Calls for papers

 

International Journal of Technology Management

 

ARTEMOCC: OA Special Issue on: "Rethinking Paths on Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability in the Age of Disruption"

Guest Editors:
Dr. Julien Bucher and Prof. Stefan Hüsig, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
Prof. Kamel Mnisri and Prof. Leonhard Gebhardt, ICN Business School, France

We continue to live with poly-crises on a global level: geopolitical conflicts, wars, global warming, terrorism, energy crises, humanitarian crises, health crises, social unrest, and the continued emergence of nationalism. With it, the challenges to more sustainable societies are increasing. The growing complexity of the challenges emerging from the cross-effects of these concurrent pressures demands new paths of creativity, innovation and sustainability-driven mindsets and approaches that transcend disciplinary perspectives. However, while past research demonstrated that creativity and innovation are increasingly required to address sustainability-related challenges and disruptions faced by organisations, local communities, and whole societies (Awan, Sroufe & Kraslawski, 2019; Schulz and Mnisri, 2020; Schulz, Mnisri, Shrivastava and Sroufe, 2021; Huesig & Schulz, 2022), a transdisciplinary approach to these issues seems to have been less privileged.

Against this backdrop, we discussed how creativity and innovation can foster sustainable practices, including the creativity-related mechanisms and tools that can be used to address sustainability pressures; how sustainability-related pressures can trigger creativity and innovative thinking, and the creative responses that can be given to sustainability-driven events. It is not new that disciplinary answers are insufficient to address the aforementioned disruptive wicked problems and grand challenges (e.g. Rittel and Webber, 1973), however transdisciplinarity shall not remain on an academic and conceptual level. New frames must be co-designed to gain multi-perspectives and transdisciplinary views on grand challenges. Hence, academics and non-academic stakeholders have to co-develop new types of knowledge and methods capable of not only addressing what is from an analytical perspective, but also developing conceptual solutions that can eventually be concretized, implemented and diffused across the social systems (Guimaraes-Costa, 2022).

The Guest Editors will be inviting substantially extended versions of selected papers presented at the 6th ARTEM Organizational Creativity and Sustainability International Conference (ARTEMOCC), for review and potential publication, but are also inviting other experts to submit articles for this call.

Subject Coverage
Suitable topics include, but are not limited, to the following:

• Prescriptive theorising for addressing grand challenges
• Aesthetics, ethics and design science for sustainability
• Art, creativity and innovation for sustainability
• Advocacy and policymaking for sustainable transformation
• Role of education in promoting sustainability
• Implementation and diffusion of a sustainable future
• Understanding the age of disruption
• Cultural integrated landscape management for sustainability
• North-South dialogues on creativity and innovation for sustainability
• Impact, social and sustainable entrepreneurship
• Understanding and fostering imagination and ideology for desirable futures and sustainability-oriented innovation
• Integration of AI technologies in the creative process
• Digital transformation and sustainability

Notes for Prospective Authors

Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. (N.B. Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written and if appropriate written permissions have been obtained from any copyright holders of the original paper).

All papers are refereed through a peer review process.

All papers must be submitted online. To submit a paper, please read our Submitting articles page.

This is an Open Access Special Issue. There is an article processing charge of EUR€2000 per paper to publish in this Special Issue for authors. You can find more information on Open Access here.

Important Dates

Manuscripts due by: 31 August, 2025

Notification to authors: 30 November, 2025

Final versions due by: 31 May, 2026