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Call for Papers // Special Issue in Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions // 'From within: Unpacking internal complexities, trade-offs, and tensions of firms in sustainability transitions'

  • 1.  Call for Papers // Special Issue in Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions // 'From within: Unpacking internal complexities, trade-offs, and tensions of firms in sustainability transitions'

    Posted 7 days ago

    Dear colleagues,

    we hereby invite interested scholars to submit contributions to a special issue in Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions (EIST) titled "From within: Unpacking internal complexities, trade-offs, and tensions of firms in sustainability transitions".

    This special issue explores how the internal complexities of business organizations shape their engagement with sustainability transitions. Cross-fertilizing insights from organization theory and transition studies, we invite scholars to explore the ways in which internal complexities, trade-offs, and tensions influence how firms perceive, respond to, and enact sustainability transitions, thereby enabling or constraining their transformative engagement with transitions. In doing so, the special issue seeks to generate new insights into how business organizations engage with sustainability transitions and to elicit an organizational perspective on the complexities, trade-offs, and tensions that underpin and shape transition dynamics.

    EIST is a leading interdisciplinary journal at the forefront of sustainability transitions research, connecting insights from innovation studies, policy, and, increasingly, organizational scholarship.

    We offer interested authors the possibility to submit a short abstract (150 words) to receive initial feedback on their idea and the fit to the Special Issue.

    The abstract submission deadline is April 1st 2026 and the full paper submission deadline is September 15th 2026, with expected publication of the Special Issue in 2027.  

    Please consult the call for papers for details:

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/329521/from-within-unpacking-internal-complexities-trade-offs-and-tensions-of-firms-in-sustainability-transitions

    Any questions or informal inquiries can be directed at the team of Guest Editors: Birthe Soppe, Innsbruck University (birthe.soppe@uibk.ac.at); Taran Thune, University of Oslo (taranmt@tik.uio.no) and Christina Bidmon, Utrecht University (c.m.bidmon@uu.nl)



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    Christina Bidmon
    Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development
    Utrecht University
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