Ioana Stefan, Mälardalen University

Ikenna Uzuegbunam, Howard University

Brett Anitra Gilbert, American University

Wim Vanhaverbeke, Antwerp University

Kadigia Faccin, Fundação Dom Cabral

Yanbo Wang, University of Hong Kong

This special issue addresses entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging economies, where new ventures face distinctive obstacles including institutional weakness, high uncertainty, and limited market access. While research on entrepreneurial ecosystems has expanded significantly, most studies focus on developed nations, leaving a knowledge gap about how these ecosystems function in the Global South and other emerging regions.

The call welcomes research that balances Global North and Global South perspectives, examines ecosystem emergence and development over time, applies systems thinking, and investigates how digitalization shapes entrepreneurial activity in resource-constrained contexts. Contributors are encouraged to explore how entrepreneurial ecosystems address institutional voids, support different types of entrepreneurs, and contribute to sustainable development goals.

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

Potential topics

• EE emergence and development in emerging economies
• EE dynamics and evolution
• EE orchestration, governance and brokering
• Digital affordances and digitalization
• EE metrics and measures
• Valley of Death gaps
• Institutional and infrastructure challenges
• Resource constraints in emerging economies
• EE lifecycle and temporality
• Multi-level analysis of ecosystems
• Systems perspective on EE
• Sustainability and resilience of EE
• Policy effectiveness for EE support
• Global North and Global South perspectives
• Refugee and diaspora entrepreneurship
• Venture funding instruments and diaspora remittances
• Circular economy and EE
• Regenerative business practices
• Social impact and vulnerable communities
• Digital technology effects on EE
• Computer science methods for ecosystem analysis
• Geography of entrepreneurship

Timeline

• January 30, 2027: Submission window opens
• April 30, 2027: Full paper submission deadline

Associate editors

• David Sirmon, University of Washington

This special issue examines how emerging economies and late entrants navigate the complex landscape of international ICT standardization. The focus is on understanding the strategies, challenges, and power dynamics faced by rising standards powers as they attempt to influence or participate in global standardization processes that have traditionally been dominated by established technological leaders.

Appel publié par Telecommunications Policy. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Participation of emerging economies in ICT standardization
• Late entry into global standards development
• Power dynamics in standardization bodies
• Rising standards powers and their strategies
• Challenges and opportunities for latecomers in ICT standardization
• Institutional frameworks of standardization organizations
• Technical and political barriers to standardization participation

Timeline

• January 8, 2027: Submission deadline

Ugochukwu Chinonso Okolie, Leipzig University

Yuliya Shtaltovna, HS Fresenius

Paul Agu Igwe, University of Lincoln

Priscilla Bahaw, The University of the West Indies

Chibueze Tobias Orji, University of Nigeria, Nsukka

This special issue seeks empirical research on how student entrepreneurship influences the transition from university education to employment in emerging economies. The focus is on understanding how entrepreneurial experiences during higher education contribute to career development, employability skills, and readiness for labour market entry.

The call addresses a gap in research regarding student entrepreneurship's role in university-to-work transition, despite evidence that entrepreneurial activities provide experiential learning opportunities for developing workplace skills. The special issue aims to inform policymakers, university administrators, and industry experts about improving graduate employment outcomes while contributing to United Nations Sustainable Development Goals related to quality education, decent work, and reduced inequalities.

Appel publié par Career Development International. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Student Entrepreneurial Activities as a Pathway to University-to-Work Transition: exploring how students' engagement in small and micro-businesses might facilitate or hinder their transition into the labour market
• Career Development and Employability Skills Acquisition: exploring how students' entrepreneurial engagement contributes to or hinders the development of essential employability skills and career readiness
• Institutional and Contextual Factors in Emerging Economies: exploring how factors such as institutional support, government policies, culture and economic conditions shape student entrepreneurship and university-to-work transition outcomes
• Cross-regional Comparative Insights & Theoretical Advancement: examining comparative perspectives on how student entrepreneurship affects university-to-work transition in different regions
• Inner Development Goals and the Human Dimension of Entrepreneurship: integration of the IDGuide into entrepreneurship and business education, and how cognitive, social, and self-leadership competencies promote entrepreneurial behaviour and employability among students

Timeline

• November 1, 2025: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• October 1, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Most management research has been developed in Western contexts, leaving significant gaps in understanding leadership and organizational practices in emerging, developing, and transition economies—regions that now generate nearly half of global economic output. These economies operate under distinct institutional conditions where formal institutions are incomplete or unevenly enforced, requiring firms to rely on alternative coordination mechanisms and making context a primary determinant of business strategy and performance.

This special issue addresses this literature gap by centering emerging, developing, and transition economies as objects of theoretical inquiry rather than control variables. It invites studies across governance, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and leadership that examine how management practices evolve, adapt, or are translated when formal rules and infrastructures cannot be taken for granted. The call welcomes quantitative surveys, experiments, qualitative ethnographies, mixed-methods research, and conceptual work, particularly comparative studies spanning regions or contrasting different institutional settings.

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

Potential topics

• How and with what consequences do firms substitute private or community governance for missing or unreliable formal institutions, and which mechanisms make these substitutes durable or fragile?
• Which configurations of resources, networks, and legitimacy enable opportunity discovery and scaling in thin or nascent markets, and how do founders and top managers navigate uncertainty and institutional gaps across growth stages?
• Under resource constraints and uneven enforcement, what capability bundles allow firms to align environmental initiatives with competitive outcomes, and how do local cultural or state priorities shape these trajectories?
• How do reporting, budgeting, and control systems adapt when enforcement is uneven, and what are the implications for investment, innovation, market signals, and stakeholder trust in emerging markets?
• How do contextual communication and power structures condition the effectiveness of leadership, employee voice, engagement, and performance systems in transition settings, and what are the boundary conditions for transferability?
• How do commitments to learning and open innovation translate into performance when institutions are in flux, and which organisational routines, such as bricolage, mediate these effects?
• How do political ties, state ownership, or party networks shape strategic decision-making, board dynamics, and accountability in firms and hybrid organisations operating under volatile or contested regulatory regimes?
• How do gender, ethnicity, and other social cleavages intersect with institutional voids to shape leadership careers, informal influence, and patterns of inclusion and exclusion inside organisations?
• In conflict-affected, fragile, or post-disaster settings, which leadership practices and governance arrangements enable organisational resilience, continuity of services, and recovery, and what trade-offs do they imply?
• How do regional, cross-border, or diaspora networks among managers, professionals, and researchers mediate the transfer, translation, and contestation of management ideas and leadership models across institutional contexts?

Timeline

• January 12, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• January 4, 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

Edwina Pio, Auckland University of Technology

Stephen Kalilpakdee, Assumption University of Thailand

This special issue seeks to advance Human Resources Management (HRM) research by centering perspectives, experiences, and contexts from the Global South. While HRM scholarship has traditionally been dominated by Western theoretical frameworks and assumptions, there is a critical need to develop contextually-grounded HRM knowledge that reflects the unique institutional, economic, social, and cultural realities of countries and regions in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and other parts of the Global South.

The special issue welcomes empirical studies, theoretical contributions, critical reviews, and methodological innovations that challenge dominant HRM paradigms and offer new insights into how organizations manage human resources in Global South contexts. We are particularly interested in research that moves beyond adapting Western HRM models and instead develops indigenous, culturally-sensitive, and locally-relevant approaches to understanding people management.

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

Potential topics

• Exploring alternative theoretical frameworks and paradigms for HRM in the Global South
• Indigenous and culturally-rooted HRM approaches and practices
• HRM in informal economies and non-traditional work arrangements
• Human agency, worker voice, and resistance in HRM systems
• HRM's role in addressing inequality, social justice, and sustainable development
• Technology, digitalization, and their impacts on HRM in emerging economies
• HRM in post-colonial and transitional contexts
• Labor standards, worker protection, and ethical HRM practices in the Global South
• Comparative HRM studies across Global South regions
• Organizational learning and knowledge management in Global South contexts

Timeline

• December 1, 2026: Submission window

Appel publié par International Business Review. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• October 1, 2026: Submission deadline

Guillermo Antonio Dávila, Universidad de Lima

Susanne Durst, Bangkok University

Organizations in resource-constrained and institutionally weak contexts face significant challenges in maintaining competitiveness and innovation amid political uncertainty and technological change. This special issue addresses the underexamined role of knowledge management in enabling these organizations—including SMEs, NGOs, and entities in developing regions—to overcome financial constraints, limited technological access, and skilled workforce shortages.

Knowledge management has demonstrated capacity to enhance innovation, strengthen organizational resilience, and foster learning even under severe resource limitations. While empirical evidence from emerging economies supports these benefits, research remains concentrated on stable, well-developed environments, leaving underrepresented contexts insufficiently studied despite their numerical significance and potential for theoretical contribution.

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

Potential topics

• KM as an enabler of organizational performance under conditions of resource scarcity
• Knowledge risk management as crucial function in environments characterized by internal and external constraints
• KM in underrepresented organisational settings, including SMEs, family businesses, informal organisations, low-technology firms, social organisations or geographically isolated regions
• Organisational learning processes in contexts characterised by institutional and resource constraints
• The role of KM in strengthening organisational resilience during internal and external crises and disruptions
• Necessary conditions and bottlenecks for organizational development empowered by KM
• The interplay between artificial intelligence and KM in overcoming organisational and institutional constraints
• The role of institutional ecosystems and inter-organisational networks in enhancing the effectiveness of KM
• Novel methodological approaches for studying KM in constrained and underrepresented contexts

Timeline

• March 15, 2027: Manuscript 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