Journal: Sustainable Communities

   Artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies (e.g., blockchain, quantum computing, Internet of Things, robotics) are pivotal in accelerating the global transition to green economics. They help optimize renewable energy systems, enhance resource efficiency within the circular economy, predict climate change to support disaster preparedness, and develop innovative solutions for sustainable consumption and production. For example, a recent report by the World Economic Forum on the Top 10 Emerging Technologies of 2025 highlights AI's role in boosting green productivity and enabling equitable prosperity, which can add 1-3% to annual growth and reduce water and energy use by up to 55%. 
   Nevertheless, a critical paradox persists: AI's infrastructure demands substantial resource use, including energy and water. For instance, data centers could consume 3% of the total electricity demand by 2030, with AI contributing 20-50% of that growth. In emerging economies, the adoption of renewable energy has encountered diminishing marginal benefits, approaching thresholds at which advantages begin to decline, potentially widening digital divides and inequalities.
   To address these dualities of AI, this special issue proposes to examine how AI and emerging technologies foster green economic growth, innovation, and community resilience, while critically assess AI’s environmental/socioeconomic risks, including energy footprints, equity gaps, and governance needs, with a goal to advance interdisciplinary solutions bridging economics, environmental science, technology, policy, and social sciences for transformative, sustainable outcomes.

Key topics include (but are not limited to): 

• Opportunities: AI/IoT/blockchain for renewable optimization, circular economy acceleration, green job creation, ecosystem valuation, and community-based sustainable initiatives.
• Challenges: Quantifying/mitigating AI's carbon/water footprints, addressing digital divides and job transitions in vulnerable regions, ethical governance for "greener AI." 
• Emerging Economy Perspectives: Non-linear impacts on green productivity, renewable transitions, and inclusive growth. 
• Policy and Innovation: Incentives for sustainable AI deployment, integration with green finance/taxation, and frameworks for resilient economies. 
• Forward-Looking: Convergence with other technologies (e.g., AI + nature-based solutions) and pathways to net-zero goals.
  
     Submission deadline - October 31, 2026

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Source - Taylor & Francis

 05/05/2026

Journal: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade

   Contemporary markets are undergoing profound transformations driven by digitalization, intelligentization, institutional change, and shifting patterns of corporate governance. Digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, big data analytics, platform infrastructures, and digital finance, are reshaping the way firms operate, compete, and create value. At the same time, firms across diverse institutional contexts continue to face substantial institutional frictions, such as regulatory uncertainty, weak market intermediaries, uneven enforcement, financing constraints, and trade disruptions. These frictions not only condition firms’ strategic choices but also shape how technology adoption translates into organizational upgrading, governance reform, and international competitiveness.

This Special Issue aims to bring these conversations together. It seeks to advance a more integrated understanding of how technology, institutions, and governance interact to shape firm behavior and market evolution in contexts characterized by institutional complexity and rapid change. In particular the Special Issue will explore the economic/financial consequences from digital governance frameworks, enterprise digital and intelligent transformation, corporate governance mechanisms, and firms’ strategic adaptation jointly influence innovation.

Submissions may address, but are not limited to, the following topics: 

• Digital governance, regulation, and corporate adaptation 
• Data governance, cybersecurity, and privacy protection 
• Corporate digital transformation 
• Artificial intelligence, Intelligentization, and organizational upgrading 
• Corporate governance and strategic adaptation in emerging markets 
• Corporate governance, finance, and trade under institutional frictions
• Institutional frictions, digital finance, and firms’ access to capital
• Geopolitical uncertainty and firms’ strategic reconfiguration
• New trends in innovation, productivity, and value creation
• ESG, sustainability, and responsible governance
• Cross-country differences in technology institutions, and governance
• Alternative data and new measurement approaches

  Submission deadline - December 31, 2026

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Source - Taylor & Francis

 05/04/2026

Journal: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management

   This special issue seeks to advance understanding of how management accounting is evolving in response to digitalisation, sustainability challenges, and ongoing organisational transformation. In recent years, rapid technological developments—including data analytics, artificial intelligence, and digital platforms—have fundamentally reshaped organisational information systems and decision-making processes. At the same time, organisations face increasing pressure to respond to climate change, environmental degradation, and broader socio-economic challenges. These developments are redefining expectations of management accounting, extending its role beyond traditional financial control toward supporting sustainable value creation and long-term organisational resilience.

List of Topic Areas 

• Digitalisation, analytics, and AI in management accounting 
• Sustainability, Environment, Social and Governance, and its implications for management accountants 
• New planning models - beyond budgeting and adaptive control 
• Accounting for strategy, value creation, and business model transformation 
• Platforms, ecosystems, and interorganisational control 
• Behavioural and cultural transformation 
• The changing role of management accounts 
• Governance, ethics, and the politics of measurement 
• Accounting change in the public sector, health, education, and social purpose organisations 
• Risk, resilience, and crisis-driven transformation 
• Emerging economies, indigenous contexts, and local forms of accounting and control 
  Methods for studying transformation
  

     Submission deadline - March 01, 2027

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Source - Emerald

 04/30/2026

Journal: Educational Research for Policy and Practice

   The journal presents research that has generated a substantive result of importance for educational policy and practice; analyses of global forces, regional trends and national educational reforms; studies of key issues in teaching, learning and development - such as the challenges to be faced in learning to live together in what is the largest and most diverse region of the world. With a broad coverage of education in all sectors and levels of education, the journal seeks to promote the contribution of educational research, both quantitative and qualitative, to system-wide reforms and policy making.

  Submission deadline - Ongoing

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Source - Springer Nature

 04/29/2026

The International Journal of Management Education

   The rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in education has rightly been compared to the discovery of fire—bringing transformative benefits yet also "great danger if mishandled". This is especially crucial in fields like business ethics and skills development, where excessive reliance on AI may encourage superficial cognitive engagement and weaken deep analytical thinking. At the same time, AI use in these contexts raises serious ethical concerns, including data misuse, compromised fairness, and algorithmic bias . As AI becomes more integrated and prevalent in business education, the absence of effective prevention may allow these risks to become normalized, potentially undermining the core mission of business education to cultivate socially responsible professionals. Therefore, focused scholarly attention on the identification and prevention of AI-related risks is no longer optional but essential to ensuring the sustainable development of business education.

  The journal  welcomes original submissions using diverse methodologies (e.g., conceptual, empirical, review) covering, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Cognitive Risks in AI-Supported Business Education. 
• Ethical Risks in AI-Supported Business Education
• Governance and Prevention Frameworks for AI Risks

  Submission deadline - Ongoing

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Source - Elsevier

 04/28/2026

Journal: International Politics

   International Politics Reviews aims to be the premier conversational forum for international relations scholars wherein pressing issues are debated and the field is dynamically shaped and expanded. The Reviews section is comprised of themed discussion forums, inter-disciplinary interviews between IR scholars and influential scholars from other fields, a Testify feature which brings academic scholars in conversation with important activists and organizers in the world of politics, and peer-reviewed state of the field articles which provide authoritative and innovative syntheses of literatures and debates heretofore treated as separate. The Reviews section does not accept unsolicited submissions. However, scholars are encouraged to contact the Reviews editor if they have ideas for contributions. The editor is especially committed to considering and helping to develop potential ideas from early career scholars and scholars from outside of the North American and European academies.

Submission deadline - Ongoing

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Source - Springer Nature

 04/24/2026

Journal: Career Development International

   This call for papers to our special issue aims to attract empirical findings, using qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods approaches, on how student entrepreneurship affects the university-to-work transition in emerging economies. We focus specifically on how students’ entrepreneurial experiences during university education contribute to their career development, the development of employability skills, and readiness for entry into the labour market.. 

The contributions of the special issue would include; 

• Understanding how students’ entrepreneurial activities could affect their career development and employability. 
• Learning new ways through which student entrepreneurship could enhance or hinder the university-to-work transition among students in emerging economies. 
• Exploring institutional and contextual factors that may likely affect the impact of student entrepreneurship on the university-to-work transition. 
• Discussing students’ (higher education and TVET) perceptions of and experience of operating micro-businesses while simultaneously schooling under limited resources (i.e., conditional student entrepreneurship) and the impact on shaping their readiness and adaptability to the labour market, and 
• Understanding the extent to which students’ participation in entrepreneurial activities during schooling affects a smoother transition to work, among others.
  

Submission deadline - October 01, 2026

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Source - Emerald Publishing

 04/21/2026

European Journal of Marketing

   Social marketing has long been positioned as a discipline capable of improving societal wellbeing by applying marketing principles to influence behaviour in socially beneficial ways. Early contributions that imagined marketing being used beyond the commercial realm  laid the foundation for the field’s formal emergence in the early 1970s. Over the decades, social marketing has advanced its understanding of how to encourage and sustain behaviour change , yet the contemporary landscape presents challenges of a fundamentally different scale.

This Special Issue provides an opportunity to advance this conversation by showcasing cutting-edge research, conceptual development, and methodological innovation. We welcome work that critically examines social marketing’s evolving role in shaping environmental, social, and economic sustainability, and that considers how the field can contribute to societal transitions during a period of intense global uncertainty. The journal encourages conceptual and empirical (qualitative or quantitative) papers. 

Submission deadline - October 30, 2026

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Source - Emerald Publishing

 04/20/2026

Journal - Multinational Business Review

The journal invites diverse theoretical and empirical studies that consider how digitization can be leveraged for IB activities associated with emerging economies to respond to opportunities and challenges that arise from digital transformation and geopolitics. Studies that draw on International Business, Innovation, Political Economy, Strategy, Business History, and Information Systems literatures to offer interdisciplinary lens to explore the nexus of digital technologies, large and small MNEs (multinational enterprises), and geopolitics and public policy, with a specific focus on the emerging-economy context. .

Main topics:

• Digital platforms and MNE innovation strategy .
• Digital technology and MNE subsidiaries.
• Digital infrastructure and firm internationalization 
• Digital ecosystems and MNEs..
• Digital sovereignty and MNE strategy

Submission deadline - November 20, 2026

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Source - Emerald Publishing

 03/24/2026

This special issue of EuroMed Journal of Business addresses that gap by seeking interdisciplinary work that clarifies the mechanisms linking foresight practices to technology road-mapping, investment sequencing, and measurable sustainability outcomes across sectors and firm sizes. This special issue aims to explain how strategic foresight capabilities guide sustainable digital transformation to deliver long-term ESG value.

List of topic areas:

1. Learning, capabilities, and sensemaking: Micro- and meso-level studies of how managers, employees, teams, and boards interpret weak signals, learn from experimentation, and develop dynamic capabilities to navigate ESG-oriented digital transformation paths.
2. Inclusive foresight and prejudice reduction: Foresight processes and participatory methods that surface diverse stakeholder voices, address prejudice and discrimination in data, algorithms, and decision routines, and support just transitions for different employee and community groups.
3. Digital literacy, skills, and workforce transitions: The role of digital skills, reskilling and upskilling programmes, and literacy initiatives in enabling SMEs and larger organisations to adopt AI and other digital technologies in ways that support long-term sustainability objectives.
4. Behavioural risk, ethics, and governance: How cognitive biases, risk perceptions, and ethical frames of decision-makers influence technology roadmapping, ESG prioritisation, and responses to bankruptcy and performance risks in digital transformation.

and other topics.

Full paper submission deadline - November 1, 2026..

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Source - Emerald Publishing

 
03/03/2026