Knowledge Steez Eduhub

It is a distinguished educational organization committed to promoting academic excellence and capacity building across diverse disciplines including law, management, and social sciences. The organization has established itself as a leading platform for scholarly collaboration, offering a wide array of national and international conferences, research opportunities, workshops, and online courses.

Management and Science University (MSU)

It is a globally recognised institution, ranked by both Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and Times Higher Education (THE), dedicated to building holistic human capital and championing equality through transformative education. The university has been honoured with multiple awards, including Engaged & Sustainable University of the Year 2024, People’s Choice Award 2023, and Global Green University of the Year 2023 by ACEEU, alongside previous recognition as Asia’s Most Entrepreneurial and Engaged University.

Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies (SSCBS)

It is a premier undergraduate business college under the University of Delhi that offers specialised business degrees and is known for its rigorous curriculum, focus on practical skills, and thriving student life. Founded in 1987 and located in Rohini, Delhi, it has been consistently ranked as a top undergraduate management institute in India and is named after the freedom fighter Sukhdev Thapar.

About the Conference

The International Conference on Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and Change Management is designed as a dynamic platform for academics, industry professionals, policymakers and emerging entrepreneurs to exchange insights and best practices in today’s rapidly evolving global environment. In an era marked by technological disruption, shifting market demands, and complex social challenges, the conference explores how visionary leadership and innovative entrepreneurial strategies can drive sustainable growth and transformative change. Sessions will feature keynote addresses, interactive panel discussions, and case-study presentations that highlight real-world applications of leadership principles and change-management methodologies. By connecting scholars, practitioners, and young leaders, the conference aims to cultivate collaborative networks and inspire actionable solutions that contribute to economic development and social impact worldwide. It is envisioned as a space where ideas are critically examined, collaborations are forged, and pathways are charted for nurturing leaders and entrepreneurs capable of steering change in uncertain times.

Outreach & Media Partners

• WICCI UT Chandigarh Council
• Punjab Angels Network
• Entrepreneurial Mindset Network
• Egnition India Community

Eligibility

Academicians, industry experts, research scholars and students from all disciplines are invited to contribute papers.

Mode

Online

Important Dates

• Deadline for submission of abstract – 05/06/2026
• Conference Date – 25/06/2026
• Deadline for submission of full paper – 10/07/2026

Call for Papers & Case Studies

Authors are invited to submit their original and unpublished manuscripts based on conceptual or empirical research on the different aspects of entrepreneurship, leadership and change management. The broad themes for the conference are (but are not limited to) the following:

• Track 1: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Emerging Economies
• Track 2: Legal Frameworks for Entrepreneurship
• Track 3: Managing Organisational Change and Transformation
• Track 4: Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development
• Track 5: Strategic Leadership in a Digital and Global Era
• Track 6: Education, Capacity Building, and Policy for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Paper Submission Guidelines

• Academicians, industry experts, research scholars and students are invited to contribute papers on topics related to the theme of the conference.
• All paper submissions will be subjected to double-blind peer review.
• The decision of the reviewers will be final and binding. To facilitate the review process, the author should adhere to the prescribed guidelines.
• Abstract should not exceed 500 words and should contain the title of the paper, authors’ & co-author names, institutional affiliations and keywords (up to 5).
• The maximum full paper length (excluding tables, figures and references) should not exceed 5000 words.
• The paper should be in Times New Roman, Font Size 12, with 1.5 line spacing.
• Authors should follow the APA (Seventh Edition) style of referencing.
• Plagiarism should not exceed 10% to maintain the originality of the manuscript.
• Selected research papers can be revised and resubmitted by September 2026 for publication in ISBN book

Best Paper Award

• A certificate will be awarded to the one best paper in every track.
• Paper Presentation by PowerPoint is optional and not mandatory.

Registration Fees

• Academicians/Research Scholar – 1200 INR
• Corporate – 2000 INR
• Students – 1000 INR
• International – 70$

How to Register?

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Publication Opportunity

• Selected papers will be selected for publication in an Indexed journal or an ISBN book.
• A maximum of three authors is allowed in each paper.

Conference Committee

PATRON: Dr Prof. Poonam Verma, Principal SSCBS

CONVENOR: Nadia Nabila Mohd Saufi, Senior Lecturer, Department of Business Management & Law, MSU

CO-CONVENOR:

• Dr Kumar Bijoy, CEO-SIIF Innovation & Incubation Foundation
• Dr. Ankita Upadhyay, Guest Faculty, Romanian-American University
• Dr. Jyotika Bahl, Assistant Professor, DU
• Dr. Abhimanyu Goyal, Assistant Professor, Amity University, Punjab

Contact Information

STUDENT CO-CONVENORS

• Srishti Agarwal – 8279898571
• Astitva Kumar Rao – 9140768546

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List of Topic Areas

• Strategic Knowledge
• Sustainable Knowledge
• Intelligent Knowledge
• Codification
• Personalization
• Sustainability
• Knowledge Processes
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digitalization
• Value Creation

Submissions Information

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

Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jsma

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 47

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 01/08/2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 31/10/2026

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The Nordic region offers a distinctive consumer culture characterized by “conspicuously strong ideological contradictions” (Ulver, 2019, p. 52). Societies are both egalitarian and status-conscious, individualistic yet reliant on collective welfare systems, and modest yet aspirational. Central to this culture is the Nordic welfare state that creates a unique alliance between the state and the individual. The state ensures universal provision of basic human rights while enhancing individual autonomy (Molander et al., 2013). As Ulver (2019) notes, this creates a marketplace where state and individual interests align rather than conflict. While all Nordic countries appear to accommodate and reconcile these ideological contradictions (Byrkjeflot, 2001), our understanding of how these paradoxes manifest in consumption practices, market formations, and consumer identities remains limited.

Existing research on Nordic consumer culture highlights the region’s distinctive characteristics but lacks comprehensive integration across levels of analysis. Previous studies have examined hegemonic brandscapes (Kjeldgaard & Ostberg, 2007), culturally specific phenomena like “hygge” (Linnet, 2011), value regimes in Nordic branding (Andersen et al., 2021), consumer movements navigating Nordic regulations (Weijo et al., 2018), alternative food markets (Leipämaa-Leskinen, 2021; Bhatnagar et al., 2024), welfare exports (Bjerregaard & Kjeldgaard, 2019), mythologies in advertising (Pietilä et al., 2019), immigrant experiences (Hokkinen, 2023; Ogada & Lindberg, 2022), and tensions between neoliberal and welfare state regimes (Martin et al., 2019). While this scholarship has grown, gaps remain, and key questions are still unanswered. How do consumers navigate increased market responsibility as the state retreats? How do political projects around gender equality or environmental values influence everyday consumption? How does immigration challenge Nordic egalitarian ideals in consumer contexts? These questions highlight the need for research connecting welfare state structures to specific consumption practices across individual, market, and policy levels.

The purpose of this special issue is to facilitate the publication of research offering novel, critical, and contextually grounded approaches to Nordic consumer culture as a contested and negotiated space. Our aim is to advance scholarship on the unique mix of state, market, and consumers in Nordic contexts, focusing on how consumption practices reflect and perpetuate meanings that may differ from, but also unexpectedly converge with, Anglo-American and Continental European consumer research. We welcome submissions that critically analyze Nordic market dynamics, explore the paradoxes inherent in Nordic consumer culture (such as tensions between egalitarian ideals and status competition, individual autonomy and collective solidarity, trust in the state and scepticism toward commercial institutions), and investigate both continuities and ruptures in Nordic consumption patterns. We especially encourage innovative methodologies, interdisciplinary perspectives, and contributions that address how macro-level contexts—such as welfare state policies, cultural myths, political ideologies, and institutional thought styles—shape the possibilities and constraints of consumer practice, thereby building a more comprehensive understanding of Nordic consumer culture.​

List of Topic Areas

• ​​​State-market-consumer relations and welfare consumption
• Neoliberalization and privatization of welfare services
• Nordic imaginaries, myths, and branding
• Sustainability, nature consumption, and friluftsliv
• Immigration, minorities, and consumer integration
• Indigenous consumption and colonial legacies
• Gender, family, and domestic consumption practices
• Egalitarianism, conformity, and status distinction
• Consumer resistance and alternative markets
• Digitalization and platform consumption
• Dark consumption, Nordic Noir, and dystopian aesthetics
• Trust and distrust in state institutions
• Nordic brands and cultural exports
• New Nordic movements and manifestos
• Contradictions in Nordic consumer culture
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Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/qmr
Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see: ​https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/qmr#jlp_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.

Key Deadline

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: ​01/05/2026​
Closing date for manuscripts submission: ​20/12/2026

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Developing techniques to systematically evaluate the potential to harm are needed along with predicting fatal collisions. The potential to harm can limit people’s travel options, limiting the likelihood of travelling on foot or by bicycle, which then limit access to public transport. Without addressing this issue, a shift to sustainable transport will be greatly limited.

As described many decades ago by Haddon (1970) traffic hazard is the potential harm through the transmission of kinetic energy.

This special issue welcomes research that focuses on: the source of traffic hazard; how traffic hazard impacts society and sustainable objectives; how to minimize harm from traffic hazard; the application of traffic hazard in policy and practice; how different measures of exposure can be used in to better inform policy and practice.

List of topic areas

• Traffic hazard
• Traffic danger
• Community severance
• Independent travel/autonomy
• Street design
• Urban design

Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available at: ScholarOne Manuscripts

Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see: https://emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jtas

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.

Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 01/12/2025

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 31/05/2026

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Entrepreneurial judgment and decision-making are markedly shaped by emotional dynamics that influence entrepreneurs’ immediate choices, long-term resilience, strategic agility, and ethical judgments (Dabić et al., 2021; Foo, 2011; Paramita et al., 2022). Extant research has addressed some emotions critical to entrepreneurship, e.g., passion (Cardon et al., 2009) and resilience (Hayward et al., 2010). However, there is an urgent need to broaden this scope to include a wider range of affects that can uniquely influence entrepreneurial judgment and decision-making. Recent research has revealed how such emotions as guilt, empathy, and regret shape entrepreneurial actions (Williamson et al., 2024). However, certain distinct emotions like despair, awe, and humility remain largely unexamined despite their potential implications for entrepreneurial outcomes. This limitation of the extant research persists even though the complex emotional turmoil inherent in entrepreneurship can influence the strategic decisions entrepreneurs make. One promising direction for advancing this field of study is the prioritization of socio-economic development through the transitioning of traditional entrepreneurial ventures into social enterprises. This approach can provide entrepreneurs with a sense of balance and resolution by addressing the critical emotions mentioned above, while also allowing them to play a personal role in social change (Vidovic, 2023) in addressing different social issues and needs. By addressing these gaps, this special issue seeks to advance our understanding of the interplay between entrepreneurial emotion, judgment, and decision-making, focusing on these under-explored emotional domains.

Aims and Scope

This special issue explores the critical yet underexplored role of emotions in entrepreneurial decision-making within enterprising communities and local economies. So far, research has primarily focused on positive emotions, e.g., passion and resilience. However, community-based entrepreneurship presents distinct emotional challenges, often accompanied by a diverse range of both positive and negative emotions. In addition, entrepreneurs in localized ecosystems, i.e., small businesses, family firms, and social enterprises, find themselves navigating multifaceted emotional landscapes. The complexity of the latter is shaped by close-knit stakeholder relationships, resource constraints, and place-based identity. Understanding how emotions such as, for example, humility, empathy, regret, guilt, frustration, and despair influence entrepreneurial resilience, ethical decision-making, and community engagement is essential for fostering sustainable local entrepreneurial communities. This special issue aims to advance our understanding of how emotional dynamics influence entrepreneurial judgment in ways that affect not only individual entrepreneurs but also the broader social and economic fabric of their communities. By examining the interplay between discrete emotions (Bachkirov, 2015) and emotional blends (Gonzalez et al., 2017) on entrepreneurial judgments and decision-making in localized entrepreneurial ecosystems, we seek to provide insights into how affects drive sustainable business practices, social innovation, and economic resilience at the community level.

This special issue also aims to deepen our insights into how various emotional states and dispositions impact ethical decision-making and interpersonal relationships within entrepreneurial ecosystems. For instance, such emotions as empathy, gratitude, and compassion can be essential in shaping interactions with stakeholders, from co-founders and employees to investors and customers. This can be particularly critical in contexts like social entrepreneurship, where ethical decision-making and a commitment to social impact may intersect with personal interests or ambitions and financial pressures. Furthermore, emotions like anger (Bachkirov, 2023), guilt (Cristofari & Guitton, 2014), regret (Doan et al., 20240 and humility (Bachkirov, 2024), and shame (Murphy & Kiffin-Petersen, 2017) are likely to create moral complexities thus influencing how entrepreneurs address moral dilemmas. By emphasizing the dynamics between entrepreneurial judgment, decision-making, emotions, and ethics, this special issue will provide a platform for studies that reveal a multifaceted view of entrepreneurship.

This special issue welcomes interdisciplinary perspectives that can shed light on how diverse emotional experiences shape entrepreneurial cognition and behavior. Integrating insights from organizational behavior, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and behavioral economics, we hope to uncover the underlying mechanisms that influence emotional responses and their effects on entrepreneurial judgment and decision-making. We invite diverse methodologies and approaches, e.g., quantitative studies including experiments and surveys that explore causal relationships, as well as qualitative methods that can reveal the nuanced, contextual experiences of entrepreneurs. We equally encourage theoretical and conceptual papers that offer new frameworks and insights into the complex role of emotions in entrepreneurship.

By enhancing our understanding of the emotional dimensions of entrepreneurship within communities, this special issue will have direct implications for policy-making, education, and support structures for small businesses and social enterprises. The inquiries into how humility, empathy, regret, guilt, frustration, despair, etc., influence entrepreneurial resilience, ethical decision-making, and long-term sustainability, are expected to offer insights to inform policies that promote more supportive local business environments. Insights from this research can also enhance entrepreneurial education by equipping future entrepreneurs with emotional regulation strategies, improving their ability to navigate challenges unique to community-based enterprises. Additionally, a refined focus on emotions most relevant to localized entrepreneurial ecosystems—rather than an overly broad thematic scope—will ensure that contributions generate relevant and actionable knowledge. This includes informing mentorship programs, mental health initiatives, and financial resilience strategies tailored to the emotional realities of entrepreneurs embedded in close-knit social and economic networks.

List of Topic Areas

Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Entrepreneurial Decision Making in Digital and Algorithm-Driven Environments
• Emotion Regulation in Crisis and Disruptive Contexts
• Impact of Virtual and Augmented Reality on Entrepreneurial Emotion and Judgment
• Cross-Generational Differences in Emotional Decision-Making in Family Businesses
• Entrepreneurial Emotion and Decision-Making in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
• Emotional Labor and Well-being in Serial Entrepreneurship
• Role of Synthetic and AI-Generated Emotions in Entrepreneurial Decision-Making
• Humility in Entrepreneurial Learning and Adaptation
• Empathy and Ethical Decision-Making in Social Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial Despair: Causes and Consequences
• Pride and Self-Efficacy in Sustained Entrepreneurial Motivation
• Envy in Competitive Strategy and Innovation
• Entrepreneurial emotional dilemma: social or conventional/traditional entrepreneurship?
• Inner accomplishment and entrepreneurship

Submission Information

Submissions of full manuscripts are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available here:

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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.

Key Dates

Opening date for manuscript submissions: 1 September 2026

Closing date for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026

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​​​1. AI and deep learning applications for optimizing green energy production cycles.
2. Design and control of advanced DC-DC converters for electrolyzer integration and renewable energy coupling.
3. Grid connection challenges, smart grid strategies, and power quality management for large-scale green fuel systems.
4. Comprehensive techno-economic and lifecycle assessments of hybrid renewable energy-to-chemical systems.
5. Predictive maintenance and dynamic load forecasting in integrated power electronic and green energy networks.​​

Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available at: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cw
Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see: ​ https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/cw#jlp_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 Q3, H-Index 29

Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: ​01/06/2026​ 
Closing date for manuscripts submission: ​31/12/2026​ 

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A growing body of literature highlights digital transformation as a central driver of organizational adaptation, emphasizing its implications for strategy, governance, and organizational design (Hanelt et al., 2021; Cuel et al., 2024). At the same time, sustainability imperatives and ESG‑related pressures have intensified, increasing the relevance of responsible management practices and the need to address broader societal expectations (Barbosa et al., 2023). In this context, organizational legitimacy, trust, and stakeholder relationships have emerged as critical resources that enable organizations to secure social acceptance and sustain long‑term performance (Blanco‑González et al., 2025).

Recent studies further underline that responsible management is closely linked to human and social outcomes within organizations. Beyond financial and environmental considerations, attention has increasingly turned to employee well‑being and the quality of work environments as key dimensions of sustainable organizational performance. Evidence suggests that corporate social responsibility, when strategically managed, plays a significant role in enhancing employees’ mental well‑being through the development of social and psychological capital, reinforcing both organizational resilience and social legitimacy (Cachón‑Rodríguez et al., 2025).

Despite these advances, existing research remains fragmented across domains such as management, marketing, entrepreneurship, sustainability, finance, and management‑related education. This fragmentation limits cumulative understanding of how these dimensions interact in shaping organizational responses to contemporary challenges. Addressing this gap calls for integrative and interdisciplinary research that connects strategic, organizational, and institutional levels of analysis, while remaining sensitive to contextual and comparative differences across organizational and geographical settings (Cuel et al., 2024).

This Special Issue responds to these needs by providing a platform for high‑quality theoretical and empirical research on contemporary challenges in management and business. It seeks to advance holistic explanations of organizational adaptation, legitimacy, and value creation by bringing together diverse perspectives and methodological approaches. By fostering dialogue between global management debates and context‑sensitive research, the Special Issue aims to contribute to the development of more sustainable, innovative, and socially legitimate organizations in today’s evolving business landscape.

List of topic areas

• Contemporary challenges in management, finance, and organizations under conditions of uncertainty, volatility, and change.
• Strategic management, governance, organizational legitimacy, and organizational adaptation to economic, technological, and societal transformations.
• Innovation, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and technology‑driven organizational and managerial change.
• Organizational learning, management education, and the use of new learning technologies to enhance performance and decision‑making.
• Sustainability strategies, ESG practices, sustainable finance, and organizational legitimacy in responsible management.
• Organizational legitimacy, trust, reputation, transparency, and stakeholder relations.
• Employee well‑being, human sustainability, responsible leadership, and people management.
• Entrepreneurship, business models, financing decisions, and value creation in dynamic and competitive markets.
• Marketing, consumer, and financial perspectives on sustainability, organizational legitimacy, and value creation.
• Integrative, interdisciplinary, comparative, and international approaches to management, finance, and education research.

Submissions Information

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

Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/arla

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 Q2, H-index 26

Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 15/09/2026 

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 29/12/2026

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This special issue centers that work. Rather than focusing on discrete policies or reform initiatives, it examines how school leaders interpret, negotiate, and respond to competing demands in their day-to-day practice. Leaders are not passive recipients of policy; they actively make sense of it, prioritize among multiple and sometimes conflicting expectations, and shape how policy is enacted within their local contexts. In doing so, they balance pressures for compliance with commitments to care, equity, and the broader purposes of schooling. This issue brings attention to that often-invisible work of interpretation and decision-making.

While existing scholarship has documented the increasing regulation of schooling through accountability systems, curriculum mandates, and data-driven governance, less attention has been given to how leaders navigate multiple, overlapping pressures simultaneously, particularly in contexts where demands may be contradictory or politically contested. This special issue addresses that gap by foregrounding leadership practice across a range of domains and international contexts.

The contributions to this issue examine leadership in settings shaped by diverse pressures, including curriculum regulation, accountability systems, technology governance, crisis response, and resource constraints. Across these domains, authors explore how leaders interpret policy, make decisions under conditions of uncertainty, and respond to the needs of their students and communities. Collectively, these studies highlight the consequential agency of school leaders, not only in how policy is implemented, but in how it is adapted, mediated, and at times resisted in practice.

By bringing together empirical work across contexts and domains, this special issue offers a more integrated understanding of leadership under conditions of contradiction and complexity. It contributes to theory by highlighting the central role of judgment and sensemaking in leadership practice, and to practice by illuminating how leaders navigate competing demands in real-world settings. In doing so, it underscores the importance of preparing and supporting leaders who can respond thoughtfully and ethically to the challenges of contemporary schooling.

Authors interested in contributing should submit a proposed abstract (no more than 500 words) to Dr. Sonya Hayes by June 5, 2026. Authors will be notified of proposal decisions by June 30, 2026.

List of Topic Areas

• Leadership sensemaking and professional judgment in interpreting and responding to overlapping local, national, and global policy pressures
• Ethical decision-making and professional responsibility when formal mandates conflict with values, equity commitments, or community needs
• Balancing compliance, discretion, and care in contested or ambiguous leadership contexts
• Leadership practice across policy domains, including accountability, curriculum regulation, digital governance (e.g., AI, data privacy), crisis response, and resource allocation
• Implications for leadership preparation and development, particularly in building leaders’ capacity to navigate complexity and contradiction

Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Registration and access are available here: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jnlea
Author guidelines must be strictly followed. Please see here: https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/journal/jea
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 80

Key Deadlines

Closing date for abstract submission: 05/06/2026 
Email for abstract submissions: shayes22@utk.edu

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 04/05/2026 
Closing date for manuscripts submission: 01/10/2026

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