Amanda Peticca-Harris, Grenoble Ecole de Management

Annalisa Murgia, University of Milan

Julieta Haidar, Workers' Innovation Centre-CONICET

This special issue examines how digital platforms function as systems that organise and reinforce inequality rather than simply producing it as an outcome. Platform labour operates as survival work for those already positioned within broader structures of inequality, including migrants, workers excluded from formal employment, and women managing care responsibilities. The issue seeks work that connects domains often treated separately—such as legal status, gender, and labour stratification—and explores how these intersect in shaping platform participation across geographical contexts.

Contributors are encouraged to examine how livelihoods are assembled through platformisation across labour, migration, and everyday life, with particular attention to care work and social reproduction. The issue also welcomes research on how workers navigate, adapt to, and contest platform-mediated inequalities through resistance, collective organising, and everyday survival strategies, recognising that agency emerges within the systems that organise inequality itself.

Appel publié par New Technology Work and Employment. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• To what extent do platform-based systems depend on inequality? How do they organise it?
• In what ways are insecurity and risk embedded within platform-based systems?
• How is labour supply structured through marginalised populations within platform economies?
• How are visibility, ratings, access to work, and valuation differentially organised across workers and contexts?
• How are platform systems becoming embedded across domains such as mobility, food, care, logistics, and urban life?
• In what ways do platform arrangements rely on, reproduce, and organise gendered, racialised, classed, generational, ableist, or otherwise undervalued forms of labour?
• How are livelihoods assembled through platform work across contexts shaped by migration, informality, and low incomes?
• How do workers combine multiple income streams, care responsibilities, and relational resources to sustain everyday life?
• What forms of agency, everyday tactics, informal solidarities, survival strategies, resistance, or adaptation emerge in response to inequalities embedded within platform-based systems?
• What methodological approaches can make visible the unequal, relational, embodied, and infrastructural dimensions of platform-mediated work and livelihood?

Timeline

• May 31, 2027: Full-length paper submission deadline

Tony Cookson, The Pennsylvania State University

This special issue focuses on how household perspectives, choices, and behaviors interact with real estate markets. The collection seeks to understand how households perceive, price, and respond to various risks—including interest rate changes, climate hazards, and neighborhood dynamics—and how these responses ultimately shape market conditions and community outcomes.

The special issue welcomes submissions on all aspects of household real estate perspectives, with particular interest in household beliefs formation, insurance decisions, climate resilience, migration patterns in response to risk and affordability, and the spillover effects of household choices on communities. Papers may present empirical studies, methodological innovations, or literature reviews, all held to the journal's standard publication criteria.

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

Potential topics

• Household beliefs and expectations: How households form and update beliefs about home prices, climate risk, and disaster exposure, and how those beliefs shape purchase, insurance, and mitigation decisions.
• Household decisions and insurance products: Both insurance choices as well as the impacts of insurance on real estate markets.
• Household resilience to climate shocks: Including investments in mitigation and resources for coping with total losses.
• Household migration and relocation: Mobility in response to shifting risk, affordability, and insurance availability, including managed retreat and out-migration from high-risk areas.
• Household decisions and community spillovers: How households' location, financing, insurance, and improvement choices create externalities for other community members, including social and demographic spillovers that reshape neighborhoods and local markets.

Timeline

• December 1, 2026: End date for submissions
• January 25, 2027: Aim to return first-round decisions
• February 1, 2027: National conference traditional deadline for independent submissions
• May 1, 2027: AREUEA special conference sessions at the National Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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.

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

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

Escalating geopolitical tensions have become a defining feature of the contemporary international business environment. Recent scholarship has examined how firms cope with geopolitical uncertainty, focusing on organizational resilience, employee motivation in hostile contexts, and strategic deployment of human resources under conditions of conflict and instability. However, this work has largely overlooked one of the most profound consequences of geopolitical crises: large-scale, crisis-induced migration and the resulting global reconfiguration of human capital.

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

Potential topics

• Geopolitics as setting for migration - Do different geopolitical crises create unique migration contexts and consequences for organizations? How does the emergence of geopolitical migrants shape global migration flows, migration state policies, and firms' acquisition strategies? Do different geopolitical crises create different firm-level challenges and diverse organizational responses? How does geopolitical migration reshape the institutional environment for local and multinational companies? How do local businesses receiving geopolitical migrants tackle enormous migration flows resulting from wars and sudden instabilities? What capabilities are critical for companies to overcome migration challenges and create advantages with geopolitical migrants as a talent pool?
• Geopolitical migrants and diaspora groups - How may local organizations benefit from diverse geopolitical migrant groups? How do geopolitical migrants differ from other migrant groups in employment motives and cultural adjustment capabilities? What are the effects of diaspora expansion in host countries due to geopolitical migration? How have diasporas remained connected to home contexts and what effects emerge for home countries from geopolitical talent outflows? Can brain drain be turned into brain gain if migrants remain engaged in home country processes? To what extent and under what institutional conditions may geopolitical migrants reshape global and local labor markets?
• Migration restrictions and implications for local and international business players - Are migration restriction policies beneficial to local firms? Do nationalistic frictions that restrict migration protect economic interests or create barriers to human capital accumulation? How does institutional context influence organizational cultures and policies affecting migrant integration? How does perception of geopolitical conflict fairness influence state migration policies and migrant labor market inclusion? To what extent do migration restriction policies stimulate recirculation of geopolitical migrants? How does populism influence migration policies and state initiatives? How are different political regimes and varieties of capitalism connected to migration restrictions?
• Location choices and directions of migration flows - Does geographical proximity moderate geopolitical migration? How do historical relations between countries determine geopolitical migration flows and affect adjustment? How do multinational companies decide internationalization strategies considering migration flows? How do geopolitical migrants choose destinations? Which country-specific characteristics are perceived as attractive pull factors for geopolitical migrants?

Timeline

• January 6, 2027: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• August 31, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission