Scott Lichtenstein, Birmingham City University Business School

Paul Aitken, Nelson-Marlborough Institute of Technology

Krish Saha, Birmingham City University Business School

Helen Kopnina, University of Northumbria

Truzaar Dordi, University of York

This special issue seeks interdisciplinary research exploring how managers can develop sustainability leadership capacity across interconnected levels. The focus spans macro outcomes related to compassionate flourishing and planetary health, meso-level organizational and community goals, and micro-level personal values and behavioral inputs of managers. The issue aims to identify connection points in the entire sustainability leadership development system.

Through contributions from diverse scholars, the special issue will examine how sustainability leadership capability can serve as a positive force in addressing global challenges, how it can be applied systematically within organizations and communities, and how managers' personal values and morals translate into sustainable behaviors and decisions. Recommendations emerging from the issue are intended to benefit academics, practitioners, and broader environmental outcomes.

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

Potential topics

• Sustainability leadership capability development for managers as a force for positive change and compassionate flourishing
• Anthropocentric assumptions limiting leaders' engagement with planetary health and multi-species justice
• Systematic and systemic application of sustainability leadership capability development for resolving complex and disruptive challenges
• Personal values and morals as drivers of managers' sustainability leadership behaviors, decisions and actions
• Benevolent influence through individual and collective agency in sustainability leadership development

Timeline

• January 9, 2026: Opening date for manuscript submissions
• December 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscript submissions

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