Dear Colleagues and Friends,
We are happy to share a forthcoming Special Review Issue of the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion (JMSR) on "Broadening Management, Spirituality and Religion Research: Crosscutting Dialogue Across Disciplines" and invite you to submit your papers.
This Special Review Issue of JMSR is dedicated to advancing our understanding of management, spirituality, and religion through broad interdisciplinary engagement. We encourage submissions spanning integration across fields of organization and management (e.g. Organization Studies, Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Human Resource Management, Business Ethics, Sustainability, Management Education, Critical Management Studies) and from scholars who bridge disciplines-drawing on sociology, psychology, and the social sciences. We particularly welcome cross-cultural, comparative and multi-level reviews.
Effective reviews should do more than summarize existing knowledge: they should advance the field by offering novel theoretical, methodological, or integrative contributions – or, ideally, a combination of these. The strongest submissions will not only identify new research questions and generate fresh conceptual insights but also forge connections between management studies, spirituality, religion, and broader social sciences and the humanities. We encourage reviews that challenge established assumptions and re-orient theoretical conversations, ensuring that they serve as catalysts for progress rather than static catalogues of existing knowledge. For the avoidance of doubt, the Special Issue editors will reject any reviews that do not integrate MSR research across disciplines.
Special Issue editors will host a zoom call on Monday, February 9th, 2026 at 9.00 am (New York) / 2.00 pm (London), / 10 pm (Auckland) / at with all authors potentially interested in submitting a paper to address any queries. Please, save the date and time and join the call via this link: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9957231775 (Passcode: 219164).
The proposed deadline for full submissions is September 30, 2026.
The full call for papers:
https://www.iamsr.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/JMSR-Call-Special_Issue_Reviews_Final.pdf
It is available from the JMSR website at:
https://www.iamsr.org/journal/call-for-papers-special-issues
Submission: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rmsr (create author account and indicate the special issue)
We are looking for your submissions!
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Editors Ekaterina Ivanova & Nicholas Burton via their shared email address for this JMSR SI at: jmsrspecialreviewsissue@gmail.com
Best wishes,
The JMSR Reviews Special Issue Editorial Team
Ekaterina Ivanova & Nicholas Burton
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Dr. Ekaterina Ivanova
Associate Professor
HSE University
Graduate School of Business
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