International Journal of Project Management

The aim of this special collection is to provide a platform for researchers to reflect and advance different pathways towards the twin disciplinary aspirations of not only (a) fostering true cross-fertilisation with related disciplines (Locatelli et al., 2023) but also (b) addressing pressing societal challenges (Geraldi et al., 2025; Ika & Munro, 2022; Unterhitzenberger, McKiernan, et al., 2024). Research on managing projects and other forms of temporary organising, not unlike the broader literature on management and organisation, recognises the need for rigorous research and advance theorising as a means towards both cross-fertilisation and achieving the impact of scholarly work beyond academia. For example, Geraldi et al. (2020, p. 351) suggest a mutually-constitutive relationship between theorising projects and cross-fertilisation with related disciplines such as organisation studies. Similarly, the broader literature suggests that a true cross-fertilisation constitute a two-way scholarly exchange—ranging from leveraging reference theories from related fields to developing home-grown theories grounded in empirical research that potentially enrich other disciplines (Kjærgaard & Vendelø, 2015). Advancing theory is also seen ‘as a meaningful way to impact’ in the broader scholarly conversations (Reinecke et al., 2022, p. 1)—a message that reverberates with the project management scholarship which suggests that ‘rigorous research’ is essential for societal impact (Unterhitzenberger, McKiernan, et al., 2024, p. 3). To provide impetus to this scholarly discourse, this special collection aims to draw the attention of project management scholars towards new and creative ways to theorise temporary organising for scholarly impact— ‘the ability to provide a clear, compelling, and meaningful theoretical contribution’ (Wickert et al., 2021, p. 299)—as necessary though obviously not sufficient condition of cross-fertilisation and practical impact.

• Extended abstracts due by August 30, 2025.
• Feedback provided to the extended abstracts by September 30, 2025.
• Virtual workshop for the authors of accepted extended abstracts in October 2025
• Submission of full papers by March 30, 2026
• Review and revision cycle: From April 2026 to April 2027
• Finalising the paper collection by May 2027

Submission: ScienceDirect website.

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The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Research School (EERS) for its 6th Edition invites early-career and senior scholars, including PhD candidates, to submit abstracts for the upcoming event at IAE de Lyon, France. This event serves as a dynamic platform for emerging scholars to engage with international experts, collaborate, and further develop their research in the field of entrepreneurial ecosystems (EE).

Conference website: here.

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Guest Editors

• Marlys Christianson, University of Toronto
• Brian Hilligoss, University of Arizona
• Christopher Myers, Johns Hopkins University (AMD Associate Editor)
• Kathleen Sutcliffe, Johns Hopkins University
• Timothy Vogus, Vanderbilt University

 Call for Papers: aom.org/events/event-detail/2025/10/01/calls/...

AMD invites submissions to a Special Research Forum on "Organizational Insights in Health Care". Health care contexts represent an incredibly valuable research domain for management scholars interested in a wide range of topics and levels of analysis. As DiBenigno and D'Aunno (2024) recently commented, health care "has it all," with prior work exploring this context from macro-, meso-, and micro-level perspectives to generate valuable insights. Given the inherently interdisciplinary nature of studying organizational phenomena in the health care setting, past work has spanned a range of disciplines, often bridging domains of organizational scholarship, industrial relations, and health care scholarship (e.g., health policy, health services research, medicine, medical sociology, and nursing), yielding key insights for theory and practice.

The goals of this special issue are to publish novel empirical explorations while taking seriously the invitation to balance organizational science and health care – in other words, work that takes seriously both the charge to develop a richly contextualized understanding of a key empirical discovery and develop its implications for a more generalized understanding of work, strategy, organizations, management, and institutions. These goals are particularly well-suited to the nature of AMD as an outlet for "articles motivated by research questions that address compelling and underexplored phenomena … that present clear and compelling discoveries: empirical findings that challenge existing assumptions while opening new theoretical paths or that otherwise promote future, 'down-the-road,' theorizing." (AMD website)

We invite papers that study any organizational phenomena relevant to the experience and functioning of health care (broadly defined) for this special issue. This could include "classic" topics central to organizational scholarship that are particularly visible or impactful, but still poorly understood, in health care (i.e., many of the topics listed in Table 2 of Mayo et al., 2021). It also includes phenomena that are particular to health care settings, but might carry important implications for all organizational environments (e.g., the study of handoffs and transitions, which are central to health care delivery settings, but are increasingly occurring in many organizations that switch to project-based work coordinated across disparate teams or units; Hilligoss & Vogus, 2015; LeBaron et al., 2016). Questions about the suitability of a particular topic should be directed to a member of the editorial team.

 Please see the full Call for Papers for more details: aom.org/events/event-detail/2025/10/01/calls/... (a PDF version of the Call is attached here as well).

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