Stefan Seidel, University of Cologne

Nicholas Berente, University of Notre Dame

Hong Guo, Arizona State University

Wonseok Oh, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Digital technologies and artificial intelligence are disrupting established institutional practices and creating significant ethical, regulatory, and policy challenges. Organizations and governments must navigate tensions between addressing risks associated with data privacy, algorithmic bias, and labor displacement while fostering innovation and competitiveness.

The regulatory landscape is rapidly evolving through frameworks like the EU AI Act and GDPR to embed ethical protections. However, digital technologies operate at a pace that traditional regulatory approaches struggle to match, leading to novel mechanisms where technology itself serves as a tool for implementing and monitoring compliance.

This special issue invites sociotechnical and information systems research examining how ethical concerns, regulatory requirements, and policy initiatives interact within organizational and institutional contexts. Studies should employ diverse methodologies to investigate governance practices, regulatory effectiveness, compliance mechanisms, and how emerging technologies address institutional challenges.

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Potential topics

• Technology and AI ethics
• Data ethics
• Technology regulation
• AI regulation
• Data regulation
• Institutional governance
• Risk management
• Digital governance
• Sociotechnical perspectives
• Regulatory design
• Compliance and enforcement
• RegTech and SupTech
• Algorithmic regulation
• Organizational adaptation to regulation
• Data privacy and GDPR
• Responsible AI
• AI governance
• Sustainability and ESG
• Market regulation
• Self-regulation
• Legal technology
• Responsible data governance
• Bias and fairness in AI
• Algorithm accountability
• Labor and deskilling
• Human dignity in AI systems
• Regulatory sandboxes
• Innovation and regulation balance

Timeline

• November 1, 2026: Submissions Open
• November 13, 2026: Submissions Closed

Associate editors

• Alessandro Acquisti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Alexander Benlian, Technical University of Darmstadt
• Min Chen, George Mason University
• Aaron Cheng, The London School of Economics and Political Science
• Ioanna Constantiou, Copenhagen Business School
• John Dong, Nanyang Technological University
• Anna Essén, Stockholm School of Economics
• Haiyang Feng, Tianjin University
• Stefan Feuerriegel, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
• Uri Gal, The University of Sydney
• James Gaskin, Brigham Young University
• Goh Khim Yong, National University of Singapore
• Anand Gopal, Nanyang Technological University
• Brad Greenwood, George Mason University
• Dominik Gutt, RWTH Aachen University
• Ola Henfridsson, University of Miami
• Nina Huang, University of Miami
• Jannis Kallinikos, The London School of Economics and Political Science
• Gerald C Kane, University of Georgia
• Wolf Ketter, University of Cologne
• Cameron Kormylo, University of Notre Dame
• Natalia Levina, New York University
• Zhepeng Li, The University of Hong Kong
• Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University
• Min-Seok Pang, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Hani Safadi, University of Georgia
• Nachiketa Sahoo, Boston University
• Juliana Sutanto, Monash University
• Mari-Klara Stein, TalTech
• Lai Wei, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Yi Yang, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Lior Zalmanson, Tel Aviv University
• Nan Zhang, University of Notre Dame
• Xia Zhao, University of Georgia
• Youngjin Yoo, London School of Economics and Political Science