Jasmine Jaim, Jahangirnagar University

Huriye Yeröz, De Montfort University

Bronwyn Wood, United Arab Emirates University

This special issue challenges the predominant narrative in scholarship on women entrepreneurs facing crises, which typically emphasizes their vulnerabilities and capacity to endure hardship. Instead, the call invites research that positions women entrepreneurs as active agents driving meaningful change across individual, familial, community, regional, national, and global levels.

The special issue seeks contributions examining both the positive and negative dimensions of entrepreneurship during crises, spanning the crisis period itself as well as pre- and post-crisis contexts. It aims to advance understanding of how gender intersects with entrepreneurship and crisis experiences, filling gaps in existing theory, empirical knowledge, and policy recommendations.

Appel publié par Gender Work and Organization. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Crisis and entrepreneurial or societal opportunities
• Crisis and women entrepreneurs' identities, strengths and strategies
• Crisis and women entrepreneurs' contributions to society
• Crisis and a more gender equitable society through women's entrepreneurship
• Post-Crisis and women entrepreneurs in peacebuilding and regeneration
• Post-Crisis and impact of resilience
• Post-Crisis and women entrepreneurs' better work-life balance, improved wellbeing concern and healthier relationships with employees
• Crises, women's entrepreneurship and power relations
• Crisis and dark sides of women's entrepreneurship
• Women's entrepreneurship, crises, and entrepreneurial eco-systems
• Women's entrepreneurship, crises, and other-than-humans
• Women's entrepreneurship, crises and entrepreneurial education
• Women's entrepreneurship, crises, and feminist perspectives

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Michelle Fernandez, Universidade de Brasília

Fernando Nieto-Morales, El Colegio de México

This special issue examines female leadership in public bureaucracies, addressing persistent structural barriers limiting women's access to senior positions and the transformative potential of gender-diverse leadership. It seeks to understand how gender shapes governance and policy outcomes across diverse national contexts, particularly in Global South settings where gender inequalities intersect with institutional fragility.

While formal mechanisms like gender quotas and merit-based recruitment have expanded pathways for women, informal norms and implicit biases continue to perpetuate gendered hierarchies. The issue explores how institutional arrangements and organizational cultures shape women's trajectories and how female leadership influences accountability and sector performance.

The collection welcomes empirical contributions examining drivers and obstacles to women's leadership, factors shaping their careers, and policy impacts. Comparative perspectives, intersectional approaches, and research on Global South experiences are particularly encouraged.

Appel publié par Public Administration and Development. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Gendered patterns of promotion in the public sector
• Institutional reforms aimed at fostering gender parity in public leadership
• Informal networks, mentorship, and the role of social capital in career advancement
• Intersectional inequalities shaping women's leadership in government
• The impact of female leadership on public service delivery and public policy
• The effects of female leadership on public sector organizational culture and accountability

Timeline

• October 1, 2026: Deadline for proposal submissions
• July 1, 2027: Deadline for full manuscript submissions

Natalia Vershinina, Audencia Business School

Amitabh Anand, Excelia Business School

Ivona Hideg, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Sanja Pekovic, University of Montenegro

Ivana Bulog, University of Split

Azra Bičo, International University of Sarajevo

Simona Kukovič, School of Advanced Social Studies & University of Ljubljana

The Western Balkans present a distinctive context for studying gender and work, combining labour-market gender gaps, high female inactivity, and informality with legacies of conflict and complex state-society relations. Women have played crucial roles in post-conflict recovery and civil society development, but existing global organizational theories inadequately capture these experiences and contributions.

This special issue seeks rigorous, comparative research that documents contemporary gendered labour dynamics in the region, theorizes how regional specificities—such as post-socialist transition, conflict legacies, and EU integration pressures—shape organizational practices and careers, and develops conceptual contributions relevant to global gender and organization scholarship. The issue particularly welcomes papers evaluating policy effectiveness and linking local practices to international regimes.

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Potential topics

• Gendered labour markets, informality, care work, and self-employment in the Balkans
• Gender pay inequality and organizational stratification
• Gendered leadership, management, and corporate governance
• Policy, Europeanization, and institutional change affecting gender equality
• Flexible work, gig economy, and new forms of gendered work
• Gender norms, education, and reproduction of inequality
• Patriarchy, religion, and gendered organizational cultures
• Urbanization, space, and gendered work practices

Timeline

• December 1, 2026: Submission deadline

Sophie Hennekam, Audencia Business School

Bettina Lynda Bastian, American University in Bulgaria

Bruno Felix, Fundação Dom Cabral

This special issue explores how neurodiversity and gender intersect in workplace settings. Neurodivergent individuals possess valuable cognitive strengths but face significant employment challenges including high unemployment, discrimination, and limited career advancement, often due to neurotypical workplace norms.

Gender compounds these challenges, as neurodivergent women and gender-diverse individuals navigate both ableist expectations and societal gender norms. Diagnostic criteria biased toward male presentation result in underdiagnosis for other genders. Despite growing awareness of neurodiversity, organizational research remains limited, particularly regarding intersections with diverse gender identities.

The special issue invites empirical, conceptual, and practice-based research applying organizational theories to understand neurodivergent workers' experiences. It welcomes unconventional methodologies, interdisciplinary collaborations, and submissions from neurodivergent scholars, aiming to generate insights beneficial to both organizational practice and scholarship.

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Potential topics

• Unique challenges and opportunities neurodivergent and gender-diverse individuals face in the workplace
• Co-occurrence of multiple forms of neurodivergence and its impact on workplace experiences
• Role of organizational culture, co-workers, and diversity policies in shaping experiences of neurodivergent individuals
• How societal norms surrounding femininity affect workplace experiences of neurodivergent women
• Intersection of neurodivergence with other marginalized identities
• Insights from experiences of gender-diverse neurodivergent individuals regarding gender norms and identity expression
• Participatory research methodologies that empower neurodivergent voices
• Manifestation of stereotypes about neurodiversity differently for men and women in professional environments
• Navigation of identities by non-binary or gender-diverse individuals within predominantly ableist workplaces
• Role of cultural perceptions in shaping experiences of neurodivergent individuals across different genders
• Organizational support for neurodivergent individuals and creation of inclusive climate at work, including HRM policies and practices
• Coping strategies of neurodivergent individuals and gender differences in coping
• Identity management strategies and gender disclosure decisions of gender-diverse neurodivergent individuals at work

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Publication of Special Issue
• January 3, 2026: Call for papers online
• September 15, 2026: Papers due from contributors
• December 15, 2026: First round of blind review and editorial decisions
• March 15, 2027: Revised manuscripts back from contributors
• June 15, 2027: Second round of blind review and editorial decisions
• September 16, 2027: Final recommendations for publication or reject decisions

Elifcan Celebi, University of Oxford

Rossella Ciccia,

Ayşe Dursun, University of Vienna

David Palomera, University of Southern Denmark

The global care sector faces intensifying challenges from demographic changes, the pandemic, and fiscal constraints, resulting in overburdened systems and widening inequalities. Market-based and government responses have increasingly transformed care through commodification, financialisation, digitalization, and platformisation, with varied consequences across different regions and economies.

This special issue seeks empirical research exploring how care governance is being reshaped by economic, social, and technological changes, and how new political movements are mobilizing around care issues. The editors welcome studies using diverse methodologies and approaches—including feminist, intersectional, and postcolonial perspectives—that examine actors driving these transformations, institutional alternatives emerging across geographies, and policy innovations that might address the care crisis.

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Potential topics

• How do ongoing processes of commodification, financialisation, digitalization and (in)formalisation transform care? What roles do markets and financial actors, as well as international organizations, governments, feminist movements, labour organisations, play?
• How are new and old actors (such as care workers, social movements, care platforms, cooperatives, financial organisations, or public–private and public-communitarian partnerships) reshaping care infrastructures, practices, and labour across the Global North and Global South?
• How are emerging social, economic and technological processes reconfiguring the relationship between states, markets, families, and communities in different contexts? How do gender, race, care, labour, and migration regimes become entangled in new or altered ways at global, national and local scales? And how do these processes affect gender, class, race, nation hierarchies and intersecting inequalities across caregivers and care receivers?
• What kind of policy innovations offer promising alternatives to the structural crisis of care? Which proposals in diverse geographies (e.g., communitarian services, caring cities or care commons) from social movements, international organizations, experts, or local initiatives show promise to offer a pathway to a more caring society?

Timeline

• April 1, 2026: Submissions open
• October 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Natalia Vershinina, Audencia Business School

Cristina Bettinelli, University of Bergamo

Marco Mismetti, Stockholm School of Economics

Giovanna Campopiano, University of Bergamo

Paola Rovelli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano

Andreas Giazitzoglu, Northumbria University

This special issue examines how gender inequality in family firms operates through organisational structures and decision-making processes rather than individual attitudes. The call challenges mainstream family business research that overlooks how patriarchal norms systematically advantage male family members while rendering women's contributions invisible or subordinate.

Contributions should apply gender theory and the willingness-ability-authority framework to show how governance structures enable or constrain efforts toward redistribution of power. The editors particularly welcome studies exposing how initiatives may appear progressive without achieving substantive change, and work examining hegemonic masculinity in family contexts—how ideals of the effective heir shape succession decisions and police gender performances.

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Potential topics

• Hegemonic masculinities and succession: How are readiness, leadership potential and fit defined and performed in family firms? Which rites of passage, informal trials, and evaluation criteria enact masculinity contests among heirs? Under what discursive and relational conditions can men's explicit advocacy for equality enhance, rather than erode, their standing? When and how do care-centred, collaborative, or non-hegemonic masculinities gain legitimacy?
• Willingness, ability, and the redistribution of authority: Where does willingness collapse under kinship politics, and where does it convert into action? Which specific instruments — binding remuneration committees, gender-equal succession clauses, mixed family/non-family appointment slates with veto power — shift ability from kin coalitions to institutionalised bodies with enforceable rights? How do these arrangements travel across generational transitions?
• Emotional, aesthetic, and reputational glue work: How do feminised labours of harmony, client smoothing and reputational caretaking sustain legitimacy without converting into jurisdiction, ownership or promotion in family firms and in entrepreneurial families? What happens when these labours are surfaced, measured, rewarded, or redistributed, and what is the role of the family in this? How do these practices differentially tax daughters, wives, in-laws, and non-family managers?
• Temporal dynamics: path dependence and rupture: When do equality reforms survive family firm succession events? What tipping points loosen masculinity-contest logics and allow successors to deploy formal authority for redistribution rather than preservation? How do market shocks, legal changes, or religious norms recalibrate both willingness and ability in family firms? How do successors' identity work when logics evolve during a generational transition?
• Intersectional and comparative analysis: How do age, class, ethnicity, marital/parental status, sexual orientation, and religion shape the policing of masculinities, feminities and the credibility of actor's authority claims? How do family structures (extended families, polygamy, multi-branch ownership) mediate gendered governance? What travels, and what does not, across national cultures, legal frameworks, and faith traditions?
• External accountability vs. internal decision rights: When do ESG disclosures, audits, and investor or customer pressures reconfigure internal masculine ideals and decision rights in family firms and when are they absorbed as optics? What coupling mechanisms translate external accountability into binding internal authority for equality actors?

Timeline

• October 1, 2027: Submission deadline

This special issue examines the historical role and contributions of women in the accounting profession and discipline. The collection seeks to advance understanding of how women have shaped accounting practice, theory, and education across different time periods and contexts.

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Timeline

• September 28, 2026: Submission deadline

Shuang Lu Frost, Aarhus University

Magdalena Markowska, King's College London

Kai Roland Green, Aarhus University

Kimberly Eddleston, Northeastern University

Alisa Jno-Charles, Babson College

Haibo Zhou, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Ulla Hytti, University of Turku

Nearly half of early-stage entrepreneurs globally are raising children, yet the intersection of parenthood and entrepreneurship remains underexplored in research. Parent-entrepreneurs face unique tensions between childcare demands and business pressures at individual, family, and societal levels, while entrepreneurship often intensifies rather than resolves work-family conflict. Understanding these dynamics is crucial for developing effective support systems and policy frameworks that recognize the dual roles many founders navigate.

The special issue seeks both explanatory and interpretive research examining how parenthood shapes and is shaped by entrepreneurial activity across diverse family forms, parental roles, and regional contexts. Key areas include motherhood and entrepreneurship (beyond work-family balance), underexplored topics such as fatherhood, single parenthood, and LGBTQ+ parenting, household dynamics between partners and across generations, and how institutional frameworks and welfare policies influence parent-entrepreneurs differently across regions.

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Potential topics

• How do parent-entrepreneurs negotiate entrepreneurial and parental identities across gender, culture, and sexuality?
• How do emerging models of fatherhood/motherhood shape entrepreneurship?
• What role does founder identity transformation play in the transition to entrepreneurial parenthood?
• How do single parents, LGBTQ+ parents, and individuals in non-normative family forms experience entrepreneurial entry and growth?
• How is role conflict or role enrichment experienced differently by mothers and fathers in entrepreneurial families?
• How do partner dynamics and household egalitarianism shape entrepreneurial decisions?
• What specific resources (cognitive, financial, human, social capital) are transmitted from entrepreneurial parents to children?
• What are the lived experiences and well-being outcomes of children growing up in entrepreneurial households?
• How do macro-level factors (e.g., economic instability, policy frameworks) interact with household dynamics to influence children's outcomes and orientations?
• In what ways do interparental interactions and household role negotiations shape children's perception of entrepreneurship?
• How do entrepreneurial households balance opportunity creation with potential stress or instability for children?
• How do regional policies, parental leave systems, and childcare infrastructure shape entrepreneurial entry, continuation, and exit among parents?
• How do parent-entrepreneurs' experiences differ across welfare regimes (liberal, social-democratic, conservative, developing-country contexts)?
• What role do informal institutions and extended family networks play in enabling or constraining parental entrepreneurship?
• How does the portrayal of parent-entrepreneurs in media, public discourse, and cultural narratives affect entrepreneurial motives and sources of satisfaction?
• How does the self-representation and identity work of parent-entrepreneurs on social media and in entrepreneurial communities contribute to their business success and well-being?
• How do discursive ideals of 'good motherhood' or 'involved fatherhood' constrain or enable entrepreneurial action?
• What are the longitudinal effects of entrepreneurship on family well-being, and vice versa?
• How does parenthood influence innovation, creativity, or business performance?
• How do entrepreneurial career trajectories differ based on family status, parenting roles, and the timing of parenthood relative to venture creation?

Timeline

• June 1, 2026: Abstract deadline
• May 15, 2027: Submission window opens
• July 1, 2027: Manuscript deadline