Organizations face increasing complexity from shifting geopolitical, economic, and technological conditions, requiring strategic approaches to knowledge management for sustainability. The integration of knowledge management with AI offers potential benefits for problem-solving and decision-making, yet presents challenges that require responsible and ethical implementation. This special issue examines how organizations can leverage strategic knowledge management to balance the opportunities and risks of AI while maintaining sustainability across their operations.

The call seeks contributions exploring how organizations can effectively manage both human knowledge and AI-generated intelligent knowledge, addressing issues such as knowledge overload, loss, and duplication. It emphasizes the importance of codification and personalization strategies that align with organizational values and objectives. The special issue invites researchers to examine how sustainable strategic knowledge management enables organizations to adapt to rapidly changing environments while achieving economic, social, and environmental goals.

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Potential topics

• Knowledge management processes and sustainability in organizations
• Human-AI synergy and responsible AI use in knowledge systems
• Strategic knowledge management for organizational decision-making and problem-solving
• Managing explicit and tacit knowledge in digital environments
• Knowledge codification and personalization approaches
• Addressing knowledge overload from AI, cloud computing, and big data
• Sustainable knowledge-based organizations and resource optimization
• AI's impact on critical knowledge management processes
• Ethical and mission-aligned strategic knowledge for financial, social, and ecological benefits
• Knowledge management in complex organizational environments and geopolitical uncertainty

Timeline

• January 8, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• October 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission

René Wiedner, Warwick Business School

Jennifer Whyte, University of Sydney

Saku Mantere, McGill University

Robin Holt, University of Bristol

Marie-Léandre Gomez, ESSEC Business School

There is broad recognition that organizational life cannot be fully understood or managed through rationalist frameworks. Scholars across the social sciences, including human geography and cultural theory, have long acknowledged how sensory experience, emotion, affect and embodied practice shape organization. Strategy studies are also beginning to understand how strategically significant phenomena–organizational routines, capabilities and identity, investment allocation and judgment, leadership, environmental adaptation–refuse to be confined to, and by, rational, logically structured analyses.

There is an aesthetic aspect to all strategy–it is as much vision as it reason; as much inspiration as analysis. Emotions, feelings, intuitions, desires and instincts can all have strategically significant influence. The symbolic and material dimensions of organising, alongside questions of purpose and structure across multiple human practices and fields, are all factors for which a successful strategic design must take account. The discursive, ecological and commercial forces to which organizations are adapting continually are encountered in aesthetic terms.

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Potential topics

• The aesthetic qualities of strategy work: combining creative expression with analytical rigor; the coexistence of, and interplay between, poetics and reason
• Aesthetically-infused experiences such as awe in understanding how strategic organizations resist the disenchantment of strategy work through over-rationalization
• Studies of strategy confronting cultural landscapes encouraging the production and consumption of styles rather than goods, posing complex strategic identity choices across audiences with different stylistic preferences and evaluation criteria
• How the strategic organization of affective forces is often caught in a fundamental ambiguity between instrumental organization and unmanageable reorganization of experience
• Examinations of analogue and digital strategic devices and how these contribute to the performance of strategic styles, including strategy work in boardrooms and informal organizing contexts
• Investigations of the strategic appropriation of artistic activity and how organizations draw from artistic practices to reinvent themselves and maximize profitability
• Studies of organizational design and the formation of capabilities and identities that can be structured to elicit strategically significant commitments amongst stakeholders
• Inquiries of processual forming and formation in strategy, invoking vitalist and new materialist philosophy and questions about organizational forms
• Engagements with the raw material of strategy in formation, including how information and data have aesthetic forms and dimensions
• Connecting strategy and temporality through aesthetics, including how strategy forms narrative plots that elicit specific feelings of progression, symbolic and communal attachments, and identities

Timeline

• October 31, 2026: Manuscript submission window opens
• December 1, 2026: Original manuscript submission deadline
• April 1, 2027: Initial decision communication
• August 1, 2027: Revise & resubmit deadline
• December 1, 2027: Conditional acceptance decision communication
• March 1, 2028: Iterations on conditional acceptances (with editors only)
• May 1, 2028: Unconditional acceptance communication
• November 1, 2028: Publication

This special issue explores how identity diversity influences strategic decision-making processes within teams. We seek to understand the mechanisms through which diverse team compositions affect decision quality, creativity, and organizational outcomes. The focus is on examining both the benefits and challenges of managing identity-diverse teams in contemporary organizational settings.

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Potential topics

• Identity diversity in teams and its impact on strategic decision-making
• Diversity management strategies and their effectiveness
• Team dynamics and interpersonal processes in diverse contexts
• Decision quality and innovation outcomes in identity-diverse teams
• Intersectionality and multiple dimensions of diversity
• Cognitive and affective processes in diverse team settings
• Organizational culture and inclusive practices
• Leadership approaches in managing identity-diverse teams

Timeline

• October 5, 2026: Submission deadline