Digital Transformation, Financial Performance, and Risk Dynamics
A Special Issue of Journal of Risk and Financial Management (ISSN 1911-8074) belonging to the section "Financial Technology and Innovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2027 | Viewed by 11
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Interests: institutional economics; energy and environmental economics; behavioral and experimental economics; international economics; financial economics
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Interests: corporate governance; strategic management; corporate social responsibility
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Digital transformation has become a central driver of economic and organizational change, yet its implications for financial performance and risk remain complex and not fully understood. While digital technologies are widely expected to enhance firm value, improve efficiency, and strengthen decision-making process, recent evidence suggests that the effects are neither uniform nor strictly linear.
This Special Issue focuses on the financial consequences of digital transformation, with a particular emphasis on firm value, risk dynamics, and performance outcomes in both corporate and public sector contexts. We aim to investigate whether digital technologies consistently generate value-enhancing outcomes or whether their effects exhibit nonlinear patterns, such as inverse U-shaped relationships, threshold effects, or diminishing returns.
A key objective of this Special Issue is to identify the frictions that shape these outcomes. Such frictions may include organizational inertia, capability gaps, data fragmentation, governance constraints, and cybersecurity risks. These factors may delay the realization of digital benefits in the short term and generate adverse effects when digital complexity exceeds managerial and institutional capacity.
We particularly welcome contributions that link digital transformation to financial outcomes, including firm value, return volatility, investment efficiency, and risk exposure. Studies employing corporate finance, empirical asset-pricing, and public sector efficiency frameworks are encouraged, especially those that explore heterogeneous effects across firms, industries, and institutions.
Prof. Dr. Sunghee Choi
Prof. Dr. Won-Yong Oh
Dr. Samsul Alam
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- digital transformation
- firm value
- financial risk
- nonlinear effects
- corporate finance
- risk management
- investment efficiency
- institutional frictions
- data governance
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