Eoin Whelan, University of Galway

Hamed Qahri-Saremi, Colorado State University

Chelly Maes, Université Libre de Bruxelles

Christy M. K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University

Uri Gal, University of Sydney

Monideepa Tarafdar, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Adolescents today engage intensely with digital platforms including social media, gaming communities, AI applications, and learning technologies. This special issue seeks research examining how these complex digital environments shape adolescent development across cognitive, emotional, psychological, social, and physical domains. The urgency stems from how contemporary platforms operate through sophisticated algorithms and AI systems that actively influence adolescents' experiences in ways fundamentally different from previous technologies.

Existing research provides limited understanding of how digital platforms specifically affect adolescent developmental experiences, with little consensus on the direction, magnitude, or mechanisms of impact. The special issue invites empirical and theoretical investigations using diverse methodologies to understand how platform designs, algorithmic systems, and regulatory approaches both benefit and harm adolescent development. Contributions should examine the mechanisms by which platform affordances and AI systems shape developmental outcomes in diverse global populations.

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

Potential topics

• Platform architectures and affordances
• Notification systems and engagement metrics
• Algorithmic curation and recommendation systems
• Generative AI and chatbots for adolescents
• AI literacy and digital resilience
• Information practices in digital environments
• Identity development and social relationships
• Privacy and data protection
• Screen time and physical health
• Mental health and well-being
• Design science for adolescent safety
• Policy and regulation of digital platforms
• Content moderation and age verification
• Comparative platform design studies
• Socioeconomic and cultural differences in digital access

Timeline

• April 9, 2027: Online information session
• November 1, 2027: Deadline for paper submission
• March 1, 2028: First-round decisions
• July 1, 2028: Deadline to submit revised papers
• October 30, 2028: Second-round decisions
• March 1, 2029: Deadline to submit revised papers
• July 1, 2029: Provisional/Final decisions
• August 1, 2029: Deadline to submit final paper (if minor revision is required)

Associate editors

• Tina Blegind Jensen, Copenhagen Business School
• Noel Carroll, University of Galway
• Aaron Cheng, London School of Economics
• J.J Hsieh, Georgia State University
• Tabitha James, Virginia Tech
• Hanna Krasnova, University of Potsdam
• Dong-Heon (Austin) Kwak, Kent State University
• Stephen McCarthy, University College Cork
• Antonia Meythaler, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• Mahya Ostovar, University of Galway
• Ana Ortiz de Guinea Lopez de Arana, HEC Montréal
• Lauren A. Rhue, New York University
• Stefan Tams, HEC Montréal
• Ofir Turel, University of Melbourne
• Yingqin Zheng, University of Essex

Amanda Peticca-Harris, Grenoble Ecole de Management

Annalisa Murgia, University of Milan

Julieta Haidar, Workers' Innovation Centre-CONICET

This special issue examines how digital platforms function as systems that organise and reinforce inequality rather than simply producing it as an outcome. Platform labour operates as survival work for those already positioned within broader structures of inequality, including migrants, workers excluded from formal employment, and women managing care responsibilities. The issue seeks work that connects domains often treated separately—such as legal status, gender, and labour stratification—and explores how these intersect in shaping platform participation across geographical contexts.

Contributors are encouraged to examine how livelihoods are assembled through platformisation across labour, migration, and everyday life, with particular attention to care work and social reproduction. The issue also welcomes research on how workers navigate, adapt to, and contest platform-mediated inequalities through resistance, collective organising, and everyday survival strategies, recognising that agency emerges within the systems that organise inequality itself.

Appel publié par New Technology Work and Employment. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• To what extent do platform-based systems depend on inequality? How do they organise it?
• In what ways are insecurity and risk embedded within platform-based systems?
• How is labour supply structured through marginalised populations within platform economies?
• How are visibility, ratings, access to work, and valuation differentially organised across workers and contexts?
• How are platform systems becoming embedded across domains such as mobility, food, care, logistics, and urban life?
• In what ways do platform arrangements rely on, reproduce, and organise gendered, racialised, classed, generational, ableist, or otherwise undervalued forms of labour?
• How are livelihoods assembled through platform work across contexts shaped by migration, informality, and low incomes?
• How do workers combine multiple income streams, care responsibilities, and relational resources to sustain everyday life?
• What forms of agency, everyday tactics, informal solidarities, survival strategies, resistance, or adaptation emerge in response to inequalities embedded within platform-based systems?
• What methodological approaches can make visible the unequal, relational, embodied, and infrastructural dimensions of platform-mediated work and livelihood?

Timeline

• May 31, 2027: Full-length paper submission deadline

Reem Khamis Hamdan, The University College of Bahrain

Marketing has evolved beyond economic value creation to encompass broader social impacts, particularly as digital technologies like artificial intelligence and big data become deeply embedded in society. These advancements enable marketing strategies that influence not only consumer behavior but also societal values and well-being, raising critical questions about ethical implications and power dynamics that remain underexplored in academic literature.

This special issue invites research examining how strategic marketing enabled by technology reshapes society and the accompanying ethical and power concerns. The editors seek both theoretical and empirical contributions that illuminate the relationship between marketing strategies and society, with particular emphasis on ethical issues, power imbalances, and societal consequences of marketing in digital environments.

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

Potential topics

• Ethical concerns of AI marketing
• Bias and fairness of marketing algorithms
• Digital surveillance and the privacy of consumers
• Power relations and manipulation of consumers by digital marketing
• Social responsibility of influencer marketing
• Mental health/well-being of consumers
• Multidisciplinary marketing and digital inequality
• Power of platforms over consumers
• Social responsibility of marketing and ESG
• Multidisciplinary marketing of brands
• Multidisciplinary marketing in vulnerable communities
• Multidisciplinary marketing of technology and the transformation of the identity of consumers
• Multidisciplinary marketing of the attention economy
• Multidisciplinary marketing strategies during social crises/uncertainty

Timeline

• October 26, 2026: Manuscript deadline

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

• Invalid DateTime: Publication
• 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

Hemant Bhargava, University of California, Davis

Andreas König, University of Passau

Jan Krämer, University of Passau

Chayanin Wipusanawan, University of Passau

This special issue examines digital platform ecosystems and their multifaceted effects on society and the economy. Platforms have become central to value creation globally, influencing organizational strategies and reshaping industries, while also raising critical questions about their governance, design, and regulation. The issue seeks to understand how platform ecosystems shape societal outcomes across labor arrangements, content moderation, user protection, fairness, data practices, and policy interactions.

The collection invites theoretical and empirical contributions from information systems and related disciplines that address both the enabling potential and societal risks of digital platforms. Research may employ quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-methods approaches and can take various forms including conceptual papers, empirical studies, and position papers.

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

Potential topics

• Platform Governance and Ecosystem Orchestration: Governance mechanisms, rule-setting, boundary resources, and the allocation of decision rights across platform owners, complementors, and users; centralized, decentralized, and hybrid governance models.
• Strategic Conduct, Market Power, and Competitive Dynamics: Strategic positioning, platform envelopment, self-preferencing, lock-in, multi-homing, and the implications of dominant platforms for competition and market structure.
• Innovation, Complementor Dynamics, and Value Co-creation: Generativity, innovation governance, API and data access, developer relations, incentive structures, and strategies for value creation and capture across ecosystem participants.
• Content Governance, Speech, and Public Discourse: Content moderation, recommender systems, platform policies, and their effects on online speech, civic participation, and political communication across jurisdictions.
• Societal Risks, Safety, and Equity: Fairness, inclusion, and distributional effects of platform governance and algorithmic decision-making; information integrity and the maintenance of digital trust; safety, well-being, and protection of vulnerable users.
• Regulation, Policy, and Institutional Change: Antitrust and platform regulation, interoperability and portability, liability regimes, standards, oversight of platform policies and algorithmic systems, and the interaction between platform governance and public policy.
• Platforms and Socio-Economic Development: Platformization trajectories, local innovation ecosystems, informal economies, and societal impacts in emerging and developing contexts.

Timeline

• July 1, 2026: Open for submissions
• December 1, 2026: Submission Deadline

Rainer Schmidt, Munich University of Applied Sciences

Rainer Alt, Leipzig University

Alfred Zimmermann, Reutlingen University

The Topical Collection on Artificial Intelligence-based Assistants and Platforms focuses on assistant systems (e.g. chatbots, recommenders) that are based on artificial intelligence and the interaction with users via declarative natural-language interfaces. They are present in various forms as well as industries and often assume a platform logic when services and devices from different providers are included.

The Topical Collection relates to a minitrack at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) and comprises research on novel methods, models, processes, and approaches related to the design, implementation, deployment, operation, and optimization of AI-based assistants and platforms for the digital economy.

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

Potential topics

• Design, implementation, and deployment of AI-based assistants and platforms
• Novel methods and models for AI-based assistants (e.g., chatbots, recommenders)
• Natural language interfaces and user interaction with AI systems
• Platform logic and integration of services from different providers
• Operation and optimization of AI-based assistants and platforms for the digital economy
• AI-based assistants in various industries and applications

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Submission deadline

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

Timeline

• February 15, 2025: Full paper submission deadline

Louis Fauger, Amazon Research & Georgia Institute of Technology

Markus Gerschberger, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

Matthieu Lauras, KEDGE Business School

The Physical Internet is transitioning from theoretical concept to practical implementation through pilots, demonstrators and large-scale initiatives. This special issue seeks rigorous, empirically grounded research that offers actionable insights for managers, policymakers and supply chain stakeholders on how PI principles can be implemented, governed and scaled.

The call welcomes empirical studies, case studies, pilots and industry-driven innovations that address real implementation challenges. While conceptual contributions are considered, they must be strongly connected to practical implications and managerial relevance. Research should demonstrate sound scientific methodology while providing clear lessons learned for practitioners.

Appel publié par Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• PI use cases, pilots and demonstrators
• Business models and value creation in open and shared logistics
• Governance and coordination mechanisms for interoperable networks
• Supply chain intelligence, data sharing and digital platforms
• Transition pathways, roadmaps and maturity models
• Managerial and organizational challenges of PI adoption
• Public policy, regulation and public–private collaboration
• Sustainability, circular logistics and environmental performance

Timeline

• June 1, 2026: Submission platform opened
• November 30, 2026: Paper submission deadline

Hanna Reinikainen, University of Helsinki

Essi Pöyry, University of Helsinki

Jason Weismueller, University of Western Australia

Rory Mulcahy, University of the Sunshine Coast

Political divisions are reshaping marketing and consumption as brands face mounting pressure to respond to geopolitical conflicts, populist movements, and ideological tensions. Divisive politics no longer remains confined to formal institutions but permeates lifestyle choices, cultural narratives and consumption practices, compelling brands to navigate scrutiny not only for what they communicate but also for what they remain silent about.

Multiple pathways allow political forces to influence marketing systems, including brand activism and consumer responses to sociopolitical positioning, political ideology affecting consumer preferences and attachment, and boycott or buycott movements impacting marketplace outcomes. Digital infrastructures and social media influencers increasingly amplify political signals while spreading misinformation, creating complex dynamics where brand silence itself becomes a political statement carrying strategic risks.

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

Potential topics

• Political ideologies, identities and lifestyle politics: How do political forces shape consumption choices, brand perceptions, media use and information processing?
• Explicit political stances, silence and neutrality in brand communication: When, why, and how does taking a political stance, or the refusal to engage in such, generate support, scepticism, backlash or disengagement?
• Consumer activism, boycotts, buycotts and cancel culture: How do consumers mobilise for or against brands, and what determines escalation, forgiveness or longer-term market consequences?
• Influencers, creators and political-commercial hybrids: How do influencers, celebrities, and other intermediaries blur the boundaries between promotion, identity politics, advocacy and civic participation?
• Digital platforms, algorithms and misinformation: How do platform design, governance, recommendation systems and mis/disinformation shape exposure to and responses to political marketplace content?
• Race, nationalism, populism and anti-DEI movements: How do contested political projects reshape inclusion, exclusion, legitimacy and representation in markets?
• Ethics, responsibility and governance: What normative, regulatory and strategic questions arise when market actors seek to leverage political issues or influence public discourse?
• Methodological and theoretical innovation: What new concepts, frameworks and methods are needed to study politics in contemporary marketing and consumption?

Timeline

• February 1, 2027: Manuscript deadline