Jonatan Södergren, University of Bristol

Anthony Patterson, Lancaster University

Cele Otnes, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

This special issue seeks to establish literature as a valuable resource for marketing and consumer research. While marketing scholars have long studied stories and narratives, literary texts and literary theory remain underutilized in the field. The editors invite researchers to explore how novels, poetry, drama, and other literary forms can deepen our understanding of consumer behavior, brands, and markets in ways that complement traditional empirical approaches.

The issue welcomes three main types of contributions: studies using literary texts as empirical material to examine consumer culture; scholarship applying literary theory concepts to marketing phenomena; and reflections on literary methods and epistemologies in consumer research. Additionally, the editors invite work on how literature itself is marketed and consumed, including phenomena like BookTok, and submissions that experiment with literary and creative writing forms as modes of scholarly contribution when integral to the research.

Appel publié par Journal of Marketing Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• What insights can fiction provide for understanding contemporary consumer culture and marketing phenomena that remain inaccessible through conventional empirical approaches?
• How can specific concepts from literary theory be used as analytical tools for understanding contemporary consumer culture and branding practices?
• What epistemological assumptions are challenged when novels and other fictional texts are treated as legitimate data sources for understanding consumer culture?
• How can narratological concepts deepen our understanding of consumer journeys and marketing experiences?
• How do actors across the book industry (publishers, authors, booksellers) deploy marketing activities to increase the demand for literary works?
• What role does BookTok and other digital trends play in driving literary consumption?
• How can creative writing practices be integrated into consumer research?
• What forms of scholarly contribution become possible when researchers adopt literary or experimental modes of writing?

Timeline

• June 7, 2027: Manuscript deadline

This special issue in the Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education examines how qualitative inquiry approaches can be reconsidered and reformed. The call invites scholars to explore ways of unlearning established qualitative research practices and methodologies within the hospitality, leisure, sport, and tourism education contexts.

Appel publié par Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• May 15, 2027: Submission deadline

While quantitative, positivist approaches have traditionally dominated entrepreneurship research, they often fail to capture the lived experiences of marginalized entrepreneurs who remain underrepresented in scholarship despite their significant contributions to local economies. Qualitative research is better suited to exploring the meanings, practices, and organizing processes that hypothesis-driven designs typically obscure.

This special issue invites qualitative research that examines entrepreneurship at the margins as a site for theory-building. The focus encompasses marginalized entrepreneurs across gender, race, migration, disability, age, and Indigenous contexts, particularly in Global South settings where research access challenges are compounded by institutional barriers and epistemic dominance of Global North perspectives.

Contributions should treat marginality as an analytical lens rather than merely a research setting, bringing together reflexive scholarship that advances cumulative qualitative understanding of entrepreneurship as organizing while exploring core themes of power, inequality, agency, legitimacy, and meaning-making.

Appel publié par Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Entrepreneurship as organizing under conditions of marginalization
• Lived experience and everyday practices of entrepreneurs at the margins
• Marginality as an analytical lens for qualitative theory-building
• Power, inequality, and access in entrepreneurial organizing
• Informal, community-based, and non-market entrepreneurial activity
• Gendered, racialized, Indigenous, and migrant entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship in Global South and under-researched contexts
• Legitimacy, stigma, and boundary work in marginalized entrepreneurship
• Resourcefulness, bricolage, and survival strategies under constraint
• Care, affect, ethics, and relational practices in entrepreneurial organizing
• Methodological challenges and innovations in researching entrepreneurship in marginalized populations

Timeline

• April 20, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• February 28, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

This special issue seeks to demonstrate how qualitative and interpretive research can drive meaningful social and behavioural change, particularly for underrepresented and marginalised groups. Rather than relying solely on quantitative metrics, the collection aims to show how deep qualitative inquiry uncovers the psychological and cultural factors that shape human behaviour and can inform ethical, inclusive interventions that address complex social problems.

The call reflects growing recognition that qualitative research must evolve to engage participatory and inclusive frameworks, especially when working with neurodivergent, trauma-affected, and marginalised populations. The special issue responds to an urgent need for research methodologies that empower rather than merely study neglected communities, drawing on approaches such as netnography and community-led participatory methods to create transformative social impact.

Appel publié par Qualitative Market Research. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Present innovative qualitative approaches to design and/or evaluate social marketing initiatives
• Develop qualitative approaches for inclusive research
• Describe participatory approaches (e.g. action research, co-design)
• Engage with difficult, sensitive, or stigmatised topics, developing sensemaking through qualitative methods
• Reflect on the ethics of participatory inclusive methods for behaviour and social change
• Develop longitudinal qualitative frameworks to demonstrate the social impact of ethical interventions and inclusive social marketing strategies

Timeline

• January 10, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• December 15, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Andrea Piccaluga, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

Rosa Grimaldi, University of Bologna

Tim Minshall, University of Cambridge

Zhou Yuan, Tsinghua University

Giovanni Tolin, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies

Company case studies were once central to R&D management research but have become increasingly marginal. This special issue seeks to restore their importance by publishing rigorous, in-depth case studies that capture how organizations manage their R&D functions and provide insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

The decline stems from publication pressures favoring quantitative work, diminished academic engagement with practitioners, and companies' limited willingness to participate in research. Yet case studies remain essential for understanding the complex, context-specific mechanisms shaping R&D processes that quantitative metrics alone cannot capture.

Submissions should present single or multiple company case studies grounded in rigorous qualitative methodology. Co-authored contributions from academics and practitioners are encouraged. Case studies should demonstrate depth of primary source access, advance existing theory or identify new research directions, and address topics including R&D strategy, organization, product development, and collaborations.

Appel publié par R and D Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• R&D strategy and organization
• Product and process development and innovation
• Creativity in R&D
• R&D collaborations and partnerships
• R&D activities in SMEs
• Intra-organizational and inter-organizational R&D processes
• How companies organize and manage R&D, technology, and innovation activities
• Single and multiple company case studies that advance theory in R&D management

Timeline

• June 22, 2026: R&D Management Conference track at University of Manchester for early feedback on paper ideas
• November 1, 2026: Submission window opens
• December 31, 2026: Full manuscript 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.

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

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

Wayne Thomas, University of Oklahoma

Alessandro Ghio, ESCP

Accounting Horizons aims to bridge accounting academics and non-academics (e.g., practitioners, standard setters, and regulators) by publishing rigorous academic research and thought-provoking perspectives that are pertinent to the accounting profession. Most accounting research in the past few decades uses archival, experimental, or analytical methods, rather than other research methods, such as literature reviews, surveys, interviews, and field studies. Accounting Horizons recognizes that these other research methods have an important role to play in bridging the gap between academic research and accounting practice.

Literature review articles can inform academics about what knowledge has been discovered and where gaps exist. These articles can be particularly useful to non-academics who are interested in the given topic and seek insights from research. Literature review articles in Accounting Horizons should focus on specific topics relevant to practice and be written for both academics and non-academics who are interested in the topic, using plain language and avoiding jargon.

Appel publié par Accounting Horizons. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Literature review articles on topics relevant to accounting practice
• Survey research on important accounting issues
• Interview-based research gathering input from practitioners and non-academics
• Field studies in accounting contexts
• Qualitative research using positivist, interpretive, or critical paradigmatic lenses
• Research methods beyond traditional archival, experimental, and analytical approaches

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Deadline for submitting research proposals. This is an open call that will continue accepting submissions until this date.
• February 18, 2027: Deadline for submitting completed article following first-stage approval of research proposal.

This special issue invites submissions that explore innovative approaches to qualitative research in supply chain management. The initiative aims to advance methodological practices and contribute to novel ways of conducting qualitative investigations in the SCM field.

Appel publié par Journal of Supply Chain Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Deadline for submissions

Umesh Sharma, University of Waikato

Chris Akroyd, University of Waikato

Yuki Guo, University of Auckland

Leanne Johnstone, Orebro University School of Business

This special issue seeks to advance understanding of how management accounting is evolving in response to digitalisation, sustainability challenges, and ongoing organisational transformation. In recent years, rapid technological developments—including data analytics, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms—have fundamentally reshaped organisational information systems and decision-making processes. At the same time, organisations face increasing pressure to respond to climate change, environmental degradation, and broader socio-economic challenges. These developments are redefining expectations of management accounting, extending its role beyond traditional financial control toward supporting sustainable value creation and long-term organisational resilience.

Appel publié par Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Digitalisation, analytics, and AI in management accounting
• Sustainability, Environment, Social and Governance, and its implications for management accountants
• New planning models - beyond budgeting and adaptive control
• Accounting for strategy, value creation, and business model transformation
• Platforms, ecosystems, and interorganisational control
• Behavioural and cultural transformation
• The changing role of management accounts
• Governance, ethics, and the politics of measurement
• Accounting change in the public sector, health, education, and social purpose organisations
• Risk, resilience, and crisis-driven transformation
• Emerging economies, indigenous contexts, and local forms of accounting and control
• Methods for studying transformation

Timeline

• November 1, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• March 1, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission