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#SpecialIssue on #AI that I coordinated, just been published in International Review of Economic Policy
5 articles:
🔹 Social impact & public governance
🔹 Green-digital transitions
🔹 Employment
🔹 Rural AI
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#SpecialIssue on #AI that I coordinated, just been published in International Review of Economic Policy
5 articles:
🔹 Social impact & public governance
🔹 Green-digital transitions
🔹 Employment
🔹 Rural AI
🔹 Smart mobility -
Yesterday we wrapped up @xpub’s Special Issue 29, Gossiping at the Intersection of Crafts and Resistances, stewarded by the one and only @doriane.
It was so good. It unlocked many incredibly enlightening thoughts, all classes were intense and most times we had super cool guests.
@barbs, @youjungnoh, and I hosted Our Digital Home a workshop unveiling the materiality of the cloud using the metaphor of a home. We hosted it in my living room ihihih 🛋️
Here is a very representative inception picture of us collectively reflecting on our work (credits to @semilanceata). Damn, I love our team dynamics, we were a bit chaotic (no thanks to me) but we had fun, and I am very proud of what we brought together 🌻
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Yesterday we wrapped up @xpub’s Special Issue 29, Gossiping at the Intersection of Crafts and Resistances, stewarded by the one and only @doriane.
It was so good. It unlocked many incredibly enlightening thoughts, all classes were intense and most times we had super cool guests.
@barbs, @youjungnoh, and I hosted Our Digital Home a workshop unveiling the materiality of the cloud using the metaphor of a home. We hosted it in my living room ihihih 🛋️
Here is a very representative inception picture of us collectively reflecting on our work (credits to @semilanceata). Damn, I love our team dynamics, we were a bit chaotic (no thanks to me) but we had fun, and I am very proud of what we brought together 🌻
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Uno #specialissue di #AltreModernità che analizza l'eredità del Contemporary #CulturalStudies di Birmingham attraverso tre interviste ad Angela McRobbie, Lynne Segal e Iain Chambers.
E ancora: il linguaggio come pratica sociale alle rappresentazioni di classe, il colonialismo in #HeartOfDarkness e l’#otherness in #HanifKureishi, l'identità #queer nella poetica di Kae Tempest, la genealogia della #FashionTheory, e molto altro...⬇️ In #openaccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/issue/view/2776?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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Uno #specialissue di #AltreModernità che analizza l'eredità del Contemporary #CulturalStudies di Birmingham attraverso tre interviste ad Angela McRobbie, Lynne Segal e Iain Chambers.
E ancora: il linguaggio come pratica sociale alle rappresentazioni di classe, il colonialismo in #HeartOfDarkness e l’#otherness in #HanifKureishi, l'identità #queer nella poetica di Kae Tempest, la genealogia della #FashionTheory, e molto altro...⬇️ In #openaccess qui: https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/issue/view/2776?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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New blogpost: Leonardo Electronic Almanac special issue on ‘Urban Interfaces’ restored https://www.bijt.org/wordpress/2026/03/10/leonardo-electronic-almanac-special-issue-on-urban-interfaces-restored/ #LeonardoElectronicAlmanac #SpecialIssue #[urbanInterfaces]
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New blogpost: Leonardo Electronic Almanac special issue on ‘Urban Interfaces’ restored https://www.bijt.org/wordpress/2026/03/10/leonardo-electronic-almanac-special-issue-on-urban-interfaces-restored/ #LeonardoElectronicAlmanac #SpecialIssue #[urbanInterfaces]
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#Forthcoming #SpecialIssue on #AI & #Economic #Policy in the International Review of Economic Policy, commissioned by me as #Editor.
AI is not merely technological—it is an economic policy domain.
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#Forthcoming #SpecialIssue on #AI & #Economic #Policy in the International Review of Economic Policy, commissioned by me as #Editor.
AI is not merely technological—it is an economic policy domain.
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Yet another day at the @xpub studio
with @youjungnoh, who loves to be swept away by my overwhelming energy
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Yet another day at the @xpub studio
with @youjungnoh, who loves to be swept away by my overwhelming energy
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Last Wednesday, my fellow XPUB1 classmates and me wrapped up the trimester with a collective folding, binding, and paginating party to make A_Mazing Machine[s]: Wordscapes to Liberate Language, the printed publication of our Special Issue 28!
My first few months at @xpub have been incredible. I am so proud of my classmates, the work we did together, and what we learned. I am also very grateful to our tutors, who have been super kind and inspiring!
All information, plus a PDF of the printed version, made with WeasyPrint is available on this Eleventy website we created to share all the things that we explored. It mirrors our incredible, legendary wiki. It was very interesting and insightful, so I published my notes about Using MediaWiki as a CMS for Eleventy.
#WeasyPrint #WebToPrint #Web2print #SI28 #SpecialIssue28 #SpecialIssue #XPUB #ExperimentalPublishing #publishing #WritingMachines #Eleventy #builtWithEleventy #11ty #MediaWiki #wiki
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Last Wednesday, my fellow XPUB1 classmates and me wrapped up the trimester with a collective folding, binding, and paginating party to make A_Mazing Machine[s]: Wordscapes to Liberate Language, the printed publication of our Special Issue 28!
My first few months at @xpub have been incredible. I am so proud of my classmates, the work we did together, and what we learned. I am also very grateful to our tutors, who have been super kind and inspiring!
All information, plus a PDF of the printed version, made with WeasyPrint is available on this Eleventy website we created to share all the things that we explored. It mirrors our incredible, legendary wiki. It was very interesting and insightful, so I published my notes about Using MediaWiki as a CMS for Eleventy.
#WeasyPrint #WebToPrint #Web2print #SI28 #SpecialIssue28 #SpecialIssue #XPUB #ExperimentalPublishing #publishing #WritingMachines #Eleventy #builtWithEleventy #11ty #MediaWiki #wiki
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Disease Models & Mechanism's new special issue on infectious diseases is now closed!
On the cover: 3D-volume render of tuberculosis granulomas in mice infected with E2Crimson-expressing Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Granuloma boundary in turquoise and infecting bacteria in red.
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Disease Models & Mechanism's new special issue on infectious diseases is now closed!
On the cover: 3D-volume render of tuberculosis granulomas in mice infected with E2Crimson-expressing Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Granuloma boundary in turquoise and infecting bacteria in red.
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Citation:
Calzada, I. (2025). Generative AI and the Urban AI Policy Challenges Ahead: Trustworthy for Whom? Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy. Accepted 12 Oct 2025. DOI: 10.1108/TG-08-2025-0240
#OpenAccess #OpenScienceThis editorial introduction forms part of the #SpecialIssue on Generative & Urban AI Policy Challenges — still open for submissions until 31 December 2025.
Submit here 👉 https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/generative-ai-and-urban-ai-policy-challenges-ahead-trustworthy-ai-whom
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Citation:
Calzada, I. (2025). Generative AI and the Urban AI Policy Challenges Ahead: Trustworthy for Whom? Transforming Government: People, Process and Policy. Accepted 12 Oct 2025. DOI: 10.1108/TG-08-2025-0240
#OpenAccess #OpenScienceThis editorial introduction forms part of the #SpecialIssue on Generative & Urban AI Policy Challenges — still open for submissions until 31 December 2025.
Submit here 👉 https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/generative-ai-and-urban-ai-policy-challenges-ahead-trustworthy-ai-whom
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📢 Call for Papers! Submit to our Special Issue on #DataCentre Urbanism Deadline for abstracts: 30.11.2025 Notification of acceptance: 15.12.2025 Deadline for full contribution: 15.06.2026 Details: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #CallForPapers #SpecialIssue
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How to (en)code #care in a careless world? I am very proud to be able to present our Special Issue "Refusal and the Computational City - From (De)Coding the Machine to (En)Coding Care", co-edited with the wonderful @NiloufarVadiati, and published with Digital Geography and Society!
From tracing fibre optic cables to critically #mapping #platforms, it is a wonderful collection filled with fierce and collaborative #refusal practices, strategies, and collectives against #bigtech. If you're looking for some hope in these dark times, all the articles are shining a light on and celebrating forms of (digital) care and collectivity!
Please share widely!!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/1002PJ5FCBT
#digitalgeography #unplugtrump #geography #SpecialIssue #urbanism
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How to (en)code #care in a careless world? I am very proud to be able to present our Special Issue "Refusal and the Computational City - From (De)Coding the Machine to (En)Coding Care", co-edited with the wonderful @NiloufarVadiati, and published with Digital Geography and Society!
From tracing fibre optic cables to critically #mapping #platforms, it is a wonderful collection filled with fierce and collaborative #refusal practices, strategies, and collectives against #bigtech. If you're looking for some hope in these dark times, all the articles are shining a light on and celebrating forms of (digital) care and collectivity!
Please share widely!!
https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/1002PJ5FCBT
#digitalgeography #unplugtrump #geography #SpecialIssue #urbanism
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🌱Annals of #Botany invites submissions to the new Special Issue "Exploring seed development, structure and physiology", edited by AoB editors Gabriela Auge and Chunhui Zhang
This call for papers is associated with a concurrent session at the International Conference on #Arabidopsis Research 2025 and the 4th Argentinian Meeting in #SeedBiology
#seeds #plantscience #specialissue
@gabyplantbio.bsky.social
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Call for Papers: Special Issue in Business & Society on »Collective actorhood and organizationality: Recalibrating responsibility in business-society relations«
Ten years after Dennis Schoeneborn and I had introduced the idea of ‘organizationality’ to conceptualize organization as a matter of degree in our joint article “Fluidity, Identity and Organizationality”, we have teamed up with Héloïse Berkowitz, Frank de Bakker and Consuelo Vásquez for a special issue on “Collective actorhood and organizationality: Recalibrating responsibility in business-society relations” to be published in Business & Society. We will be supported in the editorial work by consulting editor Devi Vijay as well as Business & Society editor Colin Higgins. Deadline for submissions is September 30, 2026. Please check out the full call for papers below:
Background and context
Over the past decades, the relations between business and society have fundamentally changed. According to Mulgan (2019), we are entering an age of “digital futures” (e.g., AI taking over more and more human tasks at rapid speed) as well as “broken futures” (e.g., accelerating dynamics of climate change), in which the survival of humankind will depend on our ability to organize in collective ways and imagine alternatives to tackle such complex social problems, amidst growing inequalities and ecological destruction on a planetary scale (see also Ferraro et al., 2015; Mercier-Roy & Mailhot, 2024; Varman & Vijay, 2022; Whyte, 2020). Collective actorhood, defined as the capacity of a social group to act on a supra-individual level and to become considered as an agent in its own right (List & Pettit, 2011; Knight, 2022), in turn, has been argued to be the main criterion that distinguishes organizations from other social phenomena (King et al., 2010). However, the current ‘crisis of civilization’ (Escobar, 2021), i.e. a crisis of climate, energy, poverty, inequality, food, and meaning, can only be addressed if we consider that collective actorhood often requires to reach beyond the boundaries of single organizations and involve a much broader spectrum of organizational phenomena. Examples like cross-sector partnerships (Koschmann et al., 2012), meta-organizations (i.e. organizations that have other organizations as their members; Ahrne & Brunsson, 2008), or open organizing phenomena that resemble social movements (Dobusch & Schoeneborn, 2015; Puranam et al., 2014) all tend to have in common that their status as collective actor is far less clear-cut or that collective agency may be accomplished in different ways.
In this Special Issue, we thus call for research that reconsiders the business-society relationship by giving up the clear-cut separation between “the” organization as a distinct entity and society that surrounds it. Instead, we invite scholarship that explores the dynamics of collective actorhood of a much wider spectrum of organizational phenomena, how they shape and are shaped by social and ecological transformations, and whether and how these dynamics address or reinforce complex social problems (Ferraro et al., 2015; Gümüsay et al., 2022; Berkowitz et al., 2024; Mercier-Roy & Mailhot, 2024; Wenzel et al., 2025).
For studying such recalibrations of business-society relations, organization and management scholarship lately has started to draw on gradual understandings of organization. Prominent examples of this view are the notions of partial organization (Ahrne & Brunsson, 2011; 2019) or organizationality (Dobusch & Schoeneborn, 2015; Schoeneborn et al., 2019). With the concept of partial organization, Ahrne and Brunsson (2011) have widened the spectrum of social phenomena that can be considered organizational, incl. those that abstain from using typical elements of organization (such as hierarchy or membership). Similarly, with the notion of organizationality, Dobusch and Schoeneborn (2015) have suggested conceiving organization as a matter of degree. As the authors demonstrate based on an analysis of the hacktivist network Anonymous, even loose and fluid social collectives can situationally mobilize features of a quasi-organization. Taken together, gradual theories of organization (Ahrne & Brunsson, 2011; Dobusch & Schoeneborn, 2015; Biancani et al., 2014; Wilhoit & Kisselburgh, 2015) hold much promise for rethinking collective actorhood beyond the boundaries of formal organizations. In a similar vein), indigenous, feminist, and decolonial approaches further invite us to question the Global North’s conceptualizations of organizations (Cruz & Sodeke, 2022; Rosiek et al., 2020) and to consider also how organizing happens at the margins (Pal et al., 2023). As Cruz and Sodeke (2022) have pointed out, thus far most of the research on organizationality tends to take the starting point in situations of privilege where actors deliberately choose to organize themselves in loose and fluid ways. Adopting such alternative ontologies (Daher, 2024) invite to better account for situations in which marginalized actors are forced into fluid and precarious ways of organizing.
If we relate such gradual understandings of organization to matters of collective actorhood, we can observe that actorhood can vary by degree, as well (Knight, 2022). On the one hand, research has shown that corporations increasingly portray themselves as collective actors in their own right (Bromley & Sharkey, 2017; Halgin et al., 2018). They do so, for instance, by positioning themselves as “corporate citizens” (Matten & Crane, 2005), thus strongly emphasizing their responsibility as collective actors vis-à-vis society. However, the question arises whether trends of an over-organization of the business-society relations fosters or rather dilutes the responsibility of the collective actors involved (Berkowitz et al., 2022; Brunsson et al., 2022; Jungmann, 2024; Whyte, 2020). On the other hand, we see trends of less pronounced collective actorhood. For instance, digital platform organizations (such as Meta/Facebook, Twitter/X, etc.) have been shown to strategically downplay their status as collective actors to diminish their collective responsibility for the (malicious) content that is shared on their platforms (Vergne & Wry, 2014), while profiteering from such sharing, at the same time. Furthermore, while attempts are being made to recognize ecocide as an international crime (see Minkova, 2023), multinational corporations strategize to escape actorhood and avoid taking responsibility for the destruction of people and nature (Baldi et al., 2024; Whyte, 2020).
In this Special Issue, we invite scholarship to further explore both these empirical trends and the new theoretical approaches that shed a different light on the changing relations between business and society with regard to more or less pronounced forms of collective actorhood. As part of this, we are interested in strategic as well as emergent processes that allow for different degrees of collective actorhood over time and the respective implications for business-society relations. We also encourage critical reflections on the very notion of collective actorhood, along with alternative conceptualizations that may deepen our understanding of how organizations can be made more responsive and accountable in the face of contemporary societal crises. We invite conceptual and empirical inquiries into the dynamics of collective actorhood from a broad variety of theoretical perspectives, including gradual understandings of organization, as well as a broad set of methodological approaches.
Potential themes
The nature of collective actorhood
- How is collective actorhood performed and organized?
- Is a legal status/legal person needed to accomplish collective actorhood?
- Why and how do actors strategically downplay or amplify collective actorhood? How doe these strategic efforts affect responsibility attributions?
- What are the implications and limitations of collective actorhood for reenvisioning the business-society relationship and offer alternative solutions in crises of civilization?
Dynamics over different contexts, space and time
- Where and how does actorhood emerge? How do institutional contexts affect actorhood? How does actorhood evolve over time or space, and how do organizations transition between different degrees of organizationality?
- Can social collectives be perpetuated and maintained even with a low degree of organizationality – or do they feel pressures either to be dissolved or evolve toward higher degrees of organizationality eventually? How does that affect relations with society?
- How to explain asymmetric dynamics between the organized (e.g., established formal organizations; high degree of organizationality) and the (rather) unorganized as their counterparts (e.g., social media firestorm; low degree of organizationality)?
- What can we learn from alternative forms of organizing, including those in marginalized settings?
- How is collective actorhood conceptualized in the various geographies, including the Global South? How does this translate, circulate, and adapt across geographies?
- What are the contributions of other collective notions stemming from indigenous cosmovisions and decolonial approaches?
Symmetries and asymmetries in relations between different spheres/domains of society
- How does actorhood affect the interactions between organizations from different domains (for profit and non-profit, scientific organizations, public actors, etc.)?
- When does collective actorhood create relations of domination and exploitation? At what point does collective actorhood become constitutive of societal problems and crises (incl. fascism, techno-feudalism, etc.) – rather than a solution for addressing them?
- How does actorhood (or the lack of) affect the relationship between privileged and marginal communities?
- Can living (forests, rivers, soils) and non-living (algorithms, technologies) entities be attributed actorhood and be held accountable? How does it differ from ‘human’ organizing? How can alternative ontologies (e.g., Daher, 2024) help inform this analysis?
Collective actorhood and organizationality
- How can a gradual understanding of organization help us to understand variations in the degree of organizational actorhood and responsibility attributions in the relations between businesses and society?
- What are the parameters of organizationality required for a responsible collective actorhood? How can alternative ontologies, cosmovisions, and organizing experiences inform this critical reflection?
- How to better account for situations in which marginalized actors are forced into fluid and precarious ways of organizing and/or have no choice to lessen the degree of organizationality to cope or survive?
Submission process
Submissions must fit with the aim and scope of Business & Society. To understand the fit with the journal’s scope, vision and expectations related to rigor and contribution, we strongly encourage authors to refer to editorial insights published in Business & Society. All manuscripts must be uploaded via the journal’s online submission system between August 1 and September 30, 2026. Please specify in the cover letter that the manuscript is for the special issue on “Collective actorhood and organizationality”. All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by multiple reviewers. Interested scholars are welcome to contact the corresponding guest editor, Dennis Schoeneborn ([email protected]).
#BusinessSociety #CallForPapers #CfP #collectiveActorhood #gradualUnderstandingOfOrganization #organizationality #SpecialIssue
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on »Creativity and copyright in the shadow of GenAI«
Call for Papers for a Special Issue in Innovation: Organization & ManagementKonstantin Hondros (HSU Hamburg), Astrid Mager (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Patricia Aufderheide (American University Washington), Patrick Cohedent (HEC Montréal) and myself are happy to announce a Call for Paper for a special issue on “Creativity and copyright in the shadow of GenAI: Managing and organizing creative content in the digitalization frenzy” to be published in “Innovation: Organization & Management”. Deadline for submission of full papers is September 30, 2026. Please do not hesitate to contact me or one of the other editors to discuss paper ideas.
In addition, we are planning an online paper development workshop to provide feedback on early-stage submissions on February 27, 2026. We encourage potential authors to submit an abstract of approximately 1,000 words describing their planned contribution, empirical material, and methodological approach (if applicable) by January 25, 2026, to [email protected]. Participation in the workshop is optional, and authors who do not attend are welcome to submit papers to the Special Issue.
Please find the full Call for Papers below:
Creativity refers to the generation of novel and valuable ideas and artifacts (Amabile, 1983) and is central to the management and organization of innovation (Caniëls & Rietzschel, 2015; Anderson, Potočnik, & Zhou, 2014). Mimicking creativity, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology rapidly generates potentially novel and valuable content such as text, images, music, or video. The multiple implications of GenAI for the management and organization of creativity and innovation (Amabile, 2020) are exemplified in the burgeoning literature on creative problem solving (Boussioux et al., 2024), the organization of creative and knowledge-based work (Bechky & Davies, 2024; Sultana et al., 2023), employee creativity (Jia et al., 2024), or human-nonhuman interaction in creative processes (Grodal et al., 2024).
Running through organizational discussions of GenAI and creativity, but often not made explicit, are copyright issues, such as rights management of training data or ownership of generated content. Copyright refers to the legal framework that protects but also delineates ownership of creative content (Carruthers & Ariovich, 2004; Lennartz & Kraetzig, 2024). GenAI, and digitization more broadly, is moving copyright from the legal niches of the creative industries to the center of practices and routines in organizations and everyday digital life (Aufderheide & Jaszi, 2018; Greenstein, Lerner, Scott, 2013), for example in GenAI-enabled fan remixing (Galuszka, 2024). Any activity related to GenAI, any text generated by ChatGPT, any image generated by Midjourney, requires the management of copyright within and across organizations. Yet an in-depth discussion of the interrelation between creativity and copyright in the context of GenAI is missing from management and organization studies, as well as social science at large.
This Call for Papers suggests that the accelerating developments of digitization and GenAI call for more attention to the interrelation between creativity and copyright in organizations. At the same time, this provides a unique opportunity to study how organizations deal with regulatory uncertainty due to rapid technological developments (Dobusch et al., 2021), as GenAI-based technologies and markets emerge and change much faster than any regulatory framework could possibly do. Such a mismatch between technology and regulation opens up all kinds of opportunities and challenges for creative organizing and organizing creativity alike (Jiang et al., 2023).
For this reason, we particularly encourage studies that use empirical methods to explore everyday practices of dealing with GenAI and copyright within and beyond organizational contexts, but also conceptual submissions are very welcome. Empirically, we invite contributions from all kinds of fields potentially affected by GenAI and its relationship to copyright – from the creative industries and journalism to online platforms and services, to research and science itself. We welcome contributions from different disciplines interested in the empirical analysis of technology and innovation – ranging from organization and management studies, media and communication studies, cultural studies, information studies, sociology, political science, history, science and technology studies, musicology, to activist research and practice-based approaches.
We are open to a broad range of research questions that link to the Special Issue’s topic of creativity and copyright in the context of GenAI. At the same time, we have identified several research areas and related questions that are of interest for the proposed Special Issue.
- Creativity in the shadow of GenAI: GenAI crucially transforms creative practices and knowledge production that we only start to understand, particularly regarding the interrelation between creativity and copyright. How does GenAI affect the creation and management of creative content? How do creative, artistic practices change through the use of GenAI? What role does copyright play in creative transformations and organizational changes co-produced with GenAI?
- Doing copyright: A practice lens of ‘living copyright’ is missing in much of the organization and management literature in the context of creativity, but also in other contexts and fields. How does GenAI foster practices related to copyright within and across organizations? Who are the actors and actants doing copyright in the context of GenAI? How are these new practices shaping the organization of creativity? How is emerging regulation of GenAI affecting organizations and organizational creativity?
- Conflicts over copyright: Organizations are involved in many conflicts over copyright that touch upon creativity in multiple ways, but we know little about them. How do conflicts over copyright foster or impede with creativity and the generation of creative content? What is the role of digitization in these conflicts, and how are these conflicts evolving with GenAI? How do these conflicts affect creativity in organizations? How do conflicts over copyright and AI relate to managing technological innovation?
- Inequality and copyright: Copyright plays an important role in distributing access to creative content and to knowledge in global economies more broadly. How does GenAI affect access to knowledge within and across organizations? Who actually owns copyright and how does GenAI influence ownership structures? What are the conventions and managerial practices for allocating copyright among actors and agents in organizations? What are the consequences of copyright inequality for creativity?
- Alternatives to copyright: Commons-based creation and knowledge-sharing approaches have proven invaluable for creativity in many organizations, especially in the context of digitization. What are the alternatives to exclusive copyright regimes in the context of GenAI? How do alternatives to copyright provide counter-imaginaries in digital environments? How do such approaches challenge or facilitate the management and organization of creativity in the context of GenAI?
- Researching copyright: Copyright is ubiquitous, yet highly abstract and complex, both in its legal structure and in its real-world impact on creativity. Making copyright-sensitive creativity and innovation research more accessible to the discourses of management and organization is also a methodological issue. What are methodologically promising ways to investigate the interrelation between copyright and creativity in organization and management? What are the specific obstacles in the context of GenAI?
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide fundamental insights in the management and organization of the interrelation between copyright and creativity in the context of GenAI. We will achieve this by showcasing how this interrelation unfolds in various creative and innovative arenas, such as creative industries, journalism, digital platforms, and (open) science. We expect contributions to make copyright a more accessible research topic across disciplines and contexts by fostering an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary community around the topic of copyright and creativity in organization and management. Through this special issue, we aim to occupy a central position in the discourse about organizing and managing creativity in the context of GenAI and emerging digitalization.
References
Amabile, T. M. (2020). Creativity, artificial intelligence, and a world of surprises. Academy of Management Discoveries, 6(3), 351-354.
Amabile, T. M. (1983). The social psychology of creativity: A componential conceptualization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45(2), 357-376.
Anderson, N., Potočnik, K., & Zhou, J. (2014). Innovation and creativity in organizations: A state-of-the-science review, prospective commentary, and guiding framework. Journal of Management, 40(5), 1297–1333.
Aufderheide, P., & Jaszi, P. (2018). Reclaiming fair use: How to put balance back in copyright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bechky, B. A., & Davis, G. F. (2024). Resisting the Algorithmic Management of Science: Craft and Community After Generative AI. Administrative Science Quarterly, 00018392241304403.
Boussioux, L., Lane, J. N., Zhang, M., Jacimovic, V., & Lakhani, K. R. (2024). The crowdless future? Generative AI and creative problem-solving. Organization Science, 35(5), 1589–1607.
Caniëls, M. C. J., & Rietzschel, E. F. (2015). Organizing creativity: Creativity and innovation under constraints. Creativity and Innovation Management, 24(2), 184-196.
Carruthers, B. G., & Ariovich, L. (2004). The sociology of property rights. Annual Review of Sociology, 30, 23-46.
Dobusch, L., & Heimstädt, M. (2024). The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 50(1), 216-238.
Dobusch, L., Hondros, K., Quack, S., & Zangerle, K. (2021). Between anxiety and hope? How actors experience regulatory uncertainty in creative processes in music and pharma. Research in the Sociology of Organization, 75, 137-160.
Fagerjord, A. (2009). After convergence: YouTube and remix culture. In: Hunsinger, J., Klastrup, L., & Allen, M. (Eds.), International Handbook of Internet Research. Springer: Dordrecht, 187-200.
Fisher III, W. W., & Oberholzer-Gee, F. (2013). Strategic management of intellectual property: an integrated approach. California Management Review, 55(4), 157-183.
Galuszka, P. (2024). The influence of generative AI on popular music: Fan productions and the reimagination of iconic voices. Media, Culture & Society, 01634437241282382.
Greenstein, S., Lerner, J., & Stern, S. (2013). Digitization, innovation, and copyright: What is the agenda? Strategic Organization, 11(1), 110-121.
Grodal, S., Ha, J., Hood, E., & Rajunov, M. (2024). Between Humans and Machines: The social construction of the generative AI category. Organization Theory, 5(3), 26317877241275125.
Jia, N., Luo, X., Fang, Z., & Liao, C. (2024). When and how artificial intelligence augments employee creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 67(1), 5–32.
Jiang, H. H., Brown, L., Cheng, J., Khan, M., Gupta, A., Workman, D., . . . Gebru, T. (2023). AI Art and its Impact on Artists. Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, Montreal, QC, Canada. https://doi.org/10.1145/3600211.3604681.
Lennartz, J., & Kraetzig, V. (2024). Forbidden Fruits? Artistic Creation in the AI Copyright War. IIC-International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 1-5.
Sultana, N., Turkina, E., & Cohendet, P. (2023). The mechanisms underlying the emergence of innovation ecosystems: The case of the AI ecosystem in Montreal. European Planning Studies, 31(7), 1443–1465.
#CfP #copyright #GenAI #InnovationOrganizationManagement #IOM #SpecialIssue
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Call for Papers: Special Issue on »Creativity and copyright in the shadow of GenAI«
Call for Papers for a Special Issue in Innovation: Organization & ManagementKonstantin Hondros (HSU Hamburg), Astrid Mager (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Patricia Aufderheide (American University Washington), Patrick Cohedent (HEC Montréal) and myself are happy to announce a Call for Paper for a special issue on “Creativity and copyright in the shadow of GenAI: Managing and organizing creative content in the digitalization frenzy” to be published in “Innovation: Organization & Management”. Deadline for submission of full papers is September 30, 2026. Please do not hesitate to contact me or one of the other editors to discuss paper ideas.
In addition, we are planning an online paper development workshop to provide feedback on early-stage submissions on February 27, 2026. We encourage potential authors to submit an abstract of approximately 1,000 words describing their planned contribution, empirical material, and methodological approach (if applicable) by January 25, 2026, to [email protected]. Participation in the workshop is optional, and authors who do not attend are welcome to submit papers to the Special Issue.
Please find the full Call for Papers below:
Creativity refers to the generation of novel and valuable ideas and artifacts (Amabile, 1983) and is central to the management and organization of innovation (Caniëls & Rietzschel, 2015; Anderson, Potočnik, & Zhou, 2014). Mimicking creativity, generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) technology rapidly generates potentially novel and valuable content such as text, images, music, or video. The multiple implications of GenAI for the management and organization of creativity and innovation (Amabile, 2020) are exemplified in the burgeoning literature on creative problem solving (Boussioux et al., 2024), the organization of creative and knowledge-based work (Bechky & Davies, 2024; Sultana et al., 2023), employee creativity (Jia et al., 2024), or human-nonhuman interaction in creative processes (Grodal et al., 2024).
Running through organizational discussions of GenAI and creativity, but often not made explicit, are copyright issues, such as rights management of training data or ownership of generated content. Copyright refers to the legal framework that protects but also delineates ownership of creative content (Carruthers & Ariovich, 2004; Lennartz & Kraetzig, 2024). GenAI, and digitization more broadly, is moving copyright from the legal niches of the creative industries to the center of practices and routines in organizations and everyday digital life (Aufderheide & Jaszi, 2018; Greenstein, Lerner, Scott, 2013), for example in GenAI-enabled fan remixing (Galuszka, 2024). Any activity related to GenAI, any text generated by ChatGPT, any image generated by Midjourney, requires the management of copyright within and across organizations. Yet an in-depth discussion of the interrelation between creativity and copyright in the context of GenAI is missing from management and organization studies, as well as social science at large.
This Call for Papers suggests that the accelerating developments of digitization and GenAI call for more attention to the interrelation between creativity and copyright in organizations. At the same time, this provides a unique opportunity to study how organizations deal with regulatory uncertainty due to rapid technological developments (Dobusch et al., 2021), as GenAI-based technologies and markets emerge and change much faster than any regulatory framework could possibly do. Such a mismatch between technology and regulation opens up all kinds of opportunities and challenges for creative organizing and organizing creativity alike (Jiang et al., 2023).
For this reason, we particularly encourage studies that use empirical methods to explore everyday practices of dealing with GenAI and copyright within and beyond organizational contexts, but also conceptual submissions are very welcome. Empirically, we invite contributions from all kinds of fields potentially affected by GenAI and its relationship to copyright – from the creative industries and journalism to online platforms and services, to research and science itself. We welcome contributions from different disciplines interested in the empirical analysis of technology and innovation – ranging from organization and management studies, media and communication studies, cultural studies, information studies, sociology, political science, history, science and technology studies, musicology, to activist research and practice-based approaches.
We are open to a broad range of research questions that link to the Special Issue’s topic of creativity and copyright in the context of GenAI. At the same time, we have identified several research areas and related questions that are of interest for the proposed Special Issue.
- Creativity in the shadow of GenAI: GenAI crucially transforms creative practices and knowledge production that we only start to understand, particularly regarding the interrelation between creativity and copyright. How does GenAI affect the creation and management of creative content? How do creative, artistic practices change through the use of GenAI? What role does copyright play in creative transformations and organizational changes co-produced with GenAI?
- Doing copyright: A practice lens of ‘living copyright’ is missing in much of the organization and management literature in the context of creativity, but also in other contexts and fields. How does GenAI foster practices related to copyright within and across organizations? Who are the actors and actants doing copyright in the context of GenAI? How are these new practices shaping the organization of creativity? How is emerging regulation of GenAI affecting organizations and organizational creativity?
- Conflicts over copyright: Organizations are involved in many conflicts over copyright that touch upon creativity in multiple ways, but we know little about them. How do conflicts over copyright foster or impede with creativity and the generation of creative content? What is the role of digitization in these conflicts, and how are these conflicts evolving with GenAI? How do these conflicts affect creativity in organizations? How do conflicts over copyright and AI relate to managing technological innovation?
- Inequality and copyright: Copyright plays an important role in distributing access to creative content and to knowledge in global economies more broadly. How does GenAI affect access to knowledge within and across organizations? Who actually owns copyright and how does GenAI influence ownership structures? What are the conventions and managerial practices for allocating copyright among actors and agents in organizations? What are the consequences of copyright inequality for creativity?
- Alternatives to copyright: Commons-based creation and knowledge-sharing approaches have proven invaluable for creativity in many organizations, especially in the context of digitization. What are the alternatives to exclusive copyright regimes in the context of GenAI? How do alternatives to copyright provide counter-imaginaries in digital environments? How do such approaches challenge or facilitate the management and organization of creativity in the context of GenAI?
- Researching copyright: Copyright is ubiquitous, yet highly abstract and complex, both in its legal structure and in its real-world impact on creativity. Making copyright-sensitive creativity and innovation research more accessible to the discourses of management and organization is also a methodological issue. What are methodologically promising ways to investigate the interrelation between copyright and creativity in organization and management? What are the specific obstacles in the context of GenAI?
The aim of this Special Issue is to provide fundamental insights in the management and organization of the interrelation between copyright and creativity in the context of GenAI. We will achieve this by showcasing how this interrelation unfolds in various creative and innovative arenas, such as creative industries, journalism, digital platforms, and (open) science. We expect contributions to make copyright a more accessible research topic across disciplines and contexts by fostering an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary community around the topic of copyright and creativity in organization and management. Through this special issue, we aim to occupy a central position in the discourse about organizing and managing creativity in the context of GenAI and emerging digitalization.
References
Amabile, T. M. (2020). Creativity, artificial intelligence, and a world of surprises. Academy of Management Discoveries, 6(3), 351-354.
Amabile, T. M. (1983). The social psychology of creativity: A componential conceptualization. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 45(2), 357-376.
Anderson, N., Potočnik, K., & Zhou, J. (2014). Innovation and creativity in organizations: A state-of-the-science review, prospective commentary, and guiding framework. Journal of Management, 40(5), 1297–1333.
Aufderheide, P., & Jaszi, P. (2018). Reclaiming fair use: How to put balance back in copyright. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Bechky, B. A., & Davis, G. F. (2024). Resisting the Algorithmic Management of Science: Craft and Community After Generative AI. Administrative Science Quarterly, 00018392241304403.
Boussioux, L., Lane, J. N., Zhang, M., Jacimovic, V., & Lakhani, K. R. (2024). The crowdless future? Generative AI and creative problem-solving. Organization Science, 35(5), 1589–1607.
Caniëls, M. C. J., & Rietzschel, E. F. (2015). Organizing creativity: Creativity and innovation under constraints. Creativity and Innovation Management, 24(2), 184-196.
Carruthers, B. G., & Ariovich, L. (2004). The sociology of property rights. Annual Review of Sociology, 30, 23-46.
Dobusch, L., & Heimstädt, M. (2024). The structural transformation of the scientific public sphere: Constitution and consequences of the path towards open access. Philosophy & Social Criticism, 50(1), 216-238.
Dobusch, L., Hondros, K., Quack, S., & Zangerle, K. (2021). Between anxiety and hope? How actors experience regulatory uncertainty in creative processes in music and pharma. Research in the Sociology of Organization, 75, 137-160.
Fagerjord, A. (2009). After convergence: YouTube and remix culture. In: Hunsinger, J., Klastrup, L., & Allen, M. (Eds.), International Handbook of Internet Research. Springer: Dordrecht, 187-200.
Fisher III, W. W., & Oberholzer-Gee, F. (2013). Strategic management of intellectual property: an integrated approach. California Management Review, 55(4), 157-183.
Galuszka, P. (2024). The influence of generative AI on popular music: Fan productions and the reimagination of iconic voices. Media, Culture & Society, 01634437241282382.
Greenstein, S., Lerner, J., & Stern, S. (2013). Digitization, innovation, and copyright: What is the agenda? Strategic Organization, 11(1), 110-121.
Grodal, S., Ha, J., Hood, E., & Rajunov, M. (2024). Between Humans and Machines: The social construction of the generative AI category. Organization Theory, 5(3), 26317877241275125.
Jia, N., Luo, X., Fang, Z., & Liao, C. (2024). When and how artificial intelligence augments employee creativity. Academy of Management Journal, 67(1), 5–32.
Jiang, H. H., Brown, L., Cheng, J., Khan, M., Gupta, A., Workman, D., . . . Gebru, T. (2023). AI Art and its Impact on Artists. Proceedings of the 2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, Montreal, QC, Canada. https://doi.org/10.1145/3600211.3604681.
Lennartz, J., & Kraetzig, V. (2024). Forbidden Fruits? Artistic Creation in the AI Copyright War. IIC-International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law, 1-5.
Sultana, N., Turkina, E., & Cohendet, P. (2023). The mechanisms underlying the emergence of innovation ecosystems: The case of the AI ecosystem in Montreal. European Planning Studies, 31(7), 1443–1465.
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I was very happy to support my esteemed colleagues Ueli Kramer & Giovanna Esposito editing the #PsychotherapyResearch #SpecialIssue
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Designing #Workshop with #migrant communities in #Gipuzkoa #Government premises. Proud that while other parts of the world kicks pluralism out, taxpayers contribute to #ActionResearch #DigitalInclusion + stakeholders #StayTuned #CfP #SpecialIssue https://link.springer.com/collections/bhgeijbhib
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Designing #Workshop with #migrant communities in #Gipuzkoa #Government premises. Proud that while other parts of the world kicks pluralism out, taxpayers contribute to #ActionResearch #DigitalInclusion + stakeholders #StayTuned #CfP #SpecialIssue https://link.springer.com/collections/bhgeijbhib
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Und schon wieder eine PAIDIA-Sonderausgabe!
Diesmal von unseren Passauer Kolleg:innen Susanne Hartwig und Jakob Kelsch - und zwar mit dem Fokus "Digitale Spiele über Behinderung".
#Gamestudies #SeriousGames #Behinderung #disability #Empathie #sonderausgabe #SpecialIssue
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Und schon wieder eine PAIDIA-Sonderausgabe!
Diesmal von unseren Passauer Kolleg:innen Susanne Hartwig und Jakob Kelsch - und zwar mit dem Fokus "Digitale Spiele über Behinderung".
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Only 6 days left to submit your paper!Join us at the Interdisciplinary Conference: "Creating Spaces for Digital Futures" in Bochum! Exploring how digital spaces are created, shaped & experienced
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Only 6 days left to submit your paper!Join us at the Interdisciplinary Conference: "Creating Spaces for Digital Futures" in Bochum! Exploring how digital spaces are created, shaped & experienced
📅 Oct 9-10, 2025 | 📝 Submit by Feb 15, 2025!🔗 https://www.cais-research.de/creating-spaces-for-digital-futures/✨A #SpecialIssue in the Internet Policy Review will follow our conference in 2026. Outstanding submissions & contributions will be invited for publication!
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📢 #CallforPapers #CfP – #TransformingGovernment #Journal #SpecialIssue:
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🔹Abstract #Submission Deadline:
31 May(300-Word to #Editor [email protected])
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📢 #CallforPapers #CfP – #TransformingGovernment #Journal #SpecialIssue:
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🔹Abstract #Submission Deadline:
31 May(300-Word to #Editor [email protected])
🔹 Full Papers Submission Deadline: 31 July
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📢 #CfP #TGPPP #SpecialIssue 📢
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✍️ #Editor: @[email protected] 🔗 https://lnkd.in/d8McEBppTopics:
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✅ #Web3 #Blockchain #DAOs
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Na, ist die Luft raus? Verständlich, mit fünfzehn Texten ist es auch nicht gerade eine kleine #Sonderausgabe.
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📢 #PVS/#GPSQ Journal invites proposals for a special issue in 2026!
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📢Call for papers for #SpecialIssue "Soil Dynamics and Water Resource Management"
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#SpecialIssue on Barbara Buttenfield! Issue 51-05 has just come out, where we recognize Prof Barbara Buttenfield's 35+ years of contribution to Cartography GIScience, inc. 5 articles co-authored by her former students, collaborators and academics influenced by her work., #GISchat, https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcag20/51/5
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@J_Cell_Sci is still accepting submissions for its 'Cell Biology of Mitochondria' special issue, which will be guest edited by Ana García Sáez and Heidi McBride.
Submission deadline: 1 October.
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⌛️Deadline: 31 October 2024
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