Harshad Sonar, Indian Institute of Management (IIM)

Bishal Dey Sarkar, Indian Institute of Management (IIM)

Joash Mageto, University of Johannesburg

Samuel Fosso Wamba, TBS Education

This special issue addresses how post-harvest innovations, cold-chain operations, and digital technologies can enhance food quality and sustainability across supply chains. The editors recognize that food losses stem from interconnected operational and infrastructural challenges, particularly in developing economies. The call seeks integrated research that connects previously separate topics to understand how innovations work together to improve food system outcomes.

The issue welcomes interdisciplinary contributions examining how post-harvest innovations, cold-chain strategies, digital technologies like AI and blockchain, and collaborative governance can reduce waste, improve transparency, and build resilient food systems. Research should prioritize food-centric outcomes and provide actionable insights for researchers, policymakers, producers, and stakeholders developing safer and more sustainable food systems.

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

Potential topics

• Post-harvest management for food quality preservation and food loss reduction
• Cold chain management for food safety, nutritional quality, and perishability
• Digital technologies for food quality, traceability, and transparency
• Smart packaging and innovative food preservation technologies
• Sustainable and resilient food systems under climate and supply chain disruptions
• Food waste reduction, circular food systems, and resource-efficient post-harvest practices
• Food safety governance, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder collaboration
• Data-driven decision making and policy innovations for sustainable food security

Timeline

• January 9, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• February 28, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Elisa Salvador, ESSCA School of Management

Carmen Pérez-Cabañero, Universitat de Valencia

This special issue examines how consumption of cultural and creative products is evolving in contemporary "phygital" contexts where digital and physical experiences merge. The call seeks papers addressing contemporary theories of consumer behaviour, novel methodologies, and factors spanning economic, psychological, social, and technological dimensions that shape how people engage with cultural offerings.

The issue aims to map current consumption trends at individual and societal levels, identify best practices, and address gaps in academic understanding of how cultural industries are adapting to rapid societal transformation. It focuses on ten cultural domains including heritage, archives, libraries, publishing, visual arts, performing arts, audiovisual media, architecture, advertising, and crafts.

The special issue recognizes that cultural and creative industries are responding to challenges through innovation in digital environments, extended reality technologies, and sustainable practices. Papers should explore how these emerging practices contribute to individual wellbeing and broader social benefits such as education, intercultural dialogue, and social cohesion.

Appel publié par Arts and the Market. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) consumption patterns in phygital environments
• Consumer behaviour theories and frameworks related to cultural products and services
• Qualitative and quantitative methodologies for studying cultural consumption
• Economic, psychological, social, and technological factors influencing purchasing decisions for cultural goods
• Case studies of consumption trends across different geographic and cultural contexts
• Phygital experiences integrating digital and physical elements in cultural settings
• Role of artificial intelligence and extended reality technologies (augmented reality, virtual reality) in cultural consumption
• Sustainability and circular practices in CCIs
• Impact of CCIs on regional development, economic growth, cultural innovation, and social cohesion
• Memorability and wellbeing benefits of phygital cultural experiences

Timeline

• July 15, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• February 15, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Karen Gravett, University of Surrey

Naomi Winstone, University of Surrey

Kieran Balloo, Southern Cross University

This special issue explores relational pedagogies—teaching practices emphasizing meaningful connections between teachers and students, and engagement with both human and nonhuman entities like digital technologies—within contemporary higher education contexts shaped by generative artificial intelligence. Relational pedagogies foster emotional and affective dimensions of education while challenging competitive individualistic approaches.

The rapid emergence of GenAI is fundamentally reshaping how educators and students interact, redefining educational practices politically, practically, and ideologically. The special issue seeks critical perspectives on how GenAI reconfigures relationality in higher education, addressing questions about student engagement with AI outside educator control, evolving assessment and feedback practices, care in digitalized contexts, equity implications, and the ethical and environmental concerns these technologies raise.

Appel publié par Teaching in Higher Education. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Discourses surrounding GenAI and pedagogy
• Relationality with respect to assessment practices
• Relational feedback processes
• The role of care and its connection with GenAI in contemporary universities
• The intersection of AI technologies with notions of mattering and belonging
• Research into academic work and relational connections
• The materiality of education
• Political and ethical questions regarding digital technologies such as surveillance, datafication, and agency
• GenAI's environmental impacts and their intersection with pedagogical, ethical, and political questions
• Posthuman, sociomaterial and feminist materialist perspectives
• How does students' use of GenAI reshape relationships and pedagogies?
• What role do emotions, affective relations, and embodied experiences play for students and educators in an age of GenAI?
• How do relational pedagogic encounters with GenAI blur the boundaries between human and machine?
• How are GenAI technologies changing relational assessment practices in higher education?
• How are relational feedback processes evolving as a result of GenAI technologies?
• What new methods are needed to understand our relationship with digital and GenAI technologies in higher education?
• What questions does GenAI raise for equity perspectives on relationality?
• What new theoretical and critical approaches are being engaged to investigate relational pedagogies and relationality in the age of GenAI?

Timeline

• April 20, 2026: Abstract deadline
• May 18, 2026: Expected date for abstract decisions to be communicated to authors
• October 26, 2026: Manuscript deadline for invited draft full papers

Stefan Gold, Technical University of Munich

Antoine Harfouche, Paris Nanterre University

Paul Jones, Swansea University

Maryam Lotfi, Cardiff University

Guoqing Zhao, Swansea University

An estimated 50 million people worldwide experience unethical labour practices, with numbers expected to rise due to regional conflicts and restrictive migration policies. While digital technologies such as blockchain, AI, and cloud computing offer potential solutions for monitoring and addressing these practices, research in this area remains limited. This special issue seeks to understand how digital technologies can theoretically and empirically be deployed to monitor, detect, report, and remediate unethical labour practices.

The special issue welcomes original research using various methodologies that examines the relationship between digital technologies and unethical labour practices. Submissions should identify specific technologies examined and move beyond surface-level analysis to provide nuanced insights. The collection particularly encourages studies that challenge existing paradigms, explore underexamined aspects, or propose innovative frameworks for leveraging digital solutions to advance ethical and sustainable societies while informing policymakers, business leaders, and practitioners.

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

Potential topics

• Role of digital technologies (blockchain, AI, cloud computing, IoT, big data analytics, virtual and augmented reality) in monitoring and detecting unethical labour practices
• Application of digital technologies to address modern slavery, human trafficking, forced labour, and other forms of labour exploitation
• Digital technologies for reporting and remediating unethical labour practices in supply chains
• Use of machine learning and AI for identifying trafficking patterns and at-risk populations
• Blockchain applications for tracking labour exploitation in global supply chains
• Digital technologies for social inclusion and reintegration of survivors of modern slavery
• Biometric recognition and satellite imagery applications by governments and NGOs
• Comparative analysis of multiple digital technologies versus single-technology approaches
• Theoretical frameworks and conceptual models for understanding digital technology adoption in addressing unethical labour practices
• Empirical studies on the effectiveness and limitations of digital solutions in combating labour exploitation

Timeline

• February 15, 2027: Submission deadline

Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Angelo Cavallo, Politecnico di Milano

Antje Fiedler, University of Auckland

Esteban Lafuente, Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica

Digital technologies are fundamentally reshaping how both private and public organizations—including universities, hospitals, and local administrations—conceive strategy, innovate, and compete. However, scholarly understanding remains fragmented regarding how digitalization operates across different functional areas and organizational levels, and literature has not fully clarified the mechanisms through which technological adoption generates performance gains or the conditions under which it falters.

Appel publié par Review of Managerial Science. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Antecedents of digital technologies adoption: Strategic approaches including organizational, technological, institutional, and market-related factors influencing SMEs' digitalization strategies
• Differences in digitalization strategies between industries or economic contexts
• Strategic choices and prerequisites supporting digitally-induced organizational actions
• Socio-technical system readiness factors including technical infrastructure, organizational culture, workforce capabilities, and data governance maturity
• Ecosystem characteristics and their role in shaping digitally enabled interactions
• Human-technology interaction and integration of digital technologies into firm operations
• Value-adding strategies promoted through digital technology integration
• Organizational resources, processes, and competencies supporting digital technology integration
• Strategic purposes for technology integration: automation, augmentation, cybersecurity, and innovation
• Digital literacy, ethical concerns, organizational culture, and managerial practices in technology adoption
• Digital transformation in the public sector with constrained resources
• Leadership, governance structures, and resource orchestration in public institutions
• E-administration, hybrid learning platforms, and AI-enabled service delivery in public organizations
• Spillover effects of public digital initiatives on regional SMEs
• Public-private partnerships and cross-sector collaborations for digital solutions
• Governance models and knowledge-sharing mechanisms enhancing digital co-creation
• Absorptive capacity development through partnerships
• Sector and regional ecosystem factors affecting partnership effectiveness
• Performance outcomes of digital technologies and technology-enabled strategies
• Individual-level outcomes including productivity, learning, creativity, and decision quality
• Firm-level outcomes including innovation, internationalization, operational efficiency, and sustainability
• Mechanisms explaining heterogeneous digitalization outcomes across individuals, teams, and firms
• Digital literacy and human-technology interactions shaping performance outcomes
• Strategic alignment of competencies and digital technologies for competitive advantage
• Digital transformation impacts on power dynamics between entrants and incumbents

Timeline

• February 28, 2026: Open for submissions
• January 31, 2027: Paper submission deadline
• April 30, 2027: First-round review decision to authors
• July 30, 2027: Revised manuscript due
• October 31, 2027: Second-round review decision to authors
• January 31, 2028: Final revised manuscript due
• April 30, 2028: Final author notification of acceptance

Domenico Campa, International University of Monaco

Mary Vera-Colina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Dan-Richard Knudsen, NHH Norwegian School of Economics

Aziza Laguecir, EDHEC Business School

This special issue addresses the under-explored preventive dimensions of accounting fraud and scandals, focusing on how fraudulent conduct might be avoided entirely and what conditions foster organizational integrity. Rather than examining only the aftermath of scandals, the collection seeks to understand the social, institutional, and ethical processes through which fraud is produced, enabled, or resisted within organizations, with particular attention to how professionals, organizational structures, and institutional environments either facilitate or constrain effective prevention.

Appel publié par Accounting Forum. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Role of auditors, fraud examiners, and other professionals in detecting or preventing fraud and navigating responsibilities in practice
• Digitalisation through blockchain, AI, and fintech infrastructures and their impact on fraud detection and early internal detection
• Organisational conditions and cultural norms that enable or suppress ethical decision-making in the accounting function
• Ethical and psychological consequences faced by internal whistle-blowers and factors shaping their decisions to speak up or remain silent
• Legal, organisational, and professional safeguards to protect those who disclose financial wrongdoing
• Lessons from failures to prevent scandals, particularly where early warnings were available but ignored
• Institutional settings and regulatory environments that facilitate or constrain fraud prevention and early internal detection
• Role of communities and NGOs in disclosing information to prevent fraud and accounting scandals
• Organisational design and structure as preventative architectures against fraud
• Management accountants as potential whistle-blowers and their unique positioning to detect fraudulent activities

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Special Issue expected to be published
• March 1, 2027: Submissions open
• March 31, 2027: Manuscript deadline

René Riedl, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria & Johannes Kepler University Linz

Jan vom Brocke, University of Münster

Jella Pfeiffer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Robert Gleasure, Copenhagen Business School

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

Potential topics

• How does sustained interaction with AI-enabled systems (e.g., LLMs) and other advanced digital tools reshape neural networks associated with language, reasoning, and memory?
• Does reliance on AI systems and other forms of automation/digital decision support alter attentional control, working memory, metacognition, or problem-solving processes at the neurophysiological and behavioral levels?
• What are the implications of digitally augmented cognition for neuroplasticity, skill acquisition, and expertise development over time?
• How can integrated neurophysiological and behavioral measures provide a fuller picture of technology-mediated cognitive processes?
• How do individuals' brains respond to empathetic or anthropomorphic cues exhibited by conversational AI and other interactive systems?
• What neurophysiological correlates underlie trust, reliance, distrust, or skepticism toward AI systems and other algorithmic or platform-based systems?
• How does emotional regulation change when decision-making is mediated by AI support, algorithmic decision aids, or digital nudges?
• What are the neurophysiological mechanisms of stress, fatigue, or overload in contexts of AI-assisted work and other digitally intensified work settings?
• How does technological mediation in team collaboration influence the neurophysiological foundations of social coordination, empathy, and shared attention?
• What neural mechanisms underlie shifts in authority, leadership, and influence when AI becomes a co-decision-maker?
• How do cultural differences modulate neurophysiological responses to AI and other digitally mediated collaboration settings?
• How do gender, age, or personality differences modulate neurophysiological responses to IS artifacts?
• How might AI-driven systems and other algorithmic/persuasive designs reinforce or mitigate cognitive biases?
• What neural signatures accompany ethical dilemmas and moral decision-making in AI-mediated contexts and broader digital governance settings?
• How does long-term use of AI and other digitally intensive work systems shape neurophysiological well-being, stress, or mental health at the workplace?
• How can neurophysiological insights inform the design of AI systems and other digital systems that are more intuitive and aligned with human cognitive limits?
• What are the neurophysiological underpinnings of productivity, efficiency, or value creation in digitally mediated economic interactions?
• How can genetic and neurophysiological approaches together explain individual differences in the adoption and use of digital systems?
• Which neurophysiological tools are best suited for investigating contemporary IS phenomena?
• How can hybrid approaches combining neurophysiology with computational methods enrich IS theory development?
• How can multi-level research designs integrate genetic, neurophysiological, behavioral, self-report, and organizational data to address IS phenomena more holistically?

Timeline

• March 31, 2026: Abstract deadline
• August 31, 2026: Manuscript deadline

Associate editors

• Bonnie B. Anderson, Brigham Young University
• Dinko Bačić, Loyola University Chicago
• Colin Conrad, Dalhousie University
• Verena Dorner, Vienna University of Economics and Business
• Nadine R. Gier-Reinartz, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
• Milena Head, McMaster University
• Alan R. Hevner, University of South Florida
• Qiqi Jiang, Copenhagen Business School
• Marion Korosec-Serfaty, University of Québec in Montréal
• Alexander Maedche, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Gernot R. Mueller-Putz, Graz University of Technology
• Pierre-Majorique Léger, HEC Montréal
• Mario Nadj, University of Duisburg-Essen
• Fiona Nah, Singapore Management University
• Adriane Randolph, Kennesaw State University
• Ofir Turel, University of Melbourne
• Eric A. Walden, Texas Tech University
• Peter Walla, Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna
• Dezhi Wu, University of South Carolina

Kieran Conboy, University of Galway

Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, The University of Texas at Austin

Brian T. Pentland, Michigan State University

Efpraxia D. Zamani, Durham University

Digital technologies have fundamentally transformed how we experience time and temporality, influencing work, life, and identity through accelerated communication and constant connectivity. While temporality—encompassing speed, duration, sequencing, rhythm, and timing—is central to how information systems are designed and studied, IS research has largely treated it simplistically, focusing narrowly on clock-time, speed, and duration rather than engaging with its complex, multifaceted nature.

The field lacks cumulative theoretical development on time despite growing recognition of its importance. IS researchers quickly highlight technology's impact on organisational speed but are slow to address temporal complexity comprehensively. Time remains theoretically elusive, often excluded or treated as a hidden dimension in contemporary IS studies. This special issue seeks to advance theoretical understanding of how temporal dynamics influence IS phenomena across multiple scales, from micro-temporal moment-to-moment interactions to macro-temporal institutional transformations.

Appel publié par European Journal of Information Systems. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• How digital interfaces, notifications, and data streams reconfigure everyday temporal experience, including attention, interruption, multitasking, and asynchronous collaboration
• How people make sense of their digital pasts through data archives or online traces, and how they anticipate algorithmic or digitally mediated futures
• How workflow systems, dashboards, collaboration platforms, enterprise analytics, and predictive tools recalibrate shared temporal expectations and influence coordination
• How temporal orientations embedded in tools or analytics shape decision processes, innovation, or strategic flexibility
• Temporal properties of digital artefacts including update cycles, data retention logics, algorithmic refresh rates, and security time horizons
• How data governance, privacy regimes, or AI systems handle conflicting temporal demands
• Why certain digital transformations accelerate rapidly while others evolve slowly and unevenly
• How digital standards, platforms, and protocols sediment, diffuse, or become institutionalised over time
• How temporal imaginaries, time horizons, or long-term digital trajectories shape fields, industries, and societies
• Theoretical and methodological discussions of time in IS research, including flows, sequences, rhythms, tempos, trajectories, paths, and path nets
• How IS research can theorise and design for extended temporal horizons to address grand challenges like climate change, pandemics, inequality, and social movements
• How temporal assumptions are embedded in IS through algorithmic schedules, design methods like agile and continuous development, and real-time vs. asynchronous communication
• How such temporal assumptions align or collide with individual or cultural constructions of time
• Methodological approaches for studying temporal complexity, including computational techniques and trace data analysis

Timeline

• November 1, 2026: Initial paper submission deadline
• February 1, 2027: First round authors notification
• April 15, 2027: Invited revisions deadline
• July 15, 2027: Second round authors notification
• September 30, 2027: Final revision deadline

Associate editors

• Jeremy Aroles, University of York
• Reza M. Baygi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Catriona Burke, University of Limerick
• Omar El Sawy, University of Southern California
• Anne-Laure Fayard, NOVA School of Business and Economics
• Thomas Grisold, Vienna University of Economics and Business
• Amir Haj-Bolouri, University West
• Susan Hilbolling, Aarhus University
• Robin Holt, University of Bristol
• Astri Moksnes Barbala, SINTEF
• Rohit Nishant, Queen's University
• Mahya Ostovar, University of Galway
• Omid Omidvar, Warwick Business School
• Henri Pirkkalainen, Tampere University
• Frantz Rowe, University of Nantes
• Markus Salo, University of Jyväskylä
• Yingqin Zheng, University of Essex
• Aljona Zorina, NEOMA