Organization Studies
Qualitative Restudies: Retheorizing in a Changing WorldSubmission Deadline: January 31, 2028
• Tine Köhler, University of Melbourne, Australia More information: https://journals-sagepub-com.bham-ezproxy.idm.oclc.org/page/oss/call-for-papers/qualitative-restudies Business History
Business and Cities in the Global EconomySpecial Issue Editor(s)Valeria Giacomin, Bocconi University, Italy Youssef Cassis, European University Institute, Italy Jan Logemann, University of Göttingen, Germany Chinmay Tumbe, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India Abstract deadline15 April 2026 Manuscript deadline01 November 2026 More information: https://think-taylorandfrancis-com.bham-ezproxy.idm.oclc.org/special_issues/business-cities-in-global-economy/ Indigenous Entrepreneurship under Colonialism and Beyond: Institutional Negotiation, Exclusion and ResilienceSpecial Issue for Business History CFP Launch Date: 1 June 2026 OverviewThis Special Issue examines Indigenous entrepreneurial agency under colonial rule, treating colonial institutions as both economic constraints and sociopolitical structures that shaped market access, legal standing and accumulation strategies. Defining Indigenous peoples is challenging given their diversity and presence across every continent. Scholars have nonetheless identified a number of broadly shared characteristics, including prior inhabitation of a territory before the arrival of later settler or dominant populations, some form of subjugation by those populations, the retention of distinct socio-cultural practices and institutions, a deep attachment to ancestral lands and resources, economic arrangements that are often, though not always, oriented around subsistence, and an association with distinctive languages (Peredo et al., 2004, pp. 5–6). We invite business historical accounts of how entrepreneurs in colonised societies navigated, contested and reworked the rules of commerce, especially where access to courts, licensing, property rights, banking and credit markets was restricted or selectively enforced. Building on recent scholarship calling for a rethinking of entrepreneurship (Lubinski et al., 2025), growing attention to Indigenous and social entrepreneurship in the Global South (Colbourne, Peredo, & Henriques, 2024; Prouchet, 2025), and calls to engage more directly with colonial and postcolonial contexts and legacies in business history (Austin, Dávila, & Jones, 2017; MacKenzie et al., 2021, 2023; Decker, 2022), the Special Issue brings institutions and agency into the same analytical frame. Objectives and ScopeSubmissions should engage one or more of the following questions:
Methodologically, we welcome submissions grounded in business historical approaches, including archival research, oral history, biography, microhistory, and comparative or connected history, that make clear empirical and interpretive contributions to the Special Issue’s themes. Engagement with postcolonial scholarship, subaltern studies, and critical perspectives on firms, markets and institutions is welcome, but not required. We particularly encourage contributions that draw on a wide range of primary sources to recover Indigenous actors, experiences and strategies, such as company records, court records, licensing files, banking archives, trading accounts, petitions, newspapers and vernacular-language materials. Authors wishing to discuss unconventional sources or strategies for overcoming archival silences are warmly invited to contact the guest editors. TimelineInformal enquiries welcome: June-September 2026 Abstract / proposal deadline (800–1,000 words): 1 October 2026 Decisions on abstracts: 1 November 2026 Paper-development workshop(s): Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University Full paper submission deadline: 1 May 2027 First-round peer-review decisions: September 2027 Revised paper deadline: 1 February 2028 Final revision deadline: 1 May 2028 Final acceptance target: June 2028 Expected online publication and launch: Autumn 2028 Expected print publication: Early to mid-2029 ReferencesAustin, G., Dávila, C., & Jones, G. (2017). The alternative business history: Business in emerging markets. Business History Review, 91(3), 537–569. Colbourne, R., Peredo, A.M., & Henriques, I. (2024). Indigenous entrepreneurship? Setting the record straight. Business History, 66(2), 455–477. Decker, S. (2022). Postcolonial transition and global business history: British multinational companies in Ghana and Nigeria. Routledge. Lubinski, C., Prouchet, L., Ferri, C., Jepsen, N.C. & Lei, W. (2025). Rethinking the histories and ideologies of entrepreneurship. Management & Organizational History. Online First. MacKenzie, N.G., Perchard, A., Miller, C., & Forbes, N. (2021). Business–government relations and national economic models. Business History, 63(8), 1239–1252. MacKenzie, N.G., Perchard, A., Miller, C., & Forbes, N. (Eds.) (2023). Varieties of capitalism over time. Routledge. Peredo, A.M., Anderson, R.B., Galbraith, C.S., Honig, B., & Dana, L.P. (2004). Towards a theory of indigenous entrepreneurship. International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business, 1(1/2), 1–20. Prouchet, L. (2025). Connecting the dots: Business history research on social entrepreneurship in the Global South. Business History. Online First. Submission RequirementsAuthors are invited to submit an extended abstract or proposal for initial consideration. Submissions should be approximately 800–1,000 words and clearly set out the article’s research question, historical scope (including timeframe and location), sources and methodology, and anticipated contribution to the literature. Please also provide a tentative title, author name(s), affiliation(s), and contact information. Proposals should be sent by 1 October 2026 to himadri@xlri.ac.in, with the other editors copied in: marktadajewski@gmail.com, andrew.perchard@otago.ac.nz, and zpittaki001@dundee.ac.uk. The email subject line should read: “CFP – Indigenous Entrepreneurship under Colonialism and Beyond Special Issue.” Formatting and Length: Final papers should adhere to Business History guidelines (typically in the range of 8,000–10,000 words, including notes and references). Authors will be provided detailed instructions for manuscript preparation upon acceptance of proposals. We welcome informal inquiries if you have questions about the fit of a topic or the preparation of your proposal. All articles will be submitted through the Submission Portal for the journal in order to be peer-reviewed before acceptance for publication. Guest EditorsHimadri Roy Chaudhuri, Ph.D. in Marketing (University of Calcutta, India) is Professor of Marketing and Consumer Culture at the Xavier School of Business (XLRI), India. Dr. Chaudhuri has published widely in leading international journals, including the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Macromarketing, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Journal of Homosexuality, and the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, among others. His scholarship contributes to critical perspectives in marketing, often bridging cultural theory, ethics and policy concerns. Mark Tadajewski, Ph.D. in Marketing (University of Leicester), is Honorary Professor of Marketing at the University of York, Visiting Professor at the Open University, and Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London. His research critically interrogates the foundations of marketing theory and practice, with particular attention on how geopolitics shape the discipline. In business history, his work has examined alternative forms of business education and their influence on sales and managerial practice. Andrew Perchard, PhD in History (University of Strathclyde) is Honorary Research Professor at Otago Business School, Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka / University of Otago, Dunedin, Aotearoa–New Zealand, and Visiting Professor, Birkbeck, University of London, and Honorary Visiting Professor, Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, both UK. His research has focused particularly on the subject of business–government relations and corporate political activity, deglobalisation and globalisation, as well as regional development and energy and industrial policy. Zoi Pittaki, PhD in Economic History (University of Glasgow) is a Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Dundee School of Business. Her research interests include entrepreneurship and institutions, entrepreneurship and growth, social entrepreneurship and historical institutionalism. The CfP should be officially published shortly. In the meantime, worth checking out their excellent edited collection at Business History: Entrepreneurship Against Empire: Indigenous Enterprise, Power and Survival Under Colonialism and Beyond Anything else? Let us know? Any new book or article alerts, CfPs or events? Send them our way: You're currently a free subscriber to History in Organizations. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription.
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