Responsible Design: Care Ethics for AI-Enabled Systems

Call for Papers

Responsible Design: Care Ethics for AI-Enabled Systems

Journal: Information Systems Management
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 September 2026

Information Systems Management invites submissions for its Special Issue titled "Responsible Design: Care Ethics for AI-Enabled Systems."

About the Special Issue

As Artificial Intelligence and digital systems increasingly shape organizational, public, and civic life, discussions around responsible AI have largely focused on fairness, transparency, accountability, and regulatory compliance. However, less attention has been given to the relational, institutional, and structural dimensions of how AI systems influence human agency, participation, vulnerability, and social responsibility.

This Special Issue explores the role of care ethics and relational approaches in the design, governance, and evaluation of AI-enabled systems. It seeks contributions that move beyond procedural ethics to examine how responsibility, power, inclusion, legitimacy, and accountability are embedded within socio-technical systems and digital infrastructures.

Scope and Topics of Interest

Submissions may address, but are not limited to:

• Care ethics and Information Systems design

• Responsible AI and relational accountability

• Participation, inclusion, and exclusion in digital systems

• Structural ethics and socio-technical governance

• Human-centred and care-centred AI design

• Vulnerability, dependency, and digital infrastructures

• AI governance and institutional legitimacy

• Ethics of repair, maintenance, and redress

• Participatory and inclusive AI governance

• Responsible innovation and ethical system design

• Public sector AI, trust, and legitimacy

• Algorithmic systems and risk distribution

• Gender, inequality, and digital governance

• Ethics of automated decision-making

• Trust, transparency, and accountability in AI

• Organizational responsibility in AI-enabled environments

• Care ethics and sustainable digital transformation

Types of Contributions

The Special Issue welcomes:

• Empirical research papers

• Conceptual and theoretical studies

• Design science research

• Critical and interdisciplinary perspectives

• Practice-oriented and policy-focused research

• Case studies and comparative analyses

Submission Guidelines

• Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30 September 2026

• First Review Decisions: 30 November 2026

• Revised Manuscript Submission: 01 February 2027

• Final Decisions: 15 March 2027

• Manuscripts should follow the Information Systems Management author guidelines and be clearly identified as submissions for the Special Issue "Responsible Design: Care Ethics for AI-Enabled Systems."

Special Issue Editors

• Fernando Miramontes Forattini — Dublin City University Business School

• Regina Connolly — Dublin City University Business School

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