This special issue explores the concept of bricolage—the ability to create and innovate with limited resources—in highly challenging contexts. The focus is on understanding how entrepreneurs and organizations develop creative solutions when faced with extreme resource constraints, drawing insights from the 'number eight wire mindset' that emphasizes improvisation and resourceful problem-solving.

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

Potential topics

• Bricolage
• Resource-constrained environments
• Extreme resource scarcity
• Entrepreneurial resourcefulness

Timeline

• September 1, 2028: Submission deadline

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

This special issue seeks research exploring how consumers can make wiser choices and how innovation can better serve consumer and societal flourishing. The focus encompasses understanding consumer wisdom—the capacity for informed, ethical, and sustainable decision-making—alongside innovations designed to promote wellbeing rather than merely maximize consumption. The work also addresses how public policy can create environments that support these goals.

The special issue welcomes research from marketing, economics, public policy, behavioral science, and related disciplines that examines the interconnections between consumer behavior, innovation strategies, and policy frameworks. Submissions may explore mechanisms for improving consumer decision-making, designing responsible innovation, and implementing policies that advance both individual and collective flourishing.

Appel publié par Journal of Public Policy & Marketing. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Consumer wisdom and informed decision-making
• Wiser innovation for sustainable and ethical consumption
• Public policy approaches to promote consumer flourishing
• Behavioral economics and consumer protection
• Sustainable consumption patterns
• Ethical innovation and corporate responsibility
• Digital literacy and consumer empowerment
• Health-conscious consumption
• Environmental sustainability in consumer behavior
• Social equity in marketplace access

This special issue invites research examining the interconnections between innovation, technology transfer, ethical considerations, and social responsibility across multiple organizational and societal levels. The collection seeks to understand how technological advancement can be effectively managed while maintaining ethical standards and fulfilling social obligations.

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

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue explores the phenomenon of independent inventions occurring in the digital age, examining how localized technological innovations might contribute to global innovation ecosystems. The collection seeks to understand the mechanisms, drivers, and implications of parallel or simultaneous inventions emerging across different geographic regions and technological contexts in contemporary digital environments.

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

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue examines how technological innovation intersects with institutional structures and drives broader societal transformation, particularly amid periods of systemic uncertainty. The collection seeks to understand the complex relationships between technological advancement, institutional adaptation, and social change.

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

Timeline

• September 18, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue explores how technology-enhanced learning affects entrepreneurial education and innovation in developing countries. The journal invites research examining the intersection of digital tools, entrepreneurial learning, and economic development in contexts with limited resources.

Appel publié par Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• August 31, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue explores the interconnection between social capital and knowledge management in organizations. Social capital—networks of relationships, trust, and shared norms—facilitates knowledge exchange and integration, enhancing intellectual capital development and organizational competitiveness across sectors including technology, finance, healthcare, and creative industries.

The call addresses critical research gaps including the lack of general theory explaining how social capital translates to intellectual capital across different contexts, inconsistent measurement approaches, and limited longitudinal studies. It seeks contributions examining how social capital functions as a mediating mechanism in digital environments, how it evolves over time, and how cultural and technological factors influence these dynamics.

The special issue invites empirical and theoretical research from academics and practitioners investigating social capital's role in knowledge creation, innovation outcomes, and competitive advantage, with particular attention to measurement frameworks, trust mechanisms, and organizational structures that enable effective knowledge management.

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

Potential topics

• How does social capital translate into intellectual capital across different organizational contexts?
• In what ways does social capital act as a mediator of knowledge management in digital and dynamic environments?
• How can social capital in knowledge management be measured? To what extent do trust, networks, and norms function as distinct versus overlapping dimensions of social capital?
• How does social capital evolve over time, and what are its long-term effects on knowledge creation and sharing?
• How do individual employee networks aggregate to create firm-level intellectual capital?
• How is social capital value disclosed?
• How do national cultures influence the relationship between social capital and knowledge management?
• In what ways do organizational structures influence the effectiveness of social capital in enabling knowledge management?
• How do emerging technologies impact the development and role of social capital in knowledge management?
• What role does trust play in knowledge sharing and knowledge application processes?
• How can organizations foster trust to strengthen social capital in virtual and hybrid workplaces?
• How does social capital-driven knowledge management contribute to organizational innovation?
• What is the relationship between social capital, knowledge management, and competitive advantage in dynamic markets?

Timeline

• April 1, 2026: Opening date for manuscript submissions
• October 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscript submissions

Stefano Bresciani, University of Turin

Vincenzo Capizzi, University of Piemonte Orientale

Christian Fisch, University of Luxembourg

Lars Hornuf, TUD Dresden University of Technology

Ciro Troise, University of Turin

This special issue invites research exploring the evolving landscape of crowdfunding as both a financing mechanism and investment vehicle. The call seeks to understand how crowdfunding is changing and will change in the future, particularly considering technological advancements and their differential impacts across crowdfunding models.

Submissions should address topics spanning the complete crowdfunding lifecycle, from venture development and investor performance through post-investment relationships, as well as broader themes including sustainability, internationalization, regulatory developments, and the role of academic institutions. The special issue welcomes contributions from diverse disciplinary and methodological perspectives that shed light on opportunities and challenges within the crowdfunding ecosystem.

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

Potential topics

• Designing the crowdfunding of the future
• The future of crowdfunding
• Impact and effects of new technologies on different types of crowdfunding
• New venture development and performance in the post crowdfunding campaign phase
• Consequences for investors and firms of unsuccessful crowdfunding campaigns
• Entrepreneurs preferences in seeking one crowdfunding form over another
• Failures and post-failure scenarios of crowdfunding initiatives
• Challenges and opportunities for crowdfunded ventures
• Internationalization processes and strategies through crowdfunding
• Benefits and risks for existing and prospective crowdfunding investors
• Performance of crowdfunding investments
• Investors post-investment relationships
• Role of investors in the post-campaign phase
• Academic institutions and crowdfunding
• Sustainability and crowdfunding
• Innovation in crowdfunding
• Digital transformation solutions for crowdfunding
• Regulatory reforms and perspectives, policy tools

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Manuscript deadline

Philippe Aghion, Collège de France

Martin Andersson, Blekinge Institute of Technology

David B. Audretsch, Indiana University

Maksim Belitski, University of Reading

Pontus Braunerhjelm, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

This special issue seeks to advance Schumpeterian research that integrates entrepreneurial activities across multiple levels of analysis. It focuses on connecting individual entrepreneurs and firms with regional innovation ecosystems and industrial dynamics, while also considering broader institutional and policy frameworks.

The issue welcomes research on the full lifecycle of ventures, including formation, growth, contraction, and failure, with particular emphasis on how these dynamics drive productivity improvements. It also invites studies that enrich the Aghion-Howitt growth model with contemporary entrepreneurship research insights.

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

Potential topics

• New venture formation and post-entry dynamics
• Scaling, displacement, and exit in entrepreneurial firms
• Reallocation dynamics and productivity growth
• The Aghion-Howitt framework and entrepreneurship research
• Multi-level analysis connecting micro (entrepreneurs and firms), meso (regional ecosystems and industrial structure), and macro (institutional configurations and policy regimes) levels
• Innovation and its transformation into productivity growth within the Schumpeterian tradition

Timeline

• November 1, 2026: Submission deadline

Shanyong Wang, University of Science and Technology of China

Liang Wan, University of Science and Technology of China

Jun Li, Hefei University of Technology

The COVID-19 pandemic and climate disasters have revealed the limitations of market-based institutions and governments in managing systemic crises. This has prompted increased attention to corporate moral motivation and business ethics as essential for sustainable development. The special issue examines how moral adaptation, business strategy, and innovation interconnect in addressing global challenges.

The relationship between these dimensions is complex. Moral evolution and environmental justice reshape corporate strategy, yet traditional economic theory struggles to reconcile justice with efficiency and ethics with innovation. Simultaneously, businesses play an increasingly vital role in developing solutions to major societal problems, including climate change, through strategic adaptation that affects both their operations and their broader ecosystems.

The special issue calls for research reconsidering business ethics in light of contemporary environmental and social concerns. It welcomes global submissions exploring how ethics, institutional frameworks, and innovation interact to support sustainable business practices and address grand challenges.

Appel publié par Managerial and Decision Economics. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• History, ethical evolution, and innovation
• Neuro-economic foundation of ethics and the future development in business ethics
• Ethics, culture/institutions, and sustainable development
• Ethics, culture/institutions, and innovation
• Ethics and public good investments, and innovation

Timeline

• October 30, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue calls for papers addressing global sustainability and innovation in the context of international marketing.

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

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Full paper submission deadline

Patrick Cohendet, HEC Montréal

Bastian Lange, Université Humboldt de Berlin

Elke Schüßler, Université Leuphana de Lüneburg

Laurent Simon, HEC Montréal

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

Timeline

• October 31, 2026: Deadline for paper submission

Masatoshi Kato, Kwansei Gakuin University

David Audretsch, Indiana University

Roy Thurik, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Maksim Belitski, University of Reading

Alex Coad, Waseda Business School

Eric Liguori, Florida State University

This special issue examines how firms of different sizes and stages organize themselves to achieve exceptional performance amid rapid technological change, globalization, and ecosystem interdependencies. The collection seeks theoretical and empirical research on novel organizational forms, structures, and governance models that enable firms to outperform competitors, innovate, and scale effectively. Particular emphasis is given to understanding organizational innovations in hidden champions, niche leaders, scaleups, and other exceptional performers.

The issue welcomes research investigating how novel organizational forms emerge and function across diverse geographical and economic contexts, including high-cost developed economies, emerging economies, and developing regions. Special attention is paid to underrepresented areas beyond OECD countries, recognizing that many Asian economies have cultivated distinctive organizational models through national initiatives. Research should address how factors like leadership, internal collaboration structures, technology adoption, ecosystem relationships, and policy environments shape organizational choices and performance outcomes.

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

Potential topics

• Leadership and decision architecture
• Internal microstructures and governance
• Make-buy-ally organizational design
• Collaboration diversity and external partnerships
• Digitalization and AI in process organization
• Resilience and productivity through technology
• Ecosystem embedment and alliances
• Global value chain orchestration
• Government relationships and policy
• Cluster governance and institutions
• Business model innovation patterns
• Niche leaders and hidden champions
• Organizational forms across regions and industries
• Scaling and firm growth
• Innovation and productivity frontier

Timeline

• November 1, 2026: Manuscript submission opens
• January 31, 2027: Manuscript submission deadline

Diego Matricano, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

This multi-journal collection brings together cross-disciplinary research on entrepreneurship and its role in shaping the future. It welcomes contributions from researchers, practitioners, and policymakers who examine entrepreneurship as a means to tackle significant global challenges and understand how entrepreneurial activities create expected and realized changes across different contexts.

Papers in this collection analyze entrepreneurship at multiple levels of analysis—from individual and organizational (micro) to industry and regional (meso) to national and global (macro)—to explore how entrepreneurship can drive positive transformation and address contemporary issues.

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

Potential topics

• Entrepreneurship as a mechanism for addressing global issues
• Impact of entrepreneurship on future development
• Micro, meso, and macro levels of entrepreneurial analysis
• Expected and realized changes in entrepreneurship phenomena
• Implications of entrepreneurship for society and economy

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Submission deadline

Maksim Belitski, Loyola University New Orleans

James Cunningham, Newcastle University

Riccardo Fini, University of Bologna

Simon Mosey, University of Nottingham

Phillip H. Phan, Johns Hopkins University

This special collection seeks research on technology transfer and innovation that emerges from collaborations between academic researchers and practitioners, policymakers, or other non-academic stakeholders. The collection particularly welcomes papers co-authored by academics working alongside technology transfer professionals, innovators, investors, and other industry experts, as such partnerships offer unique access to emerging phenomena and practical contexts.

The collection aims to publish rigorous, peer-reviewed scholarship that leverages collaborative engagement to develop new theories, access distinctive data, and address important questions in technology transfer while maintaining the journal's standards for methodological rigor and empirical credibility. Papers should demonstrate how boundary-spanning collaboration contributes novel, impactful insights relevant to both scholarship and practice.

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

Potential topics

• Technology transfer and collaboration between academics and non-academic actors
• Entrepreneurship and innovation emerging from academic-practitioner-policymaker interactions
• Boundary-spanning collaborations in technology transfer research
• Co-authored research involving technology transfer professionals, policymakers, entrepreneurs, innovators, investors, industry experts, platform managers, R&D managers, and innovation intermediaries
• Development of new theory through collaborative engagement
• Access to distinctive data and empirical analysis enriched by collaboration
• Policy and practice-relevant insights from technology transfer scholarship
• Methodological rigor combined with practical applicability in innovation research

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Submission deadline

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

Timeline

• October 15, 2026: Submission deadline

This special issue seeks to explore how Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming methodological approaches in technology management research. We invite submissions that demonstrate innovative applications of LLMs as research tools, methodological enhancers, and theoretical instruments for advancing our understanding of technology management, innovation, and organizational change.

Contributions should address both the opportunities and challenges of incorporating LLMs into research practice, including questions of validity, reliability, ethical considerations, and the development of new theoretical frameworks that account for LLM capabilities and limitations in research contexts.

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

Potential topics

• Applications of LLMs in technology management research
• LLMs for data analysis and pattern recognition in technology studies
• Novel methodological approaches enabled by LLMs
• Theoretical frameworks for understanding LLM capabilities and limitations in research contexts
• LLMs for literature review and synthesis
• LLM-assisted qualitative and quantitative research methods
• Validation and reliability of LLM-based research findings
• Ethical considerations in using LLMs for academic research
• LLMs for forecasting technological trends
• Integration of LLMs with traditional research methodologies

Timeline

• January 1, 2027: Submission deadline

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

Timeline

• November 30, 2026: Full paper 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: Full paper submission deadline

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

Timeline

• December 31, 2029: Submission deadline

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

Timeline

• November 30, 2026: Submission deadline

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

Timeline

• April 30, 2027: Submission deadline

Guillermo Antonio Dávila, Universidad de Lima

Susanne Durst, Bangkok University

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

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

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

Potential topics

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

Timeline

• March 15, 2027: Manuscript deadline

Maciel Queiroz, FGV EAESP

Morgane Fritz, Excelia Business School

Britta Gammelgaard, University of Southern Denmark

Logistics and supply chain management (L/SCM) have advanced through analytical rigor and empirical refinement. However, the contemporary landscape, shaped by geopolitical shifts, digital transformation, climate pressures, and evolving societal expectations, requires more than incremental extensions of existing models. It calls for a reconsideration of the assumptions, values, and conceptual boundaries that underpin the field. Many of the most pressing challenges in L/SCM today are not only empirical, but also normative, philosophical, and inherently interdisciplinary.

This special issue seeks essays that move beyond established paradigms and offer reflective, provocative, and conceptually grounded perspectives that offer new lenses and open new directions for research and practice. The objective is to complement empirical work by fostering ideas that challenge, reframe, and extend our understanding of L/SCM.

Appel publié par The International Journal of Logistics Management. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Algorithmic management and the reconfiguration of work in logistics
• Supply chains as political and strategic infrastructures
• Entrepreneurial supply chains in contexts of institutional fragility
• Efficiency versus dignity: ethical boundaries of automation
• Decolonizing supply chain theory and practice
• Beyond resilience: strategic adaptation, transformation, and fragility
• Platformization and ecosystem competition in logistics
• Invisible labor and precarity in digitally mediated supply chains
• Sustainability, legitimacy, and organizational narratives
• The role of human resources in supply chain management
• Temporal trade-offs: speed, flexibility, and human well-being
• Culture, identity, and coordination in global supply networks
• Human–AI collaboration and decision authority in SCM
• Moral responsibility and accountability in complex supply networks
• Business model innovation in circular and regenerative supply chains
• Reimagining SCM theory: integration, borrowing, or paradigm shift?

Timeline

• May 21, 2026: Opening date for abstract submissions
• September 30, 2026: Closing date for abstract submissions
• November 30, 2026: Opening date for manuscript submissions
• April 30, 2027: Closing date for manuscript submissions