Call for Papers! Special Issue! Towards Disruptive Sustainability! Submission Deadline- 1st September 2024!
We aim to address this crucial question by stimulating a conversation about disruptive sustainability, defined here as a fundamental shift in business models of production and policies, while addressing environmental, social and economic sustainability challenges. These kinds of sustainable practices require a complete departure from the established ways of doing things, beyond incremental innovations (Christensen et al., 2006), to innovations that disrupt intertwined systems and can lead to more sustainable outcomes while creating new demands by diverse stakeholders (Senge, 2006). Indeed, it has long been shown that new sustainable technologies often do not fit existing production methods or managerial and customer preferences (Kemp, 1994; Johnson and Suskewicz 2009), thus calling for a disruptive effect demanding new system-wide solutions.
Paper Development Workshops
For the Research Policy Special Issue Towards Disruptive Sustainability, we are hosting two online paper development workshops (PDWs) on April 17th 2024 (10.00-12.00 GMT and 17.00-19.00 GMT).
The PDW will consist of a first 20-minute presentation by the guest editors, about the Special Issue aims and expectations, followed by a presentation by each author.
TO APPLY:
- Send an extended abstract (Times New Roman 11-point or similar, strict limit of maximum 3 pages PDF all included; 1 submission per person) to [email protected] by April 1st 2024
- Decisions communicated to authors by the April 8th 2024.
- Submitted abstracts may be rejected without a detailed justification.
- We expect about 6-9 paper presentations.
- Abstracts should ideally already include some results, and connect well to Special Issue topics.
- Presenters must give live presentations (not pre-recorded videos) and ideally attend the whole event.
- Presenters get ~ 12 minutes each: 10 mins to present, 2 mins Q&A/discussion (mainly Q, no A)
- There is no guarantee that presented papers will receive a favourable response from RP if submitted to RP, even if the comments raised by RP editors are addressed.
Manuscript submission information:
The Research Policy’s submission system will be open for submissions to our Special Issue from 7th January 2024. When submitting your manuscript to Editorial Manager®, please select the article type “VSI: Towards Disruptive Sustainability”. Please submit your manuscript before 1st September 2024.
All submissions deemed suitable to be sent for peer review will be reviewed by at least two independent reviewers. Once your manuscript is accepted, it will go into production, and will be simultaneously published in the current regular issue and pulled into the online Special Issue. Articles from this Special Issue will appear in different regular issues of the journal, though they will be clearly marked and branded as Special Issue articles.
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