David B. Audretsch, Indiana University

Dafna Kariv, Reichman University

Mark Sanders, Maastricht University

Friederike Welter, University of Siegen

Trent Williams, Brigham Young University

This special issue in Small Business Economics investigates how entrepreneurs develop and leverage internal capabilities to succeed when external support systems are unavailable or depleted. Rather than viewing crises as isolated incidents, the issue recognizes that contemporary entrepreneurs increasingly operate under persistent adversity and must rely on their own resources, psychological strengths, and adaptive mechanisms to thrive.

The call seeks innovative research that moves beyond existing literature by examining the endogenous foundations of entrepreneurial success. Submissions should explore how entrepreneurs generate innovation, build resilience, and maintain adaptability when facing continuous challenges and reduced access to traditional ecosystem support.

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

Potential topics

• Entrepreneurial resilience and adaptability
• Internal resources and psychological strengths
• Self-generated mechanisms for success
• Entrepreneurship under adversity
• Entrepreneurs without ecosystem support
• Innovation in crisis conditions

Timeline

• February 15, 2026: Extended abstracts submission deadline
• October 31, 2026: Full paper submission deadline

Md Maruf Hossan Chowdhury, University of Technology Sydney

Shahriar Akter, University of Wollongong

Mohammad Alamgir Hossain, RMIT University

Kristijan Mirkovski, Deakin University

Supply chains face mounting pressures from climate change, geopolitical tensions, and pandemic risks, while stakeholders demand greater sustainability. Digital technologies like artificial intelligence and blockchain offer solutions for enhancing visibility and improving environmental and social outcomes.

The integration of digital innovation with sustainability and resilience strategies enables supply chains to reduce systemic risks while strengthening their ability to recover from disruptions. However, significant gaps remain in understanding how these technologies influence ESG performance and interact with contextual factors.

This special issue seeks high-quality contributions exploring how digital and emerging technologies enable or constrain sustainable, resilient, and regenerative supply chain strategies, offering theoretical insights and practical implications for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

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

Potential topics

• Emerging digital technologies for sustainability and resilience in supply chain management
• Data-driven decarbonisation strategies and emissions transparency
• Digital enablers of circular supply chains and closed-loop systems
• Digital transformation and sustainable supply chain risk management
• Technology-enabled supply chain resilience capabilities
• Blockchain-based traceability and ethical sourcing
• Digital product passports and lifecycle data integration
• Governance, ethics, data integrity, and cybersecurity in digital supply chains
• Institutional and regulatory influences on technology-led sustainability
• Digital platforms for supplier sustainability assessment
• Techno-nationalism and sovereign AI in global supply chains
• Technology-sustainability-resilience linkages theory
• Regenerative practices in supply chains

Timeline

• September 15, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• March 15, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

This special issue examines how supply chains can advance sustainable development across Africa by integrating resilience, inclusivity, and digital innovation. The focus encompasses strategies to manage disruptions in volatile environments, approaches to include SMEs and local communities in value chains, and the application of artificial intelligence and data-driven technologies to enhance efficiency and transparency.

The issue welcomes rigorous, peer-reviewed contributions from academics, practitioners, and policymakers addressing digital transformation, risk management, sustainability, and sector-specific applications in healthcare and agribusiness. The goal is to develop equitable, robust supply chain systems that support Africa's sustainable development objectives.

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

Potential topics

• Building resilient and risk-responsive supply chains
• Inclusive supply chain models for local economic participation
• Sustainable and green supply chain practices
• Artificial intelligence and digital transformation in African supply chains
• Sector-specific innovations in critical industries

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• January 29, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

This special issue examines how trust functions in business-to-business relationships when confronted with significant disruptions and fragmentation. The focus encompasses the mechanisms through which organizations can repair damaged trust, the role of reciprocity in maintaining relationships under stress, and the capacity for resilience in unstable market environments.

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

Timeline

• August 1, 2027: Submission deadline

This special issue focuses on the application of multi-criteria decision analysis methods to address complex economic planning challenges related to tariffs and supply chain management. The collection seeks to explore how MCDA approaches can inform policy decisions and strategies for building more resilient economic systems in the face of global trade complexities and supply chain disruptions.

Appel publié par Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Mehmet Recai Uygur, Kaunas University of Technology

Eglė Celiešienė, Kaunas University of Technology

Sami Çoksan, Western University

This special issue examines democracy through a systems-theoretical lens, addressing the structural tension between democratic openness and the need to manage threats to institutions and public order. The editors invite contributions that apply cybernetics and complexity theory to understand how democratic systems observe, communicate about and respond to various pressures including war, pandemics, disinformation, migration and technological disruption.

The issue seeks to integrate perspectives from multiple fields including democratic theory, governance, securitisation studies, media research and resilience thinking. It particularly welcomes work that moves beyond linear explanations to analyse feedback loops, recursive processes and unintended consequences of governance interventions, examining paradoxes such as liberty versus security and inclusion versus exclusion.

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

Potential topics

• Democracy as a self-referential and paradoxical system
• Democratic resilience, backsliding, institutional learning and adaptation
• Securitisation, threat construction, emergency politics and exceptional measures
• Disinformation, AI, digital platforms and democratic communication
• Migration, protest, border governance and inclusion/exclusion dynamics
• War, pandemics, climate stress and economic shocks as coupled crises
• Public administration, critical infrastructures and cross-sector governance
• Multilevel governance, polycentric coordination and state-business-civil society relations
• Formal and methodological innovations, including systems mapping, simulations, network analysis and truth tables
• Normative and design implications for reflexive, resilient and trustworthy democratic governance

Timeline

• January 5, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• December 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission

James Cunningham, Newcastle University

Jungho Kim, Newcastle University

Chiara Marzocchi, University of Padua

Natalya Radko, Newcastle University

Technology transfer from universities and industry has been central to economic development, but rapidly advancing research and technology demand continuous evolution of university transfer structures and processes. While established frameworks have driven economic impact, emerging disruptions including AI advancement, geopolitical shifts, and intellectual property challenges are testing the resilience of current systems. This special issue examines how technology transfer systems can effectively balance economic impact with social value creation.

The issue invites exploration across multiple levels: macro-level policy frameworks and government R&D investments, meso-level institutional configurations and TTO designs, and micro-level academic entrepreneur behaviours and professional competencies. It particularly addresses how universities can simultaneously pursue economic commercialisation while meeting expectations to address societal grand challenges, and how these dual objectives create tensions requiring new business models and support structures.

Appel publié par The Journal of Technology Transfer. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Elements of technology transfer systems and contextual factors contributing to resilience in different economic scenarios
• Role of social value and prosocial behaviours of academic entrepreneurs in shaping university technology transfer structures
• Blended value creation frictions at macro, meso and micro levels for various stakeholders in research commercialisation
• Inclusivity and participation in technology transfer systems from multiple perspectives
• Public policy mixes and instruments supporting technology transfer systems for economic and social value
• Emerging university TTO configurations addressing societal challenges and geopolitical changes
• Intellectual property leakage, open science models, and evolving legal frameworks affecting value creation
• Future capabilities and competences required by technology transfer actors across sectors
• Influence of stakeholder needs and AI-driven digitalisation on university TTO methodologies and processes
• Non-market strategies driving university TTOs economic and social value creation

Timeline

• December 31, 2026: Full paper submission deadline
• July 1, 2027: Final decisions on accepted papers should be completed

Femi Olan, University of Essex

Uchitha Jayawickrama, Loughborough University

Shaofeng Liu, University of Plymouth

This special issue seeks high-quality research on Decision Support Systems (DSS) that address sustainable and resilient transitions across organisations, societies, and supply chains. In environments characterised by technological disruption, environmental threats, and changing workforce demands, DSS models, frameworks, tools, and applications are essential for enabling evidence-based decision-making and strategic adaptation.

The call welcomes contributions exploring both theoretical foundations and practical applications of DSS across four main areas: green and sustainable transitions, digital transformation, workforce and skills transitions, and resilient supply chains. Submissions should demonstrate how DSS support organisations and societies in balancing efficiency with sustainability and resilience objectives while navigating rapid change.

Relevant submissions include conceptual models, quantitative frameworks with performance indicators, empirical case studies, interdisciplinary approaches, and critical analyses of adoption barriers and governance considerations for DSS implementation in transitions.

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

Potential topics

• DSS for Green and Sustainable Transitions: DSS for integrating environmental and circular economy goals, establishing indicators and metrics for production sustainability
• DSS for Digital Transformation: AI-powered DSS supporting digitalisation, automation, and advanced analytics in manufacturing, logistics, and workforce management
• DSS for Workforce and Skills Transitions: DSS for workforce re-skilling, hybrid work planning, and change management
• DSS for Resilient Supply Chains, Organisations and Societies: DSS frameworks for supply chain mapping, disruption visibility, dynamic reconfiguration, organisational learning and society regeneration
• Conceptual models for DSS-enabled sustainability and resilience in businesses, organisations, supply chains and societies
• Quantitative frameworks and key performance indicators (KPIs) measuring how decisions shape sustainability goals for transitions
• Empirical studies or case-based investigations bridging theories and practice
• Interdisciplinary methods bridging technological and organisational/societal readiness for sustainable change
• Critical perspectives on DSS technology adoption barriers, human factors, social-economic values and governance frameworks

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Paper submission deadline

Courtney Bower, Cornell University

This special issue invites empirically grounded research examining how the Black Sea region recovers and transforms amid conflict, economic transitions, and geopolitical uncertainty. The editors welcome submissions employing quantitative methods such as econometrics, input-output modeling, GIS, remote sensing, network analysis, and agent-based models, as well as mixed methods approaches. Studies offering actionable policy recommendations for diverse stakeholders including municipalities, port authorities, government ministries, and international organizations are particularly valued.

Appel publié par Growth and Change. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Spatial configurations and governance arrangements for resilient recovery
• Corridors, gateways, and supply chains under geopolitical stress
• Cross-national comparisons of economic, institutional, and geopolitical trajectories
• The Black Sea as a complex adaptive system
• Multi-scalar analyses of infrastructure networks
• Displacement, migration, return, and relocation
• Energy security and vulnerability in contested sub-regions
• Regional development transitions: past, present, and future
• Urban–rural disparities and interdependencies
• National and regional innovation systems and spillovers
• Diaspora finance and development
• Cross-scale policymaking shaping growth trajectories
• Workforce development, skills matching, and labor-market recovery
• Roles of institutional actors, international organizations, and non-governmental entities

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Rui Torres de Oliveira, Deakin University

Agnes Toth-Peter, University of Queensland

Martie-Louise Verreynne, University of Queensland

David Audretsch, Indiana University

Domenico Dentoni, MBS School of Business

Andrea Chiarini, University of Verona

This special issue explores how systems thinking tools and methodologies can address interconnected challenges of sustainability, digitalization, and resilience, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. The collection seeks to move beyond superficial adoption of systems thinking toward genuine systemic change that integrates digital technologies, circular economy principles, and collaborative multi-stakeholder approaches to tackle complex, wicked problems.

The special issue invites theoretical and empirical research demonstrating real applications of systems thinking frameworks such as causal loop diagrams, system dynamics models, and participatory methods. Contributions should illuminate how holistic, systems-level perspectives can uncover hidden leverage points and foster innovative solutions that align digital transformation with sustainability goals while building organizational resilience.

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

Potential topics

• Applications of systems thinking tools, such as causal loop diagrams, system archetypes, and system dynamics modeling, in addressing sustainability challenges
• Development and validation of systems-level frameworks and methodologies for sustainable development
• Case studies demonstrating the impact of systems thinking on real-world sustainability and/or digitalisation initiatives
• Use of group model building and participatory system dynamics to support interdisciplinary and ecosystem solutions
• Exploration of system archetypes and system dynamics models to identify leverage points for driving transformational change and to investigate levers in cross-boundary settings
• The role of digital technologies, including IoT, AI, big data, and blockchain, in enabling systems-level insights and solutions in the circular economy and sustainability initiatives
• Integration of digitalisation with circular economy strategies and Industry 5.0 principles and potentials
• Innovative approaches to digital transformation that promote sustainable development
• Cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary research to foster collaboration in bridging sustainability and digitalisation, using systems thinking
• The role of ecosystems in sustainable business models and the boundaries of entrepreneurial ecosystems
• Methodologies for recognising, assessing and addressing the interconnectedness of environmental, economic, and social systems
• Open innovation in new sustainable businesses, considering distinct institutional contexts and economic systems, such as emerging and developed economies

Timeline

• October 1, 2026: Rolling submissions open
• May 31, 2027: Manuscript deadline

Appel publié par Health Policy. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• January 31, 2027: Submission deadline

Günter Prockl, Copenhagen Business School

Alexander Pflaum, University of Bamberg

Haozhe Chen, Iowa State University

Marcel Papert, University of Bamberg

Modern supply chains face unprecedented disruptions while simultaneously confronting environmental limits and resource scarcity. This requires a fundamental transformation toward more responsive and circular systems. Digital technologies including IoT, AI, digital twins, and blockchain are critical enablers for building resilient supply chains that adapt quickly to change while reducing resource consumption and closing material loops.

The special issue seeks papers demonstrating how digital and data-driven solutions implement these responsive and circular supply chains, along with their associated business models. Contributions should explore digital technologies across multiple supply chain tiers, with particular emphasis on industry-specific applications and the integration of responsiveness, servitization, and sustainability goals.

Appel publié par Electronic Markets. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Contribution of digital technologies to responsiveness, agility, flexibility, adaptability, improvisation, and resilience, sustainability, circularity, and regeneration
• Increasing supply chain visibility based on digital technologies
• AI methods supporting forecasting, planning, decision making and optimization
• Division of labour and interactions between humans and machines in AI-supported supply chains
• Virtualization and simulation of supply chains based on digital twins
• Blockchain and smart contracts in logistics and supply chain management
• The role of digital platforms in supply chain management
• Effects of smart product-service-systems on supply chains and supply chain management
• Ecosystems and federated data ecosystems enabling new data-driven R strategies
• Models, methods and tools enabling the triple transformation of supply chains
• Barriers and challenges hindering digitalization, servitization and transition to sustainability and circularity
• Data security and cyber security challenges in digital supply chain structures
• Legal aspects within the digital, servitized, circular supply chain
• Potential of digital technologies for ensuring compliance with legal requirements in the context of sustainability and circularity
• Relationship management mechanisms and governance structures in the era of digitalized supply chains

Timeline

• October 15, 2026: Submission deadline

Appel publié par Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• February 12, 2027: Submission deadline

Appel publié par Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• November 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Appel publié par Economic Modelling. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Submission deadline

Appel publié par Computers & Industrial Engineering. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Full paper submission deadline

Paresh Wankhade, Edge Hill University Business School

Giles McClelland, Edge Hill University Business School

This special issue examines how public organizations are shifting from traditional emergency response approaches toward more inclusive and resilient governance frameworks. It addresses the complex challenges posed by modern disasters, pandemics, and crises that require coordination across professional and organizational boundaries, while emphasizing the importance of trust, legitimacy, learning, and community engagement.

The issue seeks contributions that bridge disaster management, emergency services, and public administration scholarship, with particular interest in governance capacity, collaborative networks, and the role of individual job crafting in workforce resilience. It also recognizes that crisis experiences are shaped by social inequalities, identity relations, and uneven distributions of power and resources.

Submissions may be research articles, new development pieces, or debate articles that explore topics including multi-level coordination, leadership, organizational learning, digital transformation in emergency management, and the contributions of communities and civil society to building resilience.

Appel publié par Public Money & Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• How are emergency services adapting to more complex, frequent and interconnected crises?
• What forms of governance capacity are needed to manage compound and cascading risks?
• How do public organizations co-ordinate across organizational, sectoral and jurisdictional boundaries during disasters?
• What are the strengths and limitations of command-and-control, networked and collaborative models of emergency management?
• How do emergency services balance centralized command with local discretion, improvisation and community knowledge?
• How do frontline responders reshape tasks, relationships and meanings during disaster preparedness, response and recovery?
• What forms of job crafting support workforce resilience, engagement, wellbeing and service continuity?
• What role do leaders and managers play in influencing the job crafting behaviours of teams and individuals?
• How do public organizations maintain trust, legitimacy and accountability during and after crises?
• What role do identities such as women and gender-diverse actors play in community resilience, mutual aid and local crisis leadership?
• How do inequalities shape exposure to disaster risk, access to emergency services and recovery outcomes?
• What role do communities, civil society organizations, volunteers and private actors play in building resilience?
• How do governments and emergency services learn or fail to learn from inquiries, reviews and past disasters?
• How are digital technologies, data analytics, AI, early warning systems and crisis communication platforms transforming emergency management?

Timeline

• May 1, 2027: Deadline for research articles
• August 1, 2027: Deadline for debate and new development pieces

Michele Acciaro, Copenhagen Business School

Martin Jes Iversen, Copenhagen Business School

Ioannis Lagoudis, University of Piraeus

Iryna Savelieva, Odesa National Maritime University

Dong Yang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Kum Fai Yuen, Nanyang Technological University

This special issue addresses how firms and innovation systems navigate security challenges facing critical infrastructure systems such as energy, transportation, telecommunications, and water. As infrastructure disruptions increasingly cascade through supply chains and threaten economic competitiveness, the intersection of innovation and security has become central to industrial dynamics and firm strategy. The call seeks contributions examining how technological, organizational, regulatory, and strategic innovations build infrastructure resilience while contending with geopolitical tensions, cyber threats, environmental pressures, and dual-use technology dilemmas.

The special issue examines innovation processes across multiple levels: firm-level adaptations to infrastructure vulnerabilities, sectoral coordination among heterogeneous actors, and policy frameworks managing tensions between openness and security controls. Contributions should explore how organizational innovations developed in response to infrastructure threats subsequently reshape infrastructure provision and adjacent sectors, and how innovation systems balance knowledge networking with security governance.

Appel publié par Industry and Innovation. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Innovation systems, governance, and geopolitics in critical infrastructure security
• Technological innovation systems (TIS) approach for CI security and dual-use technologies
• Sectoral and technological innovation systems in CI security
• Regulatory innovation and multi-level governance frameworks
• Geopolitical competition, technology sovereignty, and industrial policy
• Organizational innovation and adaptation in response to CI system vulnerabilities
• Firm strategies, organizational innovation, and business models for infrastructure security
• Resilience, supply chain security, and infrastructure interdependencies
• Digital transformation, automation, and cybersecurity in critical infrastructure
• Sustainability transitions and the security-environment nexus
• Socio-technical transitions, ethics, and human factors in CI security
• Multi-level dynamics of transitions with focus on critical infrastructure
• Sectoral applications: energy, transportation, telecommunications, water, financial systems, healthcare, mining, space, and Arctic infrastructure

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Publication of the SI
• December 15, 2026: Submission opens
• January 31, 2027: Submissions to the SI due