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.

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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