Tony Fang, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Jennifer A. Harrison, EM Normandie

Fei Song, Toronto Metropolitan University

Mingwei Liu, Rutgers University

Generative AI is being rapidly integrated into workplace systems and HR processes, fundamentally reshaping how work is performed and productivity should be understood. The collaboration between humans and AI systems in task completion creates new challenges for measuring and attributing productivity outcomes, as traditional assumptions about performance metrics and human effort become outdated in AI-augmented contexts.

This special issue seeks research that reconsiders how productivity is conceptualized, measured, and compared when work involves human-AI collaboration. The call invites studies examining the distinction between AI adoption and actual use, the distribution of performance effects across different worker groups, implications for career development and employability, and the organizational and HR factors that influence AI-augmented productivity. Methodological contributions exploring innovative approaches to studying these phenomena are also welcomed.

Appel publié par Personnel Review. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Conceptualizing productivity in AI work and careers
• Distinguishing between AI exposure, use, and augmentation
• Measuring human versus AI contributions to outputs and performance
• Changes in the distribution of performance
• Implications of GenAI for skill development, career trajectories, and employability
• HR practices, job design, and organizational context in shaping AI productivity
• Methodological approaches to studying AI and work

Timeline

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

Natalia Vershinina, Audencia Business School

Amitabh Anand, Excelia Business School

Ivona Hideg, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

Sanja Pekovic, University of Montenegro

Ivana Bulog, University of Split

Azra Bičo, International University of Sarajevo

Simona Kukovič, School of Advanced Social Studies & University of Ljubljana

The Western Balkans present a distinctive context for studying gender and work, combining labour-market gender gaps, high female inactivity, and informality with legacies of conflict and complex state-society relations. Women have played crucial roles in post-conflict recovery and civil society development, but existing global organizational theories inadequately capture these experiences and contributions.

This special issue seeks rigorous, comparative research that documents contemporary gendered labour dynamics in the region, theorizes how regional specificities—such as post-socialist transition, conflict legacies, and EU integration pressures—shape organizational practices and careers, and develops conceptual contributions relevant to global gender and organization scholarship. The issue particularly welcomes papers evaluating policy effectiveness and linking local practices to international regimes.

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

Potential topics

• Gendered labour markets, informality, care work, and self-employment in the Balkans
• Gender pay inequality and organizational stratification
• Gendered leadership, management, and corporate governance
• Policy, Europeanization, and institutional change affecting gender equality
• Flexible work, gig economy, and new forms of gendered work
• Gender norms, education, and reproduction of inequality
• Patriarchy, religion, and gendered organizational cultures
• Urbanization, space, and gendered work practices

Timeline

• December 1, 2026: Submission deadline