This special issue therefore moves beyond treating algorithms just as technical or operational tools. Instead, we conceptualise algorithmic integration as a strategic, organisational and market-shaping phenomenon embedded within broader systems of value creation and exchange. Emerging research shows that algorithms can shape consumer decision-making through networks of influence (Baccelloni et al., 2025), operate as agents within platform markets (Wei & Geiger, 2025), orchestrate relationships between firms and ecosystem actors (Zhang et al., 2026), and reshape user interests and consumption patterns (Liu & Cong, 2023).

We invite scholars to examine algorithmic integration across three interconnected domains, markets, consumers and organisations. At the market level, research might investigate how algorithmic systems reshape market structures, platform ecosystems, competition, value distribution and market access. At the consumer level, studies might explore how recommendation, personalisation, pricing and related systems influence decision-making, trust, resistance, perceptions of fairness, customer experience and value co-creation. At the organisational level, papers might examine the capabilities, structures and governance arrangements required for firms to integrate algorithmic systems effectively and responsibly.

A particularly important focus is the relationship between economic performance and broader societal outcomes. While algorithmic systems may enhance efficiency, personalisation and market responsiveness, they may also reproduce or amplify algorithmic biases in marketing decision-making (Akter et al., 2022) and raise important strategic and regulatory concerns around algorithmic pricing (Spann et al., 2026). We therefore encourage research examining when, how and under what conditions algorithmic integration creates or undermines economic and social value, including its potential contribution to reduced inequalities, responsible consumption and climate action (Voola et al., 2025).

A central priority of the special issue is practical relevance and implementation. We particularly encourage research that demonstrates how marketing theory can inform the real-world design, deployment and governance of algorithmic systems. This may include studies using consumer, firm or market-level data, industry collaboration, organisational access, practitioner engagement or policy-relevant analysis. Research addressing implementation challenges, governance tensions and trade-offs faced by managers and policymakers is especially welcome.

We welcome conceptual, quantitative, qualitative, experimental, computational and mixed-method research. Successful submissions should make a clear contribution to marketing theory while generating actionable insights for managers, organisations, policymakers or society. Papers focused primarily on developing algorithms or computational techniques without a substantive contribution to marketing theory, practice, market systems or societal outcomes fall outside the core scope of the issue.

List of topic areas

• Algorithmic market shaping, platform ecosystems, and consumer–algorithm interactions, trust and resistance
• Algorithmic personalisation, customer experience, value co-creation, pricing and fairness
• Bias, discrimination, inequality, transparency, ethics, accountability and regulatory responses
• Strategic marketing capabilities, organisational adaptation, responsible AI adoption and implementation
• Sustainability, financial inclusion, societal impact, managerial decision-making and policy implications
• Managerial decision-making and policy implications of algorithmic systems
• Interdisciplinary and industry-engaged research using quantitative, computational, experimental, qualitative, conceptual or mixed-method approaches

Submissions information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ejm

Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see: https://www.emerald.com/journals/author-guidance/1627/emerald-publishing-author-guidelines

Authors should select (from the drop-down menu) the special issue title at the appropriate step in the submission process, i.e. in response to “Please select the issue you are submitting to”.

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 173

Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 25/09/2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 28/02/2027

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The books in this series will highlight both scholarly inquiry and practical application. Drawing from experiences across diverse contexts (i.e., countries, educational systems, grade levels, population density), each volume seeks to elucidate current school improvement practices, their impact on students, educators, schools, organizations, and educational systems and insights for improving future initiatives. Moreover, books in this series will be grounded in theory and rigorous empirical evidence that draws generalizable or transferable insights of relevance to the current schooling environment. Books may draw a variety of methods including but not limited to on qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, historical, and comparative approaches that advance the understanding of school improvement and reform.

We invite single-author or collaborative books or edited collections organized around a collective theme within school improvement and reform. Books may examine any educational setting or compare across different educational settings but should address elements of school improvement. For example, books might consider the breadth of interventions implemented at various levels to improve low-performing schools or look across contexts to understand the opportunities and challenges inherent in the work of improving low-performing schools. We encourage books that include multivocal perspectives on school improvement, including perspectives of researchers, policymakers, and educators.

List of topic areas

• Current state of school improvement and reform: What interventions are state, district, or province level education agencies currently putting into place to improve low-performing schools?
• Contextual variation: How do school improvement models vary across different contexts (e.g., in rural versus urban areas)?
• Sustainability and maturation: What happens after a model has been implemented for multiple years, and how can successes be sustained?
• Funding and resources: What resources are currently available to support school improvement efforts, and how are these resources being used?
• Theories of Action: What do practitioners really need to do in order to in order to improve school performance?
• Scalability: What does it take to scale effective models into a larger number of schools? Is it even possible to implement one model at scale or must improvement models necessarily be highly tailored?
• Impact and Mechanisms: What is the impact of school improvement on a variety of student outcomes, and what key mechanisms explain these effects?
• Stakeholder Engagement: Whose perspectives influence approaches to school improvement? How do leaders incorporate multiple perspectives in developing school turnaround models?
• Innovation, Opportunities, and Challenges: How, if at all, do district and school leaders innovate and develop new strategies for school improvement? What challenges do actors encounter, and how do they manage or respond to those challenges?
• Implementation: How are school improvement initiatives adapted, implemented, and sustained across varying organizational contexts? What implementation efforts facilitate success?
• Evaluation and Measurement: How should researchers, policymakers, and practitioners evaluate school improvement efforts? What measures best capture successful reform and improvement?

Submission information

Interested authors or editors can access the book proposal form for download here. Please submit the completed form along with a CV for each contributing editor or author to the series editors (Lam D. Pham, Alisha Butler, and Adam Kho). Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis and shared with the editorial team following an internal review. If you have questions about the series, proposal process, or would like to discuss a potential volume, please email the series editors.

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Increasing demands, extreme events and ageing structures and infrastructure pose unprecedented challenges to our building and geotechnical systems worldwide.  Preservation of our existing structures and infrastructure along with the development of new technologies requires a rigorous, engineering-focused approach. This special issue on Structural Optimisation with Practical Applications seeks to advance the field by exploring the fundamental principles that govern structural function and to develop practical engineering solutions that ensure long-term sustainable resilience. We must embrace new ideas that emphasise the design and implementation of engineered systems that actively improve the resilience of our structural and infrastructure health. This perspective includes not only modern reinforced and composite systems, but also extensive stocks of existing and heritage masonry structures, whose material heterogeneity, limited tensile capacity, and vulnerability to seismic and environmental actions require specialised analytical and optimisation strategies.

We invite contributions that showcase innovative methodologies and technologies, including advanced numerical modelling of limit analysis and optimisation, and the development of robust monitoring systems for structural responses to increasingly diverse loading. This collection of papers will serve as a platform for disseminating cutting-edge research that brings together contributions from some of the world-leading researchers and practitioners in the field of structural optimisation with practical applications ranging from structures to geotechnics to create resilient and functional environments and communities. We encourage submissions that demonstrate a clear understanding of the underlying physical processes and provide quantifiable metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of engineered solutions in promoting system integrity.

The aim of this special issue is to commemorate the memory of the former Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Matthew Gilbert, by bringing world-leading researchers and practitioners in the field structural optimisation with practical applications to showcase the indispensable role of mechanics addressing critical challenges inherent in civil engineering. Matthew played a pioneering role in the development of structural optimisation inspiring many researchers and engineers to work in this field.

List of topic areas

• Limit analysis and advanced computational modelling
• Structural optimisation methods (topology, shape, size, reliability-based design)
• Optimisation, assessment, and strengthening of masonry and heritage structures
• Innovative materials and retrofit technologies
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applications in fluid-structure interaction
• Structure Design and Optimization
• Remote Sensing, Monitoring, and Prognostics of Structures in a range of environments
• Bio-inspired Design and Engineering
• Soil–structure interaction and geotechnical optimisation
• Digital twin applications
• Resilient design under extreme and multi-hazard loading

Submission Information

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Author guidelines must be followed

Submissions are made using ReView. Registration and access are available at: https://ice-review.rivervalley.io/journal/jencm

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The 9th International Conference on Contemporary Issues in Economics, Management and Business (CIEMB 2026) will be jointly organized by National Economics University (NEU) and The Australian National University (ANU) on December 3–4, 2026, in Hanoi, Vietnam.

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For owners of structures diagnosed with ASR it is very difficult to come up with a sound management plan to maintain such structures. Therefore, ICE – Construction Materials is looking for articles to publish a special issue on how to maintain ASR damaged structures, particularly to help owners. The articles in this issue should focus on the owner’s view. How can scientific insight help owners of structures to manage their ASR damaged structures. We are especially looking for examples of actual cases. Our audience can learn from others.

Furthermore, much research on ASR is towards prevention of ASR. However, once ASR has been diagnosed in a structure, prevention is not an option anymore. Now the focus should be on remaining service life and ongoing expansion. To help that process, particular residual expansion tests are very useful. Hence, also articles in this area are very welcome.

List of topic areas

In summary, we are looking for:

• Articles on actual cases where structures with ASR have undergone some kind of rehabilitation process
• Practical examples of how ASR damaged structures have been maintained for a long period
• The latest insights on residual expansion tests and how this has helped maintaining ASR damaged structures

Submission information

Submit your abstract here

Author guidelines must be strictly followed

If your abstract is successful, you will be invited to submit your full paper here: https://ice-review.rivervalley.io/journal/jcoma.

Once you have registered, navigate to the journal that you wish to submit to. Choose article type “Special Issue” and then the specific name from the drop-down menu on screen.

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We invite contributions that showcase innovative methodologies and technologies, including advanced numerical modelling of limit analysis and optimisation, and the development of robust monitoring systems for structural responses to increasingly diverse loading. This collection of papers will serve as a platform for disseminating cutting-edge research that brings together contributions from some of the world-leading researchers and practitioners in the field of structural optimisation with practical applications ranging from structures to geotechnics to create resilient and functional environments and communities. We encourage submissions that demonstrate a clear understanding of the underlying physical processes and provide quantifiable metrics for evaluating the effectiveness of engineered solutions in promoting system integrity.

The aim of this special issue is to commemorate the memory of the former Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Matthew Gilbert, by bringing world-leading researchers and practitioners in the field structural optimisation with practical applications to showcase the indispensable role of mechanics addressing critical challenges inherent in civil engineering. Matthew played a pioneering role in the development of structural optimisation inspiring many researchers and engineers to work in this field.

List of topic areas

• Limit analysis and advanced computational modelling
• Structural optimisation methods (topology, shape, size, reliability-based design)
• Optimisation, assessment, and strengthening of masonry and heritage structures
• Innovative materials and retrofit technologies
• Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applications in fluid-structure interaction
• Structure Design and Optimization
• Remote Sensing, Monitoring, and Prognostics of Structures in a range of environments
• Bio-inspired Design and Engineering
• Soil–structure interaction and geotechnical optimisation
• Digital twin applications
• Resilient design under extreme and multi-hazard loading

Submission Information

Submit your abstract here

Author guidelines must be followed

Submissions are made using ReView. Registration and access are available at: https://ice-review.rivervalley.io/journal/jencm

Once you have registered, navigate to the journal that you wish to submit to. Choose article type “Special Issue” and then the specific name from the drop-down menu on screen.

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Almost any time there is a major decision to be made in a school district, someone wants to “do a survey” to gather opinions on the topic. As new K-12 initiatives are rolled out, program implementers typically undertake surveys to gather both formative and summative evaluative data. Program funders often require the kinds of evidence that can only be gathered through constituent surveys. These situations indicate a need for good survey research in K-12.

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