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Organisations, leadership, entire business ecosystems and society

are facing opportunities and challenges in the realm of disruptive innovation. This CfP invites you to submit to the Special Issue of

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

an international journal

on:

"Disruptive Technology and Innovation in Society"

by the deadline of November 15^th 2016

Call for Papers

Guest Editors:

Professor Carla Millar, Fellow, Ashridge at Hult International Business School and

Professor of International Marketing & Management, University of Twente  

(Corresponding Guest Editor)

Dr Ted Ladd, Hult Professor of Entrepreneurship and

Global Lead for Research on Creating Disruption, Hult International Business School

Professor Martin Lockett, Professor of Strategic Management and

Global Dean Academic Affairs, Ashridge & Hult International Business School

 CONTRIBUTIONS

While empirical contributions are encouraged, theoretical and conceptual papers that address the contextualisation of innovation and wider aspects of the disruption debate are particularly welcome.

Hence we may be looking at:

·      how technology is enabling organisational and social innovation

·      the role of technology in enabling global disruptive change

·      potential future disruptive technologies

·      the role of public policy and organisational strategy in promoting/ constraining disruptive technologies

Specific topics that would be of interest to the special issue editors include, but are not limited to, the following, in terms of technological disruption and forecasting in the VUCA environment:

·      How society can reinvent itself to cope with global business and technology disruption

·      Strategies to identify, acquire and exploit disruptive technological resources

·      Planning techniques to address risks, gaps and opportunities arising from emerging disruptive technologies

·      Corporate strategy in the light of public sector support for 'smart growth' (Europe 2020) in such areas as knowledge, innovation, education, ICT

·      The value of knowledge management for intra-organizational innovation and cy performance

·      Organizational perception of disruptive technology and innovation

·      Design to transform customer service and the customer experience

·      'Smart Cities', e-health and similar systemic solutions to social challenges

·      Achieving recognition and ownership of responsibility, sustainability, ethics, diversity, and well-being within and across organizations

·      Business model innovations and their relationship to disruptive technologies

·      Organizational impacts and options arising from prominent new technologies, e.g. social media, social innovation and the role of networks

·      'Smart' environments and their influence on managing people

·      Technology in relation to social entrepreneurship and new forms of organization

For full Call for Papers, see http://www.journals.elsevier.com/technological-forecasting-and-social-change/call-for-papers/call-for-papers-disruptive-technology-and-innovation-in-soci