Innovation, Security, and Resilience: Firm Strategy and Industrial Dynamics amid Critical Infrastructure Disruption
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Innovation, Security, and Resilience: Firm Strategy and Industrial Dynamics amid Critical Infrastructure Disruption
Journal: Industry and Innovation
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Manuscript Deadline: 31 January 2027
About the Special Issue
Critical infrastructure systems—including energy, transportation, telecommunications, water, healthcare, and financial systems—form the backbone of modern economies. However, these systems are increasingly exposed to technological disruptions, geopolitical conflicts, cybersecurity threats, supply chain vulnerabilities, and environmental pressures.
This Special Issue, Innovation, Security, and Resilience: Firm Strategy and Industrial Dynamics amid Critical Infrastructure Disruption, seeks to advance understanding of how innovation, security, and resilience interact to shape firm strategies, industrial dynamics, and infrastructure systems in an increasingly turbulent global environment.
The issue welcomes conceptual, theoretical, and empirical contributions that explore how technological, organizational, regulatory, and strategic innovations contribute to infrastructure security capabilities and resilience while addressing the challenges posed by critical infrastructure disruptions.
Topics of Interest
Submissions may address, but are not limited to:
Innovation Systems, Governance, and Geopolitics
Technological Innovation Systems (TIS) and critical infrastructure security
Sectoral and technological innovation systems in infrastructure security
Regulatory innovation and multi-level governance
Technology sovereignty, industrial policy, and geopolitical competition
Security governance and innovation ecosystems
Firm Strategies, Organizational Innovation, and Resilience
Organizational adaptation to infrastructure vulnerabilities
Strategic partnerships and business model innovation
Infrastructure resilience and supply chain security
Dynamic capabilities and security innovation adoption
Inter-organizational collaborations and governance mechanisms
Digital Transformation, Sustainability, and Human Factors
AI, automation, IoT, and cyber-physical systems in critical infrastructure
Digital transformation and cybersecurity resilience
Sustainability transitions and the security-environment nexus
Human-automation interactions and workforce transformation
Ethics, surveillance technologies, and responsible innovation
Multi-Level Transitions and Sectoral Applications
Security-driven socio-technical transitions
Energy infrastructure and smart grids
Maritime, aviation, rail, and autonomous transportation systems
Telecommunications and network resilience
Healthcare, financial, mining, and space infrastructure
Arctic and polar infrastructure systems
Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts should align with the aims and scope of Industry and Innovation.
Contributions may employ quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method, modelling, simulation, or comparative approaches.
All submissions will undergo editorial screening and double-blind peer review by at least two expert reviewers.
Standard journal requirements regarding manuscript preparation, formatting, and references apply.
Authors must indicate that their submission is for the Special Issue titled Innovation, Security, and Resilience: Firm Strategy and Industrial Dynamics amid Critical Infrastructure Disruption during submission.
Important Dates
Submission Portal Opens: 15 December 2026
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 31 January 2027
Expected Publication: Spring/Summer 2028
Related Activities
The Guest Editors will organize paper development workshops and revision support activities to foster a collaborative research community and facilitate high-quality submissions.
About the Journal
Industry and Innovation publishes high-quality research on innovation processes, industrial dynamics, technological change, and policy implications across industries and regions. The journal encourages interdisciplinary scholarship that advances theoretical and practical understanding of innovation and industrial transformation.
Special Issue Editors
• Michele Acciaro, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark
Email: mac.si@cbs.dk
• Martin Jes Iversen, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark
Email: mji.si@cbs.dk
• Ioannis Lagoudis, University of Piraeus, Greece
Email: ilagoudis@unipi.gr
• Iryna Savelieva, Odesa National Maritime University, Ukraine
Email: savirina@gmail.com
• Dong Yang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China
Email: dong.yang@polyu.edu.hk
• Kum Fai Yuen, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Email: kumfai.yuen@ntu.edu.sg
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