Journal of Management Studies Special Issue - Call For Papers
Innovation for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Submission Deadline: 31 May 2025
BACKGROUND, AIMS, AND SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE
This call for papers invites scholarly contributions focused on innovations aimed at addressing climate change through mitigation and adaptation. Almost a decade after the Paris Agreement, climate ambitions have not yet sufficiently translated into action (IPCC, 2023), heightening the urgency for new research by management and organization scholars (e.g., Howard-Grenville et al., 2014; Ansari et al., 2013; Wright & Nyberg, 2017; Hanisch, 2024; Wickert and Muzio, 2024). Mitigation requires reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions, while adaptation focuses on developing resilience to climate disruptions (IPCC, 2023). Both demand unprecedented changes in organizational processes, technologies, and business models, necessitating novel approaches to innovation.
Innovation for climate change mitigation and adaptation needs to deal with systemic technological challenges (Falcke et al., 2024), unpredictable interdependencies (Howard-Grenville et al., 2014), complex stakeholder relationships (McGahan & Pongeluppe, 2023), emotions (Bleda and Pinkse, 2024; Boe-Lillegraven et al., 2024), transdisciplinary knowledge (Zobel et al., 2024), existential risks (Nyberg & Wright, 2022), and issues of evaluativity (Ferraro et al., 2015). Thus, climate change is challenging current assumptions in innovation management (e.g., Bansal et al., 2024) and requires new and alternative approaches for generating innovations and putting them to use (Falcke et al., 2024; Porter et al., 2021; Zobel et al., 2023). While research on innovation management increasingly investigates how more collaborative and digital forms of innovation challenge the business-as-usual of firms across industries (e.g., Afuah and Tucci, 2012; Hagedoorn, Lokshin, Zobel, 2020; Yoo et al., 2012), we lack insights into how such new forms of innovation could facilitate or hinder climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Thus, this special issue aims to curate scholarship on theoretically relevant research on innovation for climate change mitigation and adaptation. We are open to scholarly work on various forms of technological and organizational innovation. We are especially interested in collaborative and digital innovation approaches for tackling climate change, as well as the processes and challenges that arise when those innovations are implemented and used.
We welcome informal inquiries relating to the Special Issue, proposed topics, and potential fit with the Special Issue objectives. Please direct any questions on the Special Issue to the Contact Guest Editor: Lukas Falcke, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, l.a.falcke@vu.nl
Link to the call for papers: Special Issue Call for Papers: Innovation for Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation - Society for the Advancement of Management Studies
Special Issue Editors:
Lukas Falcke, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Ann-Kristin Zobel, University of St. Gallen
Youngjin Yoo, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University,
Christopher Tucci, Imperial College Business School & College of Business and Innovation, NEOM University
Marleen Huysman, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
JMS Editor: Mirko Benischke, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
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Lukas Falcke
Assistant Professor,
KIN Center for Digital Innovation,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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