Martin Adam, University of Goettingen

Aaron Baird, Colorado State University

Mari-Klara Stein, Tallinn University of Technology

Alexander Benlian, Technical University of Darmstadt

AI is transitioning from a tool for individual productivity assistance to a participant in organizational action through agentic systems that can interpret goals, perceive states, plan actions, and execute tasks with autonomy. This shift reconfigures organizational arrangements, requiring new thinking about delegation, accountability, control, and oversight.

Agentic organizations embed AI agents within routines, systems, and workflows, creating sociotechnical arrangements impacting core operational systems. Information systems scholars are well-positioned to address this transition given existing expertise in organizational change, algorithmic management, platform governance, and human-AI collaboration.

This special issue seeks research on how organizations can design, govern, and manage human-AI ensembles while preserving accountability, resilience, and human judgment. Papers should examine delegated agentic participation in organizational action, including governance mechanisms, workflow redesign, multi-agent systems, epistemic challenges, workforce implications, and safety considerations.

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

Potential topics

• Delegated autonomy and control in agentic organizations
• Accountability and oversight mechanisms for AI agents
• Agentic process redesign and workflow transformation
• Organizational capability building for agentic systems
• Multi-agent orchestration and coordination
• Agent interoperability and digital ecosystems
• Epistemic governance and trust in AI agents
• Opacity and contestability of AI-generated actions
• Cognitive and behavioral implications of agentic AI
• Workforce implications and professional identity
• Skill formation and reliance on AI agents
• Resilience and safety in agentic systems
• Security and compliance in agentic workflows
• Societal consequences and ethical implications of agentic AI
• Human-AI ensembles and human authority preservation

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Final decision and publication
• December 15, 2026: Optional extended abstract submission deadline
• February 1, 2027: Full paper submission deadline
• May 1, 2027: First round of reviews completed
• September 1, 2027: Paper revisions due
• November 1, 2027: Second round of reviews completed
• February 1, 2028: Second paper revisions due

Associate editors

• Armin Alizadeh, Technical University of Darmstadt
• Abhijith Annand, University of Arkansas
• Langtao Chen, University of Tulsa
• Christy M. K. Cheung, Hong Kong Baptist University
• W. Alec Cram, University of Waterloo
• Carolina Alves de Lima Salge, University of Georgia
• Thomas Hess, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• Ekaterina Jussupow, Technical University of Darmstadt
• Harris Kyriakou, ESSEC
• Aron Lindberg, Stevens Institute of Tech
• Anne-Sophie Mayer, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• Abhay Mishra, University of Arkansas
• Long The Nguyen, Washington State University
• William Olivera, Florida State University
• Gabriele Piccoli, Louisiana State University
• Magno Queiroz, Florida Atlantic University
• Marta Stelmaszak, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Timo Sturm, Technical University of Darmstadt
• Scott Thiebes, Tongji University
• Thomas Ware, University of Pittsburgh
• Martin Wiener, Technical University of Dresden
• David Xu, City University of Hong Kong

Steven Parker, Open University

Kate Broadhurst, Loughborough University

Public service hubs are organizational arrangements bringing together multiple services and professionals to address complex social challenges. Despite their growing adoption, these hubs remain poorly conceptualized and theoretically underdeveloped. The special issue seeks to advance understanding of what constitutes a hub, how it differs from other collaborative forms, and what value it creates.

The call particularly welcomes research examining financial and resourcing dimensions of hub working, including funding mechanisms, commissioning, and value-for-money evaluations. Submissions should critically explore hub design, implementation, governance, and evaluation, acknowledging the diversity of models ranging from specialist to inclusive arrangements, and including emerging digital variants. Contributions may draw on various theoretical frameworks and examine hubs internationally using alternative terminology.

The journal invites practitioner-academic collaborations and welcomes debate and new development formats alongside research articles.

Appel publié par Public Money & Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Conceptualizing and defining public service delivery hubs
• Evolution of hub-based approaches across public services
• Hub forms, hybridity, and access
• Governance, leadership, and management of hubs
• Information sharing and inter-professional working in hubs
• Funding, commissioning and financial sustainability of hub models
• Hub user experiences, accessibility, and equity
• Public value creation in hub models
• Evaluating hub outcomes and value for money
• Challenges and unintended consequences of hubs
• Global hub perspectives

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Extended abstract submission deadline
• March 31, 2027: Research articles submission deadline
• June 30, 2027: Debate articles and new development articles submission deadline

Itohan Esther Aigwi, Auckland University of Technology

Timothy O. Adekunle, University of Utah

Funmilayo Ebun Rotimi, Auckland University of Technology

This special issue seeks to develop integrated approaches combining digital innovation with sustainability in construction. Rather than examining these areas separately, it aims to establish comprehensive frameworks that connect digital technologies with measurable sustainability outcomes, including enhanced benchmarking methods, governance structures, and implementation strategies.

The issue addresses gaps in current research by exploring how emerging technologies like BIM, digital twins, and AI can support sustainability goals. It examines the organisational changes, leadership requirements, and regulatory mechanisms necessary for successful digital-sustainability transitions in construction.

Through collaboration among researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers, the special issue aims to establish clear frameworks and performance-assessment methodologies that demonstrate how digital innovations contribute to sustainability targets across the construction sector and support several UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Appel publié par Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Digital transformation for sustainable construction delivery
• Building Information Modelling (BIM)
• Digital twins
• Artificial intelligence and IoT
• Data-driven project management
• Frameworks for integrating digital innovation and sustainability
• Multi-level assessment models
• Emerging technologies and future construction systems
• Robotics and digital fabrication
• Immersive technologies
• Artificial intelligence and advanced analytics
• Climate risk prediction
• Sustainable design and construction optimisation
• Circular economy and resource efficiency
• Material tracking and digital material passports
• Blockchain in construction
• Lifecycle sustainability assessment
• Carbon management
• Smart infrastructure and climate-resilient cities
• Data-driven sustainability
• Benchmarking and performance measurement systems
• Digital maturity metrics
• Policy and regulatory frameworks
• Governance for digital and sustainable construction
• Organisational capability and leadership
• Change management for digital transformation
• Human skills and workforce transformation
• Post-disaster recovery and reconstruction
• Climate-responsive rebuilding
• Digital procurement
• Supply chain integration and transparency
• Global and regional comparative studies

Timeline

• January 9, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• May 20, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

David B. Audretsch, Indiana University Bloomington

Maksim Belitski, University of Reading

Rosa Caiazza, Parthenope University of Naples

Nicolai J. Foss, Copenhagen Business School

Donald Siegel, Arizona State University

This special issue examines how entrepreneurial judgment operates within modern business ecosystems rather than in isolation. While prior research has focused on individual decision-making and single firms, contemporary entrepreneurship involves complex collaborations, alliances, and digital platforms where multiple stakeholders must coordinate their judgments under uncertainty. The issue seeks to understand how entrepreneurs communicate their private and tacit knowledge to ecosystem participants, and how various governance arrangements facilitate or hinder this coordination.

The guest editors invite submissions that bridge entrepreneurship, strategy, and organizational research to explore the mechanisms through which judgment is mobilized, organized, and exploited across ecosystem actors. Key questions include how entrepreneurs convey tacit judgment while managing risks of knowledge leakage, how ecosystem governance structures affect stakeholder coordination, and whether heterogeneous judgments can outperform consensus-based decision-making. The issue aims to consolidate fragmented literature across disciplines into a cohesive multilevel research agenda.

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

Potential topics

• Communicating tacit entrepreneurial judgment in ecosystems
• Ecosystem governance and orchestration mechanisms
• Partial communicability and knowledge protection in collaboration
• Distributed judgment and performance in ecosystems
• Ecosystem dynamics and role structure
• AI and decision-support tools in entrepreneurial ecosystems

Timeline

• January 1, 2027: Submission window opens
• March 1, 2027: Full paper submission deadline

Associate editors

• Peter Klein, Baylor University

Chiara Civera, University of Turin

Demetris Vrontis, University of Nicosia

Sanjit K. Roy, Edith Cowan University

Valentina Chiaudano, University of Turin

The special issue examines how emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, and blockchain can reshape marketing strategies toward a multi-stakeholder approach in global contexts. While firms increasingly deploy advanced technologies to enhance customer engagement and personalization, there is limited understanding of how these technologies can support marketing that simultaneously addresses the interests of employees, suppliers, regulators, communities, and society. The issue seeks to bridge this gap by exploring how NATs enable stakeholder engagement, value creation, and governance across global marketing ecosystems.

Appel publié par Journal of Strategic Marketing. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Artificial Intelligence and Value Co-Creation in Global Marketing Ecosystems: how AI and advanced technologies reshape marketing strategies, processes, and interactions among multiple stakeholders in global markets; how NATs enable new forms of value co-creation among firms, customers, suppliers, regulators, and communities; how technology-enabled marketing infrastructures enhance transparency and coordination across global value chains
• Governance, Ethics, and Responsible AI in Marketing: ethical, governance, and organizational implications of NAT-driven marketing systems; algorithmic bias, transparency, accountability, and fairness in data-driven marketing practices; governance mechanisms and organizational capabilities for implementing responsible and transparent NAT-enabled marketing strategies; managing stakeholder tensions and trade-offs arising from NAT-supported marketing decisions
• Cross-Country Dynamics of New-age Technologies in Marketing: how institutional environments, cultural contexts, and regulatory frameworks influence the adoption and governance of artificial intelligence in global marketing; cross-country differences in implementation of NAT-enabled marketing strategies; how new-age technologies influence global marketing strategy and ecosystem coordination; how NATs support sustainable, inclusive, and responsible marketing practices in global markets

Timeline

• April 30, 2027: Manuscript submission deadline

This special issue seeks contributions addressing how cities can enhance ecological resilience while prioritizing human well-being and livability. The focus is on governance approaches and pathways that integrate ecological sustainability with human-centered urban development.

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

Timeline

• October 15, 2027: Submission deadline

This special issue focuses on the governance and management of artificial intelligence applications within business education settings. The call addresses concerns related to risks associated with AI use and explores preventive measures and strategies for responsible AI governance in educational contexts.

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

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue invites scholarly work on how technology ecosystems can effectively govern the transformation brought about by artificial general intelligence (AGI). The collection seeks to examine the interplay between technological advancement and institutional structures, with particular attention to questions of global power distribution and how societies will be impacted by these shifts.

Appel publié par Technology in Society. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• November 1, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue examines the often-overlooked negative externalities and challenges accompanying technological progress, particularly in the shift toward Industry 5.0. Rather than celebrating innovation uncritically, the call invites research that interrogates the hidden risks, governance gaps, and sustainability concerns that emerge during major industrial transitions.

The special issue seeks contributions that address how societies can navigate technological change while minimizing harm, establishing effective governance mechanisms, and ensuring sustainable outcomes. It welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives on the complex relationship between technological advancement, environmental protection, social welfare, and economic viability.

Appel publié par Technology in Society. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Risks associated with technological advancement and digital transformation
• Governance frameworks for emerging technologies
• Sustainability implications of Industry 4.0 and Industry 5.0
• Environmental and social costs of technological progress
• Policy and regulatory approaches to managing technological transitions
• Ethical considerations in technology deployment
• Human and organizational impacts of industrial transformation

Timeline

• January 18, 2027: Submission deadline

This special issue examines how data science reshapes project, programme, and portfolio management practices. Rather than focusing on technical algorithmic details, it seeks to understand how managers can translate data and algorithmic insights into better decisions, governance, and value creation across the project lifecycle. The collection emphasizes managerial transformation rather than technology as an add-on.

Contributions should address how data-driven practices improve decision quality and accountability, how governance mechanisms adapt to data-intensive work, and how manager and team competencies evolve. The special issue particularly welcomes research on adoption conditions, implementation challenges, and safeguards for ethical use, bias mitigation, and transparency in decision-making.

Submissions should prioritize actionable insights for practitioners through conceptual frameworks, empirical case studies, and practical artifacts such as decision frameworks, governance templates, and maturity models. Cross-sector studies demonstrating tangible managerial outcomes and connections to organizational strategy and broader societal value are especially encouraged.

Appel publié par International Journal of Managing Projects in Business. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Data-driven decision-making in project environments: Exploring how data science enhances or transforms decision processes across the project lifecycle, including planning, monitoring, and risk management emphasizing chances, challenges and risk.
• Integration of data science methodologies into project management practices: Studies applying or adapting methods such as machine learning, data mining, or predictive analytics to project-specific contexts.
• Data science and project governance, ethics, and accountability: Examining the implications of algorithmic decision-making, data privacy, and ethical use of data in managing projects.
• The evolving role of the project manager in data-rich contexts: Investigating new competencies, skills, and leadership styles required for managing data-intensive or AI-augmented projects. Discussing the relationship between project managers and data science experts in project management.
• Real-time data, dashboards and analytics for project monitoring and control: Contributions on the design and limits, use and evaluation of real-time performance tracking and visualisation tools in project management.
• Data ecosystems and infrastructure in large-scale or complex projects: Studies addressing the architecture, integration, and governance of data sources across distributed project networks.
• Cross-disciplinary applications of data science in projects: Interdisciplinary work linking project management with fields such as operations research, information systems, computational social science, or engineering.
• AI, big data and automation in project scheduling, forecasting, and resource allocation: Empirical or conceptual work on how intelligent systems are used to optimize project efficiency and adaptability.
• Data-enabled project evaluation, benefits realisation, and impact assessment: Using data science to better measure and predict the value, outcomes, and sustainability of projects, including alignment with SDGs.
• Theoretical and conceptual contributions linking data science and project studies: Frameworks and models that critically examine the intersection of data science and project management as evolving disciplines.
• AI-empowered stakeholder engagement in large-scale or complex projects: Leveraging AI to enhance stakeholder analysis, communication, and collaboration in complex projects, optimizing engagement strategies and improving project outcomes through predictive insights and automated interaction tools.

Timeline

• January 4, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• July 31, 2026: Closing date for abstract submission
• January 31, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Enis Elezi, University of Westminster

Knowledge-intensive organisations face mounting complexity from resource constraints, digitalisation, accountability demands, and geopolitical pressures. Existing research on these challenges remains fragmented across disciplinary silos and often lacks systemic understanding of how these institutions observe, interpret and respond to complexity.

This special issue integrates typically isolated scholarly conversations about leadership, governance, risk, knowledge and entrepreneurship within a cybernetic framework. It explores the interconnected processes of observation, communication, decision and learning that enable organisations to adapt and remain viable across sectors including universities, health systems, research institutes and public agencies.

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

Potential topics

• Leadership and governance as systemic architectures of observation, decision and learning
• Enterprise-wide risk management, knowledge management and entrepreneurship as interconnected cybernetic processes
• Cross-sector analyses of universities, health systems, research institutes, public agencies and professional service firms as complex learning systems
• Reflexive and second-order perspectives on how organisations construct and revise their own governance arrangements
• Theory-as-method applications using cybernetics, systems thinking or complexity frameworks

Timeline

• January 26, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• December 26, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Mehmet Recai Uygur, Kaunas University of Technology

Eglė Celiešienė, Kaunas University of Technology

Sami Çoksan, Western University

This special issue examines democracy through a systems-theoretical lens, addressing the structural tension between democratic openness and the need to manage threats to institutions and public order. The editors invite contributions that apply cybernetics and complexity theory to understand how democratic systems observe, communicate about and respond to various pressures including war, pandemics, disinformation, migration and technological disruption.

The issue seeks to integrate perspectives from multiple fields including democratic theory, governance, securitisation studies, media research and resilience thinking. It particularly welcomes work that moves beyond linear explanations to analyse feedback loops, recursive processes and unintended consequences of governance interventions, examining paradoxes such as liberty versus security and inclusion versus exclusion.

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

Potential topics

• Democracy as a self-referential and paradoxical system
• Democratic resilience, backsliding, institutional learning and adaptation
• Securitisation, threat construction, emergency politics and exceptional measures
• Disinformation, AI, digital platforms and democratic communication
• Migration, protest, border governance and inclusion/exclusion dynamics
• War, pandemics, climate stress and economic shocks as coupled crises
• Public administration, critical infrastructures and cross-sector governance
• Multilevel governance, polycentric coordination and state-business-civil society relations
• Formal and methodological innovations, including systems mapping, simulations, network analysis and truth tables
• Normative and design implications for reflexive, resilient and trustworthy democratic governance

Timeline

• January 5, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• December 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Samuel MacAulay, University of Queensland

Llewellyn D. W. Thomas, University of Sydney

Andrew Davies, University of Sussex

Projects operate within complex ecosystems of interdependent actors, institutions, and relationships that shape value creation and capture far beyond traditional project boundaries. Rather than treating projects as isolated endeavors, this special issue examines how projects are shaped by and shape their broader contexts, addressing gaps in understanding contextual influences on project outcomes. Emerging challenges such as digital transformation, sustainability transitions, and global interconnectedness create new contextual complexities requiring both theoretical and practical attention.

The special issue seeks research that conceptualizes project ecosystems, explores governance and orchestration mechanisms, and investigates temporal and evolutionary dynamics. Contributions should examine how contextual embeddedness affects project ecosystem outcomes, how governance mechanisms evolve throughout project life cycles, how historical contexts shape current ecosystems, and what long-term impacts project contexts have on subsequent projects and relationships.

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

Potential topics

• Conceptualizing Project Ecosystems: Theoretical refinement and boundary clarification of project ecosystems and related constructs such as project ecologies and networks
• Empirical investigations of project ecosystems in various industries examining value creation opportunities and complementarities between ecosystem participants
• Comparative analyses exploring relationships, dependencies, and interactions between different project ecosystems and their contextual influences
• Measurement and assessment tools and frameworks for identifying and analyzing value creation and capture in project ecosystems
• Multilevel governance: Coordination mechanisms across different types of project ecosystems and organizational levels
• Network orchestration and activity integration: Leadership, participant cooperation, coordination, and balancing diversity and integration in project ecosystems
• Formal and informal governance: Contractual arrangements, relational governance, and how governance configurations shape value creation or destruction
• Dynamic governance: Evolution of ecosystem governance mechanisms throughout project ecosystem life cycles and the role of leaders and dynamic capabilities
• Context evolution: How project ecosystems evolve over time, project phases, and drivers of evolutionary processes
• Path dependencies: Historical contexts shaping current project ecosystems and antecedents and consequences of different contextual configurations
• Life cycle dynamics: How contextual influences shape different stages of project ecosystem development and interaction with temporal factors
• Legacy effects: Long-term impacts of project contexts on subsequent projects and relationships within ecosystems

Timeline

• December 31, 2025: Call for Papers Announcement
• October 15, 2026: Manuscript submission deadline
• December 1, 2027: Expected publication

Raffaele Ciriello, The University of Sydney Business School

Martin Adam, University of Goettingen

Zhongyun Zhou, Tongji University

AI companions are conversational systems designed to simulate human-like relationships and deployed as emotional support tools, tutors, and therapeutic assistants. Unlike conventional productivity software, their value derives from sustained interaction and personalised continuity, raising questions about trust, dependency, wellbeing, and how relational dynamics emerge through interactions between users, systems, and contexts.

This special issue invites Information Systems scholarship to examine AI companions through a relational lens extending beyond efficiency metrics. While these systems offer potential benefits such as broadened access to support, they simultaneously raise concerns about surveillance, manipulation, and commodified intimacy, reshaping individual capabilities and organisational practices.

The special issue welcomes theoretically ambitious and empirically grounded research across diverse methodologies that carefully theorise the sociotechnical characteristics of relational AI systems. Submissions should address design, governance, and use implications, with particular interest in interdisciplinary and critical perspectives.

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

Potential topics

• Dark sides of AI companions, problematic use patterns, and their potential roles in fostering delusions, harmful ideation, and maladaptive dependencies
• Relational perspectives on digital technologies: extending beyond instrumental and performance-based evaluation
• Social presence, parasocial interaction, and relationship formation with AI systems
• Anthropomorphism as a sociotechnical phenomenon: design, effects, and risks
• Design principles for AI systems that promote dignity, autonomy, trust, and human flourishing
• Hyper-personalisation and interaction-level adaptation in AI-mediated relationships
• How AI companions affect loneliness, wellbeing, identity formation, and social connection
• Human transformation through AI interaction: cognition, creativity, identity, and capability development
• Dependency, attachment, persuasion, and behavioural influence in sustained human–AI interaction
• Tensions and paradoxes in human–AI relationships
• AI companions in organisations, including changing work practices, expertise, authority, and control
• AI companions in healthcare, education, customer service, and public services: opportunities and risks
• Platform incentives, business models, and governance logics shaping relational AI
• Alternative governance and ownership models, including cooperative, open-source, and public-interest approaches
• Governance of emotionally sensitive data, privacy, portability, and consent
• Power asymmetries between users, providers, employers, and states in relational AI
• Youth, ageing populations, and other vulnerable stakeholders of relational AI
• Cross-cultural differences in companionship, intimacy, and acceptable machine roles
• Dual-use concerns, including manipulation, radicalisation, fraud, coercion, and political influence
• Regulatory and policy approaches to companion AI and socially consequential AI infrastructures
• Historical, philosophical, feminist, or critical perspectives on human–AI relations

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Extended abstract submission deadline (optional)
• March 31, 2027: Full paper submission deadline

Associate editors

• Anuragini Shirish, IMT Business School
• Arisa Shollo, Copenhagen Business School
• Stan Karanasios, University of Queensland
• Sven Laumer, Friedrich-Alexander University
• Angsana Techatassanasoontorn, Auckland University of Technology
• Christoph Breidbach, University of Queensland
• Hameed Chughtai, Lancaster University
• Evelyn Ng, University of Sydney
• Johan Sæbø, University of Oslo
• Brad McKenna, Norwich Business School
• Riitta Hekkala, Aalto University
• Kai Riemer, University of Sydney
• Dimitra Petrakaki, University of Sussex
• Avijit Sengupta, University of Queensland

Courtney Bower, Cornell University

This special issue invites empirically grounded research examining how the Black Sea region recovers and transforms amid conflict, economic transitions, and geopolitical uncertainty. The editors welcome submissions employing quantitative methods such as econometrics, input-output modeling, GIS, remote sensing, network analysis, and agent-based models, as well as mixed methods approaches. Studies offering actionable policy recommendations for diverse stakeholders including municipalities, port authorities, government ministries, and international organizations are particularly valued.

Appel publié par Growth and Change. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Spatial configurations and governance arrangements for resilient recovery
• Corridors, gateways, and supply chains under geopolitical stress
• Cross-national comparisons of economic, institutional, and geopolitical trajectories
• The Black Sea as a complex adaptive system
• Multi-scalar analyses of infrastructure networks
• Displacement, migration, return, and relocation
• Energy security and vulnerability in contested sub-regions
• Regional development transitions: past, present, and future
• Urban–rural disparities and interdependencies
• National and regional innovation systems and spillovers
• Diaspora finance and development
• Cross-scale policymaking shaping growth trajectories
• Workforce development, skills matching, and labor-market recovery
• Roles of institutional actors, international organizations, and non-governmental entities

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Petter Nielsen, University of Oslo

Laura Brandimarte, University of Arizona

Ben Eaton, Copenhagen Business School

Juliana Sutanto, Monash University

Mary Tate, Victoria University of Wellington

Daniel Veit, University of Augsburg

This special issue addresses digital sovereignty—the capacity of actors at individual, community, organizational, or national levels to make informed choices about sourcing, designing, and governing digital systems while avoiding dependency risks. The field encompasses concerns about data governance, platform reliance, interoperability, and AI transparency, reflecting growing political momentum globally from regions like the EU, Denmark, and China.

While digital sovereignty has attracted attention across policy, philosophy, and law, information systems research remains underdeveloped despite offering valuable socio-technical perspectives. This call seeks empirically grounded and theoretically ambitious research that explains digital sovereignty as a socio-technical accomplishment, including its tensions and trade-offs, alongside conceptual and review papers.

The special issue welcomes both qualitative and quantitative contributions that foreground digital technologies in context, drawing from relevant information systems research on infrastructures, digital innovation, platform governance, open-source solutions, and human-AI relationships.

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

Potential topics

• Conceptual and theoretical foundations of digital sovereignty in information systems and its unique properties compared to other conceptualizations of sovereignty
• Critical investigations of the sovereignty paradox – the sacrifice of sovereignty for the utility and efficiency of big-tech, related to path dependencies, shadow sovereignty and exit strategies
• The exercise of power by dominant players and its impact
• The specific sovereignty challenges of digital infrastructure, platforms, AI and other emerging technologies such as quantum computing
• Sovereignty-by-design: interoperability, standards, modularity, API governance, devolved, horizontal and open architectures
• Open-source, digital public goods, and open data commons as strategies for autonomy, resilience, and public value
• AI for managing sovereign digital infrastructures
• Global, regional and local governance, regulation and policy regarding data, platforms and infrastructures, and governance models
• Public sector digital sovereignty, including procurement, vendor lock-in, interoperability and capability building
• Surveillance, digital identity, biometrics, and the sovereignty implications for rights and democratic accountability
• Digital sovereignty in development and "post-aid" contexts: shifting dependencies, infrastructures at scale, and long-term sustainability
• Indigenous and minority groups disadvantaged by colonisation value sovereignty, especially over their data, including protection from misuse, responsible stewardship, and maintaining integrity
• Managing capability, skills, and technology gaps and deficits
• Managing choke points in critical technical layers
• Managing national policy alignment

Timeline

• March 31, 2027: Submission Deadline

Associate editors

• Tawfiq Alashoor, University of Navarra
• Armin Alizadeh, Technical University of Darmstadt
• Pierre-Emmanuel Arduin, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL
• Irwin Brown, University of Cape Town
• Jen Dailo Chandler, California State University
• Wonhyuk Cho, Ewha Womans University
• Jacqueline Corbett, Université Laval
• Tingru Cui, University of Melbourne
• Torgeir Dingsøyr, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Andreas Drechsler, Victoria University of Wellington
• Daniel Gozman, University of Sydney
• Agam Gupta, IIT Delhi
• Riitta Hekkala, Aalto University
• Federico Iannacci, University of Sussex
• Alexander Kempton, University of Oslo
• John Krogstie, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Shi-Ying Lim, National University of Singapore
• Shirin Madon, LSE
• Johan Magnusson, University of Gothenburg
• Antonio Martini, University of Oslo
• Silvia Masiero, University of Oslo
• Eric Monteiro, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Priyanka Pandey, King's College
• Roser Pujadas, University College London
• Alexander Rieger, University of Arkansas
• Tamara Roth, University of Arkansas
• Hanlie Smuts, University of Pretoria
• Timo Sturm, Technical University of Darmstadt
• Ruonan Sun, Monash University
• Johan Ivar Sæbø, University of Oslo
• Benjamin van Giffen, University of Lichtenstein
• Marjolein van Offenbeek, University of Groningen
• Will Venters, LSE
• Pauline Weritz, University of Twente
• Amber Young, University of Oklahoma
• Xiaojie Zhang, Ocean University of China
• Markus P. Zimmer, University of Agder

Denis Leclerc, Thunderbird School of Global Management

Vanessa Farsadaki, Thunderbird School of Global Management

Daniel Thomas, Thunderbird School of Global Management

The global space industry is undergoing transformation driven by private companies and technological advances that have lowered costs and expanded space's strategic relevance. Advanced technologies including satellite miniaturization, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing now support diverse economic activities from telecommunications to climate monitoring. This evolution occurs within a complex geopolitical context where multiple nations are expanding their capabilities and international frameworks are being developed to govern competition in orbital environments.

This special issue seeks scholarly contributions examining the evolving global space economy and its implications for business strategy, international management, and governance. The journal particularly encourages submissions exploring cross-country dynamics, multinational enterprises, global value chains, and international frameworks shaping the commercial space sector, submitted as empirical research, theoretical work, comparative studies, policy analyses, or case studies.

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

Potential topics

• Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies in Space: The role of artificial intelligence in mission planning, autonomous navigation, and satellite operations; big data analytics and the commercialization of satellite data; the impact of AI and cloud infrastructure on the global space innovation ecosystem
• Bioeconomics and Human Health: Biomedical research and pharmaceutical development in microgravity environments; advances in telemedicine and remote healthcare technologies derived from space research; implications of long-duration human spaceflight for global healthcare innovation
• Public–Private Partnerships and Innovation Ecosystems: Collaboration between governments and private firms in space development; comparative analyses of national space strategies and partnership models; governance mechanisms that enable innovation while managing technological and financial risks
• Geoeconomics and Global Collaboration: The role of space technologies in global development, climate monitoring, agriculture, and disaster response; the impact of geopolitical competition on international space collaboration; space as a domain of economic diplomacy and strategic competition
• Strategy and Global Business Implications: Space-based technologies and new business models across industries; implications for global supply chains, telecommunications, and financial services; corporate strategy and international competition in emerging space markets

Timeline

• September 15, 2026: Extended Abstract Submission Deadline
• January 31, 2027: Full Manuscript 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.

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

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

Rick Delbridge, Cardiff University

Bill Harley, University of Melbourne

Paolo Quattrone, Alliance Manchester Business School

Kerstin Sahlin, Uppsala University

Universities face unprecedented challenges including COVID-19, geopolitical tensions, financial pressures, and generative AI that require fundamental organizational innovation. While previous research has examined how universities contribute to industry innovation through collaborations, comparatively little attention has been paid to how universities innovate themselves as organizations to survive these turbulent times.

This special issue seeks interdisciplinary contributions examining universities' ability to innovate internally across governance, culture, leadership, capabilities, ecosystem engagement, work environments, and societal missions. The issue welcomes theoretical and empirical research exploring what drives, enables, or constrains innovation within universities.

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

Potential topics

• Innovation in Governance and Strategy - governance structures, decision-making processes, exploration vs. exploitation, hybrid/ambidextrous organizations, organizational structures, business models, digital transformation, and generative AI
• Innovation in Culture and Leadership - culture of resistance to change, leadership styles, governance models, organizational cultures, academic autonomy, professional communities of practice, and organizational agility
• Organizational Structures, Capabilities and Learning - organizational structures and innovation diffusion, organizational learning processes, capabilities, routines, institutional logics, and alternative organizational forms
• Ecosystem Engagement and Open Innovation - global networks, international partnerships, orchestrating roles as hubs/intermediaries/boundary spanners, network structures, intra-university collaborations, alliances, partnerships with industry/government/civil society, and balancing academic independence with collaborative demands
• Innovation for Wellbeing and Work Environment - designing healthier and inclusive work environments, participatory innovation and co-design, bottom-up initiatives, and academic labour experiences
• Innovation for Societal Grand Challenges - aligning innovation with grand challenges like sustainability and social justice, mission-oriented organizational models, partnerships for co-creating solutions, and evaluating societal impact

Timeline

• January 21, 2026: Call for papers for Catalyst Essays and Original Articles
• March 2, 2026: Online information session and Q&A with Special Issue Guest Editors
• May 1, 2026: Deadline for Catalyst Essay proposals (maximum 2 pages)
• September 1, 2026: Deadline for full paper proposals for potential inclusion in the Paper Development Workshop (maximum 10 pages)
• November 1, 2026: Deadline for Catalyst Essay submissions (only accepted proposals)
• November 30, 2026: In-person paper development workshop at Cardiff Business School (optional)
• February 1, 2027: Deadline for full paper submissions (open to anyone)
• May 1, 2027: Final decision for Special Issue I (Catalyst Essays)
• May 1, 2028: Final decisions for Special Issue II (full papers)

This Special Issue seeks to advance theory and evidence on the evolution and response of governance systems in family firms to contemporary challenges such as the rise of public intervention in the economy, the advent of AI, and geopolitical turmoil. The special issue invites contributions that examine how governance mechanisms - including boards of directors, ownership structures, executive leadership, succession arrangements, and family governance systems - shape the ability of family firms to create value, preserve continuity, and adapt to changing environments.

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

Potential topics

• Evolution and response of governance systems in family firms to contemporary challenges
• Rise of public intervention in the economy
• Advent of AI
• Geopolitical turmoil
• Boards of directors
• Ownership structures
• Executive leadership
• Succession arrangements
• Family governance systems
• Value creation in family firms
• Continuity preservation in family firms
• Adaptation to changing environments

Timeline

• January 15, 2027: Deadline for proposal submissions

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

Timeline

• December 1, 2026: Submission deadline

Appel publié par Technological Forecasting and Social Change. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Submission deadline

Lorenzo Mizzau, University of Genoa

Leticia Labaronne, Zurich University of Applied Sciences

Katja Lindqvist, Lund University

Yeşim Tonga, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca

Cultural organizations such as museums, theatres, and festivals are increasingly facing pressure to transform their management and governance structures due to volatile funding, digital technologies, and changing expectations of accountability. These organizations serve important public missions by producing and safeguarding cultural value, yet must now navigate new collaborative models, hybrid work arrangements, and AI-driven innovation while sustaining their societal role.

This special issue invites research exploring how cultural organizations can maintain their public commitment while adapting to organizational, sustainability, and technological transitions. Contributions should examine how managerial practices, governance frameworks, and organizational structures interact with public policy to help cultural institutions navigate these complex changes.

Appel publié par Public Money & Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Managerial and organizational design in cultural organizations
• Governance frameworks and coordination in cultural policy systems
• Digital transformation and artificial intelligence in cultural organizations
• Careers and work in cultural organizations
• Human resource management and leadership in cultural institutions
• Organizational learning and knowledge management
• Managing change and innovation in cultural organizations
• Evaluation, accountability, and performance management
• Public finance models and programs for culture
• Social, environmental and economic sustainability in cultural organizations

Timeline

• October 31, 2026: Manuscript deadline for research articles
• December 31, 2026: Manuscript deadline for debate and new development articles

Younes Ben Zaied, EDC Paris Business School

Shajara Ul-Durar, University of Sunderland

Assil Guizani, EDC Paris Business School

Alessandro Marra, University d'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara

This special issue examines how gender diversity influences governance and public service outcomes. While private sector research on gender diversity is extensive, its role in public administration and state-owned enterprises remains underexplored despite its significance for equitable and accountable governance. The call seeks contributions exploring how gender-diverse teams improve decision-making quality, reduce groupthink, and strengthen public sector performance.

Governments worldwide have implemented reforms to increase female representation in public institutions, including quota systems and legal mandates. However, significant implementation gaps persist, with uneven progress in developing talent pipelines and achieving executive-level representation. This special issue investigates the actual impact of these policies on organizational outcomes and identifies barriers and enablers of women's advancement in public organizations.

Appel publié par Public Money & Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Gender diversity and public sector performance
• Women in state-owned enterprises
• Public service delivery and gender-sensitive governance
• Barriers and enablers of women's advancement in public organizations
• Gender, ethics, and public integrity
• Future directions: towards gender-responsive public management
• Representative bureaucracy effects of women in executive agencies
• The extent to which mentorship and sponsorship programs improve women's advancement
• Gender differences in promotion rates in public agencies

Timeline

• November 30, 2026: Submission deadline for research articles and new development pieces
• January 1, 2027: Submission deadline for debate pieces

Rosanna Fornasiero, CNR IEIIT

Luis M. Camarinha-Matos, NOVA University Lisbon

Xavier Boucher, Mines Saint-Étienne

Angel Ortiz, Universitat Politècnica de València

Hybrid Collaborative Networks combining human and artificial intelligence actors are becoming fundamental to value creation in digitally distributed ecosystems. These networks integrate diverse actors such as organizations, individuals, intelligent systems, and platforms operating across physical, digital, and organizational boundaries. Understanding their dynamics is essential for ensuring effective design, management, resilience, and sustained performance in changing environments.

This special issue addresses the scientific challenges of managing the life cycle of hybrid human-AI collaborative networks, including how such structures emerge, evolve, adapt, and dissolve. It calls for innovative design methods, adaptive governance models, and frameworks that integrate technological solutions with socio-human and managerial approaches to ensure effective human-AI integration, trust, and scalability.

Appel publié par Production Planning & Control. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Digital platforms for HCNs
• Collaborative dynamics among human and AI teams
• Agile design and management of hybrid networks
• Design of AI teammates
• Knowledge life cycle in distributed cognitive systems
• Collaboration and coopetition in untrustworthy environments
• Life cycle of collaborative cognitive cyber-physical systems
• Combination of human expertise with AI systems
• Scalability and adaptability of HCNs
• Collective decision making, value creation and creativity
• Digital twins for HCNs
• Governance framework for HCNs
• Understanding and explainability of HCN decisions
• Advanced collaborative robotics
• Complex hybridization of collaboration – organizations, people, smart machines, intelligent systems
• Resilience & antifragility in HCNs
• Ethics, security, & trust in HCNs
• AI integration for logistics and transportation networks
• AI for collaborative risk and crisis management
• Society 5.0 and collaborative networks
• CN applications and case studies in multiple fields

Timeline

• March 31, 2027: Manuscript deadline

Louis Fauger, Amazon Research & Georgia Institute of Technology

Markus Gerschberger, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria

Matthieu Lauras, KEDGE Business School

The Physical Internet is transitioning from theoretical concept to practical implementation through pilots, demonstrators and large-scale initiatives. This special issue seeks rigorous, empirically grounded research that offers actionable insights for managers, policymakers and supply chain stakeholders on how PI principles can be implemented, governed and scaled.

The call welcomes empirical studies, case studies, pilots and industry-driven innovations that address real implementation challenges. While conceptual contributions are considered, they must be strongly connected to practical implications and managerial relevance. Research should demonstrate sound scientific methodology while providing clear lessons learned for practitioners.

Appel publié par Supply Chain Forum: An International Journal. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• PI use cases, pilots and demonstrators
• Business models and value creation in open and shared logistics
• Governance and coordination mechanisms for interoperable networks
• Supply chain intelligence, data sharing and digital platforms
• Transition pathways, roadmaps and maturity models
• Managerial and organizational challenges of PI adoption
• Public policy, regulation and public–private collaboration
• Sustainability, circular logistics and environmental performance

Timeline

• June 1, 2026: Submission platform opened
• November 30, 2026: Paper 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

Raymond Rastegar, Griffith University

Rami K. Isaac, Bethlehem University

Andrew Mzembe, Breda University of Applied Sciences

Lisa Ruhanen, The University of Queensland

The tourism sector faces profound sustainability challenges including climate crises, socioeconomic inequalities, and biodiversity loss. While green transitions and net-zero initiatives have gained prominence, they often remain focused on technical solutions rather than addressing the political dimensions of change. This special issue seeks work that critically examines who benefits from transitions, who bears the burdens, and whose voices are included in governance processes.

The special issue advances the concept of Just Sustainability Transition (JST) to move beyond narrow carbon and labour-focused agendas toward interrogating fundamental questions about power, equity, and historical context. It recognizes that sustainability transitions in tourism are embedded in structural inequalities and shaped by global power asymmetries. The issue welcomes theoretical, conceptual, and empirical contributions using intersectional, decolonial, ecological, feminist, Indigenous, and multispecies justice perspectives to illuminate tensions and transformative potentials in sectoral transitions.

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

Potential topics

• Governance frameworks and institutional innovations for embedding justice in tourism transitions
• Power, agency, and the role of private and public actors in driving (or resisting) transitions
• Just sustainability transition imaginaries and realities across geographies: Global South and Global North perspectives
• Intermediaries, social movements, labour unions and civil society in shaping justice-oriented transitions
• Tourism workers' rights, precarity, and vulnerability in the context of transition
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation through the lens of climate justice
• Multispecies justice and posthuman perspectives in sustainable tourism
• Gender justice and intersectionality in transition governance
• Island and Indigenous tourism economies: toward self-determined transition pathways
• Transition tourism: exploring new business models and regenerative alternatives
• Methodologies for researching justice in sustainability transitions
• Temporality and just transitions

Timeline

• February 20, 2026: Abstract deadline
• September 30, 2026: Manuscript deadline

Saverio Barabuffi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Giulio Ferrigno, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna

Letizia Mortara, University of Cambridge

Yogesh K. Dwivedi, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Innovation increasingly depends on collaboration among diverse actors who combine and recombine their knowledge. While organizations traditionally select partners based on complementary knowledge structures, the emergence of large volumes of structured and unstructured data alongside artificial intelligence technologies has fundamentally altered how firms search for external knowledge, identify complementarities, and govern collaborative innovation. Recent advances in AI, particularly Large Language Models, enable systematic analysis of millions of documents to map technological trajectories and detect emerging knowledge fields, potentially reshaping the scope and modalities of knowledge search.

Despite growing interest in AI and innovation, understanding of how AI technologies influence open innovation processes remains fragmented. There is limited evidence on how AI affects partner selection, reconfigures knowledge search strategies, and alters coordination mechanisms within innovation ecosystems. While AI-driven tools promise expanded collaboration opportunities, they also raise challenges including transparency, algorithmic bias, and unequal access to computational capabilities.

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

Potential topics

• AI and Inbound Open Innovation: Partner Search and Knowledge Scouting
• How do AI-based tools reshape the classic trade-off between search breadth and depth in open innovation? Can algorithmic scouting explore distant knowledge domains more efficiently than traditional methods?
• To what extent can AI overcome local search biases, revealing latent complementarities across industries, regions, or technologies that human managers may overlook?
• Can AI-powered analysis of diverse data sources democratize access to innovation ecosystems, or does it favor incumbents with larger digital footprints?
• Orchestration & Governance of Innovation Networks
• How do AI tools enable algorithmic governance of knowledge flows in multi-partner networks?
• How can AI help coordinate heterogeneous actors, including firms, universities, NGOs, and governments, within mission-oriented innovation systems?
• How are platforms leveraging AI-tools to shape technological trajectories and orchestrate complementors in ecosystems?
• What are the implications of AI-mediated orchestration for value capture, appropriation, and transparency in collaborative innovation?
• Knowledge Flows, Spillovers and Innovation Mapping
• How do generative AI and Natural Language Processing techniques uncover tacit knowledge flows and early-stage spillovers invisible to traditional patent- or publication-based metrics?
• How do AI tools improve the mapping of technological landscapes, identify "white spaces", and detect emerging trajectories to inform strategic decisions such as make, buy, or ally?
• What methods best integrate multiple data streams to track cross-sectoral and cross-regional knowledge diffusion enabled by AI?
• AI-Enabled Absorptive Capacity and Human AI interaction
• How should absorptive capacity be reconceptualized when AI tools, such as LLMs, assist in the recognition of external knowledge?
• What is the optimal division of labor between AI systems and human R&D managers in scanning, interpreting, and assimilating external knowledge?
• How can AI support organizational learning while mitigating barriers such as the "Not Invented Here" syndrome, especially when AI identifies previously unknown sources of innovation?

Timeline

• September 1, 2026: Submission window opens
• September 30, 2026: Manuscript deadline

Carmine Bianchi, University of Palermo

Greta Nasi, Bocconi University

Bin Chen, Baruch College

Gabriela Lotta, FGV-São Paulo School of Business Administration

Public administrations confront increasingly multifaceted challenges such as social inequality, climate change, and digital transformation that standard management approaches struggle to address. The call invites examination of how place-based strategy design can foster sustainable value creation by integrating organizational capabilities with local ecosystemic contexts, moving beyond traditional linear and centralized planning models toward adaptive, collaborative approaches grounded in specific spatial, cultural, and institutional conditions.

The special issue seeks contributions that advance understanding of how public value emerges from interactions between internal strategic intent and external community demands, mediated by place-specific factors termed locus and habitus. It emphasizes the need for performance management systems sensitive to local diversity, collaborative governance platforms, and methods that balance inside-out organizational perspectives with outside-in ecosystem thinking to address wicked problems effectively.

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

Potential topics

• Frameworks for place-sensitive strategic planning in public services
• How public value emerges within complex, nested ecosystems shaped by spatial and cultural dimensions of place
• Methods for enhancing collaborative policy design and implementation in place-based ecosystems
• The role of local knowledge, culture, and beliefs in shaping strategy
• Interactions between inside-out (organizational) and outside-in (contextual) strategy perspectives
• Synergies and tensions between internal capabilities and external demands in co-design of public service strategies
• Adaptive and intelligent performance management systems
• Indicators and metrics for value-in-context and value-in-society
• The role of citizen perception in evaluating public service outcomes
• How collaborative policymaking can generate value outcomes aligned with equity, accountability, transparency, trust, and social cohesion
• The dynamics of value destruction in public service ecosystems
• Collaborative platforms for cross-sector governance
• Orchestration of theme-focused ecosystems for modular place development
• Meta-governance and boundary-spanning leadership
• Governance responses to turbulence and building robust place-based public services
• Interplay of formal and informal knowledge in ecosystem adaptation
• Digital platforms enabling citizen engagement and real-time data use
• Role of AI and digital twins in place-based ecosystem visualization

Timeline

• May 31, 2026: Abstract deadline
• April 30, 2027: Full paper submission deadline

Zoe Radnor, Aston University

David Walker, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

This special issue examines the intersection of populism and public management, inviting cross-disciplinary perspectives from law, social sciences, politics and public administration. The rise of populist movements worldwide, spanning both left and right of the political spectrum, raises fundamental questions about how public managers and administrators navigate their responsibilities when faced with politicians whose values may conflict with liberal democratic principles and established governance standards.

The issue seeks contributions that explore critical tensions in public administration under populism: whether public managers have ethical obligations to defend democratic institutions, how they balance political responsiveness with professional integrity, and whether existing accountability frameworks adequately address challenges posed by populist policies. Contributors are encouraged to consider international comparisons and examine how different governmental structures and civil service frameworks respond to populist pressures.

Appel publié par Public Money & Management. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Are we facing the limits of traditional thinking in public management? Do public managers have a 'moral personality' with value commitment to liberal democracy and/or state continuity?
• Does populism create a challenge for public managers to abide by good governance principles?
• Are public managers obliged to defend the state from attack, rhetorical or actual?
• Have public managers traditionally lacked 'voice' within the political–administrative interface and what challenges do they face with the rise of populism?
• Is there a problem facing public managers if they are becoming answerable to politicians with antagonistic value sets or who may break the law?
• How anachronistic are Weberian doctrines of 'responsiveness' in the face of populism?
• What is 'extremism'/populism and can it be defined ex ante?
• Do public managers observe/answer to a code that protects them against orders?
• How far do existing doctrines of accountability accommodate answerability for extremist policies?
• Do public managers have ethical commitments that equip them to resist political directives that might subvert constitutional order?
• What lessons could public managers learn from international and comparative perspectives on populism?
• Is the UK a special case with its uncodified constitutional system?

Timeline

• January 31, 2027: Submission deadline for research articles and new development pieces
• March 31, 2027: Submission deadline for debate pieces

Kathy Quick, University of Minnesota

Jean Hartley, The Open University

Eckhard Schroeter, German University of the Police

Nick Caveney, Hertfordshire Constabulary

This special issue invites debate articles exploring the intersection of policing with public management and governance. The issue seeks provocative and well-considered arguments addressing how organizational, managerial, and policy frameworks shape policing legitimacy, equity, performance, and accountability across different contexts and governance systems.

The audience comprises an interdisciplinary community of academics and professionals interested in policing from organizational, managerial, governance and public policy perspectives. Contributors may draw on world practice and experience to examine questions ranging from police-community partnerships and resource management to civilian oversight and the governance of private security provision.

Appel publié par Public Money & Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Legitimacy, equity, power, authority, governance and organizational performance in policing
• Strategic planning, human resource management, budgeting and evaluation in police organizations
• Coordination of operations and accountability in policing
• Cooperation between policing and public and private partners
• Value creation or destruction in policing across different settings and social environments
• Changing roles and expectations of police during political and societal change, stress and austerity
• Comparative analysis of policing values, operations, and consequences across different locales
• Political governance systems and their implications for effective, fair and accountable police services
• Police operational independence and governance structures
• Civilian scrutiny and oversight of police ('who guards the guards')
• Governance mechanisms for private and non-governmental police and security services

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Manuscript deadline

This Journal of Enterprise Information Management Special Issue seeks to understand Agentic Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI (GenAI) in healthcare, and how these technologies impact the governance, strategy, and value creation of healthcare organizations. In technological innovation, digital technologies are reconfiguring value creation processes and prompting organizations to develop new adaptive strategies. In healthcare, this transformation is driving the adoption of innovative solutions to enhance value for stakeholders while supporting more personalised, predictive, and preventive models of care. AI and GenAI are emerging as strategic levers for optimising resource allocation, supporting new care delivery paradigms, and accelerating research and development. The rapid emergence of Agentic AI systems introduces a further step in this transformation, with AI technologies moving from reactive tools towards semi-autonomous systems able to plan, coordinate and monitor actions across complex organizations.

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

Potential topics

• How are GenAI and Agentic AI reshaping clinical, administrative, and managerial workflows in healthcare organizations?
• How do healthcare organizations govern Agentic AI systems across care pathways?
• What organizational capabilities are needed to move from experimental GenAI applications to integrated and scalable Agentic healthcare systems?
• How can healthcare organizations ensure meaningful human oversight when AI systems become more autonomous, proactive, and embedded in clinical or administrative processes?
• How do GenAI and agentic AI create, capture, or potentially destroy value for different healthcare stakeholders?
• How do Agentic and GenAI systems transform healthcare knowledge management?
• How can healthcare organizations evaluate and measure the clinical, organizational, economic, ethical, and societal value generated by GenAI and Agentic AI adoption?
• What governance mechanisms are needed to ensure accountability, transparency and regulatory compliance in AI-enabled healthcare organizations?
• How do GenAI and Agentic AI affect decision-making processes within healthcare organizations?
• How can healthcare organizations manage risks related to automation bias, inequitable outcomes and over-reliance on AI?
• How do agentic AI and GenAI support healthcare system sustainability?

Timeline

• January 1, 2027: Opening date for manuscript submissions
• June 30, 2027: Closing date for manuscript submissions

Othmar M. Lehner, Hanken School of Economics

Hendrik Vollmer, Warwick Business School

Lies Bouten, IESEG School of Management

For more than three decades, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal has advanced a vision of accounting scholarship as a civic and moral project rather than a narrow technical domain. Its pages have persistently urged scholars to interrogate how accounting and auditing mediate the relationship between economic order, social justice, and ecological survival. Against this backdrop, the contemporary expansion of assurance into the sustainability arena reactivates core concerns about the politics of expertise, the plurality of value, and the search for a more equitable society through accountability. Yet the present moment also introduces qualitatively new conditions. Audit and assurance now intervene in domains of life, climate, and planetary risk that exceed traditional regimes of verification, raising questions not only of institutional adaptation but also new ethical dilemmas, epistemic challenges as well as questions of ontological design and pluriversal politics.

Appel publié par Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Planetary and biopolitical accountability: How assurance practices translate planetary limits, biodiversity loss, or climate risk into auditable form; how audit participates in the governance of life and the environment.
• Ethics and social justice in assurance: How the expanding remit of sustainability audit redefines the moral economy of accountability and whose voices and vulnerabilities are recognised or silenced.
• Decolonial, linguistic, and transnational translations: How assurance is localised across global South-North contexts, how linguistic mediation shapes the meaning of evidence and credibility, and how post-colonial epistemologies challenge Western audit rationalities.
• Practice-based and participatory methodologies: How experimental, ethnographic, or action-research designs can reveal the micro-politics of assurance work and the reflexive production of legitimacy.
• Audit Expectation Gaps and Sustainability Assurance: how sustainability engagements reshape traditional distinctions of reasonableness, standards, and performance, and generate new legitimacy struggles; how potential users of assurance are enrolled to shape new forms of audit and audit reporting and how their diverging demands are navigated.
• Boundary Objects, Hybridisation, and Translation Work: The role of concepts such as materiality, assurance levels, or sustainability risks as mediating devices between professional, organisational, and institutional domains; the blending of accounting and audit practice, the formation of accounting-sustainability hybrids.
• Key Audit Matters and Transparency Practices: how the articulation of KAMs and equivalent disclosures in sustainability reports transform perceptions of audit judgment, credibility, and public accountability, how audits designed to verify whether mission-led companies genuinely implement and monitor their stated sustainability objectives can transform perceptions of audit judgment, enhance credibility and public accountability, and foster meaningful change within the organization.
• Institutional Work: how professionals establish, fail to establish, promote or resist the institutionalisation of sustainability assurance; how sustainability assurance shapes and is itself shaped by the formation of new professional fields, standard-setting arenas, and regulatory infrastructures.
• Auditor Identities and Professional Jurisdictions: how audit firms and individual practitioners navigate competing logics of financial audit, sustainability consultancy, and broader public accountability; how regulatory reporting and assurance reforms reshape the prevailing professional habitus and virtues of independence, ethics and technical competence, and more broadly positions of professional accounting bodies and accreditation processes.
• Surveillance, Traceability, and Digitalization: The effects of platformisation, digital taxonomies, machine-readable accountings, algorithmic verification, and datafication on the epistemics of audit practice, professional authority, and client relationships.
• Public Interest, Value(s), and Materiality: How pluralistic notions of publicness, planetary concerns, and double materiality are constructed, resisted, or institutionalised in assurance engagements.
• Group Judgment and Cross-Professional Collaboration: How auditors coordinate with specialists, regulators, and clients in multi-professional and cross-organisational contexts, shaping assurance outcomes.
• Historical and Comparative Perspectives: How earlier transformations of financial auditing illuminate the present trajectory of sustainability assurance.

Timeline

• April 1, 2026: Closing date for abstract submission
• June 12, 2026: Online paper development workshop (hybrid) at Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki
• September 1, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• December 1, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission