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Open call for submissions in Business & Society Special Issue

We are excited to announce a call for papers for the forthcoming Business & Society Special Issue - Business Models for Sustainability and the Future of Business–Society Relationships: Value Creation, Power, Risk, and Responsibility.

PDW abstract deadline: November 15, 2026

Full-paper submissions: May 1–June 30, 2027

This special issue is an important opportunity to engage in and advance research on how value, power, risk, and responsibility are distributed across businesses, communities, and society.

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A joint BMC–NBM Conference Special Issue in the Journal of Business Models, linked to the Business Models Conference (BMC) and the NBM International Conference on New Business Models (NBM) 2026 🎉📣

This Special Issue is being developed collaboratively with the NBM community, in coordination with the BMC community, with a clear ambition: strengthening dialogue and integration between the two scholarly communities 🤝📚

• NBM@REYKJAVÍK 2025 (conference proceedings): Global challenges – local responses: SCALING UP LOCAL SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATIONS AND BUSINESS MODELS TO ADRESS THE SDG:S

• NBM@REYKJAVÍK 2025 (BOOK OF ABSTRACTS): Global challenges – local responses: SCALING UP LOCAL SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATIONS AND BUSINESS MODELS TO ADRESS THE SDG:S

• NBM@sansebastian 2024 (book of abstracts): SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODELS FOR THE DIGITAL, GREEN AND INCLUSIVE TRANSITION

• NBM@sansebastian 2024 (conference proceedings): SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODELS FOR THE DIGITAL, GREEN AND INCLUSIVE TRANSITION

• NBM@MAASTRICHT 2023: building partnerships for more sustainable, resilient and regenerative business models”

• NBM@ROME 2022: “Sustainable Business Model Challenges:  Economic Recovery and Digital Transformation”

• NBM@HALMSTAD 2021: “New Business Models IN A DECADE OF ACTION - Sustainable, EVIDENCE-BASED, Inclusive”

• NBM@Nijmegen 2020: “New Business Models - Sustainable, Circular, Inclusive”

• NBM@Berlin 2019: “New Business Models for Sustainable Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Transformation”

• NBM@Graz 2017: “Exploring a Changing View on Organizing Value Creation: Developing New Business Models”

• NBM@Toulouse 2016: “New Business Models – Exploring a Changing View on Organizing Value Creation”

• Journal of Cleaner Production: Special Issue on Assessing and forecasting the sustainability impact of new ventures (2022)

• INternational Journal of Innovation Management: “Special Issue on Managing Values for Innovation – Cases, Methods, and Theories” (2021)

• Organization and Environment: “The Organizational Dynamics of Business Models for Sustainability” (2021)

• Journal of Business Models: "Fostering Multi- and Interdisciplinary Business Model Research" (2020)

• Business & Society: “Collaborative Cross-Sector Business Models for Sustainability” (2020)

• JOurnal of business models: Sustainable value creation through business models (2020)

• Business Strategy and the Environment: “Business Models for the Circular Economy: Opportunities and Challenges” (2019)

• Journal of Business Models: “Sustainable value creation through business models” (2019)

• Journal of Cleaner Production: ”Embracing the Variety of Sustainable Business Models” (2018)

• Organization & Environment: “Business Models for Sustainability – Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Transformation” (2016)

• Sustainable Business Model Design - 45 Patterns (Lüdeke-Freund, Breuer & Massa, 2022)

• Organizing for Sustainability: A Guide to Developing New Business Models (Jonker & Faber, 2021)

• Business Models for Sustainability Transitions (Aagaard, Lüdeke-Freund & Wells, 2021)

• Organising for the Circular Economy: A workbook for developing Circular Business Models (Jonker, Kothman, Faber, Montenegro Navarro, 2018)

• Closing the value Cycle: results of the 2016-2017 Dutch national survey on business models for the circular economy (Jonker, Stegeman, Faber, Kothman, & Brennan, 2018)