A Special Issue of European Management Review "Local inter-organizational networks, entrepreneurship and innovation between openness and closure."
Submission Deadline: April 1, 2026 We are excited to announce the launch of the special issue call. We welcome contributions that:
1. Examine why, how, and with what outcomes collaboration emerges in local agglomerations;
2. Investigate the micro-foundations and governance of networks in space and place-based interorganizational networks;
3. Explore the institutional and individual actors shaping innovation networks and their boundaries;
4. Provide relevant managerial and policy insights into fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in local systems.
You can find the Call for Papers here:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/17404762/cfp/EMRE-Call-for-Papers-Local-Clusters-2025-1752137722247.pdf For questions, please contact any of the special issue editors: Cristina Boari (
cristina.boari@unibo.it), Francesco Capone (
francesco.capone@unifi.it), Luciana Castro Goncalves (
luciana.castro@esiee.fr), Luis Martinez-Chafer (
chafer@uji.es), Liliana Mitkova (
liliana.mitkova@univ-evry.fr)
We look forward to receiving your contributions from various theoretical perspectives: innovation, network and organizational studies, strategy, international business, entrepreneurship, and regional studies and more.
Cristina Boari
University of Bologna