Dear Psaar friends,

We would like to draw your attention to the call for papers for a special issue (SI) under the theme “A new era for public sector reporting: Technology and digitization in service to meet user needs” in the International Journal of Public Sector Management. 

The Guest editors of the SI are Sandra Cohen, Sotirios Karatzimas and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The deadline for submissions to the special issue is December 30, 2023. Accepted papers will be published in a Special Issue on 2024 (Vol. 37, Issue 3).

For inquiries and further information please contact the corresponding Guest Editor Prof. Sandra Cohen (Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece) – This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

For the call for papers click https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/a-new-era-public-sector-reporting-technology-and-digitization-service-meet-user

This special issue focuses on how emerging technologies and digitalization could impact on the stakeholders role in the production and shaping of financial and non-financial reporting in the public sector as well as on the development of good practices in this area. The guest editors welcome submissions of papers addressing financial and non financial reporting by adopting technology and digitization for multiple stakeholders, challenges in terms of IT knowledge and skills for accountants and auditors, public sector reporting and big data, papers that consider the impact of the implementation of emerging technologies (Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Blockchain, Big Data) on public sector reporting and auditing, digital divide and the implementation of the digitization on public sector reporting, and citizens' rights to information access in different electronic formats and channels.

List of Topic Areas:

• Financial reporting (including popular reporting and integrated reporting) by adopting technology and digitization for multiple stakeholders;
• Non-Financial reporting (e.g. sustainability and environmental reporting) by adopting technology and digitization for multiple stakeholders;
• Challenges in terms of IT knowledge and skills for accountants and auditors;
• Public Sector reporting and big data;
• The impact of the implementation of emerging technologies (Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Blockchain, Big Data,...) on both public sector reporting and auditing;
• Digital divide and the implementation of the digitization on public sector reporting;
• Citizens' rights to information access in different electronic formats and channels.