Anna Wiewiora, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)

Jörg Sydow, Freie Universität Berlin

Josh Keller, University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Medhanie Gaim, Oslo Metropolitan University

This special issue examines how tensions and paradoxes emerge, interact, and evolve across project environments at multiple levels—individual, team, organizational, and interorganizational. Rather than viewing tensions as problems to eliminate, the issue encourages research that explores how project actors and leaders can navigate, leverage, and productively work with persistent, interdependent contradictory demands that are inherent in complex project work.

The call invites theory-informed contributions that move beyond binary either/or framings to adopt both/and and more-than approaches for understanding tensions. Topics of particular interest include tensions in project learning, sustainability integration, stakeholder management, and the emerging role of algorithmic technologies in project decision-making. The special issue welcomes conceptual, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-method research, with emphasis on longitudinal and comparative designs that capture how tensions evolve over time.

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Potential topics

• Individual-level tensions including identity conflicts, leadership styles, and emotional responses of project actors
• Team-level tensions in collaboration, decision-making styles, and balancing competitive and cooperative behaviors
• Organizational and interorganizational tensions arising from embedded projects, strategic duality, and governance systems
• Tensions in complex and megaproject environments with multiple institutional contexts and knowledge domains
• Project learning paradoxes and tensions between knowledge creation, transfer, and performance pressures
• Sustainability tensions between environmental goals and traditional project delivery objectives
• Stakeholder-related tensions including inclusion versus exclusion, cooperation versus competition, and competing narratives
• Tensions involving artificial intelligence and human judgment in project decision-making and knowledge management
• Methodological approaches including longitudinal case studies, comparative designs, action research, and engaged scholarship to capture dynamic nature of tensions

Timeline

• October 31, 2026: Abstract submission deadline
• June 30, 2027: Full manuscript submission deadline for invited abstracts

Corporate Governance: An International Review invites proposals for special issues that focus on a specific area of research that has broad appeal and fits with the aims and scope of the journal.

The mission of CGIR is to publish cutting-edge international business research on the phenomena of corporate governance throughout the global economy. Corporate governance is defined broadly as the exercise of power over corporate entities so as to increase the value provided to the organization's various stakeholders, as well as making those stakeholders accountable for acting responsibly with regard to the protection, generation, and distribution of wealth invested in the firm.

Appel publié par Corporate Governance An International Review. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Corporate governance research with broad appeal
• International business research on corporate governance phenomena
• Exercise of power over corporate entities
• Stakeholder value creation
• Stakeholder accountability
• Wealth protection, generation, and distribution in firms

Timeline

• March 1, 2026: Submission window opening
• April 1, 2026: First submission window closing
• September 1, 2026: Second submission window opening
• October 1, 2026: Second submission window closing