Calls for Papers

Special Issue: Organizations in the Global South

Submissions Open: November 1, 2025

Submissions Close: April 30, 2026

Special Issue Editors: Moses Acquaah, Daniel Erian Armanios, Rodrigo Canales, Laura Doering,Caroline Fry,Daniella Laureiro Martinez, Lamar Pierce, Markus Taussig, Xueguang Zhou

This special issue provides an opportunity to showcase the best work on organizations in the Global South. We welcome papers in these settings from a wide range of fields and disciplines that can speak to our broad community of organizational scholars. We welcome diverse methods, disciplines, and approaches to studying these organizations.

For the purposes of this special issue, we chose an intentionally broad definition of the Global South consistent with common usage by institutions such as the United Nations and Group of 77. This includes, as mentioned above, the countries of Africa, Latin America, Asia (excluding South Korea, Japan, but including India and China), the Middle East (excluding Israel), and Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand).6 Our definition also includes indigenous populations within otherwise Global North contexts.

To be considered, papers should document research based on a preponderance of data from Global South contexts. While we encourage a variety of approaches and methods, we will not consider any review papers and will only consider germane and exceptional theory or perspective papers, consistent with the journal’s guidelines. Papers will be evaluated with the same standards for rigor and theoretical development that Organization Science is known for, while leveraging reviewers who can understand the challenges, potential, and demands of conducting research in the Global South. In this way, we strive to avoid conflating theoretical and empirical unfamiliarity with perceptions of scholarly rigor.

To read the full Call for Papers, here.