Geshwaree Huzooree, Edinburgh Napier University

Melina Doargajudhur, Edinburgh Napier University

Generative AI is rapidly transforming managerial work, shifting managers' focus from producing work to directing, verifying, and evaluating AI-generated outputs. This technological shift raises fundamental questions about what capabilities managers need to develop and how management development programmes should evolve to prepare them for this new landscape.

This special issue seeks research on how to develop managers for generative-AI-reshaped work, welcoming theoretical, empirical, and conceptual contributions from diverse methodological approaches and disciplines. The collection prioritizes work that is both academically rigorous and practically applicable, offering insights that organizations can implement in their management development initiatives.

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Potential topics

• Developing managers to make sound and accountable decisions with generative AI
• Supporting managers to adapt to working with generative AI
• Redesigning management development for continuous, embedded learning
• Building and assessing durable human capabilities in the age of generative AI
• Developing managers to lead responsibly across different cultural and institutional settings

Timeline

• January 12, 2026: Closing date for abstract submission
• September 30, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• March 31, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

This special issue advances management development research through brief reports addressing contemporary challenges facing managers in rapidly changing environments. It seeks responses to geopolitical instability, technological disruption, and sustainability pressures, while challenging traditional academic approaches that inadequately explain modern business complexities.

The special issue welcomes diverse empirical research methods and prioritizes contributions from early career researchers. Submissions should demonstrate practical applicability and offer actionable insights managers can implement. Particularly, the issue addresses urgent needs for management frameworks guiding AI integration, nearshoring trends, cross-cultural team management, and responsible autonomous systems governance, providing evidence-based tools to equip managers in transforming challenges into opportunities.

Appel publié par Journal of Management Development. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Managerial competencies for sustainable digital transformation
• Responsible AI integration in management development
• Cross-cultural management development for geographically integrated teams
• Management development for inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystems
• Human agency in managing robotic and AI integration

Timeline

• January 12, 2026: Closing date for abstract submission
• September 30, 2026: Opening date for manuscripts submissions
• March 31, 2027: Closing date for manuscripts submission

Scott Lichtenstein, Birmingham City University Business School

Paul Aitken, Nelson-Marlborough Institute of Technology

Krish Saha, Birmingham City University Business School

Helen Kopnina, University of Northumbria

Truzaar Dordi, University of York

This special issue seeks interdisciplinary research exploring how managers can develop sustainability leadership capacity across interconnected levels. The focus spans macro outcomes related to compassionate flourishing and planetary health, meso-level organizational and community goals, and micro-level personal values and behavioral inputs of managers. The issue aims to identify connection points in the entire sustainability leadership development system.

Through contributions from diverse scholars, the special issue will examine how sustainability leadership capability can serve as a positive force in addressing global challenges, how it can be applied systematically within organizations and communities, and how managers' personal values and morals translate into sustainable behaviors and decisions. Recommendations emerging from the issue are intended to benefit academics, practitioners, and broader environmental outcomes.

Appel publié par Journal of Management Development. Voir l'appel sur le site de l'éditeur. Fiche de l'appel sur kerostig.

Potential topics

• Sustainability leadership capability development for managers as a force for positive change and compassionate flourishing
• Anthropocentric assumptions limiting leaders' engagement with planetary health and multi-species justice
• Systematic and systemic application of sustainability leadership capability development for resolving complex and disruptive challenges
• Personal values and morals as drivers of managers' sustainability leadership behaviors, decisions and actions
• Benevolent influence through individual and collective agency in sustainability leadership development

Timeline

• January 9, 2026: Opening date for manuscript submissions
• December 31, 2026: Closing date for manuscript submissions