This special issue aims to initiate a discourse on some of the important recent research themes in entrepreneurship, so that Indian academic research not only builds on these emerging areas of research but also contributes significantly to the theories as they are being developed. The themes that this special issue explores are how Indian startups, SMEs, and social enterprises are dealing with three contemporary themes – sustainable business approaches, innovation, and resilience to external trends and uncertainties. Given the current geopolitical landscape, be it the Russia-Ukraine war or the war in the Middle East, labour migration and its subsequent impact on local businesses are important areas of work. We argue that, given the large-scale economic disparities across states in India, migration is an important aspect, and that India therefore provides a rich context for research on migrant entrepreneurship. Similarly, the frequent occurrence of natural disasters and economic shocks tests the entrepreneurial resilience of the Indian ecosystem (due to its reliance on global supply chains, which are disrupted by events such as wars or pandemics). The financing of these enterprises faces a different set of challenges considering the size, purpose, and dynamics of these sectors. We believe that India provides a rich context to conduct research on the resilience and sustainability of such necessity-based entrepreneurship.

The extant research on entrepreneurship is from WEIRD countries, and it is increasingly acknowledged that theories developed in these countries might not be relevant to countries like India and China, which have the largest populations and depend on entrepreneurship to drive economic growth. It is important to understand how entrepreneurs navigate the challenges posed by underdeveloped or absent institutions. It is important to study the role of different stakeholders, including informal institutions and culture, in shaping entrepreneurial decisions post any failure. It is also important to understand the factors that contribute to the sustainability of startups, SMEs, and other enterprises including social enterprises that face the unique challenge of remaining financially viable while tackling social and environmental issues. Through this special issue, we aim to encourage research on these important topics, not just in entrepreneurial firms but also in SMEs and social enterprises, which are the major economic ventures in the Indian context.

By integrating some of the most relevant and contemporary themes in the fast-evolving business world, the issue creates opportunities to understand systemic issues and to craft new frontiers in advancing business sustainably. This focus offers a new lens to conceptualize the research, to delve into the literature, and to analyse subjects that are typical of the context of Indian enterprises. Enterprises have to navigate several policies and circumstantial variations happening in both enterprise ecosystems (such as investment climate, organizational systems and policies, sustainability mandates, among others) and external macroeconomic situations (such as migration, pandemic, national priorities, among others). Through this collective body of work, the Special Issue aims to broadly advance forward-looking ideas and frameworks that illuminate the sustainable and future-ready trajectory of Indian business, in general, and enterprises, in particular.

List of Topic Areas

• Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Ecosystems
• Organizational Resilience and Labour Management in Enterprises
• Entrepreneurial Leadership and Crisis Management
• Circular Economy and Sustainable Business Models for Enterprises
• Sustainable and Innovative Entrepreneurship Finance
• Migration and Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurship and SDGs
• Sustainability of Social Enterprises

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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 38

Key Dates

Opening date for manuscript submissions: 20 August 2026

Closing date for manuscript submissions: 1 October 2028

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Building on this need, the special issue invites papers that pose and address important questions about developing managers for generative-AI-reshaped work. Contributions may build or challenge theory, take earlier studies further, investigate practice as it emerges, or draw together existing evidence, and we place no restriction on method: quantitative, qualitative, experimental, field-based, mixed and meta-analytic work are all welcome, as are strong conceptual and review pieces. Because generative AI reshapes managerial work differently across functions and sectors, we especially welcome interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on fields such as human resource management, organisational behaviour, information systems, operations and strategy, and the topic areas listed below.

This collection looks for work that is both novel and usable, research whose lessons carry from the study into other organisations. Contributions are welcome from experienced scholars, from practitioners writing from the field, and from doctoral and early-career researchers, who often see at first hand how generative AI is changing the manager’s job. What holds these together is a shared purpose, to sharpen how the field thinks about managerial capability under rapid technological change, and to improve how managers are actually developed.

The originality of this collection is its focus on development rather than description. Much current work maps how generative AI is changing managerial work and debates how far it should share in decisions (Kellogg et al., 2020); this collection concentrates instead on what managers now need to be capable of, and how those capabilities are built (Dixit and Jatav, 2024; Plotkina and Sri Ramalu, 2024). It also draws on organisations already working fluently with these tools, whose lessons have barely reached management development, and asks what the far larger number of managers in more established organisations can learn from them.

Consistent with the journal’s orientation towards practice, each paper is expected to demonstrate clear application beyond its immediate case and to translate its findings into guidance that those responsible for management development can implement. Contributions should establish not only what is changing in managerial work, but what managers must be able to do in response and how that capability can be built and assessed. Papers that combine analytical rigour with direct relevance to practice, and that offer transferable insight rather than isolated observation, are especially well suited to this collection.

The special issue also carries clear societal relevance, and aligns with three United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As generative AI changes the capabilities managerial work demands, much of the workforce faces pressure to reskill (Chowdhury et al., 2024; McKinsey & Company, 2025, 2026; World Economic Forum, 2025); the issue addresses how managers are educated for that shift in line with SDG 4 on quality education. It attends to the quality of managerial work and the risk of overload as the pace rises, so that management stays effective and humane as more decisions are shared with generative AI, which speaks to SDG 8 on decent work. And it asks how organisations can adopt generative AI responsibly, treating the development of managers as what allows innovation to be introduced safely, in line with SDG 9 on industry, innovation and infrastructure.

Through this collection we hope to build a timely and practical account of one of the most significant shifts now facing managers, and to help shape how the next generation of managers, and those who develop them, are prepared for the work ahead.

GUEST EDITOR PERSPECTIVE:

The development of managers deserves fresh attention as generative AI reshapes their work. Much of the debate so far has been about the technology, what it can do and where its limits lie. The more pressing question for our field is about people: what managers now need to be capable of, and how we develop them for it. This collection is an invitation to put that question at the centre, and to build the evidence that management development will need as this shift continues. We invite contributions across the following five topic areas:

• Developing managers to make sound and accountable decisions with generative AI, including when to rely on it, when human judgement should prevail, and how to act when its outputs conflict with human values.
• Supporting managers to adapt to working with generative AI, sustaining their professional identity, confidence and sense of role, and building appropriate trust in what generative AI produces.
• Redesigning management development from one-off programmes towards continuous, embedded learning, and tailoring it to how generative AI reshapes managerial work differently across functions and sectors.
• Building and assessing the durable human capabilities that grow in value as generative AI is adopted, with evidence on how they can be developed.
• Developing managers to lead and decide responsibly across different cultural, national and institutional settings, where norms of accountability and acceptable use of generative AI differ.

Submissions Information

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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 85

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 30/09/2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 31/03/2027

Closing date for abstract submission: 01/12/2026

Email for submissions: A.huzooree@napier.ac.uk

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Across a range of sectors, manufacturers are looking for opportunities to grow revenue through the introduction of novel services that are focused on customer outcomes and value-in-use, rather than product-centric approaches focused on value-in-exchange. Given the research momentum that has built over the last 20 years, there is now a wealth of research exploring the servitization topic, whereby manufacturers look to transform their offering portfolio from more product-centric offerings towards services aimed at increasing revenue, customer value, and competitive advantage (Baines et al., 2017; Raddats et al., 2019). These services vary from base (e.g. spare parts) and intermediate services (e.g. scheduled equipment servicing) to transformative advanced services (e.g. outcome-focused solutions based on shared risk and reward) (Baines et al., 2009), which can offer greater value co-creation potential. Other research uses terms like product-service systems (Kohtamäki et al., 2026) and Services that Support Products (SSPs) versus Services that Support Customers (SSCs), focus on the concept of hybrid offerings (Ulaga & Reinartz, 2011; Schaarschmidt et al., 2022). These efforts are aimed at achieving growth, more stable cash flows, and higher profitability than firms can achieve from focusing on product-centric business models (Eggert et al., 2014; Gomes et al., 2021; Kohtamäki & Partanen, 2016).

Moving from such product-centric offerings to service-oriented offerings requires major operational and relational adaptations and firms face considerable challenges from both inside and outside of the organization. For example, in terms of Business Model Innovation (Paiola & Gebauer, 2020), including the emergence of subscription-based service models (Kowalkowski & Ulaga, 2024; Nansubuga & Kowalkowski, 2024). In relation to the development of digitalization capabilities (Kohtamäki et al., 2022; Marcon et al. 2022; Sjödin et al., 2023), whereby technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud computing and predictive analytics (AI), and platform ecosystems allow for new data-based service offerings to be developed (Kapoor et al., 2022; Story et al., 2017) and new innovation approaches (Burton et al., 2024; Bustinza et al., 2024; Rabetino et al., 2024; Xing et al., 2023), including co-creation processes (Kohtamaki et al., 2019). It also increasingly requires ecosystems of actors co-creating to deliver the value associated with these new service-based offerings (Kohtamaki et al., 2022), which can create tensions as ecosystem actors move into value spaces and territories occupied and/or coveted by other actors (Zolkiewski et al. 2023). Related papers also review the value architecture of servitization (e.g Garcia Martin et al., 2019). Furthermore, more recent studies focus on sustainability in relation to servitization (Behl et al., 2024; Bustinza et al., 2024; Kohtamäki et al., 2024).

Despite pressures to develop such offerings, many organisations face significant challenges in successfully implementing servitization, and there is a well-documented performance paradox (Brax, et al., 2021; Kohtamaki et al., 2018; Wang et al., 2018); because of the competing demands and resulting intra- and inter-organizational tensions that arise when looking to integrate products and services into new outcome-based offerings (Dmitrijeva et al., 2022; Tóth et al., 2022).

Theoretically, the topic of servitization draws on diverse theoretical underpinnings and spans different disciplines, including engineering, operations, marketing and strategy, which has led to knowledge accumulating within related scholarly communities, but not necessarily effectively crossing into other relevant scholarly communities in an integrated way (Rabetino et al., 2018). Thus, while extant literature now provides a well-developed view on the servitization topic, there are calls to study the international dimension more explicitly (Xing et al., 2023). Indeed, cross-fertilization between the areas of international business, innovation and servitization may hold significant promise around developing a more nuanced understanding of servitization performance and how firms can succeed globally in relation to servitized offerings.

Of the work that has explicitly considered international servitization, papers explore: capabilities (Abu Farha et al., 2023; Khan et al., 2023; Li et al., 2019), innovation outcomes (Bustinza et al., 2020); market entry modes (Agnihotri et al., 2023; Da Rocha et al., 2024), service design (Marvi et al., 2026); and key internal and external boundary conditions, such as the moderating impact of inter-organizational marketing capabilities and international market complexity (Zahoor et al., 2023), global distribution channels (Shleha et al., 2023) and risk-taking and technological turbulence (Chatterjee, et al., 2023). Some consider larger firms, or do not explicitly state firm size and make up, but more focus on SMEs (Chatterjee et al., 2023; Da Rocha et al., 2024; Amoozad-Mahdiraji et al., 2024; Zahoor et al., 2003). In terms of geographic focus, the Gulf region (Zahoor et al., 2023; Abu Farha et al., 2023) and India are the most researched (e.g. Behl et al., 2023; Chatterjee et al., 2023). Some also foreground digitalization as a core element of their research (e.g. Behl et al., 2023; Hani et al., 2025; Singh et al., 2026).

Delving into this emerging literature it is apparent that, many of these papers are conceptual – generating conceptual frameworks and propositions for future research, or review papers. For example, Agnihotri et al., (2023) develop propositions and a conceptual framework centered on exploring the interactions between digitalization and customer relationship investment. Bıçakcıoğlu-Peynirci and Morgan (2023) conceptual paper considers key boundary conditions related to slack resources and digital marketing capabilities in relation to how well they support industrial firms provide service offerings that support products (SSPs) or customers (SSCs), developing a framework that they argue serves as a guide for future research endeavors. Da Rocha et al’s., (2024) systematic literature review (SLR) investigates the issue of international market entry enabled by digital platforms in small firms, while Liu et al., (2023) reviews existing literature on hybrid offerings and firm internationalization strategies. Hani et al’s., (2025) SLR explores how data-driven service innovation helps to create, communicate and deliver value through hybrid business offerings in global markets and Marvi et al’s. (2026) develop a systematic review of service design and its application in a global context. Finally, Davies et al’s., (2023) SLR, which while not explicitly ‘international’ does cover off a key topic that is challenging all firms operating in the global economy, namely the importance of supply chains and ecosystems as key drivers for servitization success.

Some are qualitative, such as Khan et al., (2023), which explores the role of dynamic capabilities and network configuration in both developed and emerging markets. Several are quantitative, notably, Zahoor et al., (2023), who explore the relationship between international human capital and international product-service innovation and key boundary conditions (inter-organizational marketing capability and international market complexity) in the UAE and Bustinza et al., (2020) who provide a cross-country exploration of product-service innovation in relation to multinational corporations (MNCs) operating from five world regions, through the interrelationships between exploration and exploitation capabilities and performance outcomes for developed country versus emerging country MNCs. Shleha et al., (2023) explore the global distribution of high-tech products from a single Polish manufacturer and sales performance outcomes. Other articles have explored the moderating impacts of risk-taking ability and technological turbulence (Charterjee et al., 2023); open innovation and consumer integration in the servitization process (Abu Farha et al., 2023), and international marketing agility and service customization and export quality (Li et al., 2019).

This growing focus on international servitization is an important development for the topic and our contribution to the world of business, especially in these uncertain times. Understanding servitization from the perspective of international markets offers valuable insights for a variety of business organizations, from large, multinational corporations (MNCs), through to small- and medium-sized firms (SMEs), as well as firms exporting to and from developed and emerging economies. The intensification of change in terms of geopolitical and economic forces makes it harder to successfully servitize internationally, making it an increasing priority for both academic scholars and business leaders.

We encourage researchers to offer insights through different, but complementary lenses: 1) by applying established international marketing concepts to the servitization domain; or 2) through the extension of servitization theories and knowledge into the international context, focusing on what is explicitly different in this context from what is currently known. These two complementary approaches offer key opportunities to contribute to the developing debate around international servitization and how to build value across international borders.

As guest editors, we invite the submission of methodologically rigorous review articles, conceptual and empirical papers and, given the interdisciplinary nature of the topic, we also welcome submissions from a variety of relevant disciplines as well as cross-disciplinary work that helps to extend our understanding of market-focused servitization activities. Authors are encouraged to consider a wide array of approaches that might effectively illuminate the complexities of servitizing in an international context, including submissions that build on diverse theoretical perspectives that might help to advance our understanding of the challenges facing servitizing firms in a complex global context. This could include rich qualitative studies (e.g., in-depth interviews, case studies, ethnographies/netnographies), insightful quantitative analyses (e.g., cross-cultural surveys, experiments, archival and secondary data, digital trace data), longitudinal data sets and multi-method designs.

Feedback opportunities prior to submission

Special session at the 2027 Spring Servitization Conference, May 2027:

Authors will be able to indicate that they are developing a paper for the Special Issue as part of the submission process, and these authors will have both a presentation slot, as normal, and an opportunity to join a workshop during the conference to receive feedback from the guest editors. Submission deadline for the conference is January 2027. Further details will be available on the conference website once it is launched.

Presenting or attending this special session does not guarantee publication in the special issue, nor is it a prerequisite for publication in the special issue. This special session simply offers an opportunity for authors to refine their manuscripts with input from key Servitization authors prior to the formal double blind review process.

List of topic areas

• Servitization and international market positioning: implications for B2B and B2C customer relationships.
• Designing, pricing, and governing outcome-based offerings across diverse legal, regulatory, and cultural contexts.
• Scaling advanced services and outcome-based business models in international markets.
• Capabilities for international servitization: organisational, relational, and digital foundations.
• Orchestration and governance of cross-border service ecosystems and global partnerships.
• Buying, selling and the deployment of new services in a global context.
• The role of digital platforms, data governance, and AI in enabling globally integrated service offerings.
• Value capture and protection in international servitization, particularly under outcome- and performance-based contracts.
• Servitization and global trade: implications for tariffs, localisation, and the shift from products to services.
• The reconfiguration of global value chains through servitization and its implications for value distribution across economies.
• Sustainability and environmental performance in international servitization contexts.
• The role of servitization in supporting firms’ net zero and broader sustainability transitions globally.
• Institutional and cultural influences on the adoption and diffusion of servitization across countries.

Submissions Information

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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 117

Key deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 01/09/2027

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 01/12/2027

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Xcelro is hiring a Legal AI Intern for law students and recent graduates who are curious about AI, legal tech, and startups. At Xcelro, we are building AI tools that help lawyers research faster, draft better, and work more efficiently. This isn’t a traditional legal internship.

Mode

Offline

Responsibilities

• Legal research
• AI validation
• Contract review
• Product testing
• Compliance research
• Building legal knowledge for AI systems

Eligibility

• BA LLB / BBA LLB / LLB (Final Year)
• Fresh Graduates
• Strong legal research skills
• Excellent drafting and communication skills
• Curious about technology and AI

What You’ll Get

• Work directly with the founding team
• Real ownership and impact
• Exposure to AI and Legal Tech
• PPO opportunity for top performers

How to Apply?

Send your resume to founder@xcelro.com

Location

Noida

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Lokdeeksha Law Associates is a legal practice offering practical learning exposure to law students. They are focused on providing real-world legal experience through hands-on training and mentorship by experienced advocates.

About the Opportunity

The firm invites applications for its Certificate-Based Internship Program for students based primarily in India.

Mode

Offline

Responsibilities

• Court visits and observation of court proceedings
• Police station visits
• Legal drafting and documentation
• Legal research
• Filing and case management
• Exposure to practical aspects of practice under guidance of experienced advocates

Eligibility

• Law students
• Particularly those located in Delhi and Jaipur.

Duration

1–2 months

How to Apply?

Send your CV to lokdeekshalaw@gmail.com or to 7878378950.

Location

• Delhi
• Jaipur

Contact Information

• lokdeekshalaw@gmail.com
• 7878378950

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LHub – the Law and the Humanities Hub at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the University of London, invites applications from early and mid-career researchers who are enthusiasts of Law and the Humanities, for visiting positions for the academic year 2026-2027. The visitor will be affiliated with LHub and contribute to its activity.

The visitorship programme is intended as a highly engaged introductory fellowship aimed at building leadership capacity in Law and the Humanities, which will potentially be continued in the longer-term academic leadership programme of IALS fellowships. 

It is a unique opportunity to creatively shape work in Law and the Humanities as it implicates both academia and the general public, foster networks, and benefit from shared involvement in your research.

The programme includes six days of joint work of LHub visitors at IALS, two in each academic term, and a concluding evening. LHub days will typically be on Tuesdays; the first one will take place on October 20, 2026, 10:00-16:30, followed by a welcome reception.

The programme also includes LHub projects and activities. We will support your development of new infrastructural projects in Law and the Humanities. In addition, a significant contribution to the hub’s ongoing activities is expected, in collaboration with LHub director and other partners, to be discussed and agreed upon in advance.

Visitors will enjoy access to libraries and facilities at IALS. They will also be entitled to travel reimbursement, up to £500. The position may be taken alongside any academic position in the UK or abroad.

How to Apply

Applications are made via the online application form for early and midcareer researchers . They require: 

1. Your CV (copy and paste onto the online form)
2. Statement about your planned research project/s for the coming year (up to 400 words)
3. Statement of interest in LHub (up to 400 words)

The deadline for applications is September 6, 2026. 

Interviews will take place online on September 16 and 18, 2026.

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Special Thematic Forum on ‘The Wider United Nations System: Subsidiary Organs, Specialised Agencies, and Related Organisations at a Time of Strain’.

As the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (UNYB) marks its 30th anniversary, the forthcoming volume will feature a special thematic forum examining a central yet relatively under-explored dimension of international law in practice: the structure, functioning, and evolution of the diverse institutions and entities that comprise the wider United Nations (UN) system, including subsidiary organs, specialised agencies, related organisations, and other components of the broader UN-centred multilateral framework.

Contemporary debates on the law and practice of the UN frequently focus on its six principal organs. Yet the wider UN system encompasses a diverse constellation of subsidiary organs, specialised agencies, funds and programmes, treaty bodies, commissions, and related organisations that are indispensable to the functioning of the multilateral international order. From human rights treaty bodies to specialised regimes governing global health, trade, development, labour, migration, and disarmament, these institutions operate alongside the principal organs of the UN Organisation and play a critical role in the interpretation, application, and development of international law. They serve as sites of norm development, implementation, monitoring, and compliance, while facilitating international cooperation across a broad range of policy areas.

The forum therefore seeks to explore, among others, the following overarching question:

To what extent do the diverse institutions and entities that comprise the wider United Nations system remain effective and resilient in advancing their mandates, and how might their institutional design, inter-institutional relationships, and normative role evolve in response to contemporary global challenges?

The forum invites contributions that critically examine the institutional, doctrinal, and normative dimensions of the wider UN system. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the wider UN system as an interconnected institutional architecture, examining how its constituent bodies coordinate, interact, and collectively shape the development and practice of international law.[1]

Contributors are encouraged to engage with a broad range of themes, including but not limited to:

• Institutional law questions relating to specialised agencies, subsidiary organs, treaty bodies, funds and programmes, commissions, and related organisations;
• The evolving role of human rights bodies, including the Human Rights Council and treaty body mechanisms, in conditions of political contestation and selective engagement by States;
• Institutional responses to geopolitical fragmentation, including the impact of State withdrawal, disengagement, or strategic participation;
• The political economy of the wider UN system, including the role of funding structures and donor influence in shaping institutional priorities and effectiveness;
• Institutional interaction across the wider UN system, including questions of coordination, coherence, fragmentation, overlapping mandates, and regime complexity;
• The capacity of different components of the UN system to generate, interpret, implement, and diffuse international legal norms in the absence of strong political consensus;
• Historical, doctrinal, or theoretical reflections on the evolution of the wider United Nations system and its contemporary relevance.

Submission Guidelines

We invite anyone interested in contributing to this edition to submit at first instance, an abstract proposal of no more than 500 words by 28 August. Authors are encouraged to focus closely on a particular line of legal argumentation within this broader topic.

In your abstract submission, please include i) the working title; ii) the institution(s) that you will be examining in your article; iii) the main arguments to be developed; and iv) a brief explanation of how the topic fits within the scope of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law. Please submit your proposal in a Word document, along with a short bio appended at the end of it (max 100 words) by email to unyb@mpfpr.de.

The usual length of an article featured in the Yearbook is between 8,000 and 14,000 words, though for this thematic forum, we are also open to receiving proposals of opinion notes with a shorter word count as well. Following a positive assessment of their abstract proposal, authors will be instructed to submit a full draft of their manuscript by 15 November, which will then be placed through our double-blind peer-review process for consideration of final publication.

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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

Submissions Information

Submissions are made using ScholarOne Manuscripts. Author guidelines must be strictly followed.

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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 47

Key Deadlines

Opening date for manuscripts submissions: 30th November 2026

Closing date for manuscripts submission: 31st March 2027

For more details refer here

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