Ajnesh Prasad, Audencia Business School

Eric Li, University of British Columbia

Natalia Vershinina, Audencia Business School

Alejandro Centeno, American University of Beirut

This special issue examines the intersection of embodiment and business ethics within organizational contexts. The call addresses how bodies are shaped by and through work, labor, and market systems, exploring the ethical implications of emotional labor, physical strain, commodification, and disciplinary practices. It seeks to move business ethics beyond abstract and conceptual frameworks toward understanding how embodied experiences and corporeal practices generate ethical dilemmas in organizational life.

The special issue welcomes diverse methodological approaches to investigating embodied labor across various industries including modeling, sports, healthcare, and entertainment. Contributions should interrogate how organizational norms regulate bodies in ways that reflect broader inequalities related to gender, race, and class, while also considering worker resistance and alternative theoretical frameworks such as feminist ethics and affect theory that center the lived body in ethical analysis.

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Potential topics

• Ethical dimensions of emotional and relational labor through embodied experience
• The ethics of body commodification in market-driven labor contexts
• The embodied toll of labor and the ethical responsibilities of organizations
• The gendered, racialized, and classed regulation of bodies in organizations
• Participatory, sensory, or arts-based methods to research embodiment and ethics
• New theoretical perspectives on embodiment in business ethics

Timeline

• October 31, 2026: Submission deadline

Domenico Campa, International University of Monaco

Mary Vera-Colina, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Dan-Richard Knudsen, NHH Norwegian School of Economics

Aziza Laguecir, EDHEC Business School

This special issue addresses the under-explored preventive dimensions of accounting fraud and scandals, focusing on how fraudulent conduct might be avoided entirely and what conditions foster organizational integrity. Rather than examining only the aftermath of scandals, the collection seeks to understand the social, institutional, and ethical processes through which fraud is produced, enabled, or resisted within organizations, with particular attention to how professionals, organizational structures, and institutional environments either facilitate or constrain effective prevention.

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Potential topics

• Role of auditors, fraud examiners, and other professionals in detecting or preventing fraud and navigating responsibilities in practice
• Digitalisation through blockchain, AI, and fintech infrastructures and their impact on fraud detection and early internal detection
• Organisational conditions and cultural norms that enable or suppress ethical decision-making in the accounting function
• Ethical and psychological consequences faced by internal whistle-blowers and factors shaping their decisions to speak up or remain silent
• Legal, organisational, and professional safeguards to protect those who disclose financial wrongdoing
• Lessons from failures to prevent scandals, particularly where early warnings were available but ignored
• Institutional settings and regulatory environments that facilitate or constrain fraud prevention and early internal detection
• Role of communities and NGOs in disclosing information to prevent fraud and accounting scandals
• Organisational design and structure as preventative architectures against fraud
• Management accountants as potential whistle-blowers and their unique positioning to detect fraudulent activities

Timeline

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• March 1, 2027: Submissions open
• March 31, 2027: Manuscript deadline