Digital Challenges and Financial Analysis Systems in Entrepreneurship and Public Management

Dear Colleagues,

The MDPI journal Administrative Sciences invites submissions to a Special Issue entitled “Digital Challenges and Financial Analysis Systems in Entrepreneurship and Public Management”.

Strategic management serves as a cornerstone in both the private and public sectors, determining how organizations align resources, capabilities, and objectives with external opportunities and constraints. The emerging Special Issue in Administrative Sciences titled "Digital Challenges and Financial Analysis Systems in Entrepreneurship and Public Management" reflects an urgent scholarly and practical demand to explore strategic dynamics in an era marked by digital transformation, fiscal uncertainty, and technological convergence. By integrating core themes such as marketing, accounting, digitalization, ICT, and big data analytics, this issue positions itself at the intersection of traditional administrative practices and the emerging digital economy.

At its core, strategic management involves long-term planning, competitive positioning, performance measurement, and organizational adaptation. In the private sector, it encompasses corporate growth, innovation, market positioning, and shareholder value. In contrast, in the public sector, strategic management aligns with regulatory efficiency, service delivery, citizen satisfaction, and policy implementation.

A particularly compelling direction for this Special Issue lies in the integration of big data and computational modeling into the strategic decision-making process. With the proliferation of large-scale, real-time data across sectors, decision-makers now have access to tools such as predictive analytics, machine learning, system dynamics, and agent-based modeling that allow them to simulate complex environments, evaluate strategic alternatives, and quantify risks. These computational approaches can enhance both public and private sector strategies by providing evidence-based insights, scenario testing, and optimization pathways that are far more adaptive to today's volatile conditions. The issue welcomes contributions that explore how big data and modeling tools reshape the strategy cycle—from problem diagnosis and forecasting to strategic planning and performance monitoring.

The dual focus of the issue on business and the public sector creates an opportunity for comparative analyses—understanding how goals, resource limitations, financial performance and stakeholder accountability differentiate or converge across these domains. The issue is likely to attract papers examining strategy formulation, resource allocation models, environmental scanning techniques, financial accounting models and strategic control systems within contrasting institutional frameworks.

Recent decades have seen a shift from bureaucratic governance to New Public Management (NPM), wherein public institutions are increasingly expected to operate with private-sector efficiency. This evolution has stimulated the adoption of performance-based budgeting, customer-oriented service designs, and strategic planning units.

Research in this Special Issue may delve into the following:

• The integration of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and data-driven metrics for institutions of the Public Sector to enhance strategic alignment and accountability.
• The use of strategic scorecards and simulation tools in health, education, or transport departments to support evidence-based planning and resource optimization.
• How digital innovation, big data, and computational modeling improve the agility, foresight, and responsiveness of public administration in rapidly changing policy environments.
• How strategic management can affect the efficiency and profitability of businesses and reduce both business and financial risk.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Kanellos Toudas
Dr. Nikolaos T. Giannakopoulos
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• strategic management
• public sector
• financial risk & bankruptcy
• accounting & earnings management
• marketing
• financial performance
• digital transformation
• ICT adoption
• strategic and computational business modeling
• DSS
• ESGs