Special Issue Env. Innovation and Societal Transitions: "Alterity and alternative entreprises in sustainability transitions"
Amparo Merino
We are excited to announce the call for papers for the special issue of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions on “Alterity as an interdisciplinary bridge between alternative forms of enterprise and global sustainability transitions”
This call is an invitation to multiply the diversity of perspectives and theoretical lenses from which to approach the field of sustainability transitions. When this diversity is introduced into the critical role of business actors in shaping transitions, the phenomenon of the alternative enterprise becomes central in imagining and experiencing different ways of organizing economic life.
Given that views of the alternative can vary, this special issue aims to bring to this conversation the lens of alterity. This notion focuses on 'the other', inviting us to look at the minority, the cultural other, the cognitively diverse, and those that society deems as different. Bringing alterity to the foreground of the enterprise realm and the organization of economic life offers a promising lens to deconstruct dominant categories of (social) entrepreneurship as the result of the agency of visionary and heroic actors, particularly capable of pursuing social goals within the dominant capitalist logic.
To this end, this special issue aims to be a platform from which alterity-based conceptualizations, perspectives, epistemologies, practices, and debates on the transformative agency of the business actor in sustainability transitions may occur.
DEADLINES
- Submission of 750-word abstracts: 15th November 2022 (please, submit to guest editor Amparo Merino: ame...@icade.comillas.edu)
- Submission of selected papers: 30th June 2023
Please see further background development, suggested questions, and submission details in the attached document. You may also refer to the call for this SI on the journal website: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/environmental-innovation-and-societal-transitions/about/forthcoming-special-issues
Guest editors:
Amparo Merino, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain
Katerina Nicolopoulou, The University of Strathclyde, UK
Ashraf Salama, The University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK
David Kirby, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK
Caroline Whitfield, The University of Strathclyde, UK
Best,
Amparo
Amparo
Merino
Management Department | Doctoral Program in Business, Innovation
and Sustainability
Universidad
Pontificia Comillas Madrid (Spain)
ame...@comillas.edu
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