Dates: September 17 & 18, 2026

Location: Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France

The inaugural UN Business and Human Rights Regional Forum in Western Europe will bring together a broad range of stakeholders to strengthen business practices and connect on how businesses manage value chains across our region.

Attendees from government, business, investment, the education sector, civil society and others will gather to discuss key trends and developments in the business and human rights landscape in our region and globally.

This event delivered with the support of the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights will equip attendees to navigate a turbulent landscape with confidence. This Regional Forum complements the UN Working Group’s annual global Forum in Geneva and Regional Forums convened in other parts of the world. Representatives of all interested groups across society are encouraged to participate in and contribute to the Forum.

On behalf of Centre for Studies of Plural Societies (CSPS), we are pleased to announce the launch of its biannual, peer-reviewed journal, Politics, Culture and Society, dedicated to advancing rigorous and reflective scholarship in the social sciences and humanities. The journal seeks to create an intellectually vibrant platform for diverse perspectives, critical debates, and empirically grounded analyses on contemporary and historical issues shaping our societies.
We are especially delighted to invite you to contribute an article/commentary/book review for the inaugural issue themed “Imagining the Plural Public Sphere.” This issue explores the changing meanings and practices of pluralism in an age marked by globalization, migration, identity contestations, legal complexity, economic inequality, and transformations in media and culture. We believe your expertise would add depth and direction to this important conversation.
Possible thematic areas include, though are not limited to:
Legal pluralism and rights
Cultural diversity, migration, and assimilation
Political representation and minority rights
Economic pluralism and social justice
Media, digital platforms, and new forms of cultural participation
Contemporary debates on democracy, citizenship, and inclusion.
Submissions are welcome to participate in a wide range of discussions, from theoretical, legal, and constitutional arguments on conceptualising plurality and democracy to empirical debates of a representative and accessible public sphere, exploring critical, normative, or analytical perspectives.
Articles should not exceed 8000 words, including the bibliography; commentary should not exceed 2000 words; book reviews should not exceed 1500 words.
The journal follows a Chicago reference style and US English.
Authors and young scholars are welcome to submit their new publications for announcement and a brief introduction in the “New Publications” section.
The journal follows a strict policy on plagiarism of text, ideas, or structure. Articles using AI-generated content may be rejected without review.
Final Paper Submission Deadline: 15th June 2026 Please write to us at politicsculturesociety@gmail.com if you have any further queries.

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This Special Issue addresses that gap by positioning intellectual capital (IC) as the integrative lens through which the entrepreneurial university can be better understood. In particular, it invites contributions examining how human, structural, and relational capital are created, mobilised, measured, governed, and secured across the entrepreneurial university value chain (de Frutos-Belizón et al., 2019; Kashyap & Agrawal, 2020; Renaud et al., 2019). We are interested in work that connects IC with academic entrepreneurship research and entrepreneurship practice, including opportunity recognition, venture development and scaling, technology transfer office routines, incubator and accelerator support, entrepreneurial pedagogy, and ecosystem orchestration (Aldawod, 2022; Yin et al., 2023; Romano et al., 2025).

We welcome contributions from scholars in intellectual capital, entrepreneurship, innovation management, higher education, public policy, regional development, and related fields. We also particularly encourage submissions that speak to practice and policy, and that show how IC can improve the design, governance, evaluation, and impact of entrepreneurial universities.

We particularly welcome theoretically ambitious and methodologically plural submissions, including comparative, multi-level, longitudinal, mixed-method, network-analytic, text/data-analytic, design-oriented, and field-evaluative studies. Practice-informed submissions are also encouraged, especially where they engage with entrepreneurship educators, TTOs, incubators, ecosystem intermediaries, or policy actors.

List of Topic Areas

Topics may include, but are not limited to:

• Entrepreneurship education and entrepreneurial mindset development as intellectual capital formation
• Curriculum design, educator roles, and innovative approaches in entrepreneurship education
• Digital and AI-enabled entrepreneurship education as structural capital
• Academic entrepreneurship and the micro-foundations of entrepreneurial intellectual capital
• Technology transfer offices as intellectual capital management mechanisms
• Intellectual capital, spin-offs, and venture creation in university context
• University-industry-society collaboration and IC-mediated innovation performance
• Incubators, accelerators, science parks, and entrepreneurial support infrastructures
• Entrepreneurial ecosystems around universities and ecosystem-level intellectual capital
• Third-mission impact measurement, reporting, and evaluation through IC frameworks
• Practitioner metrics, policy frameworks, and the measurement of knowledge exchange
• Securing intellectual capital in entrepreneurial universities, including IP governance, data governance, cyber risk, and knowledge leakage
• International and comparative studies of entrepreneurial university models
• Multi-level, longitudinal, mixed-method, and engaged research designs in IC and entrepreneurship

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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 124

Key Dates

Opening date for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2026

Closing date for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026

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This Special Issue, “Beyond efficiency in sustainable operations and supply chains: toward regenerative and net-positive systems,” seeks to advance new debates in sustainable operations and supply chains by moving beyond the currently dominant efficiency-based, eco-efficiency, and instrumental approaches to sustainability. While these approaches have generated important improvements, their incremental orientation is increasingly insufficient in the face of climate instability, biodiversity loss, resource depletion, geopolitical turbulence, and widening social inequalities.

The Special Issue provides a platform for research exploring how operations and supply chains can become not only less harmful, but actively restorative, regenerative, and net-positive. It will bring together conceptual, empirical, and pedagogical contributions that examine alternative logics, theories, practices, and system designs capable of supporting long-term ecological and social flourishing.

The originality of the Special Issue lies in explicitly challenging the dominance of efficiency and instrumental logics in sustainable operations and supply chain research. Much of the existing literature continues to emphasise optimisation, compliance, incremental eco-efficiency, and business-case framing. In contrast, this Special Issue foregrounds regenerative and net-positive perspectives, highlighting the need to restore social and ecological systems, rethink value creation, and address sustainability as a systemic and transformative challenge rather than a narrow performance objective.

The Special Issue therefore invites the communities of supply chain management, operations management, and sustainability to engage with regenerative and net-positive perspectives that can extend current debates on responsible production and consumption, circular economy, social responsibility, and contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals. It particularly welcomes interdisciplinary approaches that connect operations and supply chain research with insights from sustainability transitions, industrial ecology, systems thinking, organisational studies, policy, education, and social and environmental sciences.

By advancing research on regenerative manufacturing, operations and supply chains, net-positive organising, circular and restorative value creation, governance, stakeholder collaboration, social justice, inclusion, and teaching innovation, the Special Issue aims to contribute to positive change. It will support theory development, empirical insight, pedagogical innovation, and practical understanding of how organisations and supply chains can move beyond reducing harm toward creating ecological regeneration, social value, and more resilient socio-technical systems.

List of topic areas

• Net-positive organising and system design
• Regenerative manufacturing, operations and supply chains
• Beyond efficiency: critiques of instrumental and business-case sustainability logics
• Resilience, readiness and adaptation in polycrisis conditions
• Circular, restorative and distributive value creation models
• Governance, institutions and stakeholder collaboration for regenerative transitions
• Social justice, inclusion and community outcomes in sustainable supply chains
• Teaching innovation and pedagogical approaches for regenerative OSCM

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Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q3, H-Index 4

Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 01/06/2026
Closing date for manuscripts submission: 30/11/2026

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We are looking for passionate individuals who believe in inspiring young minds, fostering innovation, and contributing to a vibrant academic community.
If you are eager to make a difference through education, research, and collaboration, we would be delighted to hear from you.

‣Share your application at: careers@jlu.edu.in
‣Last Date to Apply: 18th May 2026

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The university is looking for dynamic and experienced academicians for the positions of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Professor in the following specializations:

• Finance
• Marketing
• Operations
• Business Analytics
• Supply Chain Management
• Organizational Behavior

Eligibility Criteria:
*Ph.D Degree in the relevant discipline as per UGC/AICTE norms.
* Strong academic background with teaching, research, and/or industry experience
* Passion for teaching, research, innovation, and industry collaboration.

Interested candidates may share their updated resume at:
shweta.raj@galgotiasuniversity.edu.in

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The Special Issue provides a platform for research exploring how operations and supply chains can become not only less harmful, but actively restorative, regenerative, and net-positive. It will bring together conceptual, empirical, and pedagogical contributions that examine alternative logics, theories, practices, and system designs capable of supporting long-term ecological and social flourishing.

The originality of the Special Issue lies in explicitly challenging the dominance of efficiency and instrumental logics in sustainable operations and supply chain research. Much of the existing literature continues to emphasise optimisation, compliance, incremental eco-efficiency, and business-case framing. In contrast, this Special Issue foregrounds regenerative and net-positive perspectives, highlighting the need to restore social and ecological systems, rethink value creation, and address sustainability as a systemic and transformative challenge rather than a narrow performance objective.

The Special Issue therefore invites the communities of supply chain management, operations management, and sustainability to engage with regenerative and net-positive perspectives that can extend current debates on responsible production and consumption, circular economy, social responsibility, and contributions to the Sustainable Development Goals. It particularly welcomes interdisciplinary approaches that connect operations and supply chain research with insights from sustainability transitions, industrial ecology, systems thinking, organisational studies, policy, education, and social and environmental sciences.

By advancing research on regenerative manufacturing, operations and supply chains, net-positive organising, circular and restorative value creation, governance, stakeholder collaboration, social justice, inclusion, and teaching innovation, the Special Issue aims to contribute to positive change. It will support theory development, empirical insight, pedagogical innovation, and practical understanding of how organisations and supply chains can move beyond reducing harm toward creating ecological regeneration, social value, and more resilient socio-technical systems.

List of topic areas

• Net-positive organising and system design
• Regenerative manufacturing, operations and supply chains
• Beyond efficiency: critiques of instrumental and business-case sustainability logics
• Resilience, readiness and adaptation in polycrisis conditions
• Circular, restorative and distributive value creation models
• Governance, institutions and stakeholder collaboration for regenerative transitions
• Social justice, inclusion and community outcomes in sustainable supply chains
• Teaching innovation and pedagogical approaches for regenerative OSCM

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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 4

Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 01/06/2026
Closing date for manuscripts submission: 30/11/2026

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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) occupies a central and yet underexplored position within this transformation. Historically, PLM systems have served as the digital backbone of manufacturing organisations — enabling product data management, cross-functional integration, and process coordination from concept development through to end-of-life. This role has been indispensable in supporting the efficiency and traceability demands of modern industrial operations. However, the principles of Industry 5.0 expose significant limitations in this traditional conception of PLM. Systems designed primarily for data integration and process efficiency are not inherently equipped to support human operator well-being, embed circular economy strategies, ensure lifecycle traceability under evolving regulatory frameworks, or enable rapid organisational adaptation in the face of disruption.

This Special Issue responds directly to this gap. It introduces and advances the concept of PLM 5.0, a socio-technical and managerial evolution of traditional PLM systems that repositions PLM not as an IT infrastructure, but as a strategic governance platform capable of orchestrating lifecycle data, human interaction, sustainability metrics, and adaptive decision-making across complex and distributed industrial ecosystems.

The Special Issue is driven by four core research questions:

• How should PLM systems be redesigned to support human operator development, decision-making, and ergonomic well-being?
• What organizational and managerial changes are required to integrate circular economy principles throughout the product lifecycle?
• How can PLM systems enable manufacturing resilience and rapid adaptation to disruptions
• What governance, interoperability, and data management frameworks are needed to support these PLM transformations in diverse industrial contexts?

The aims of the Special Issue are therefore:

1. To conceptualize “PLM 5.0” as a socio-technical and managerial evolution of traditional PLM systems.
2. To provide empirical and theoretical contributions that integrate the three Industry 5.0 pillars within lifecycle-wide management systems.
3. To explore organizational, governance, and capability-related implications of PLM transformation.
4. To deliver actionable frameworks and strategic guidance for both SMEs and large enterprises.

The papers gathered here span conceptual, empirical, methodological, and case-based contributions, drawing on an established international community of scholars in PLM, manufacturing management, circular economy, and industrial sustainability. Together, they advance both theoretical understanding of PLM’s evolving role and practical guidance for firms navigating the transition toward more responsible and adaptive modes of lifecycle management.

List of Topic Areas

1. Redesigning PLM Systems for Industry 5.0
2. Human-Centric PLM and Operator Development
3. Circular Economy Integration within PLM
4. Sustainable Lifecycle Assessment and Net-Zero Strategies
5. Resilient Manufacturing and Adaptive Lifecycle Management
6. Governance, Interoperability, and Data Management Frameworks
7. Decision-Support and Managerial Transformation
8. Sector-Specific Applications with Cross-Industry Implications.

Guest Editors

Romeo Bandinelli, University of Florence, Italy, romeo.bandinelli@unifi.it

Monica Rossi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, monica.rossi@polimi.it

Claudio Sassanelli, Politecnico di Bari, Italy, claudio.sassanelli@poliba.it

Virginia Fani, Universitas Mercatorum, Italy, virginia.fani@unimercatorum.it

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Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q1, H-Index 108

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 6th May 2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 31st July 2026

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These developments have generated new financing channels and new actors within entrepreneurial ecosystems, while simultaneously raising fundamental questions about who gains access to capital, under what conditions, and through which mechanisms (Bertello et al., 2022). This evolving environment is particularly challenging for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and new ventures, which typically lack the collateral, legitimacy, and institutional visibility enjoyed by larger firms (Cowling et al., 2021).

The financial landscape in which entrepreneurs operate today is far more complex than the contexts in which traditional financial theories were originally developed. Emerging financing channels – ranging from crowdfunding and peer-to-peer lending to tokenized assets and AI-driven credit platforms – have transformed how capital is allocated (Battisti et al., 2024; Block et al., 2018; Butticè & Vismara, 2022). Yet financial decisions are not purely technical or autonomous; they are shaped by behavioral biases, social networks, institutional environments, accounting practices, and sustainability logics (Colombo et al., 2023). While these dimensions have been examined separately across disciplines, systematic dialogue focused on entrepreneurship and small business finance remains limited (Bertoni et al., 2022; Inceoglu et al., 2024).

The rise of artificial intelligence makes this interdisciplinary engagement particularly urgent. AI does not merely represent a new analytical tool; it acts as a structural force reshaping relationships among entrepreneurs, investors, platforms, and institutions (Tran and Murphy, 2023; Kleinert & Vismara, 2026). It transforms credit evaluation, risk modeling, and investment screening, directly affecting SMEs’ access to finance (Li et al., 2024).

Simultaneously, AI reshapes how ventures are created, scaled, and governed, with implications for financial structures, resource mobilization, and legitimacy (Obschonka et al., 2025). In doing so, it cuts across behavioral, social, accounting, and sustainability dimensions of entrepreneurial finance, underscoring why an interdisciplinary approach is not only desirable but essential.
This Special Issue seeks to advance a multidisciplinary research agenda on the evolving relationship between entrepreneurship and finance. We invite contributions that deepen theoretical and empirical understanding of how digitalization, AI, and sustainability pressures are reshaping entrepreneurial finance. The goal is to provide insights relevant not only to scholars in management and finance but also to entrepreneurs, SME managers, investors, policymakers, and financial intermediaries navigating increasingly complex ecosystems.

We welcome conceptual articles, systematic literature reviews, bibliometric analyses, and empirical contributions employing quantitative, qualitative, experimental, or mixed methods. Longitudinal studies, cross-national comparisons, and multi-level designs are particularly encouraged. All submissions should meaningfully engage both the entrepreneurial and financial dimensions of the phenomenon and discuss implications for theory, practice, and policy.

List of Topic Areas

The Guest Editors invite conceptual, methodological, and empirical contributions that address themes such as – but not limited to – the following:

• Environmental and Social Disclosure in SMEs: Implications for Access to Capital, Investor Relations, and Financial Performance.
• Access to Capital and Financing Decisions in SMEs: Behavioral, Cognitive, and Psychological Determinants.
• Entrepreneurial Finance and Social Inclusion: Gender, Ethnicity, and Geography as Structural Barriers to Capital Access.
• Financial Reporting, Intangible Assets, and Creditworthiness in Innovative Small Businesses.
  Regulatory Frameworks and Institutional Conditions for Entrepreneurial Finance Across National Contexts.
• Alternative Financing Mechanisms: Crowdfunding, Peer-to-Peer Lending, and Tokenized Assets: Financial Performance and Social Implications.
• AI-Driven Financial Decision-Making: Credit Scoring, Risk Modeling, and Investment Screening for Small Businesses.
• The Financial Implications of AI-Powered Venture Creation: Resource Mobilization, Capital Structure, and Legitimacy in Platform-Based Startups.

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Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q1, H-Index 97

Key Dates

Opening date for manuscript submissions: 4 January 2027

Closing date for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2027

Guest Editors

Enrico Battisti, University of Turin, Turin, Italy, enrico.battisti@unito.it (lead guest editor)

Francesco Schiavone, University Parthenope, Naples, Italy, francesco.schiavone@uniparthenope.it

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List of Topic Areas

• Arts
• Mental health
• Public health
• Film
• Campaigns
• Recovery

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Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q3, H-index 32

Key Dates

Closing date for manuscript submissions: 28 August 2026

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Call for Papers
Themed Issue of Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal (SEAMJ)
‘Future Sustainability of Borneo’

The Themed Issue aims to shed light on the future of Borneo, focussing on sustainability interests. The development of Ibu Kota Nusantara (IKN), Indonesia’s new capital in Kalimantan, has raised concerns from various groups regarding potential impacts on the rainforest and vulnerable endemic species, given the size of Indonesia’s economy. However, to others, this offers an opportunity for growth and sustainable development of this largely neglected region of east ASEAN, or BIMP-EAGA, which comprises Brunei, the Bornean parts of Indonesia and Malaysia, and southern Philippines. Meanwhile, climate change is threatening the major cities of Borneo, most of which are found along the coast.

Borneo is widely known for its rainforest and diverse indigenous groups, which are threaten by modern development. However, few outside Borneo really knows the situation on the ground or the aspiration, culture and indigenous wisdom of its people. This special issue aims to shed light on realities through work done by academics working in Borneo, particularly natives of the land, regarding sustainability concerns, climate change, increasing digitalisation, globalisation and the development of IKN.

Key Themes Include:

• Sustainability considerations associated with IKN.
• Climate change adaptation, specifically sea level rise.
• Digitalisation.
• Ecological designs and sustainability.
• The future of traditional knowledge/culture, and society.

Guest Editors:

• Rosnah Abdullah
  Head, Borneo Studies Network Secretariat, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Brunei.
• Zairin Zain,
  Universitas Tanjungpura, Indonesia
• Poline Bala
  University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia

Journal Information: Scopus Journal Q2, H-Index 7

Important Dates:

• Submission Deadline of Full Paper: 28 February 2026
• Expected Publication Date: End of 2026

For enquiries, please contact Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Ahsan Ullah at ahsan.ullah@ubd.edu.bn.

All submissions and peer review must be done via the journal’s ScholarOne submission and peer review system. Please select the issue ‘Future Sustainability of Borneo‘ when preparing your submission in the system.

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