Innovation-as-Practice
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Call for Papers
Innovation-as-Practice
Journal: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity
Publisher: Elsevier
Submission Opens: 1 June 2026
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 1 February 2027
Introduction
Innovation-as-Practice studies what people actually do when they innovate: concrete activities, routines, tools, discourses, and interactions through which new products, services, processes, and arrangements are conceived, experimented with, legitimized, and diffused. Centering practitioners, practices, and praxis, this perspective extends Strategy-as-Practice to innovation, moving from abstract models to situated social-material work in open innovation, digitalization, sustainability, and responsible innovation contexts.
Guest Editors
Thierry Burger-Helmchen (burger@unistra.fr)
Julien PÉNIN (penin@unistra.fr)
List of Topic Areas
Submissions invited on (but not limited to):
Conceptualizing Innovation-as-Practice from practice theory perspectives
Revisiting innovation capabilities, ecosystems through practice lens
Practitioners' roles, identities, boundary-spanning in innovation settings
Social-material practices of knowledge creation, experimentation
Innovation praxis streams, trajectories, turning points over time
Responsible innovation effects on practices, actors, slowing for reflexivity
Innovation-as-Practice in open innovation, user communities, policy arenas
Methodological approaches for studying situated innovation work
Guest Editors Contact Details
Name | Institution | |
|---|---|---|
Thierry Burger-Helmchen | University of Strasbourg | |
Julien PÉNIN | University of Strasbourg |
Submission Process & Deadlines
Submit via Editorial Manager at https://www.editorialmanager.com/joitmc/default2.aspx, selecting "VSI: Innovation-as-Practice".
Open access, double-blind peer review. Original unpublished work only.
Submission Guidelines
Submission Portal: https://www.editorialmanager.com/joitmc/default.aspx
Guide for Authors: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-open-innovation-technology-market-and-complexity/publish/guide-for-authors
About the Journal
Journal of Open Innovation (CiteScore 14.0), published by Elsevier, focuses on open innovation, technology-market dynamics, and complexity.
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