This special issue examines supply chain risks faced by corporations operating in emerging markets. The focus is on understanding how companies can assess, manage, and respond to the various challenges and disruptions that arise from supply chain operations in these regions, as well as the broader consequences these risks have for organizational performance and competitiveness.

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

Potential topics

• Supply chain risk assessment in emerging markets
• Supply chain risk management strategies
• Impact of supply chain disruptions on corporate performance
• Emerging market specific supply chain vulnerabilities
• Risk mitigation and resilience building in supply chains

Timeline

• March 15, 2027: Submission deadline

Goutte Stephane, Université Paris Saclay

This special issue addresses the fragmentation between environmental sciences, energy systems, public health, and finance by promoting integrated forecasting methodologies capable of anticipating cascading systemic risks. Research communities need to develop common predictive frameworks that capture complex feedback mechanisms linking environmental governance, ecosystem services, financial markets and societal resilience under unprecedented uncertainty.

The special issue welcomes innovations in econometric, statistical, machine learning and artificial intelligence approaches using novel data sources such as satellite imagery and alternative data. Key focus areas include electricity system resilience under renewable integration, carbon market forecasting, natural capital accounting, sustainable finance, and the distributional impacts of energy transitions.

Contributions are sought globally with emphasis on emerging and developing economies perspectives. The collection will comprise 10-12 peer-reviewed articles demonstrating methodological diversity and practical relevance for policymakers, regulators, investors and sustainability managers.

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

Potential topics

• Forecasting climate physical risk impacts on asset prices, sovereign credit ratings, and insurance markets
• Climate transition risk scenario modeling and stress testing for banks and institutional investors
• Predicting the financial materiality of climate policy shocks (carbon taxes, border adjustment mechanisms)
• Nowcasting and forecasting climate-related litigation and regulatory enforcement risks
• Volatility forecasting under compound climate extremes and cascading natural hazards
• Predictive models linking air/water pollution exposure to healthcare costs, labor productivity, and insurance claims
• Forecasting the economic and financial spillovers of zoonotic disease outbreaks and pandemics
• Ecosystem degradation leading indicators for public health expenditure forecasting
• Early warning systems for environmental health emergencies using multi-source data fusion
• Forecasting the macroeconomic impact of environmental regulatory tightening in emerging economies
• Carbon credit and emissions allowance price forecasting (spot, futures, and options markets)
• Green bond pricing, yield spread determinants, and default risk prediction
• ESG rating dynamics: forecasting rating changes, rating disagreement, and market impact
• Predicting the performance of climate-themed investment portfolios and low-carbon equity indices
• Forecasting the diffusion of green financial innovations (sustainability-linked loans, transition bonds)
• Forecasting the economic value of biodiversity loss and ecosystem service degradation
• Predictive models for natural capital accounting and sovereign wealth fund risk exposure
• Land-use change and deforestation risk forecasting for supply chain finance and commodity markets
• Water scarcity prediction and its implications for agricultural commodity pricing and sovereign risk
• Forecasting the insurance and reinsurance implications of ecosystem tipping points
• Forecasting the differential impact of climate policies on developed vs. emerging economies
• Predicting capital flow reversals triggered by environmental shocks in frontier markets
• Sovereign debt sustainability forecasting under climate and ecological stress
• Forecasting international trade disruptions from environmental regulations and carbon border adjustments
• Cross-border spillover effects of environmental governance changes: a global forecasting perspective
• Machine learning and deep learning architectures for environmental-financial data
• Graph neural networks for forecasting interconnected climate-financial networks
• Mixed-frequency and nowcasting approaches for environmental indicators and market variables
• Uncertainty quantification and probabilistic forecasting under climate deep uncertainty
• Conformal prediction, Bayesian nonparametrics, and ensemble methods for environmental-financial prediction
• Large language models (LLMs) and alternative data for environmental risk nowcasting
• Forecasting electricity demand, renewable generation and flexibility needs in low-carbon power systems
• Electricity price forecasting under renewable intermittency, extreme weather events and geopolitical disruptions
• Early warning systems for power-system vulnerability, cascading failures and blackout risks
• Forecasting resilience indicators for transmission and distribution networks
• Forecasting flexibility resources including storage, demand response and data centers
• AI-driven forecasting for smart grids and decentralized electricity systems
• Forecasting electricity markets under high renewable penetration and climate uncertainty
• Forecasting critical mineral demand for the energy transition
• Energy poverty, energy justice and vulnerability forecasting
• Multi-energy forecasting integrating electricity, hydrogen and storage systems

Timeline

• September 30, 2027: Submission deadline
• April 30, 2028: Final decisions

Associate editors

• Xiang Gao, Shanghai Business School
• Jingjia Zhang, Nankai University

Yanmin He, Otemon Gakuin University

Xikai Chen, California State University

Dongyang Zhang, Capital University of Economics and Business

This special issue addresses how digital technologies, institutional environments, and governance mechanisms interact to shape firm behavior and market evolution. Contemporary firms face complex transformations driven by digitalization and artificial intelligence alongside institutional frictions such as regulatory uncertainty and financing constraints. The special issue seeks to integrate fragmented research streams on digital transformation, corporate governance, and institutional dynamics to develop a more comprehensive understanding of firm-level adaptation in emerging markets.

The call welcomes submissions exploring how digital governance frameworks, enterprise transformation, and corporate governance mechanisms jointly influence innovation and firm competitiveness. Research may examine topics including digital transformation strategies, artificial intelligence adoption, corporate governance structures, institutional frictions affecting finance and trade, geopolitical impacts, and new measurement approaches. Submissions should make significant theoretical or empirical contributions to understanding emerging market dynamics.

Appel publié par Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Digital governance, regulation, and corporate adaptation
• Data governance, cybersecurity, and privacy protection
• Corporate digital transformation
• Artificial intelligence, Intelligentization, and organizational upgrading
• Corporate governance and strategic adaptation in emerging markets
• Corporate governance, finance, and trade under institutional frictions
• Institutional frictions, digital finance, and firms' access to capital
• Geopolitical uncertainty and firms' strategic reconfiguration
• New trends in innovation, productivity, and value creation
• ESG, sustainability, and responsible governance
• Cross-country differences in technology institutions, and governance
• Alternative data and new measurement approaches

Timeline

• August 1, 2026: Special issue linked symposium
• December 31, 2026: Manuscript submission deadline

Haijie Wang, Zhengzhou University

Yanchao Feng, Zhengzhou University

Emerging markets are experiencing transformative changes as digital technologies and green transitions converge, creating new opportunities and challenges. This special issue examines how the integration of digital infrastructure with low-carbon energy systems affects economic performance, financial markets, and development outcomes in emerging economies, addressing questions of regulatory alignment, financial constraints, and equitable access to resources.

The issue seeks theoretical and empirical research on how digital-green transformation influences macroeconomic dynamics, investment flows, trade patterns, and policy design in emerging markets. Research should explore mechanisms linking technological advancement and environmental imperatives while considering implications for inclusive growth, financial systems, competitiveness, and institutional frameworks across diverse emerging market contexts.

Appel publié par Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Digital-Green Investment Efficiency
• Carbon Markets and Digital Platforms
• Energy-Digital Infrastructure Finance
• Digitalization and Trade Costs
• Green Innovation and Firm Productivity
• Smart Grid Investment Models
• Digital Electricity Pricing Mechanisms
• Renewables, Data, and Capital Flows
• Digitalization and Energy Subsidies
• Climate Tech and FDI Flows
• Socioeconomic Impacts of Energy Transition in Emerging Markets

Timeline

• October 1, 2025: Open date for paper submission
• September 30, 2027: Manuscript deadline

Susan Sunila Sharma, Deakin University

Badri Narayan Rath, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad

Alok Kumar Mishra, University of Hyderabad

This special issue examines how geopolitical tensions, particularly conflicts in West Asia, influence international trade dynamics and economic development across the Asia-Pacific region. The initiative brings together academics, researchers, policymakers, and financial experts to explore the interconnections between geopolitical disruptions and trade relationships, and their implications for regional economic stability.

Papers should investigate how recent policy shifts in external, fiscal, and monetary domains reshape trade patterns and economic performance in Asia-Pacific economies. The special issue seeks high-quality research that deepens understanding of these complex relationships and their potential risks to sustainable growth in the region.

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Potential topics

• Effects of geopolitical tensions on trade disruption and economic growth in Asia-Pacific Region
• Impact of ongoing conflict in West Asia on international trade
• External, fiscal and monetary policies and their effects on international trade and economic performance
• Complex interconnections between geopolitical tensions and international trade
• Risks to economic growth stability in the Asia-Pacific Region

Timeline

• April 1, 2027: Manuscript deadline

Susan Sharma, Deakin University

Zhenhua Zhang, Lanzhou University

Jinjun Xue, Nagoya University

Geopolitical tensions are causing significant disruptions in global energy markets, fundamentally affecting energy security and economic stability in emerging markets. These shocks create complex challenges including energy accessibility issues, imported inflation, trade imbalances, and capital flow disruptions that threaten macroeconomic stability and development trajectories.

This special issue seeks to understand how energy security and economic dynamics interact within emerging markets facing geopolitical pressures. The focus is on examining transmission channels between energy sector shocks and broader economic effects, as well as policy responses that emerging economies are implementing through energy diversification, financial hedging, supply chain resilience, and green energy transitions.

The special issue welcomes theoretical and empirical research exploring the interconnections between energy security and economic dynamics, with emphasis on implications for macroeconomic stability, financial resilience, industrial restructuring, sustainable growth, and socioeconomic development in emerging markets.

Appel publié par Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Geopolitical shocks: Transmission to energy markets and economic activities
• Energy security strategies and their impacts on investment, trade, and industrial dynamics
• Financial market volatility and energy security financing
• Cross-border capital flows, exchange rates, and the vulnerability of energy imports
• The role of hedging strategies in energy markets for mitigating economic risks
• Trade pattern restructuring, energy diversification, and economic resilience
• Financing the green energy transition amid geopolitical risks
• Energy price volatility, corporate productivity, and overall economic performance
• A comprehensive policy framework balancing energy security and economic stability
• The socioeconomic impacts of energy insecurity in emerging markets
• Geopolitical shocks, trade policy uncertainty, and international economic development
• The green energy transition and energy security resilience
• Accelerating energy transition through green innovation amid energy risks
• Supply chain resilience and economic development under trade policy uncertainty

Timeline

• August 1, 2026: Open date for paper submission
• July 15, 2027: End date for paper submission

Shuping Li, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Martin Conyon, Bentley University

Hanqing Chevy Fang, Missouri University of Science and Technology

Junxiong Fang, Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics

Lerong He, State University of New York at Geneseo

Michael Jensen and William Meckling's article, 'Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs, and Ownership Structure', published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 1976, laid the foundation for modern corporate governance scholarship. Grounded in the Anglo-American model of dispersed ownership and professional management, the paper framed the firm as a nexus of contracts, highlighting how agency costs arise when the interests of owners and managers diverge. As of August 2025, the article has been cited over 145,000 times, making it one of the most influential contributions in management and economics literature.

Appel publié par Management and Organization Review. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• How do hybrid ownership arrangements (e.g., mixed state–private ownership, pyramidal control structures) affect the emergence and management of agency conflicts in Chinese firms?
• How do regulatory reforms, such as the implementation of "golden shares," reconfigure ownership concentration and control rights in listed Chinese firms?
• How do the presence of 'golden shares' or cross-ownership arrangements dampen or enhance strategic autonomy in Chinese private enterprises?
• How do political cycles or changes in national development strategy (e.g., 'state advances, private retreats') influence firm-level ownership restructuring and shape performance and other outcomes?
• To what extent does common ownership exist in Chinese capital markets, and how does it affect competition, monitoring, and firm performance?
• How do sovereign wealth funds influence ownership structures and governance practices in firms where they hold significant stakes?
• What forms of shareholder activism have emerged in China, and how do they shape managerial behavior, firm policies, and the protection of minority investors?
• How and why do firms in China actively reshape their shareholding over time?
• To what extent is ownership structure in Chinese firms an outcome of strategic bargaining among state actors, business elites, and capital markets?
• What are the motives of different types of owners in China? Under what conditions do controlling shareholders in Chinese firms internalize agency costs, and how does this influence their governance behaviors?
• What informal monitoring practices (e.g., political ties, relational contracts, network-based reputation mechanisms) substitute or complement formal governance mechanisms in different types of Chinese ownership structures?
• How do different types of owners (e.g., state, family, institution, etc.) interact within the firm, and what costs and benefits do each type of owner bring to the organization?
• How do shareholder–stakeholder interfaces operate in China, particularly where shareholder priorities may conflict with broader social and environmental objectives of the state and local government?
• How do ownership structures in China differ from those in other emerging and developed economies, and what does this reveal about the boundary conditions of agency theory?
• How can big data analytics and network analysis uncover patterns of ownership concentration, crossholdings, or relational ties that are not visible in traditional datasets?
• What insights can ethnographic or qualitative methods, such as grounded theory and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA), provide into the informal norms, political connections, and social relationships that underpin ownership arrangements in China?
• How can mixed-method approaches combine archival data, surveys, and fieldwork to capture the multi-level dynamics of ownership in Chinese firms?
• Other methodological innovations in the study of ownership to capture evolving and complex patterns of governance.
• How do the other theoretical frameworks, such as behavioral theory of the firm, upper echelons theory, resource dependence theory, and managerial cognitive perspective, complement agency theory to explain ownership mechanisms in China, and under what circumstances?
• Research that develops an indigenous theory of ownership structure rooted in the Chinese context.

Timeline

• November 1, 2026: Full paper submission deadline

S. Tamer Cavusgil, Georgia State University

Marleen Dieleman, IMD Business School

Md. Tareq Hossain, Thammasat University

Ruey-Jer "Bryan" Jean, National Taiwan University

Destan Kandemir, Georgia State University

Suntichai Kotcharin, Thammasat University

Hussain Rammal, Adelaide University

Southeast Asia represents a significant yet theoretically under-explored region in international business research. With ten ASEAN economies forming the world's fifth-largest economic bloc and attracting substantial foreign investment, the region presents unique phenomena including supply chain reconfiguration driven by China-plus-one strategies, the emergence of regional multinationals, and institutional diversity across countries with different political systems and development stages.

Despite its empirical importance, Southeast Asia remains underrepresented in leading international management journals, where research focuses predominantly on China and India. This special issue seeks contributions that treat Southeast Asian phenomena as theoretically generative rather than merely illustrative. It particularly encourages submissions from scholars based in the region and aims to develop international management theory beyond existing BRICS-centric frameworks by leveraging the region's distinctive features including family capitalism, ethnic-Chinese business networks, state-linked enterprises, and ASEAN-level institutional structures.

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

Potential topics

• The rise and internationalization of Southeast Asian multinationals, including digital-native champions, conglomerate-based regional players, and state-linked enterprises
• Supply-chain reconfiguration, maritime connectivity, and regional supply-chain governance in Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines
• Cross-border trade, geopolitics, and strategies of Southeast Asian firms hedging between major power blocs
• Indigenous theorizing and methodological innovation drawing on Southeast Asian intellectual traditions and fieldwork methods

Timeline

• March 30, 2027: Submission deadline

This call invites research proposals focused on African financial markets and emerging markets research. The journal seeks high-quality submissions that advance our understanding of financial phenomena in African contexts and emerging market economies.

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

Potential topics

• African financial markets
• Emerging markets research
• Financial economics in Africa

Timeline

• May 30, 2027: Submission deadline

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

Timeline

• August 31, 2026: Full paper submission deadline

Florian Becker-Ritterspach, HTW Berlin

Raghda El Ebrashi, German International University (Cairo)

Jasper Hotho, Copenhagen Business School

Environmental degradation has become an urgent global concern, with emerging and developing economies facing a particularly complex set of challenges. While many of these countries are rapidly industrializing and increasingly integrated into global value chains, they often lack the regulatory infrastructures, institutional capacity, and enforcement mechanisms necessary to ensure environmentally responsible economic activity. These so-called environmental institutional voids amplify the negative externalities of business operations, threatening both ecological integrity and long-term development prospects.

Appel publié par Critical perspectives on international business. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Defining and conceptualizing environmental institutional voids in emerging markets, and assessing how these voids impact environmental outcomes and corporate behavior. What constitutes an "environmental" institutional void, and how do formal and informal institutions interact to exacerbate or mitigate negative externalities of business operations
• Examining how firms strategically respond to institutional voids to achieve environmental objectives, including circumventing strategies (bypassing institutional deficiencies), coping mechanisms (adapting to challenges in the absence of robust institutions), and compensating actions (offsetting negative environmental impacts when formal governance is lacking)
• Investigating the influence of multinational enterprises in host countries with weak environmental institutions. How do MNEs transfer environmental standards and best practices from developed to emerging markets, and with what effects? In what ways can MNEs act as catalysts for improved local environmental governance or institutional change?
• Investigating the emergence of environmental or "green" innovation in contexts of institutional voids. When formal support or infrastructure is lacking, how do companies and entrepreneurs innovate to solve environmental problems? Topics may include frugal innovation, social innovation partnerships, and novel business models that address institutional gaps
• Analyzing how institutional voids influence the transition towards sustainability (such as shifts to low-carbon energy, circular economy, or sustainable agriculture) in emerging markets. How actors adapt business models to propel sustainability transitions despite voids
• Exploring how state actors in emerging markets influence the persistence or reduction of environmental institutional voids. How different state configurations enable or constrain MNEs in implementing robust environmental strategies and how tensions between national sovereignty and transnational environmental standards shape corporate practices
• Identifying public policy frameworks and collaborative approaches that can help close environmental institutional voids. What roles can governments, international organizations, and civil society play in partnership with business to strengthen environmental governance?

Timeline

• January 1, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• September 30, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission