarking methods, governance structures, and implementation strategies.

The issue addresses gaps in current research by exploring how emerging technologies like BIM, digital twins, and AI can support sustainability goals. It examines the organisational changes, leadership requirements, and regulatory mechanisms necessary for successful digital-sustainability transitions in construction.

Through collaboration among researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers, the special issue aims to establish clear frameworks and performance-assessment methodologies that demonstrate how digital innovations contribute to sustainability targets across the construction sector and support several UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Appel publié par Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Digital transformation for sustainable construction delivery
• Building Information Modelling (BIM)
• Digital twins
• Artificial intelligence and IoT
• Data-driven project management
• Frameworks for integrating digital innovation and sustainability
• Multi-level assessment models
• Emerging technologies and future construction systems
• Robotics and digital fabrication
• Immersive technologies
• Artificial intelligence and advanced analytics
• Climate risk prediction
• Sustainable design and construction optimisation
• Circular economy and resource efficiency
• Material tracking and digital material passports
• Blockchain in construction
• Lifecycle sustainability assessment
• Carbon management
• Smart infrastructure and climate-resilient cities
• Data-driven sustainability
• Benchmarking and performance measurement systems
• Digital maturity metrics
• Policy and regulatory frameworks
• Governance for digital and sustainable construction
• Organisational capability and leadership
• Change management for digital transformation
• Human skills and workforce transformation
• Post-disaster recovery and reconstruction
• Climate-responsive rebuilding
• Digital procurement
• Supply chain integration and transparency
• Global and regional comparative studies

Timeline

• January 9, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• May 20, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Entrepreneurship education must adapt to rapid technological change, as emerging innovations like AI, blockchain, and immersive platforms are fundamentally transforming how entrepreneurs identify opportunities, develop prototypes, and scale businesses. While these technologies offer unprecedented pedagogical potential through simulations and gamified learning, many educational programs continue using traditional, Western-centric approaches that prioritize information delivery over experiential learning.

This special issue addresses the urgent need to critically examine how entrepreneurship education can effectively integrate emerging technologies while remaining responsive to the entrepreneurial realities students will face. The issue is particularly relevant for emerging economies, where digital tools can overcome infrastructure limitations and resource constraints to democratize access to quality entrepreneurship education, though success requires institutional capacity building, thoughtful curriculum design, and supporting policies.

Appel publié par Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Emerging Technologies in Entrepreneurship Education - Application of AI, VR/AR, blockchain, and IoT in entrepreneurship teaching; effectiveness of technology integration in resource-limited settings; impact of digital tools on student engagement and learning outcomes; role of gamification and simulation in developing entrepreneurial competencies
• Institutional Integration and Capacity Building - Organizational capabilities enabling technology adoption; leadership and faculty preparedness; university-industry collaboration models; digital infrastructure development; government policies and regulatory frameworks; creating entrepreneurial ecosystems beyond traditional classrooms
• Curriculum Design and Assessment Innovation - Assessment methods for technology-integrated learning environments; addressing generative AI in student evaluation; metrics for measuring impact on learning outcomes and business creation; longitudinal studies on career development; cost-effectiveness evaluation; educator training and professional development models

Timeline

• April 1, 2026: Opening date for manuscript submissions
• September 30, 2026: Closing date for manuscript submissions

Natasha Winkler-Titus, Stellenbosch University

Emamdeen Fohim, University of Bern

Rebecca Namatovu-Dawa, Copenhagen Business School

Thomas Anning-Dorson, University of the Witwatersrand

Renate E. Meyer, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Joel Gehman, George Washington University

This special issue seeks manuscripts exploring how technological transformation can support African futures aligned with the concept of Afrotopia—a vision for African modernization rooted in the continent's diverse histories, epistemologies, and cultures rather than Western models. The issue bridges research on future-making practices and pluriversal perspectives in management and organization studies with critical examination of Africa's rapid technological change, considering both opportunities and risks.

The special issue invites scholars to examine conditions under which digital and technological change can genuinely serve African communities and address threats such as data extraction, algorithmic colonialism, and Western-designed technological solutions unsuited to local contexts. Contributions may employ any methodology, with particular welcome for approaches grounded in African and indigenous epistemologies.

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

Potential topics

• Conceptualizing alternative African modernities in the context of technological transformation
• How pluriversal approaches to technological transformation can be inspired by African philosophies and organizing practices such as Ubuntu, Sankofa, and Harambee
• Reasons why technological transformation may create utopia for some African communities and dystopia for others
• How platform economies and data extraction practices by foreign technology companies reproduce colonial relationships in African markets
• AI-driven transformations and their potential to undermine African modernities through cybersecurity risks, dehumanization, labor displacement, and surveillance
• Empirical cases and organizational experiments supporting Afrotopia amid technological transformation
• Governance structures and digital ecosystems in African countries established to support alternative African futures
• Overcoming digital divides, digital literacy challenges, and unequal technological affordances in African organizations
• Technological leapfrogging while remaining attentive to local contexts and indigenous knowledge systems
• Geopolitical circumstances reshaping technological transformation across African governments, firms, and civil society
• Africa's role in extraction of rare earth minerals and critical resources within global technological value chains
• African states and firms navigating competing technological dependencies and strategic technological autonomy
• Future-making practices in technologically transforming African organizations informed by African traditions and conceptions of time
• Role of Africa's young population in innovating alternative futures through digital entrepreneurship, creative industries, and technological innovation
• Gen Z digital and social media movements reshaping political participation and governance in African societies

Timeline

• September 10, 2026: Online information session (2 PM Central Africa Time)
• March 1, 2027: Pre-submission online paper development workshop (exact date and time TBA)
• July 30, 2027: Pre-submission paper development workshop at Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management in Vienna, Austria
• November 1, 2027: Manuscript submission deadline
• January 1, 2028: Post-submission paper development workshop at Biennial Conference of the Africa Academy of Management

Aybars Tuncdogan, King's College London

Henk W. Volberda, University of Amsterdam

Ioana Stefan, Mälardalen University

While innovation creation has received substantial research attention, value capture from innovations remains critically important yet increasingly complex. Digital technologies, AI, data-driven business models, and globally distributed R&D networks have expanded innovation reach but also created new vulnerabilities through rapid copying, disruption, and security threats. Organizations must now navigate both traditional appropriability challenges in collaborative and open innovation contexts, and emerging information security risks that threaten R&D artifacts and intellectual assets.

This special issue brings together two typically separate research conversations: innovation appropriability mechanisms (patents, trade secrecy, licensing, complementary assets, ecosystem governance) and information security protection (technical defenses, organizational safeguards, insider threat management). The issue seeks to understand how firms organize to balance value creation with value capture while managing information security risks in an increasingly digital, data-driven, and open innovation landscape.

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

Potential topics

• Appropriability mechanisms for digital innovation, including appropriability regimes in platforms, ecosystems, and data-driven markets
• Hybrid protection strategies combining secrecy, security, and openness
• New forms of protection for new forms of competitive advantage (static vs dynamic)
• Profiting from innovation under platform dominance
• Governance of data, IP, and secrecy in university-industry collaborations and open science initiatives
• Governance and lifecycle strategies for protecting data, algorithms, AI models, etc.
• Risks of imitation, leakage, and exfiltration in digital/AI-driven innovation
• Strategies and mechanisms to protect data, algorithms, and AI models
• Protection strategies for innovations that move faster than the ability to protect them
• Value capture in Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing innovations
• Organizational designs and routines for secure collaboration
• Institutional and regulatory conditions shaping innovation security and value capture
• Closing and opening innovation in the digital era
• Insider threats to R&D knowledge
• Security-by-design and privacy-by-design principles in R&D and innovation processes
• Effective zero-trust policies in R&D departments and innovation processes

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Paper development workshop
• February 1, 2027: Submission window opens
• April 30, 2027: Full manuscript submission deadline

Digital technologies are increasingly shaping the conduct of individuals, businesses, and societies. Particularly disruptive digital technologies include artificial intelligence, the internet of things, additive manufacturing, robotics, business analytics, cloud-based computing, and blockchain. Although digital technologies may appear geographically unanchored, they are physically situated in specific locations and connected through infrastructure such as underwater cables. The spatial embeddedness of these infrastructures has become intertwined with geopolitical competition and strategic rivalry, with control over critical assets such as undersea cables, semiconductor production hubs, cloud service locations, and digital standards increasingly contested between leading powers, notably the US and China.

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

Potential topics

• Digital platforms and MNE innovation strategy
• Digital technology and MNE subsidiaries
• Digital infrastructure and firm internationalization
• Digital ecosystems and MNEs
• Digital sovereignty and MNE strategy
• Role of proximity in MNE innovation in emerging markets
• Impact of digital transformation on MNE subsidiary roles and structures
• Digital capabilities and internationalization pathways
• Navigation of competing digital standards and regulatory regimes
• Geopolitical tensions and MNE location decisions
• Data governance and regulatory compliance in fragmented digital landscapes
• Platform-mediated business models and global value chains
• Technological leadership in emerging economies
• Regional digital initiatives and their implications for MNEs

Timeline

• January 7, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• November 30, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission