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

Minhao Zhang, University of Bristol

Yuanzhu Zhan, University of Birmingham

Iana Jackson, University of Arkansas

Zhijun Yan, Beijing Institute of Technology

Emerging technologies promise operational improvements, but their scaling often generates complex trade-offs that become more acute across organisational boundaries and levels. The special issue addresses operational tensions—persistent conflicts between competing demands such as centralisation versus decentralisation, efficiency versus flexibility, and autonomy versus control—that emerge when technologies reconfigure processes, resource allocation and governance. These tensions extend beyond individual implementations to affect supply networks, infrastructure systems and institutional contexts, with implications for resilience, governance and sustainability.

The call invites research examining how organisations navigate these tensions at three levels: within organisations, across supply networks and platforms, and at system-wide scales involving regulation, cybersecurity and resource constraints. Particular interest lies in contexts facing disruption or resource scarcity, such as healthcare and humanitarian operations, where technology adoption may enhance visibility and coordination yet intensify tensions around resource allocation and inter-organisational accountability.

Appel publié par International Journal of Operations & Production Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• How do emerging technologies reconfigure operational processes, routines and decision rights during adoption and scaling?
• What operational capabilities, performance measurement systems and managerial practices enable organisations to balance experimentation, learning and operational reliability?
• How do organisations manage operational tensions arising from the simultaneous scaling of emerging technologies and the maintenance, integration or phase-out of legacy technologies?
• How does the scaling of emerging technologies across supply networks reshape coordination, collaboration, trust, power and dependency relationships?
• How do organisations manage tensions between transparency and confidentiality, decentralisation and strategic control, or local optimisation and network-wide performance?
• How do AI-enabled ecosystems, intelligent intermediaries and algorithmic brokers transform supply network structures, relational dynamics and orchestration practices?
• How do differences in digital maturity, resources and strategic priorities among supply chain partners affect technology scaling, governance and risks of digital exclusion or inequality?
• How do emerging technologies create tensions between operational performance improvement and system-level constraints such as resilience, cybersecurity, regulation, infrastructure capacity, energy consumption and sustainability?
• How do technology-enabled operations redistribute risks, costs and operational burdens across firms, supply networks, workers, suppliers, customers and operational locations?
• How are technologies scaled under disruptive, resource-constrained or recovery-oriented operating conditions, and how do organisations manage tensions between speed and control, improvisation and standardisation, risk-taking and accountability, or local responsiveness and system-wide coordination?

Timeline

• January 8, 2027: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• April 8, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Frank Wiengarten, ESADE

Annachiara Longoni, ESADE

Javier Amaya, ESADE

Anton Shevchenko, Concordia University

Despite decades of research on ethics and sustainability, supply chains continue to exhibit persistent unethical behaviour including forced labour, inadequate working conditions, and gaps between corporate commitments and actual practices. Rather than treating unethical conduct as a compliance problem to be solved through better auditing and codes, this special issue seeks to understand the structural and systemic conditions that make unethical decisions rational and routine within supply chains.

The special issue addresses contemporary challenges including new regulatory requirements such as the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, rapid adoption of artificial intelligence in procurement and logistics, geopolitical fragmentation reshaping global sourcing, and organisational environments where ethical choices are often more costly than unethical alternatives. The collection brings together scholars from operations management, business ethics, technology management, and organisation theory to examine the causal mechanisms underlying persistent unethical behaviour.

Appel publié par International Journal of Operations & Production Management. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Structural and macroeconomic drivers of unethical decisions in operations and supply chains
• Political and geopolitical drivers of unethical decisions in operations and supply chains
• Organisational and behavioural drivers of unethical decisions in operations and supply chains
• Technological drivers of unethical decisions in operations and supply chains

Timeline

• December 1, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• February 28, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

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

Aamir Rashid, City University of New York

Rizwana Rasheed, City University of New York

Organizations face ongoing disruptions and must adapt their supply chains while managing sustainability and digital transformation. However, there is limited frameworks for measuring and comparing adaptive supply chain performance across different organizations and contexts. This special issue seeks to advance research that uses benchmarking logic to systematically evaluate how well supply chains adapt.

The special issue emphasizes understanding adaptive performance through the interaction of people, technology, governance, and sustainability practices. Rather than treating adaptation as a general concept, research should operationalize adaptability with measurable constructs and benchmarking frameworks that highlight performance differences between configurations.

Contributions should employ rigorous comparative designs using quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods to benchmark adaptive supply chains across industries and countries. By identifying which configurations perform better and under what conditions, the research will provide actionable insights for practitioners and policymakers.

Appel publié par Benchmarking: An International Journal. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Benchmarking adaptive supply chain performance across industries and regions
• Performance metrics and composite indices for adaptive, sustainable, and resilient supply chains
• Supply chain maturity models and benchmarking trajectories
• Socio-technical configurations and comparative performance outcomes
• Benchmarking digital and AI-enabled supply chain systems
• Performance frontiers and efficiency analysis of adaptive supply chains
• Cross-country and institutional benchmarking of supply chain adaptability
• Governance, collaboration, and coordination as benchmarked performance drivers
• Comparative analysis of sustainability and resilience performance trade-offs

Timeline

• June 1, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• December 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Harshad Sonar, Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur

Bishal Dey Sarkar, Indian Institute of Management Bodhgaya

Sandeep Jagtap, Lund University

Hana Trollman, University of Leicester

This special issue examines how digital technologies can be integrated with sustainability objectives in modern supply chains. Organizations are increasingly pressured to reduce environmental impacts and ensure ethical operations while managing technological disruption. The issue explores how emerging tools like artificial intelligence, blockchain, and data analytics can enhance supply chain transparency, efficiency, emissions monitoring, and resilience while addressing climate risks and regulatory demands.

The collection seeks empirical, conceptual, and methodological contributions that bridge theory and practice in digital sustainability transitions. It recognizes that technological adoption alone is insufficient; successful transformation requires supportive leadership, training, and organizational culture change. The special issue draws on multiple theoretical perspectives to provide comprehensive understanding of how human and organizational factors influence sustainability-driven digitalization across different organizational contexts.

Appel publié par Benchmarking: An International Journal. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Strategic leadership and governance for sustainable digital supply chains
• Digital transformation strategies for environmental sustainability in supply chains
• AI and machine learning applications for green supply chain planning and optimization
• Blockchain-enabled transparency, traceability, and ethical sourcing
• Benchmarking sustainability performance metrics and ESG KPIs in digital supply chain
• Sustainable logistics and smart transportation
• Digital circular supply chains and circular economy implementation models
• Green procurement, supplier collaboration, and sustainable sourcing practices
• Sustainability-resilience integration through digital capabilities
• Sustainable supply chain innovation in SMEs and emerging economies
• Cyber risks, data governance, and trust issues in sustainable digital supply chains
• Policy, institutional pressures, and regulatory compliance for digital sustainability
• Benchmarking best practices in AI-driven sustainable supply chain decision-making
• Cross-industry and cross-country benchmarking of digital sustainability maturity models
• Benchmarking circular economy adoption and reverse logistics performance across sectors

Timeline

• March 15, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• September 30, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission

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

Jessica L. Darby, Auburn University

Rebekah (Bekki) Brau, Brigham Young University

David J. Ketchen, Auburn University

This annual special issue invites authors to submit proposals for integrative literature reviews of important supply chain management research streams. The special issue aims to synthesize current knowledge and provide direction for future development in the field. Rather than submitting full papers, authors propose a review project that outlines how they will examine and synthesize a focused area of SCM scholarship.

Proposals are evaluated on their significance, feasibility, potential breadth of interest, clarity, and contribution to future research directions. The review should address a notable gap in existing literature or provide substantial new perspective beyond prior reviews. The guest editors emphasize that proposals must be carefully crafted and authors should seek colleague feedback before submission, as rough drafts will not be pre-screened.

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

Potential topics

• Integrative reviews of supply chain management research that focus on a specific topic or apply a particular theory across different topics
• Research streams in supply chain management that require scholarly review
• Significant SCM research areas with limited recent published reviews or novel contributions beyond existing reviews
• Supply chain management topics of broad interest across specialty areas and neighboring fields

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Issue will be published
• August 1, 2026: Submission window for proposals
• October 1, 2026: Decisions on proposals will be provided
• March 1, 2027: Full papers due
• June 1, 2027: Feedback to authors on full papers
• September 1, 2027: Revised papers due

Surajit Bag, Excelia Business School

Amélie Clauzel, Université Paris-Saclay

Peter Naudé, Manchester Metropolitan University

Rasem Qudaih, University of Suffolk

The polycrisis—a convergence of overlapping crises including climate change, pandemic disruptions, geopolitical conflicts, and economic volatility—challenges management practice and theory. This special issue argues that sustainability rooted in environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and economic resilience is not a luxury but essential for organizational survival and legitimacy when facing systemic turbulence.

Organizations must maintain legitimacy and adapt strategy amid multiple simultaneous crises. This issue seeks scholarship examining how sustainable management approaches enable resilience, how supply chains can be redesigned for both sustainability and continuity, and what governance structures support long-term commitment during short-term crises. Contributions should draw on diverse theoretical perspectives—systems theory, institutional theory, ethics, and resilience science—to illuminate how sustainability principles guide decision-making under radical uncertainty.

Appel publié par Thunderbird International Business Review. Lire l'appel complet sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Redefining Sustainability Under Volatility: What does 'sustainability' mean in an era of permanent crisis? How are definitions and scope of corporate sustainability evolving?
• Organizational Legitimacy in Polycrisis Conditions: How do organizations maintain trust and legitimacy when multiple crises unfold simultaneously?
• Narratives, Institutional Logics, and Culture Shifts: What new narratives and institutional logics are emerging to address polycrisis and how do they influence organizational behavior?
• Strategic Management and Corporate Governance: How should corporate strategy and governance adapt to radical uncertainty and frequent disruption?
• Supply Chains, Operations, and Technologies for Resilience: How are supply chains and operations management evolving to ensure sustainability and resilience under compounding crises?
• Cross-Sector Collaboration and Institutional Responses: What collaborative approaches are emerging to tackle interlinked crises and what role do businesses play alongside governments and civil society?
• Human and Leadership Dimensions: What types of leadership, organizational learning, and human resource approaches support sustainability in turbulent times?
• Metrics, Accountability, and Measurement: How do we measure success for sustainability in a polycrisis and what accountability mechanisms ensure sustainability commitments are maintained?
• Systems Theory and Complexity: How might systems thinking and complexity science guide managers in designing holistic interventions that account for system-wide consequences?
• Resilience and Adaptive Capacity: How do sustainable practices contribute to organizational and supply chain resilience and what does it mean to thrive amid disruption?
• Institutional Theory and Legitimacy: How do firms maintain or regain legitimacy by committing to sustainability when short-term temptations arise in crisis contexts?
• Moral Philosophy and Ethics: What ethical duties do businesses owe to stakeholders and future generations when managing trade-offs between survival and long-term sustainability?
• Power and Inequality: How do power dynamics influence whose interests are prioritized in crisis responses and what implications does this have for sustainable development?
• Temporality and Future Orientation: How do organizations balance urgent short-term crisis management with the long-term thinking that sustainability demands?
• Risk, Uncertainty, and Sensemaking: What new approaches to integrated risk assessment and scenario planning help organizations navigate interconnected crises?

Timeline

• August 30, 2026: Call for Papers Released
• March 30, 2027: Final Revisions Deadline
• April 28, 2027: Manuscript Submission Deadline
• October 30, 2027: Review Process Completion

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

Timeline

• October 31, 2027: Submission deadline

This is a call for special issue proposals for the Journal of Supply Chain Management. Proposals should follow the Special Issues Proposal Guidelines available in the provided document.

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

Timeline

• December 31, 2025: Deadline for submissions

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

Timeline

• February 1, 2027: Full paper submission deadline

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

Jiaguo Liu, Dalian Maritime University

Hakan Yildiz, Wayne State University

Guoqing Zhang, University of Windsor

This special issue addresses the urgent need to understand and manage global supply chain reconfiguration in response to tariff uncertainty and shifting trade policies. Rising tariffs and trade tensions are forcing organizations to redesign their sourcing strategies, manufacturing locations, and logistics networks, creating significant practical challenges that require new analytical approaches.

The journal seeks high-quality contributions that apply operations research and artificial intelligence methods to develop decision-making models for supply chain management under tariff uncertainty. Both theoretical advances and practical case studies are welcome, particularly interdisciplinary research that combines OR, AI, supply chain management, and international economics with real-world applications.

Appel publié par Annals of Operations Research. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Supply network redesign and optimization under tariff uncertainty
• Robust and stochastic optimization models for tariff-driven supply chain planning
• Global supply chain reconfiguration under trade policy uncertainty
• AI-powered dynamic supply chain adaptation and tariff response strategies
• Dynamic production, sourcing, and logistics strategies facing tariff risks
• Supply chain resilience and risk management for tariff disruptions
• Logistics and warehousing for global e-commerce and omnichannel supply chains
• Maritime network and logistics optimization with tariff impacts
• Hybrid OR–machine learning for adaptive decision-making in global supply chains
• Multi-echelon inventory management under fluctuating tariff policies
• AI and data-driven methods for trade policy analysis and supply chain impacts
• Optimization models and algorithms for large-scale global supply chain problems

Timeline

• October 31, 2026: Submission deadline

S. Tamer Cavusgil, Georgia State University

Marleen Dieleman, IMD Business School

Md. Tareq Hossain, Thammasat University

Ruey-Jer "Bryan" Jean, National Taiwan University

Destan Kandemir, Georgia State University

Suntichai Kotcharin, Thammasat University

Hussain Rammal, Adelaide University

Southeast Asia represents a significant yet theoretically under-explored region in international business research. With ten ASEAN economies forming the world's fifth-largest economic bloc and attracting substantial foreign investment, the region presents unique phenomena including supply chain reconfiguration driven by China-plus-one strategies, the emergence of regional multinationals, and institutional diversity across countries with different political systems and development stages.

Despite its empirical importance, Southeast Asia remains underrepresented in leading international management journals, where research focuses predominantly on China and India. This special issue seeks contributions that treat Southeast Asian phenomena as theoretically generative rather than merely illustrative. It particularly encourages submissions from scholars based in the region and aims to develop international management theory beyond existing BRICS-centric frameworks by leveraging the region's distinctive features including family capitalism, ethnic-Chinese business networks, state-linked enterprises, and ASEAN-level institutional structures.

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

Potential topics

• The rise and internationalization of Southeast Asian multinationals, including digital-native champions, conglomerate-based regional players, and state-linked enterprises
• Supply-chain reconfiguration, maritime connectivity, and regional supply-chain governance in Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines
• Cross-border trade, geopolitics, and strategies of Southeast Asian firms hedging between major power blocs
• Indigenous theorizing and methodological innovation drawing on Southeast Asian intellectual traditions and fieldwork methods

Timeline

• March 30, 2027: Submission deadline

Kannan Govindan, University of Southern Denmark

This special section addresses the integration of sustainable development goals into supply chain management through advanced operations research methods. Organizations face mounting pressure to balance economic growth with resource conservation and environmental protection while addressing poverty and societal issues. The seventeen sustainable development goals adopted in 2015 target achievement by 2030, with significant implications for how supply chains are designed and operated across the globe.

The special section invites research on how optimization models, decision-making algorithms, and novel operations research techniques can support the implementation of sustainable supply chain management. Contributions should explore policy design with multiple stakeholders, innovative sustainability practices, and governance mechanisms for monitoring progress toward sustainable goals in different economic and geographical contexts. The work should demonstrate how efficient resource utilization and environmental responsibility can be achieved while improving organizational and societal outcomes.

Appel publié par Annals of Operations Research. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Designing and policymaking in sustainable development goals through stakeholder support
• Implementing sustainable development goals in supply chains through innovative strategies and practices
• Monitoring supply chain governance and implications with a focus on sustainable development goals
• Multi-attribute decision making approaches for sustainable supply chain management
• Multi-objective decision making approaches for sustainable supply chain management
• Green supply chain management strategies
• Lean supply chain approaches
• Resource conservation and efficiency in supply chains
• Circular economy in supply chain contexts
• Sustainable supplier selection and evaluation
• Carbon emissions reduction in supply chains
• Reverse logistics and closed-loop supply chains
• Sustainable procurement practices
• Environmental impact assessment in supply chains
• Social and economic sustainability in supply chain operations

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: 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

Bernie F. Quiroga, West Virginia University

Xuying Zhao, Texas A&M University

Oleg Gusikhin, Ford Motor Company

Andrea Matta, Politecnico di Milano

Yong Yin, Doshisha Business School

This special issue honors Professor Kathryn E. Stecke's 75th birthday by showcasing research that builds upon her substantial contributions to production research, flexible manufacturing systems, supply chain management, and the interface between production and marketing. The issue seeks to curate cutting-edge articles in active and emerging areas that reflect her legacy and influence.

The special issue welcomes high-quality submissions including empirical studies, analytical models, simulation-based research, case analyses, and conceptual papers. Manuscripts should demonstrate rigorous, impactful research with comprehensive literature reviews, novel decision-aid models, comparisons with state-of-the-art methods, discussions of real-life applications, and managerial insights.

Appel publié par International Journal of Production Research. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Advances in flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs), including machine grouping, loading policies, and production ratio optimization for enhanced utilization
• Interfaces between production and marketing, including focal points such as advance selling strategies, pre-order mechanisms considering consumer behavior (e.g., loss aversion), lead time and price quotation modes, production-transportation integration in make-to-order systems, and competition/coordination in online marketplaces
• Reconfigurable production systems, such as Seru, for improving responsiveness and adaptability in volatile environments
• Supply chain resilience strategies, including adaptive ordering, disruption mitigation, and multi-echelon network design amid geopolitical and operational uncertainties
• Production planning and scheduling in capital-intensive systems with machine flexibility, focusing on hierarchical approaches and real-time control
• Integration of digital technologies (e.g., AI, digital twins, and data analytics) in manufacturing and supply chains to boost efficiency and cost control
• Empirical analyses of manufacturing efficiencies in sectors like semiconductors, automotive, and electronics, drawing on case studies of disruption responses
• Comparative studies of traditional vs. innovative production methods, such as Toyota Production System vs. Seru, with emphasis on performance metrics
• Managerial insights for decision-makers on implementing flexible routing, robot scheduling, and state-dependent sequencing in production environments
• Future perspectives on sustainable manufacturing, addressing global supply chain vulnerabilities and policy implications

Timeline

• March 1, 2026: Open for submissions
• October 31, 2026: Submission deadline

Adèle Fouché, Université de Tours

François Fulconis, Avignon Université

Gilles Paché, Aix-Marseille Université

La logistique et le supply chain management sont actuellement dominés par des approches normatives et techniques privilégiant l'optimisation de la performance. Cette normalisation risque de rendre invisibles certaines pratiques, acteurs et dynamiques fondamentalement logistiques. Le numéro spécial propose d'explorer une hétérodoxie logistique : une démarche scientifique interrogeant les angles morts du champ, déplaçant les cadres d'analyse existants et ouvrant de nouvelles perspectives pour appréhender la logistique comme fait social traversé par des enjeux historiques, politiques et culturels.

Cette approche envisage la logistique au-delà de la gestion des flux licites et visibles, incluant les terrains « sensibles » ou « hors normes » : économies informelles, réseaux parallèles, circulations illicites et systèmes clandestins. Ces contextes offrent des espaces empiriques pour comprendre la matérialité des flux, les formes alternatives de coordination et les logiques de pouvoir structurant les chaînes logistiques.

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

Potential topics

• Logistique dans les contextes informels, illégaux ou clandestins
• Trafics et économies parallèles (stupéfiants, armes, contrefaçons, traite des êtres humains)
• Repenser les concepts classiques du supply chain management (performance, résilience, coordination, visibilité) à travers des configurations non-normatives
• Continuités entre logistiques historiques (esclavage, colonisation) et systèmes contemporains
• Organisation des flux dans des environnements contraints, incertains ou hostiles
• Rôle des infrastructures, institutions et technologies dans les systèmes alternatifs
• Modèles post-COVID-19 au-delà du juste-à-temps
• Souveraineté et relocalisation industrielle
• Circuits courts et logistique alternative
• Construction et recomposition des frontières entre licite et illicite dans les chaînes logistiques
• Implications éthiques, politiques et sociétales de l'hétérodoxie logistique
• Renouvellement des cadres théoriques et méthodologiques en logistique
• Logistique militaire et logistique des crises humanitaires
• Histoire longue des infrastructures logistiques

Timeline

• January 7, 2027: Full paper submission deadline

Weihua Liu, Tianjin University

Lei Xu, Civil Aviation University of China

Kannan Govindan, Adelaide University

Yang Cheng, Aalborg University

Low-altitude logistics, enabled by drones and digital platforms integrated with ground transportation systems, represents an emerging frontier in logistics and supply chain management. While existing research has explored drone-assisted delivery and truck-drone coordination, significant gaps remain between rapid real-world experimentation and fragmented academic understanding. The special issue addresses critical questions about adoption barriers, network integration, stakeholder acceptance, business model viability, and sustainability implications of low-altitude logistics systems.

The journal invites empirically grounded studies that develop theoretical frameworks, uncover underlying mechanisms, and examine scenario-based applications of low-altitude logistics. Research should explain how organizations adopt and govern these systems, how they reshape logistics networks and service processes, and how they affect operational efficiency, resilience, sustainability, and public value. The special issue seeks to establish a coherent research agenda moving beyond isolated technological applications.

Appel publié par International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Theoretical frameworks and future research directions for low-altitude logistics
• Adoption, implementation, and diffusion of drone logistics
• Consumer acceptance and user perceptions of last-mile drone delivery
• Low-altitude logistics networks and air-ground collaborative distribution
• Smart logistics nodes, digital platforms, and infrastructure for low-altitude logistics
• Low-altitude logistics for urban last-mile delivery, instant retail, and on-demand services
• Drone-enabled emergency logistics, medical logistics, and humanitarian operations
• Low-altitude logistics for remote regions, islands, and mountainous communities
• Low-altitude logistics applications in airport cargo, air express, and air-ground freight connection
• Cold-chain, fresh food, and pharmaceutical delivery enabled by low-altitude logistics
• Low-altitude logistics for urban public services, infrastructure inspection, and smart city operations
• Business models, service innovation, and value creation in low-altitude logistics
• Supply chain coordination and governance in low-altitude logistics ecosystems
• Safety, privacy, regulation, and institutional challenges in drone logistics
• Sustainability, resilience, and social impacts of low-altitude logistics
• Empirical methods, data sources, and measurement issues in low-altitude logistics research
• Sustainability policies, governance mechanisms, and environmental impacts of low-altitude logistics
• Value chain development, industrial ecosystems, and empirical mechanisms in low-altitude logistics

Timeline

• July 30, 2026: Submission window opens
• March 30, 2027: Submission deadline
• March 31, 2027: Manuscript deadline

Paul Tae-Woo Lee, Zhejiang University

International organizations have implemented regulations requiring decarbonization of transportation and logistics industries. The special issue addresses net-zero emissions implementation through multimodal transport networks, where major cargo owners and stakeholders have committed to zero-emission transportation. AI and big data technologies are identified as catalysts for digital transformation and carbon reduction optimization.

The special issue aims to fill research gaps concerning net-zero pathway implementation, particularly around three key challenges: direct emissions reduction, higher capital and operating costs for green technologies, and establishing sustainable green energy supply chains. The collection seeks comprehensive and integrated approaches to enable logistics and transportation industries to achieve carbon reduction and multimodal network sustainability.

Researchers are invited to explore how AI, digitalization, new technologies, and policy mechanisms can support decarbonization. The special issue targets the research community and practitioners in transport, logistics, and supply chains to provide managerial insights and expand literature on net-zero pathways.

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Potential topics

• Decarbonization pathways for transport and logistics services
• Zero-emission freight transport
• Decarbonization and digitalization in transport and logistics services
• Application of AI & big data for decarbonization
• Green shipping and digital corridors
• Green transport and logistics models
• Green fuel supply chains, comprising supply, transport, and storage
• Green energy transitions in smart cities
• Sustainable procurement for net-zero transitions
• Regenerative supply chain design and resilient networks
• Electrification of transport fleets and charging infrastructure challenges
• Policy, regulation, and carbon pricing impacts on logistics decarbonisation
• Safety and environmental monitoring

Timeline

• Invalid DateTime: Paper proposal submission deadline
• April 30, 2027: Manuscript deadline

Associate editors

• Kai-Chieh Hu, Soochow University
• Kyoung-Suk Choi, Jeonbuk National University

Elizabeth Couzineau-Zegwaard, PPA Business School

Nathalie Fabbe-Costes, Aix-Marseille Université

Olivier Meier, Université Paris-Est Créteil

This special issue examines how supply chains are being transformed by regulatory pressures and sustainability imperatives. The convergence of resource scarcity, climate urgency, and increasingly stringent European regulations—including CSRD, CSDDD, and the Digital Product Passport—requires companies to integrate environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance into their supply chain strategies. However, this integration raises significant methodological and operational challenges around impact measurement, traceability, and inter-organizational coordination.

The call seeks contributions exploring the tensions and synergies between extra-financial performance requirements and supply chain management from academic, regulatory, and managerial perspectives. Recent regulatory uncertainty, including the proposed Omnibus simplification package, creates new research questions around regulatory path dependency, stranded costs, and the trade-offs between anticipatory compliance and operational greenwashing versus greenhushing strategies.

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Potential topics

• Sustainable regulations and supply chain management strategies: impacts of CSRD, CSDDD, and European taxonomy on supply chain structuring and logistics choices (relocation, supplier diversification), integration of ESRS in extra-financial reporting, compliance tools and methodologies
• Circular economy and innovation: circular business models (reuse, repair, recycling), eco-design levers, contribution of digital technologies (blockchain, AI, IoT) to transition toward more sustainable or regenerative supply chains
• Measurement, transparency and risks: impact assessment indicators and methodologies (Scope 3, biodiversity, human rights), comparative uses of GRI, SASB and ESRS frameworks, identification of greenwashing signals and best practices for credibilizing ESG commitments, disclosure strategy for objectives versus results in supply chain extra-financial performance
• Extra-financial performance measurement and supply chain management: impact of extra-financial performance measurement on supply chain design and decisions, trade-offs between cost control, profitability and value creation beyond financial returns, does work on measuring and improving extra-financial performance stimulate logistics innovations?

Timeline

• November 15, 2026: Manuscript submission deadline

Alexandra Brintrup, University of Cambridge

Thomas Choi, Arizona State University

George Huang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Dmitry Ivanov, Berlin School of Economics and Law

Recent advances in agentic Large Language Models have created new opportunities for autonomous decision-making in supply chains. This special issue seeks to advance rigorous research on how these AI agents can transform supply chain management by integrating perspectives from operations, AI, complexity science, and industrial engineering. While multi-agent systems have been studied for years, recent LLM breakthroughs now enable more flexible, scalable, and practical implementations that major corporations and technology providers are already exploring.

The special issue welcomes diverse research methodologies including technical solutions, modeling, empirical studies, and experimental work with practical implications. Topics span from using agentic systems for optimization and forecasting to managing risks, designing interorganizational coordination systems, and addressing technical and governance challenges such as trustworthiness, safety, and performance evaluation.

Appel publié par International Journal of Production Research. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Discourse on utilising agentic systems for complex scenarios in supply chain management: Risk and disruption management, logistics and supply chain optimisation, transportation routes, inventory management, quality control, demand forecasting, and warehouse planning and location, and cash flow predictions
• Supply network design with agentic technology: Supplier relationship configurations, agentic digital twins to simulate inventory flows, sustainability implications across the supply chain, circular supply chains, supply chain visibility, and supply chain financing
• Interorganisational agentic systems: Effective multi-agent negotiation and coordination, the design of mediative and persuasive agentic systems, preservation of organisational privacy during multi-agent communication
• Hybrid systems: Integration of agentic systems with blockchain, IoT, Omniverse, and traditional multi-agent systems
• Emergence and Complexity: Unintended consequences of agentic deployment at the system scale, governance, trustworthiness and safety, centralised versus decentralised control, human-in-the-loop agentic systems
• Technical challenges: Performance evaluation, efficient task division, ablation analysis and back testing, sensitivity analysis, agentic architectures operating in high uncertainty environments, long-term horizon reasoning, overcoming hallucinations

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Manuscript deadline

Guoqing Zhao, Swansea University

Samuel Fosso Wamba, TBS Business School

Maciel M. Queiroz, FGV EAESP

Recent large-scale disruptions including pandemics, geopolitical conflicts, and climate disasters have revealed how disturbances cascade across supply chain levels, causing systemic failures. While supply chain resilience has become prominent in research, existing literature remains fragmented, typically examining single analytical levels without comprehensive systemic perspective.

This special issue advances systemic understanding of supply chain resilience by examining cross-level interactions and building multi-level frameworks. The issue seeks research treating resilience as a dynamic capability emerging from interactions across individual, organizational, supply chain, and environmental levels, exploring how factors at different levels influence each other, applying theoretical frameworks like systems theory and panarchy theory, investigating technology's mediating role, and developing practical tools for managers.

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Potential topics

• Supply chain resilience as a multi-level framework
• Individual, organizational, supply chain, and environmental levels
• Socio-ecological resilience
• Socio-technological resilience
• Cross-level interactions and dynamics
• Contextualized understanding of supply chain resilience
• Individual-level factors and leadership
• Mechanisms of resilience influence across levels
• Theoretical innovations in supply chain resilience
• Systems theory applications
• Socio-technological theory
• Panarchy theory
• Middle-range theory
• Emergent system properties
• Technology as cross-level enabler
• Digital platforms and resilience
• Artificial intelligence and resilience
• Internet of Things and resilience
• Blockchain and resilience
• Digital twins
• Managerial practices for systemic resilience
• Tools and frameworks for cross-level alignment
• Balancing efficiency, flexibility, and redundancy

Timeline

• June 1, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• October 15, 2026: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Maciel Queiroz, FGV EAESP

Morgane Fritz, Excelia Business School

Britta Gammelgaard, University of Southern Denmark

Logistics and supply chain management (L/SCM) have advanced through analytical rigor and empirical refinement. However, the contemporary landscape, shaped by geopolitical shifts, digital transformation, climate pressures, and evolving societal expectations, requires more than incremental extensions of existing models. It calls for a reconsideration of the assumptions, values, and conceptual boundaries that underpin the field. Many of the most pressing challenges in L/SCM today are not only empirical, but also normative, philosophical, and inherently interdisciplinary.

This special issue seeks essays that move beyond established paradigms and offer reflective, provocative, and conceptually grounded perspectives that offer new lenses and open new directions for research and practice. The objective is to complement empirical work by fostering ideas that challenge, reframe, and extend our understanding of L/SCM.

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Potential topics

• Algorithmic management and the reconfiguration of work in logistics
• Supply chains as political and strategic infrastructures
• Entrepreneurial supply chains in contexts of institutional fragility
• Efficiency versus dignity: ethical boundaries of automation
• Decolonizing supply chain theory and practice
• Beyond resilience: strategic adaptation, transformation, and fragility
• Platformization and ecosystem competition in logistics
• Invisible labor and precarity in digitally mediated supply chains
• Sustainability, legitimacy, and organizational narratives
• The role of human resources in supply chain management
• Temporal trade-offs: speed, flexibility, and human well-being
• Culture, identity, and coordination in global supply networks
• Human–AI collaboration and decision authority in SCM
• Moral responsibility and accountability in complex supply networks
• Business model innovation in circular and regenerative supply chains
• Reimagining SCM theory: integration, borrowing, or paradigm shift?

Timeline

• May 21, 2026: Opening date for abstract submissions
• September 30, 2026: Closing date for abstract submissions
• November 30, 2026: Opening date for manuscript submissions
• April 30, 2027: Closing date for manuscript submissions

Hugo Lam, affiliation required but not provided

Jens Roehrich, affiliation required but not provided

Martin C. Schleper, affiliation required but not provided

Shuang Ren, affiliation required but not provided

Soumyadeb Chowdhury, affiliation required but not provided

Over the last decade, managers, policymakers, scholars, and society at large have grappled with an escalating series of interconnected shocks: climate emergencies, geopolitical tensions, economic volatility and rapid technological disruption. What distinguishes the current era is not simply the frequency or severity of these shocks, but their deep interdependence, which is likely to prolong their effects for decades. Climate events often trigger food insecurity that fuels political instability; geopolitical conflict reshapes energy markets and trade flows; and technological breakthrough creates new vulnerabilities even as it may offer new capabilities. These dynamics do not unfold in isolation, but very often interact, amplify one another, and cascade across organisational boundaries and supply chains to impact sectors, regions and continents.

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Potential topics

• Leadership, stakeholder, and identity under polycrisis - What leadership, human systems, and micro-foundations are required to navigate entangled crises across levels and time horizons?
• Leadership, stakeholder, and identity under polycrisis - How do organisations and supply chains maintain legitimacy when actions addressing one crisis exacerbate another?
• Leadership, stakeholder, and identity under polycrisis - How does polycrisis reshape (inter-) organisational identity and stakeholder expectations?
• Understanding interacting disruptions/shocks and cascading failures - How do climate, geopolitical, economic and technological crises interact to generate cascading disruptions across global supply chains?
• Understanding interacting disruptions/shocks and cascading failures - What mechanisms explain how a localised shock propagates/ripples through multi tier networks and across sectors and/or regions?
• Understanding interacting disruptions/shocks and cascading failures - How do organisations perceive, prioritise and make sense of simultaneous crises, and how does this shape their operational and strategic responses?
• Rethinking resilience, risk, and adaptation during a polycrisis - How should resilience be operationalised when disruptions are interacting rather than being discrete?
• Rethinking resilience, risk, and adaptation during a polycrisis - What capabilities enable organisations to anticipate and/or mitigate cascading risks?
• Rethinking resilience, risk, and adaptation during a polycrisis - What forms of adaptation prove most effective when crises overlap and/or reinforce one another?
• Role of technology, innovation, and societal forces in polycrisis - How do organisations leverage technological innovation to simultaneously pursue climate resilience, social justice and economic viability under overlapping crises?
• Role of technology, innovation, and societal forces in polycrisis - How do supply chain decisions made under polycrisis conditions shape long term societal resilience and sustainability?
• Role of technology, innovation, and societal forces in polycrisis - What new forms of coordination emerge when organisations, governments and civil society actors confront multi level, multi actor disruptions?

Timeline

• May 1, 2026: Informational webinars for interested authors
• June 27, 2026: EurOMA Conference 2026: Further information on the Special Joint Initiative will be circulated
• July 1, 2026: Submissions portal for proposals open
• September 9, 2026: British Academy of Management Conference 2026: Further information on the Special Joint Initiative will be circulated
• November 1, 2026: Submission portal (BJM and IJOPM) for full manuscripts opens
• January 31, 2027: Closing date for full manuscripts submission