Multimodality in Project Studies: Integrating Discourses, Visuals, and Materiality

CFP
Journal
online
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
30/06/2027
JOURNAL
International Journal of Managing Projects in Business
PUBLISHER
Emerald Publishing
GUEST EDITORS
Lingchuan Song, Johan Ninan, Sunila Lobo, Jinbo Song
POSTED ON
19/08/2026

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Call for Papers

Multimodality in Project Studies: Integrating Discourses, Visuals, and Materiality

Journal: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Full Manuscript Deadline: 30 June 2027

The International Journal of Managing Projects in Business invites submissions for a Special Issue exploring multimodality in project studies, with particular attention to how discourse, visuals, materiality, sensory elements, technologies, and embodied practices shape project management and governance.

About the Special Issue

Project studies have increasingly moved beyond traditional mechanistic and engineering-focused perspectives toward socially constructed understandings of projects. However, much existing research continues to rely heavily on language and cognition, often overlooking the role of visual, material, sensory, spatial, and embodied elements in project environments.

This Special Issue seeks to advance multimodal perspectives by examining how different meaning-making resources—including images, words, sound, bodies, technologies, physical spaces, drawings, slides, and other material artefacts—interact to influence project realities, stakeholder relationships, coordination, decision-making, and governance.

The issue particularly encourages phenomenon-based, interdisciplinary, and innovative methodological approaches that can deepen understanding of how projects are actually experienced and accomplished in practice.

Key Research Areas

  • Visual, material and sensory dimensions of project management

  • Interaction between discursive and non-discursive practices

  • Multimodality in project governance and decision-making

  • Stakeholder influence and inclusion through multimodal practices

  • Power relations, technologies, bodies and material artefacts

  • Temporal experiences including urgency, delay and sequencing

  • Spatial arrangements and digital environments in project coordination

  • Professional identities and role boundaries in project organizations

  • Multimodal practices during disruption, conflict and transition

  • Video ethnography and sensory mapping in project research

  • Computer vision and automated sentiment analysis

  • Visual essays, graphic narratives and nontraditional research formats

  • Analysis of facial expressions, emotional biometrics and other multimodal data

Key Dates

Manuscript Submissions Open: 1 June 2026
Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 September 2026
Full Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 June 2027

Guest Editors

Lingchuan Song, Johan Ninan, Sunila Lobo, Jinbo Song

Submission Information

Full manuscripts should be submitted through ScholarOne Manuscripts. Authors should select the appropriate Special Issue title during the submission process and follow the journal's author guidelines.

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Abstract Submission

Email: songlingchuan22@gmail.com
CC: J.Ninan@tudelft.nl, sunila.lobo@gmail.com, songjinbo@dlut.edu.cn

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