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

Michele Acciaro, Copenhagen Business School

Martin Jes Iversen, Copenhagen Business School

Ioannis Lagoudis, University of Piraeus

Iryna Savelieva, Odesa National Maritime University

Dong Yang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Kum Fai Yuen, Nanyang Technological University

This special issue addresses how firms and innovation systems navigate security challenges facing critical infrastructure systems such as energy, transportation, telecommunications, and water. As infrastructure disruptions increasingly cascade through supply chains and threaten economic competitiveness, the intersection of innovation and security has become central to industrial dynamics and firm strategy. The call seeks contributions examining how technological, organizational, regulatory, and strategic innovations build infrastructure resilience while contending with geopolitical tensions, cyber threats, environmental pressures, and dual-use technology dilemmas.

The special issue examines innovation processes across multiple levels: firm-level adaptations to infrastructure vulnerabilities, sectoral coordination among heterogeneous actors, and policy frameworks managing tensions between openness and security controls. Contributions should explore how organizational innovations developed in response to infrastructure threats subsequently reshape infrastructure provision and adjacent sectors, and how innovation systems balance knowledge networking with security governance.

Appel publié par Industry and Innovation. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Innovation systems, governance, and geopolitics in critical infrastructure security
• Technological innovation systems (TIS) approach for CI security and dual-use technologies
• Sectoral and technological innovation systems in CI security
• Regulatory innovation and multi-level governance frameworks
• Geopolitical competition, technology sovereignty, and industrial policy
• Organizational innovation and adaptation in response to CI system vulnerabilities
• Firm strategies, organizational innovation, and business models for infrastructure security
• Resilience, supply chain security, and infrastructure interdependencies
• Digital transformation, automation, and cybersecurity in critical infrastructure
• Sustainability transitions and the security-environment nexus
• Socio-technical transitions, ethics, and human factors in CI security
• Multi-level dynamics of transitions with focus on critical infrastructure
• Sectoral applications: energy, transportation, telecommunications, water, financial systems, healthcare, mining, space, and Arctic infrastructure

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Publication of the SI
• December 15, 2026: Submission opens
• January 31, 2027: Submissions to the SI due

Escalating geopolitical tensions have become a defining feature of the contemporary international business environment. Recent scholarship has examined how firms cope with geopolitical uncertainty, focusing on organizational resilience, employee motivation in hostile contexts, and strategic deployment of human resources under conditions of conflict and instability. However, this work has largely overlooked one of the most profound consequences of geopolitical crises: large-scale, crisis-induced migration and the resulting global reconfiguration of human capital.

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

Potential topics

• Geopolitics as setting for migration - Do different geopolitical crises create unique migration contexts and consequences for organizations? How does the emergence of geopolitical migrants shape global migration flows, migration state policies, and firms' acquisition strategies? Do different geopolitical crises create different firm-level challenges and diverse organizational responses? How does geopolitical migration reshape the institutional environment for local and multinational companies? How do local businesses receiving geopolitical migrants tackle enormous migration flows resulting from wars and sudden instabilities? What capabilities are critical for companies to overcome migration challenges and create advantages with geopolitical migrants as a talent pool?
• Geopolitical migrants and diaspora groups - How may local organizations benefit from diverse geopolitical migrant groups? How do geopolitical migrants differ from other migrant groups in employment motives and cultural adjustment capabilities? What are the effects of diaspora expansion in host countries due to geopolitical migration? How have diasporas remained connected to home contexts and what effects emerge for home countries from geopolitical talent outflows? Can brain drain be turned into brain gain if migrants remain engaged in home country processes? To what extent and under what institutional conditions may geopolitical migrants reshape global and local labor markets?
• Migration restrictions and implications for local and international business players - Are migration restriction policies beneficial to local firms? Do nationalistic frictions that restrict migration protect economic interests or create barriers to human capital accumulation? How does institutional context influence organizational cultures and policies affecting migrant integration? How does perception of geopolitical conflict fairness influence state migration policies and migrant labor market inclusion? To what extent do migration restriction policies stimulate recirculation of geopolitical migrants? How does populism influence migration policies and state initiatives? How are different political regimes and varieties of capitalism connected to migration restrictions?
• Location choices and directions of migration flows - Does geographical proximity moderate geopolitical migration? How do historical relations between countries determine geopolitical migration flows and affect adjustment? How do multinational companies decide internationalization strategies considering migration flows? How do geopolitical migrants choose destinations? Which country-specific characteristics are perceived as attractive pull factors for geopolitical migrants?

Timeline

• January 6, 2027: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• August 31, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission