Simone Barakat, Fundação Getulio Vargas

Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Hanken School of Economics

Seray Ergene, University of Rhode Island

Steffen Farny, Leuphana University Luneburg

Judy Muthuri, University of the West Indies

Contemporary sustainability challenges increasingly foreground organizations as embedded within complex social-ecological systems rather than operating independently from them. While ecological degradation and resource constraints affect organizations worldwide, these challenges are more immediate and structurally embedded in the operating environments of the Global South. These challenges are not just a background context to which organizations must adapt but an outcome of long-standing patterns of extraction, uneven development, and entrenched social inequalities that continue to shape what sustainability can mean in practice.

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Potential topics

• Organizing for Environmental Sustainability across Communities and Regions - How do communities and organizations work together to govern natural resources and shared ecological commons?
• How do sustainability standards, certifications, and supply-chain rules influence organizational practices across regions?
• How do organizations manage environmental interdependencies across local and global contexts?
• What challenges arise when local ecological priorities clash with global market or regulatory pressures, and how do organizations deal with these challenges in practice?
• Organizing with Nature from a Global South perspective - How do organizations in the Global South manage their activities within the carrying ecological capacity of the planet (i.e., planetary boundaries), particularly under conditions of resource constraints and institutional fragility?
• How do organizations in the Global South engage with degrowth, sufficiency, circular, or regenerative practices?
• What tensions do organizations in the Global South face between economic survival and ecological realities, and how do they navigate these circumstances in practice?
• How organizations in the Global South conceptualize and manage their embeddedness within social–ecological systems and attempt to develop a regenerative dynamic with nature?
• Power, Inequality, and the Governance of Nature - What are the sources of environmental injustices currently in the global South? How are they experienced? What are some resistances to these injustices, and how do they unfold? What are some policy mechanisms (if any) to address these injustices?
• How do power asymmetries manifest in sustainability governance and transnational regulations?
• How do corporations influence environmental policy and access to natural resources?
• How do resistance and counter-organizing emerge around contested environmental futures?
• Stakeholders and Environmental Sustainability from a Global South Perspective - How do organizations in the Global South engage with stakeholders in relation to environmental sustainability?
• How are the interests of diverse stakeholders, such as communities, governments, NGOs, and other stakeholders, navigated around environmental risks and resource use?
• How do stakeholder relationships influence organizational decisions and practices related to environmental sustainability?
• How do power asymmetries and dependency relations among stakeholders shape environmental outcomes and organizing processes?

Timeline

• October 20, 2026: Paper Development Workshop
• February 28, 2027: Full manuscript submission deadline

Luc Brès, Université Laval

Raymond Paquin, Université Concordia

Thomas Bauwens, Université Erasmus

Emmanuel Raufflet, HEC Montréal

Adriane MacDonald, Université Concordia

Bart van Hoof, Université des Andes de Bogota

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Timeline

• March 6, 2025: |Call for papers announcement date

Paul Leonardi, :?

Alex Murray, :?

Frank Nagle, :?

Nelson Phillips, :?

Juliana Schroeder, :?

Paula Ungureanu, :?

Elisa Villani, :?

The fundamental concept of agency—who can act, what action requires, and who bears responsibility—has long shaped organizational theory. With intelligent technologies now actively participating in organizational processes, this foundational understanding is being challenged as action, intention, and consequences can no longer be attributed solely to individual human actors.

This special issue invites theoretically sophisticated research that reimagines agency when humans and machines co-produce organizational action. The editors seek work that both reconceptualizes agency itself and examines how this shift transforms core organizational phenomena including behavior, leadership, careers, strategy, institutions, and governance.

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Potential topics

• Reconceptualization of agency in contexts involving artificial intelligence and human actors
• Distribution and location of agency when action is co-produced by people and machines
• Implications for organizational behavior and motivation theories
• Leadership and decision-making in AI-augmented environments
• Control mechanisms and accountability in human-AI systems
• Value creation involving intelligent technologies
• Career development and work structures affected by AI participation
• Institutional change driven by agentic AI
• Technological change and organizational adaptation
• Management and organizational control with autonomous systems
• Strategic implications of distributed agency
• Entrepreneurship in the age of AI
• Sociology of work and labor transformation
• Information systems and autonomous action
• Governance frameworks for AI-driven organizational action

Timeline

• February 1, 2027: Submissions due