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Events have long been associated with urban environments, celebrated for their regenerative potential and embedded within complex cultural and economic networks (Betz, Hitzler, & Pfadenhauer, 2011; Smith, Osborn, & Quinn, 2022). In contrast, rural events remain underexplored in event studies (Li, 2021), despite being recognised as a “critical aspect of rural experiences” (Richards et al. 2025: 771). When regarding the literature on rural, remote, peripheral or insular events (referred to further as rural events for purposes of simplicity), it is worth noting that studies investigating rural events are unlikely to question the rurality of the event. With exceptions of some interesting publications such as Browne (2011), George (2015) Fountain and Mackay (2017), Kwiatkowski et al. (2020), the rural is often used as a geographical denominator or description of a living condition. Guided by the cited authors’ interest in “place identity” (George, 2015), “sense of place” (Fountain & Mackay, 2017) or wider rural associations (Browne, 2011; Kwiatkowski et al., 2020), this call for papers is driven by the ambition to challenge conceptions of rural events beyond rural stigmatisations in order to explore how the rural is characterised, defined, discussed, challenged through events.

This special issue aims to advance critical understandings of rural events and festivals by moving beyond their treatment as merely geographically bounded phenomena to critically examine how rurality itself is constructed, negotiated, performed, and contested through event and festival spaces. This special issue seeks to reconceptualise rurality as a socially, culturally, and politically constructed and contested category, shaped through events and their associated practices. Addressing the persistent urban bias in event studies, the issue invites contributions that examine how rural events produce, negotiate, and challenge meanings of place, identity, and community.

Driven by research perspectives centring on event-based development, revitalisation and regeneration, research on rural events has long been shaped by deficit-based and often stigmatising narratives, dominated by selected topics, which reflect certain stigmatised or stereotypical conceptions of the rural. Hereby, the ‘lack of …’ takes prominence in the discussion (Frost & Laing, 2015; Ðurkin & Wise, 2017). Often in a comparative perspective with urban or other rural settings, rural events are studied in regard to their lack of infrastructure, management structures, funding and professionalisation (Koreman, 2023, Qu & Zollet, 2023, Gamble, 2022, Porfido, 2022). Such framings risk reproducing simplistic stereotypes of rurality and obscuring the diverse forms of agency, resilience, and innovation that rural communities demonstrate.

Next to such ‘lacking’ perspectives, the relevance of rural events as a form of social, cultural and political infrastructure is widely discussed. With attention to community perspectives, rural events are championed as key fabrics of rural living and hereby considered to be a necessary institution to keep rural community vital (Chiya, 2024; Dalla Torre et al., 2025; Lee, et al., 2024). Furthermore, the political, strategic interest in events in rural settings for touristic purposes increasingly raises interests in scholarly debate. Events based on local culture, identity, and heritage are discussed as powerful “pull factors,” drawing tourists to remote, peripheral, or insular destinations. By doing so, they are assumed to not only generate direct revenue and economic impact, but also play a critical role in place identity transforming the rural setting into a distinctive and authentic cultural experience. Henceforth, rural events are embedded in wider tourism geographies, shaping and being shaped by flows of visitors, mobility patterns, place marketing, and destination planning and development (Quan-Baffour, 2023; Mair & Duffy, 2021; Eversole & Martin, 2005).

List of Topic Areas

We welcome contributions that offer theoretical advancements, empirical research, case studies, and critical commentary on, but not limited to, the following themes in the context of rural events and festivals:

• Rural events as catalysts for social inclusion/exclusion.
• Rural events as sites for intergenerational exchange.
• Events as a marker of belonging and revitalisation of rural locations.
• Rural events as a mechanism for reclaiming or resisting urban dominance.
• The symbolic and material role of events in sustaining local distinctiveness and reimagining place identity.
• Rural events and the negotiation of social change (e.g. tourism mobilities, migration and demographic shifts).
• Power dynamics between local actors and external stakeholders.
• Indigenous and traditional events as sites of cultural continuity and contestation.
• Methodological and theoretical innovations on researching “with” rural communities rather “on” rural communities.
• The role of rural events in shaping people, place and the geographies of rural life.
• Philosophical and ethical dilemmas with rural festivals and events.

Guest Editors

Dr Barbara Grabher, University of Brighton, UK, B.Grabher@brighton.ac.uk

Dr Willem Coetzee, Western Sydney University, Australia, w.coetzee@westernsydney.edu.au

Dr Vasiliki Georgoula,  University of the Aegean, Greece, v.georgoula@aegean.gr

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Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q2, H-Index 41

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 30th October 2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 14th February 2027

Closing date for abstract submission: 30th September 2026

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This special issue focuses on how agentic artificial intelligence reshapes entrepreneurship across the main stages of the entrepreneurial process, including opportunity recognition, venture creation, business model development, scaling, growth, internationalisation, and exit. Agentic AI is different from earlier forms of digital technology because it can perceive context, plan tasks, use tools, coordinate actions, and learn from feedback with limited human supervision (Dwivedi et al., 2026; Islam et al., 2026). Therefore, it does not only support entrepreneurs as a passive technology. It may also become an active co-agent in entrepreneurial decision-making and venture development. The debate on agentic AI and entrepreneurship is still emerging. Previous studies have shown that AI and big data are transforming entrepreneurship by influencing opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial decision-making, innovation, and venture performance (Obschonka & Audretsch, 2020; Shepherd & Majchrzak, 2022; Giuggioli & Pellegrini, 2023). More recent studies have started to explain how agentic AI, generative AI, and meta-entrepreneurship may create new forms of entrepreneurial action, co-agency, and ecosystem transformation (Al-Bashrawi et al., 2026; Elgendy et al., 2025; Zhang & Siau, 2024).

On the bright side, agentic AI may support entrepreneurs by improving opportunity recognition, market analysis, customer discovery, resource mobilisation, financial planning, product development, and strategic decision-making. It may also reduce information gaps, support small firms with limited resources, and enable new forms of AI-native ventures. In this view, agentic AI can strengthen entrepreneurial capability and allow entrepreneurs to act faster and more effectively in uncertain markets (Al-Bashrawi et al., 2026; Lambert et al., 2026). However, the dark side of agentic AI is equally important. Agentic AI may create overdependence on automated systems, weaken entrepreneurial judgment, increase algorithmic bias, raise accountability problems, and produce new forms of digital inequality between entrepreneurs who can access advanced AI systems and those who cannot. It may also affect entrepreneurial identity, creativity, autonomy, and ethical responsibility. In addition, the use of autonomous AI agents in venture creation and scaling may create new governance problems related to data privacy, transparency, trust, and responsibility for AI-driven decisions (Shepherd & Majchrzak, 2022; Mariani & Dwivedi, 2024; Ojong, 2025).

This special issue therefore aims to advance the debate by examining both the bright and dark sides of agentic AI in entrepreneurship. It welcomes studies that explain when agentic AI enables entrepreneurial value creation and when it creates new risks, tensions, and unintended consequences. The special issue also encourages theoretical development by connecting agentic AI with entrepreneurship theories such as entrepreneurial agency, opportunity creation and discovery, effectuation, resource orchestration, dynamic capabilities, institutional theory, entrepreneurial cognition, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Although the journal has a clear interest in emerging economies, the special issue will not be limited only to these contexts. It welcomes papers from emerging economies, advanced economies, and comparative settings. This broader scope is important because research on agentic AI and entrepreneurship is still at an early stage. Comparative studies can show how institutional conditions, digital infrastructure, regulation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and market maturity shape the adoption and consequences of agentic AI (Islam et al., 2026; Lambert et al., 2026). Sustainability, social innovation, and inclusive entrepreneurship may also be addressed, but as specific contexts rather than the central focus of the special issue (Duong, 2025; Ojong, 2025).

List of Topic Areas

• Agentic AI and opportunity recognition in entrepreneurship.
• Agentic AI and entrepreneurial decision-making under uncertainty.
• Human-AI co-agency and entrepreneurial judgment.
• Agentic AI and new venture creation.
• AI-native startups and autonomous venture development.
• Agentic AI and business model innovation.
• Agentic AI and venture scaling, growth, and internationalisation.
• Agentic AI and entrepreneurial exit decisions.
• The bright side of agentic AI in entrepreneurship, including speed, efficiency, creativity, resource mobilisation, and market intelligence.
• The dark side of agentic AI in entrepreneurship, including bias, dependency, loss of autonomy, accountability problems, digital inequality, and ethical risks.
• Agentic AI and entrepreneurial cognition, identity, and creativity.
• Trust, resistance, and adoption of agentic AI among entrepreneurs and SMEs.
• Agentic AI and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
• Agentic AI in emerging economies and resource-constrained contexts.
• Comparative studies of agentic AI and entrepreneurship across emerging and advanced econmies.
• Agentic AI in sustainable entrepreneurship, social innovation, and inclusive entrepreneurship.
• Governance, regulation, and responsible use of agentic AI in entrepreneurial settings.
• Methodological approaches for studying agentic AI and entrepreneurship, including experiments, longitudinal studies, qualitative research, mixed methods, fsQCA, SEM, ANN, and digital trace data.

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Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q1, H-Index 47

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Opening date for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2026

Closing date for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2026

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The proposed special issue seeks to promote research that examines communication phenomena at scale, tests causal relationships, measures the prevalence and impact of communication strategies, and generates findings that are replicable across organizational and national contexts. By bringing together studies that employ quantitative surveys, experiments, computational text analysis, longitudinal datasets and network analysis our issue aims to strengthen methodological diversity in the field while fostering greater integration between academic inquiry and the rich data resources increasingly available in professional practice. On this basis, the special issue seeks to build a more cumulative, evidence-based understanding of corporate communications and its effects on organizations and stakeholders.

Corporate communications research has built much of its impact traditionally through qualitative and interpretive traditions. This work has shaped how we understand, among others legitimacy, meaning-making, and stakeholder sense-making, and the field’s recent articles reflect its continued vitality, including work that the determinants of practitioners’ acceptance of artificial intelligence in corporate communications (Kelm and Johan, 2025). What this tradition gives us less information on, are questions of scale, prevalence, and cause. We rarely know how widespread a pattern documented in a single setting actually is across firms, sectors, or countries. We rarely test whether a communication strategy produces a stakeholder outcome rather than merely co-occurring with it. And because qualitative findings are difficult to generalize, compare or ‘pool’ across studies, the field accumulates insights much more slowly than other fields in business management and marketing. Indeed, adjacent disciplines have moved further on this front. Management scholarship has shown how topic modelling and large-scale text analysis can render new constructs and build theory from textual data rather than reducing it to a black box (Hannigan et al., 2019), and communication methodologists have begun mapping where computational text analysis succeeds and where its validity remains uncertain (Baden et al., 2022). Corporate communications, by comparison, has been slower to take up these methods at scale, even as the raw material for doing so has multiplied.

That raw material increasingly comes from practice. Organisations and their advisers now generate vast quantities of data about exactly the questions our field cares about: media monitoring and social listening platforms track user sentiment and share of voice in real time; brand tracking and reputation indices follow stakeholder perceptions longitudinally; employee engagement and internal communications analytics capture workforce response at scale, including during the disruptive episodes the field has long studied qualitatively (Park et al., 2025); and social, web, and behavioural trace data offer granular evidence of how stakeholders actually respond to corporate messaging (Zhao et al., 2024). Much of this practitioner-generated data rarely reaches academic journals, and much of the computational toolkit now standard in marketing, strategy, and information systems remains underused in our own field. This special issue makes the case that quantitative, computational, and practitioner-sourced data are not a narrower or more reductive way of studying corporate communications but a necessary complement to interpretive work, able to answer questions interpretive designs are not built to answer.

List of Topic Areas

• Survey-based and experimental studies in corporate communications research
• The use of big data in corporate communications
• Measurement and scale development for core corporate communication constructs
• Text analysis approaches such as NLP, sentiment analysis or topic modelling, applied to corporate communication
• Large-scale content analysis of annual reports, for example of CSR and ESG disclosures or press releases
• Longitudinal and panel data studies tracking communication effects over time
• Network analysis of information flow
• Cross-national and comparative quantitative studies of corporate communication practice
• The use of practitioner and commercially generated data such as media monitoring and listening data, employee engagement analytics or market research results in corporate communications

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Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 31/12/2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 31/03/2027

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the foundations of accounting, finance, and work by reshaping how organizations generate information, make decisions, allocate resources, and manage human capital. Advances in generative AI, machine learning, and automation create unprecedented opportunities for innovation and productivity, while also introducing critical challenges related to governance, accountability, ethics, and workforce transformation.

The impact of AI extends beyond task automation. It is redefining financial reporting, auditing, investment decisions, risk management, organizational design, and the relationship between firms and employees. As AI adoption accelerates, important questions emerge regarding job redesign, skill development, labor inequality, responsible technology use, and the role of organizations in ensuring a fair and sustainable transition.

This Special Issue, “Beyond Automation: Artificial Intelligence, Accounting, Finance, and the Future of Work,” seeks to advance interdisciplinary research on how AI is reshaping organizations, financial systems, and labor markets. It welcomes studies examining AI-driven innovation, financial decision-making, corporate governance, human capital, responsible AI, sustainability, and contemporary labor challenges.

By bringing together insights from accounting, finance, and related disciplines, this Special Issue aims to deepen understanding of how AI can be leveraged to create value while addressing the economic and societal implications of the future of work.

List of Topic Areas

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

• Artificial intelligence in accounting and corporate finance
• AI-enabled financial reporting and disclosures
• AI and corporate investment decisions
• AI, corporate governance, and organizational accountability
• AI, labor markets, employment, and job redesign
• Wage inequality, labor exploitation, and worker well-being in the AI era
• AI, diversity, equity, inclusion, and workplace fairness
• Public policy, AI regulation, and labor related governance issues
• The societal implications of AI for accounting, finance, and the future of work

Guest Editor

Dr. Mohammed Aminu Sualihu, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates, mohammed.sualihu@zu.ac.ae

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Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q2, H-Index 47

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 30th November 2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 31st March 2027

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We invite submissions for a special issue of Pacific Accounting Review dedicated to advancing research in accounting education with a focus on the Pacific region. This region presents a rich educational landscape, offering unique accounting educational challenges and opportunities that merit deeper exploration.

This special issue aims to highlight innovative and forward-thinking approaches to accounting education that are of relevance to the Pacific region.

We welcome contributions that address, but are not limited to, the following themes:

• Engaging diverse and evolving student cohorts 
  Strategies for inclusivity, adaptability, and student success in diverse learning environments.
• Integrating Indigenous perspectives 
  Exploring culturally responsive pedagogy and the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in accounting education.
• Meeting professional expectations 
  Aligning educational outcomes with the evolving demands of aspiring professionals and the accounting profession.
• Navigating accreditation challenges 
  Insights into current and potential future accreditation requirements and their impact on curriculum design.
• Fostering academic careers 
  Supporting the development and sustainability of careers in accounting academia within the Pacific context.
• Adopting emerging technologies in accounting education
  Investigating how new technologies and digital tools are transforming teaching practices, curriculum design, and student engagement in accounting.
• Strengthening industry engagement and employability outcomes
  Exploring innovative models of collaboration between academia and industry, including work-integrated learning, guest lecturing, and curriculum co-design to better prepare students for the accounting profession.

We also welcome papers that explore broader issues relevant to accounting education in the Pacific region. Submissions may include empirical research, theoretical contributions, case studies, descriptive and reflective pieces or exploratory studies that offer meaningful insights into the region’s accounting educational practices and priorities.

Guest Editors

Nicola Beatson, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, nicola.beatson@canterbury.ac.nz

James Wakefield, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, james.wakefield@uts.edu.au

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Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q2, H-Index 40

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 16th March 2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 14th September 2026

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However, although governments may mandate the reporting and auditing of corporate sustainability information, sustainability content remains limited within accounting education programs (Boulianne et al., 2018; Botes et al., 2014). A critical dimension of sustainability education in management studies is the development of dynamic capabilities for sustainability to foster firms’ abilities to adapt, innovate, and sustain competitive advantage in a rapidly changing business environment (Teece, 2018; Ortiz-Avram et al., 2024). Management programs must prepare students to cultivate such capabilities, emphasizing agility, resilience, and sustainable value chains. Digital transformation plays a fundamental role in this process, as emerging technologies such as big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and blockchain can enhance transparency, accountability, and efficiency in corporate sustainability efforts (George et al., 2016; Secinaro et al., 2023). Business schools are, therefore, integrating digital tools into sustainability curricula to ensure that graduates possess the necessary analytical skills to navigate the complexities of sustainable business strategies (Narong, 2025). Moreover, integrating sustainability education with entrepreneurship fosters the creation of new business models that prioritize social and environmental impact alongside financial returns (Calandra et al., 2023).

The diffusion of sustainability education across universities, business schools, and higher education institutions remains a subject of debate, particularly regarding when and how it should be introduced in academic curricula (Boulianne et al., 2020; Hong and Hardy, 2022; Schifeling & Etzion, 2025). Sustainability principles should be embedded in undergraduate programs. In contrast, others contend that postgraduate and executive education levels offer the most effective platforms for fostering deep understanding and application (Christensen et al., 2007). Moreover, lifelong learning frameworks are increasingly being explored, emphasizing the need for continuous upskilling in sustainability competencies throughout professional careers (Eriksson & Lycke, 2024).

Another emerging challenge is the personalization of sustainability education, ensuring that learning experiences are tailored to students’ backgrounds, career trajectories, and industry specific requirements (Yaseen et al., 2025). Advances in adaptive learning technologies enable customized educational pathways, allowing students to engage with sustainability topics most
relevant to their fields and through the adoption of different teaching methodologies (An et al.,
2020). Additionally, the composition of faculty teams and sustainability committees within academic institutions plays a pivotal role in shaping effective sustainability education (Rusinko, 2010). In particular, innovative, inclusive, and constructionist pedagogies should be introduced in educating management students for addressing sustainability challenges to fundamentally reshape the education of future accounting professionals (Cho & Costa, 2024). Interdisciplinary collaboration among educators from management, environmental sciences, and social sciences enhances the depth and applicability of sustainability courses, fostering a holistic approach to responsible management education.

Sustainability education is also intrinsically linked to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in preparing business leaders to address global challenges such as climate change, inequality, and responsible consumption (Bendell et al., 2017; Tafese & Kopp, 2025). Business schools increasingly embed SDG-related case studies and frameworks into their programs, bridging the gap between academic knowledge and real-world application. Furthermore, sustainability education influences broader societal impact by cultivating ethical leadership and promoting corporate practices that align with global sustainability imperatives (Waddock & Mcintosh, 2011).

The key drivers of sustainability education include institutional values, regulatory frameworks, and managerial imperatives. Many universities are aligning their strategic priorities with sustainability commitments, reflecting growing external pressures from accreditation bodies, investors, and societal expectations (Ghoshal, 2005). As sustainability continues to gain prominence in business strategy, the role of education in shaping responsible leaders capable of balancing financial performance with social and environmental impact becomes increasingly indispensable (Bendell et al., 2017). Research on the effectiveness of sustainability education, its pedagogical innovations, and its implications for managerial decision-making will be instrumental in shaping the future of responsible management education.

List of Topic Areas

Possible questions that pertain to both of the above themes include, but are not limited to:

• How does sustainability education influence the development of sustainable, dynamic capabilities among future business leaders?
• What role do digital technologies play in enhancing sustainability education within management studies?
• How should sustainability education be structured across different academic levels to maximize its impact on students’ competencies?
• What are the most effective methodologies for personalizing sustainability education for diverse student and professional profiles?
• What interdisciplinary faculty compositions contribute to successfully delivering sustainability curricula in business schools?
• How can sustainability education more effectively align with the SDGs to create a tangible societal impact?
• What institutional and regulatory drivers influence the integration of sustainability education in higher education curricula?
• How can business schools measure the long-term impact of sustainability education on managerial decision-making and corporate strategies?
• How can sustainability education foster entrepreneurial skills and mindsets to drive the creation of sustainable businesses and ventures?

Guest Editors

Valentina Beretta, University of Pavia, Italy, valentina.beretta@unipv.it

Davide Calandra, University of Turin, Italy, davide.calandra@unito.it

Charles H. Cho, Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada, ccho@schulich.yorku.ca

Chiara Demartini, University of Pavia, Italy, mariachiara.demartini@unipv.it

Paolo Biancone, University of Turin, Italy, paolo.biancone@unito.it

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Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q1, H-Index 68

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 1st October 2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 31st October 2026

Special Issue Workshop

To help authors develop their manuscripts for submission, a Workshop linked to this special issue will be held on 27 February 2026, at the University of Turin (Italy), School of Management and Economics.

Authors interested in participating should submit an abstract (max 500 words) by 31/12/2025 (acceptance notification: 12/01/2026) and send the updated extended abstract or full paper by 15/02/2026 to the following two email addresses:

valentina.beretta@unipv.it
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Please note that presentation of paper(s) at the Workshop is not a prerequisite for submission, nor does it guarantee acceptance into the Special Issue.

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The aim of this special issue is to highlight the best contributions to the ESPI-IREC 2024 real estate conference. As a result, the contributions submitted cover a wide range of topics coming from the 15 sessions held during the conference. The aim of our proposal is to highlight emerging research, particularly from young academics and emerging institutions, against the backdrop of the recent crisis in the European real estate sector.

The European real estate industry is facing the uncertainties of a dual crisis: cyclical (monetary policies and rising credit, materials prices, falling public subsidies, property vacancies) and structural (environmental and demographic challenges, growing inequalities in access to housing).
This context has given rise to several lines of research: the first concerns the reassessment of investor risk in real estate, and the new measurement techniques required to achieve this – including IA and the use of massive data. Another concerns the refocusing of markets on residents and the main players in the city’s fabric, as to foster social sustainability and affordability. The last one deals with the imperative of renewal, reuse and recycling in real estate. All these themes are now marked by a certain urgency, reflected in new research methods and positions from the authors who will be contributing to the special issue.

List of Topic Areas

• Residential Investment,
• Housing, Coworking,
• Offices buildings,
• Elderly Housing

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Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q3, H-Index 25

Key Deadline:

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 05/01/2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 01/09/2026    

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On the bright side, agentic AI may support entrepreneurs by improving opportunity recognition, market analysis, customer discovery, resource mobilisation, financial planning, product development, and strategic decision-making. It may also reduce information gaps, support small firms with limited resources, and enable new forms of AI-native ventures. In this view, agentic AI can strengthen entrepreneurial capability and allow entrepreneurs to act faster and more effectively in uncertain markets (Al-Bashrawi et al., 2026; Lambert et al., 2026). However, the dark side of agentic AI is equally important. Agentic AI may create overdependence on automated systems, weaken entrepreneurial judgment, increase algorithmic bias, raise accountability problems, and produce new forms of digital inequality between entrepreneurs who can access advanced AI systems and those who cannot. It may also affect entrepreneurial identity, creativity, autonomy, and ethical responsibility. In addition, the use of autonomous AI agents in venture creation and scaling may create new governance problems related to data privacy, transparency, trust, and responsibility for AI-driven decisions (Shepherd & Majchrzak, 2022; Mariani & Dwivedi, 2024; Ojong, 2025).

This special issue therefore aims to advance the debate by examining both the bright and dark sides of agentic AI in entrepreneurship. It welcomes studies that explain when agentic AI enables entrepreneurial value creation and when it creates new risks, tensions, and unintended consequences. The special issue also encourages theoretical development by connecting agentic AI with entrepreneurship theories such as entrepreneurial agency, opportunity creation and discovery, effectuation, resource orchestration, dynamic capabilities, institutional theory, entrepreneurial cognition, and entrepreneurial ecosystems. Although the journal has a clear interest in emerging economies, the special issue will not be limited only to these contexts. It welcomes papers from emerging economies, advanced economies, and comparative settings. This broader scope is important because research on agentic AI and entrepreneurship is still at an early stage. Comparative studies can show how institutional conditions, digital infrastructure, regulation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, and market maturity shape the adoption and consequences of agentic AI (Islam et al., 2026; Lambert et al., 2026). Sustainability, social innovation, and inclusive entrepreneurship may also be addressed, but as specific contexts rather than the central focus of the special issue (Duong, 2025; Ojong, 2025).

List of Topic Areas

• Agentic AI and opportunity recognition in entrepreneurship.
• Agentic AI and entrepreneurial decision-making under uncertainty.
• Human-AI co-agency and entrepreneurial judgment.
• Agentic AI and new venture creation.
• AI-native startups and autonomous venture development.
• Agentic AI and business model innovation.
• Agentic AI and venture scaling, growth, and internationalisation.
• Agentic AI and entrepreneurial exit decisions.
• The bright side of agentic AI in entrepreneurship, including speed, efficiency, creativity, resource mobilisation, and market intelligence.
• The dark side of agentic AI in entrepreneurship, including bias, dependency, loss of autonomy, accountability problems, digital inequality, and ethical risks.
• Agentic AI and entrepreneurial cognition, identity, and creativity.
• Trust, resistance, and adoption of agentic AI among entrepreneurs and SMEs.
• Agentic AI and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
• Agentic AI in emerging economies and resource-constrained contexts.
• Comparative studies of agentic AI and entrepreneurship across emerging and advanced econmies.
• Agentic AI in sustainable entrepreneurship, social innovation, and inclusive entrepreneurship.
• Governance, regulation, and responsible use of agentic AI in entrepreneurial settings.
• Methodological approaches for studying agentic AI and entrepreneurship, including experiments, longitudinal studies, qualitative research, mixed methods, fsQCA, SEM, ANN, and digital trace data.

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Submitted articles must not have been previously published, nor should they be under consideration for publication anywhere else, while under review for this journal.

Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q1, H-Index 47

Key Dates

Opening date for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2026

Closing date for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2026

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