Multimodality in Project Studies: Integrating Discourses, Visuals, and Materiality
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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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Author Guidelines
Abstract Submission
Email: songlingchuan22@gmail.com
CC: J.Ninan@tudelft.nl, sunila.lobo@gmail.com, songjinbo@dlut.edu.cn
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