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Call for Papers: Special Issue on »Creativity and copyright in the shadow of GenAI«

Picture of the Webpage promoting the call for paper for the special issue on Creativity and copyright in the shadow of GenAI
Call for Papers for a Special Issue in Innovation: Organization & Management

Konstantin Hondros (HSU Hamburg), Astrid Mager (Austrian Academy of Sciences), Patricia Aufderheide (American University Washington), Patrick Cohedent (HEC Montréal) and myself are happy to announce a Call for Paper for a special issue on “Creativity and copyright in the shadow of GenAI: Managing and organizing creative content in the digitalization frenzy” to be published in “Innovation: Organization & Management”. Deadline for submission of full papers is September 30, 2026. Please do not hesitate to contact me or one of the other editors to discuss paper ideas.

In addition, we are planning an online paper development workshop to provide feedback on early-stage submissions on February 27, 2026. We encourage potential authors to submit an abstract of approximately 1,000 words describing their planned contribution, empirical material, and methodological approach (if applicable) by January 25, 2026, to konstantin.hondros@hsu-hh.de. Participation in the workshop is optional, and authors who do not attend are welcome to submit papers to the Special Issue.

Please find the full Call for Papers below:

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New Article in RSO: “Between Anxiety and Hope? How Actors Experience Regulatory Uncertainty in Creative Processes in Music and Pharma”

We, that is Katharina Zangerle, Konstantin Hondros, Sigrid Quack, myself, have recently contributed to an issue in “Research in the Sociology of Organizations” on “Organizing Creativity in the Innovation Journey”. The article is based upon data collected in the course of our joint DFG-funded research project on “Organizing Creativity under Regulatory Uncertainty: Challenges of Intellectual Property”. The photo below was obviously taken pre-pandemic but captures quite nicely the exhausted happiness we feel right now. And feelings and emotions is also what our article is about.

In our article “Between Anxiety and Hope? How Actors Experience Regulatory Uncertainty in Creative Processes in Music and Pharma” we approach the issues of what rules and uncertainty have to do with creativity, with distinct professions navigating and organizing creators’ related emotional experiences.

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