Submission deadline: September 1, 2023
Read the full call for papers here: Call for papers – Journal of Business Research | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Special issue themes
This special issue invites papers that make empirical, conceptual or theoretical advances on inclusive innovation and research. We are open to receive quantitative and qualitative empirical works of different kinds, conceptual papers, systematic literature reviews, but also papers that review or put forward appropriate research methods to study inclusive innovation and research.
The special issue call is open to contributions about the inclusion of marginalized (groups of) researchers in academia or in R&D and innovation, as well as the inclusion of marginalized (groups of) subjects (i.e. users, consumers, patients) in academic research or in R&D innovation processes. More precisely we look for contributions within the following broad themes, including examples of potential topics:
Inclusive innovation and research for hitherto overlooked marginalized groups
· Empirical studies of inclusive innovation and research for under-researched marginalized groups (e.g. women, ethnic groups, migrants, indigenous people, elderly, people with disabilities, children, illiterate)
· Synthesis of fragmented works on innovation and research for marginalized groups that make conceptual and theoretical advances
· Empirical studies seeking to understand the interaction of different causes of disenfranchisement in innovation and research
Applying, extending or developing theoretical perspectives on inclusive innovation and research
· Empirical studies on inclusive innovation and research applying theoretical perspectives used to understand inclusion in other research fields (e.g. intersectional equality, hybrid inclusion)
· Empirical studies extending existing theories used for innovation and research to capture inclusive innovation and research (e.g. ecosystem perspectives, lead user theory, self-image theory, social entrepreneurship perspectives)
· Exploratory empirical studies (e.g. case studies, grounded theory) aimed at developing novel theoretical perspectives on inclusive innovation and research
Beyond problem- and output-focused studies: Processes of inclusive innovation and research
· Empirical studies to conceptualize and theorize the factors and mechanisms that drive disenfranchisement and to unravel the causal chain leading up to disenfranchisement in innovation and research
· Contributions outlining the use of original methods and techniques for research to understand processes of inclusive innovation and research
Guest editors:
Professor Dr. Gloria Barczak, Northeastern University, USA
Professor Dr. Christian Hopp, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Assistant Professor Dr. Jelle Mampaey, Open University, The Netherlands
Assistant Professor Dr. Ward Ooms, Open University, The Netherlands
Associate Professor Dr Claudia Werker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
