Shawna Chen, Brock University

Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta

Chris Zhang, University of Houston Downtown

While entrepreneurship research has increasingly recognized identity as central to entrepreneurial processes, 2SLGBTQIA+ entrepreneurs remain significantly underexplored in the core literature, particularly regarding how sexuality and gender identity interact with entrepreneurial ecosystems and institutional structures. This special issue aims to advance conceptual, empirical, and methodological understanding of 2SLGBTQIA+ entrepreneurship by examining how these entrepreneurs navigate visibility, stigma, belonging, and legitimacy within broader institutional and spatial contexts.

The special issue welcomes diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, including identity theory, queer-feminist perspectives, intersectionality, institutional theory, and institutional logics. Submissions may employ qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methodologies and are encouraged to bridge theory and practice by including diverse scholarly teams with practitioners involved in entrepreneurship.

Appel publié par Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• LGBTQ+ identity and entrepreneurial identity work
• Coming out, concealment, and impression management in venture contexts
• Intersectionality (e.g., race, gender, class, disability) and layered entrepreneurial experiences
• Institutional barriers to legitimacy, funding, and recognition
• Emancipatory entrepreneurship: removing structural constraints through business creation
• Entrepreneurial ecosystems and their (in)capacity to support LGBTQ+ inclusion
• Policy and programmatic responses to LGBTQ+ small business development
• Entrepreneurial wellbeing, belonging, and non-economic goals
• Comparative studies of LGBTQ+ entrepreneurship across national and regional contexts
• Methodological approaches for studying LGBTQ+ and equity-deserving entrepreneurs

Timeline

• November 1, 2025: Opening date for manuscript submissions
• October 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscript submission
• April 1, 2027: Expected publication date

Anne-Sophie Godfroy, Université Paris-Est Créteil

Victoria Showunmi, University College London

Ama Lawani, University of Stirling

Peliwe Mnguni, UNISA Graduate School of Business Leadership

Afifa Knanam, Lahore College for Women University

Early Career Researchers face increasingly precarious employment conditions, with these challenges shaped significantly by gender. While women comprise nearly half of doctoral graduates in Europe, they remain underrepresented in certain fields and disproportionately occupy insecure positions. Beyond gender, intersecting factors like race, disability, and socioeconomic status create multiple barriers to career progression.

This special issue amplifies ECRs' voices by examining their experiences through gendered and intersectional lenses. It highlights structural inequalities in academia, challenges traditional research career concepts, and proposes institutional changes to address sexism. The issue invites research on gender equality initiatives, academic mobility, inclusive leadership, and frameworks for evaluating gender equality policies.

The call welcomes diverse contributions from ECRs and underrepresented researchers, including empirical studies, case studies, policy analyses, and personal reflections addressing the key thematic areas, with emphasis on improving working conditions and career prospects in academic institutions.

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

Potential topics

• Gender Equality in Career Prospects and Working Conditions at Early Career Stages
• The Gendered Impact of Mobility and Migration
• Integrating ECRs into Decision-Making Processes
• Intersectional Analysis of Inequalities
• Monitoring and Evaluating Gender Equality Policies
• Critical reflections on gender equity and its contemporary resistance in organizational settings and media ecosystems
• How leaders and organizations engage with gender issues through activism, partnerships, internal policies, and public critique
• Intersectional perspectives on gender, race, class, and sexuality and the dynamics of progress and regression
• How gender biases are addressed and produced in the realms of innovation, tech, and entrepreneurship
• Analyzing gender inequality and its stagnation in workforce participation, compensation, and promotion opportunities
• Gender fluidity and non-binary representations in the corporate world and organizational practices
• Examining ethical and sustainable practices through a gender lens to address inclusivity in environmental and social initiatives
• Empirical studies addressing gender and equality in academia, with particular attention to gender, mobility, and precarious employment conditions
• Case studies highlighting gender equality initiatives in academic and research institutions
• Policy recommendations and critical analysis of gender-sensitive recruitment, evaluation, and career development practices in academia
• Innovative solutions aimed at reducing gender-based violence and fostering safer, more inclusive environments for women and marginalized groups within academic settings
• Methodologies for monitoring and evaluating the impact of gender equality measures
• Theoretical interventions exploring concepts of gender, equality, and academic structures
• Autoethnographies reflecting on personal experiences related to gender and academic life
• Practitioner reflections offering insights from those actively engaged in promoting gender equality in academic contexts
• Interdisciplinary dialogue fostering collaboration and knowledge exchange across fields to advance gender equality in research and academia

Timeline

• May 15, 2026: Deadline for optional 250-word abstract submission via email to receive initial feedback
• July 1, 2026: Online developmental webinar to provide feedback on abstracts
• October 31, 2026: Full paper submission deadline

Andreas Giazitzoglu, Northumbria University

Miruna Radu-Lefebvre, Audencia Business School

Jason Luger, Northumbria University

Callum Kimpton, Monash University

Kai Roland Green, Aarhus University

Garth Stahl, The University of Queensland

Masculinities studies has expanded significantly across disciplines and emerging contexts including entrepreneurship, healthcare, education, and politics. Recent scholarship increasingly adopts constructivist, decolonial, and intersectional approaches to understand how men enact masculine identities at work. This special issue invites contributions that deepen understanding of how gender shapes social arrangements and well-being in contemporary work and organisational contexts.

Gender, Work & Organization has become a leading venue for empirical masculinities scholarship. Recent contributions demonstrate how masculinities relate to inclusion and exclusion in workplaces, how they are shaped by organisational spaces and professional socialisation, and how individuals are marginalised when they fail to conform to masculine norms. The journal seeks further analysis exploring these complex relationships between gender, power, hierarchy, and organisational dynamics.

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Potential topics

• Changing imaginaries of bodies and body types in work and organisational settings (e.g., the role of muscularity, body-art and digital representations of the body)
• New and emergent forms of 'masculine capital' in work and organisations
• How historical circumstances have impacted contemporary masculinities in work and organisations
• The physical spaces of masculinity and how they impact work and organisations
• Global variegations and convergences in trends in both hegemonic and counter-hegemonic masculinities
• Queer(ying) masculinities in work and organisations
• Critical readings of images, discourses, politics and practices linked to masculinities in work and organisations
• How masculinities are negotiated and shaped during early professional socialisation and how these processes inform the reproduction of gendered work and organisational cultures
• What novel and innovative methodologies can be leveraged to advance the study of gendered power and practice in work and organisational settings?
• What can the analysis of contemporary workplaces (remote, virtual and transnational) reveal about modern masculinities?
• How are workplace and organisational masculinities re-shaped or reconstituted in response to emerging social and political pressures that threaten hegemonic gender orders?
• How can symbolic dimensions of masculine practice advance our understanding of recognition and legitimacy in specific organisational fields?
• How do portrayals of masculinities in media, culture and public discourse inform our understanding of gendered life and livelihoods?

Timeline

• January 10, 2027: Submission deadline

Roman Gibel, University of Zürich

Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, Vienna University of Business and Economics

Anett Hermann, Vienna University of Business and Economics

Georgios Tsourvakas, National and Kapodistrian University Athens

Natasha Winkler-Titus, Stellenbosch Business School

This special issue examines how gender shapes professional sports organizations and the experiences of those within them. It draws on feminist and intersectional frameworks to understand how power dynamics, organizational structures, and institutional policies create gendered hierarchies that affect athletes, coaches, and administrators. The issue also considers how race, class, sexuality, and other identities compound gender-based inequalities in sports.

The special issue welcomes interdisciplinary research that connects gender and sports to broader questions in work, organization, and management. Submissions should employ diverse methodologies and advance both theoretical and empirical knowledge, exploring themes such as career trajectories, leadership, economic structures, media representation, policy effects, and the specific challenges faced by transgender and non-binary athletes seeking inclusion in sports spaces.

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Potential topics

• Gendered Labor and Career Trajectories in Professional Sports: In what ways are career paths, working conditions, and opportunities in professional sports shaped by gender, and how do these dynamics intersect with broader organizational and societal structures?
• Organizational Dynamics and Gender: How do sports organizations reproduce or challenge gender norms? What are the implications of gendered leadership, policies, and practices within sports institutions?
• Economic and Organizational Power Structures in Sports: How do economic and organizational power relations in professional sports reproduce or challenge gendered hierarchies, and what implications do they have for inclusion, leadership, and equity within sport institutions?
• Intersectionality in Sports: How do race, class, sexuality, disability, and other social categories intersect with gender to shape experiences and inequalities in sports?
• Gendered Experiences in Sports: How do gender identities influence participation, performance, and recognition in various sports? What are the lived experiences of athletes, coaches, and administrators across the gender spectrum?
• Trans and Non-Binary Inclusion: How are trans and non-binary athletes navigating sports spaces? What challenges and opportunities exist for inclusive practices?
• Media Representations and Gender: How are athletes and sports events gendered in media coverage? What impact do these representations have on public perceptions and gender norms?
• Policy and Governance: What are the effects of policies related to gender equity, inclusion, and diversity in sports at local, national, and international levels?
• International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives: How can international and interdisciplinary collaborations advance research on gender and sports, fostering more inclusive, diverse, and globally informed understandings of work and organization in sporting contexts?

Timeline

• May 1, 2026: Paper Preparatory Workshop (online)
• August 1, 2026: Open for Submissions
• February 1, 2027: Submission Deadline

Elifcan Celebi, University of Oxford

Rossella Ciccia,

Ayşe Dursun, University of Vienna

David Palomera, University of Southern Denmark

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

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

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Potential topics

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

Timeline

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

Miriam Moeller, University of Queensland

Dana L. Ott, University of Otago

Matevž Rašković, University of Technology Auckland

Sophie Hennekam, Audencia Business School

Timothy J. Vogus, Vanderbilt University

Joy E. Beatty, Eastern Michigan University

Judith Clair, Boston College

Business schools worldwide are reassessing their social purpose while increasingly recognizing that neurodivergence—including autism, ADHD, and dyslexia—affects a significant portion of the population, especially younger generations. Current systems often disadvantage neurodivergent learners and staff by privileging narrow forms of interaction while placing adaptation burdens solely on neurodivergent individuals.

This special issue reimagines how business schools can become genuinely neuroinclusive environments. Rather than focusing on accommodations alone, it invites contributions examining how neurodiversity enriches learning and knowledge creation. The call welcomes conceptual and empirical work from diverse theoretical perspectives and global contexts, particularly from scholars in disability studies, inclusive education, and critical management studies.

Appel publié par Academy of Management Learning and Education. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Neurodiversity in business school design and pedagogy
• Inclusive teaching practices and Universal Design for Learning
• Neuroinclusive curriculum and assessment methods
• Experiences of neurodivergent learners, academics, and professional staff
• Intersectionality of neurodiversity with gender, race, culture, and other identities
• Support systems and accommodations for neurodivergent individuals in higher education
• Transition experiences from secondary school to management education and into the workforce
• Staff training and institutional culture around neurodiversity
• Technology and artificial intelligence applications for neurodivergent learners
• Non-WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) perspectives on neurodiversity in education
• Social justice, DEI, and equity in business schools
• Neurotypicality assumptions and double empathy problem in management education
• Masking, disclosure, and psychological safety
• Employment outcomes and career readiness of neurodivergent graduates
• Co-occurring neurocognitive conditions and intersecting disabilities
• Leadership development and neurodiversity competencies
• Experiential learning and study abroad adaptations for neurodivergent students

Timeline

• May 13, 2026: Deadline for submitting proposals for optional professional development workshop in May 2026
• November 1, 2026: Submission window opens
• December 14, 2026: Submission window closes

Associate editors

• Katrin Mühlfeld, University of Trier
• María José Murcia, IAE Business School

Debora Gottardello, University of Edinburgh

Narda R. Quigley, Villanova University

Susanne M. Bruyère, Cornell University

Neurodivergent adults, including those with autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and dyspraxia, encounter systemic barriers in employment such as recruitment difficulties, limited career progression, and retention issues, often leading to underemployment and premature career exits. These challenges are structural rather than incidental, as many workplace practices adhere to neurotypical norms, viewing cognitive differences as liabilities instead of diverse strengths requiring adaptive practices. Efforts towards inclusion frequently focus on early-career hiring and a single diagnostic category, usually autism, neglecting mid and late-career trajectories and the multifaceted nature of disadvantage. Single-axis approaches may overlook how compounded inequalities manifest within organizational contexts.

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

Potential topics

• Intersectional patterns of inclusion, retention, progression and wellbeing across early, mid and later career stages for ageing neurodivergent workers
• HR and line-management practices-recruitment, appraisal, promotion and leadership development; intersecting biases and evidence-based redesign for equity
• Intersectional experiences of neurodivergence at work (e.g., ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class, migration status, age)
• Physiological and health transitions in relation to neurodivergence (e.g., menopause, chronic conditions)
• Late/retroactive diagnosis, professional identity, disclosure and workplace support; trajectories, risks and career consequences
• Organisational culture, leadership and policy frameworks for neurodivergent inclusion, foregrounding intersecting identities and power dynamics
• Cross-cultural and non-Western perspectives, including decolonial approaches, highlighting how local norms and colonial legacies shape intersecting experiences of neurodivergence at work
• Comparative case studies of inclusion regimes and workplace adaptations across sectors and settings (including precarious/gig work), with attention to differential outcomes across intersecting identities
• Participatory and co-produced approaches that centre multiply marginalised voices, with ethics and accessibility designed for intersectional needs
• Sector-specific analyses (e.g., academia, public sector, technology, healthcare) specifying intersectional implications for policy and practice and for distinct workforce groups

Timeline

• January 3, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• December 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission