Common-Good Human Resource Management: Global and Comparative Perspectives

Call for Papers
Common-Good Human Resource Management: Global and Comparative Perspectives
Journal: The International Journal of Human Resource Management
Submission window: 1 May 2026 – 30 June 2026
Deadline: 30 June 2026

This special issue is part of a dual call on Common Good HRM and focuses on how CGHRM can be studied across countries, sectors, and institutional contexts. It argues that firms have a moral responsibility to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals while also balancing their own performance needs.

The call emphasizes that CGHRM is a distinct form of sustainable HRM because it gives equal or greater weight to common-good outcomes than to purely market-driven performance. It highlights principles such as fair employment relationships, equal participation opportunities, and strong psychological contracts, and it encourages research that compares how these ideas work in the Global North and Global South.

Special Issue Editors

• Mehmet Demirbag, University of Essex, Essex Business School, UK.

• Muhammad Shujahat, University of Essex, Essex Business School, UK.

• Geoffrey Wood, Western University, Canada.

Scope
The special issue welcomes empirical and conceptual work on whether CGHRM is truly distinct from related HRM forms, how institutions and stakeholder pressures shape adoption, how HR departments influence common-good performance, and how indigenous CGHRM models in the Global South may differ from Global North practices. It also encourages studies on religiosity, spirituality, NGOs, common-good firms, benefit corporations, and the comparison of personal-good and common-good performance. The editors particularly value industry-academia collaboration, inductive research, mixed methods, and context-sensitive comparative designs.

Submission details
Authors should submit through ScholarOne and indicate the special issue title in the cover letter. The submission window is 1 May 2026 to 30 June 2026, and the call notes a review process extending into 2027 with publication expected between October 2027 and 2028.

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