Strategy Under Extreme Institutional Shock: Scenario Planning, Foresight, and Strategic Management in the Face of Radical Uncertainty
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Call for Papers
Strategy Under Extreme Institutional Shock: Scenario Planning, Foresight, and Strategic Management in the Face of Radical Uncertainty
Journal: Journal of Strategy and Management
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Submission Deadline: 30 March 2027
Special Issue Publication: January 2029
This Special Issue invites research examining how organizations formulate and adapt strategy when extreme disruptions fundamentally alter institutional conditions, established assumptions, and conventional approaches to strategic decision-making.
About the Special Issue
Organizations increasingly operate amid profound uncertainty arising from pandemics, geopolitical conflicts, climate-related disasters, cyber threats, and rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence.
The Special Issue seeks to advance understanding of how organizations interpret radical uncertainty, maintain legitimacy, strengthen resilience, undertake strategic adaptation, and make decisions when conventional institutional structures and assumptions are disrupted.
The issue also addresses the wider societal importance of organizational preparedness and resilience, with relevance to SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth, SDG 9 – Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure, and SDG 16 – Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.
Key Research Areas
Extreme Institutional Shocks (EIS) and strategy theory
High-Impact, Low-Probability (HILP) events
Strategic decision-making under radical uncertainty
Dynamic capabilities under radical novelty
Organizational resilience and strategic adaptation
Strategic clarity under Knightian uncertainty
Strategic responses to pandemics and global disruptions
Climate tipping points and organizational strategy
AI discontinuities and algorithmic authority
Institutional legitimacy and trust erosion
Re-legitimation following paradigm shocks
Managerial sensemaking under extreme ambiguity
Cognitive framing and strategic decision-making
Strategy-as-practice during institutional disruption
Real Options reasoning under uncertainty
Strategic foresight and scenario planning
Organizational preparedness for paradigm-breaking events
Guest Editors
James Bezjian, Jose Godinez, Veselina Stoyanova, Arpit Sharma
Key Dates
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 March 2027
Expected Special Issue Publication: January 2029
Submission Information
Authors should submit manuscripts through the Journal of Strategy and Management ScholarOne submission system and follow the journal's author guidelines.
Contact
James Bezjian, PhD
The Citadel Military College of South Carolina
Tommy and Victoria Baker School of Business
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Email: jbezjian@citadel.edu
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