Aims

Journal of Digital Governance and Organizational Dynamics (JDGOD) is an international, peer-reviewed open-access journal that publishes research on how digital technologies are governed, regulated, institutionalised, and embedded in organisations and wider societal systems.

The journal is concerned less with technological novelty than with the governance and organisational arrangements that shape digital technologies in practice: the rules and norms that guide their design and use; the institutional settings that enable or constrain adoption; and the accountability mechanisms through which digital systems are overseen, contested, and corrected. JDGOD welcomes work that examines how digital systems interact with organisational structures, administrative processes, regulatory regimes, and public values.

JDGOD provides a home for interdisciplinary scholarship spanning governance studies, organisational and institutional research, public administration, information systems, socio-technical studies, and law and regulation. Submissions may address, among other issues, how digital transformation alters power and authority, decision and coordination structures, legitimacy and trust, risk and responsibility, and the dynamics of institutional change.

JDGOD publishes rigorous conceptual, empirical, and analytical contributions that help researchers and practitioners understand not only what digital technologies make possible, but how they are governed, how organisations respond to them, and how their consequences are managed over time.

JDGOD is published quarterly by Acadlore and follows a structured peer-review process and standard editorial procedures to support consistency and transparency in its publication practices.

Key features of JDGOD include:

• The journal centres on how digital technologies are governed, regulated, and embedded in organisational and institutional settings, rather than on technological novelty or innovation in itself;

• It gives particular attention to questions of accountability, oversight, legitimacy, and responsibility in digitally mediated decision-making and organisational processes;

• The journal values work that examines the relationship between digital systems and organisational structures, administrative practices, and institutional contexts with conceptual care and empirical substance;

• Contributions on ethical, legal, and societal implications are considered where these are developed through clear analytical reasoning, institutional analysis, or systematic evidence, rather than through general commentary;

• The journal encourages comparative and cross-contextual studies that illuminate how digital governance and organisational responses differ across sectors, countries, and institutional environments;

• The editorial and review process emphasizes clarity of argument, transparency of method, and the robustness of conclusions, with the aim of ensuring a fair, consistent, and substantively grounded evaluation of submissions.

Scope

JDGOD welcomes original research articles, theoretical contributions, systematic reviews, and high-quality empirical studies in areas including, but not limited to, the following:

Digital Governance, Regulation, and Policy

• Governance frameworks for digital platforms, artificial intelligence, and data infrastructures

• Regulatory design for algorithmic decision systems, automation, and digital markets

• Accountability, transparency, explainability, auditability, and monitoring of digital systems

• Digital governance in public, private, and hybrid institutional settings

• National, regional, and international governance regimes for digital technologies

Organisational Dynamics and Institutional Transformation

• Organisational restructuring, reconfiguration, and adaptation under digitalisation

• Institutionalisation of digital practices, standards, and organisational routines

• Legitimacy, compliance, resistance, and contestation surrounding digital systems

• Power relations, authority, and control in digitally mediated organisations

• Organisational change driven by regulatory requirements and governance arrangements

Public Administration, Policy Implementation, and State Capacity

• Digital transformation of public administration and public service delivery

• Policy implementation and administrative capacity for digital governance

• Coordination, interoperability, and accountability across public sector organisations

• Platform-based governance and networked public services

• Digitalisation of regulatory agencies, courts, and oversight institutions

Ethics, Risk, Trust, and Responsibility

• Ethical, legal, and social implications of digital systems

• Risk management, resilience, and systemic failure in digital infrastructures

• Trust, legitimacy, and public acceptance of digital governance arrangements

• Responsibility, liability, and accountability in automated and algorithmic systems

• Bias, fairness, discrimination, and inclusion in digitally mediated decision processes

Socio-Technical Systems and Human–Organisation Interaction

• Co-evolution of technologies, organisations, and institutions

• Human–algorithm interaction in organisational and governance contexts

• Digital work, professional practices, and occupational change

• Skills, training, and organisational learning for digital governance

• Change management and capacity-building in digital transformation programmes

Sectoral and Domain-Specific Governance Studies

• Digital governance in healthcare, education, finance, transportation, energy, and environmental management

• Governance of smart cities, urban platforms, and digital infrastructures

• Regulation and organisational effects of fintech, govtech, regtech, and platform economies

• Digital governance in multinational corporations and global value chains

• Governance of cross-border data flows and transnational digital services

Comparative, International, and Development Perspectives

• Cross-national and comparative studies of digital governance models

• Digital governance in developing and emerging economies

• Contextual variation and institutional diversity in digital transformation

• Global governance of digital platforms and infrastructures

• International policy coordination and regulatory convergence or divergence

Methods, Models, and Analytical Approaches

• Qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods research on digital governance

• Comparative institutional analysis and organisational ethnography

• Network analysis, process tracing, and case-based research designs

• Policy evaluation, regulatory impact assessment, and governance indicators

• Conceptual modelling and theoretical frameworks for governance and organisational dynamics

Legal, Normative, and Accountability Frameworks

• Law and regulation of digital systems, platforms, and data infrastructures

• Standards, norms, and soft-law mechanisms in digital governance

• Judicial, quasi-judicial, and administrative oversight of digital systems

• Rights-based approaches to digital governance and data protection

• Public interest, democratic accountability, and legitimacy in the digital age

Organisational Strategy, Leadership, and Decision Processes

• Leadership and managerial responses to digital governance challenges

• Strategic alignment between digital systems and organisational goals

• Decision processes in algorithm-supported organisations

• Governance of digital investments and large-scale transformation programmes

• Organisational performance, evaluation, and accountability in digital contexts