Special Issue "Digital Governance and Digital Economy: Are We There Yet?"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Burak Erkut
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Guest Editor
1. Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Bahçeşehir Cyprus University, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus
2. Institute for Research in Economic and Fiscal Issues, Paris, France
Interests: evolutionary economics; multivariate statistical analysis; KM; game theory; behavioral economics
Dr. Tuğberk Kaya
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Guest Editor
Department of Management Information Systems, School of Applied Sciences, Cyprus International University, Nicosia, Northern Cyprus
Interests: E-government; knowledge management; social media; smart cities and process innovation

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

In the contemporary global context, digitalization impacts governance in multiple ways. The relation between digital governance and economic activities has not yet been sufficiently assessed and understood by the existing body of knowledge. The previous problem of “pretense of knowledge”, i.e., governments pretending that they know what people want, changes to a problem of “plethora of knowledge”, i.e., governments do not know where to start understanding and addressing preferences. In this context, the impacts of digital governance on economic activities of individuals can be both a curse and a blessing.

The aim of this Special Issue is to deepen the analysis and developments of the multilevel relation between digitalization, (digital) citizens, and (digital) governments from an innovation economic perspective. Especially how the technological dimension is shaping the human dimension and what can be done to train and prepare the human dimension for this new era seem to be key points that need to be addressed [1,2]. This Special Issue aims to understand the evolution of this complex relation towards a new reality, where the cyclical relation between the perceptions of individuals and their actions shaping their surroundings remain a key issue for understanding this evolution [3]. Both researchers and practitioners are welcome to reflect their perspectives on the role of digitalization and digital governance in an economic context, where contributions can deepen the thirst for a new management and economics perspective integrating human happiness and prosperity as targets for policy agendas [4].

Dr. Burak Erkut
Dr. Tuğberk Kaya
Guest Editors

References

  1. Erkut, B. From Digital Government to Digital Governance: Are We There Yet? Sustainability 2020, 12, 860. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12030860
  2. Kaya, T.; Sağsan, M. The Concept of 'knowledgization' for Creating Strategic Vision in Higher Education: A Case Study of Northern Cyprus. Eğitim ve Bilim 2016, 41, 291–309.
  3. Erkut, B. Product Innovation and Market Shaping: Bridging the Gap with Cognitive Evolutionary Economics. Indraprastha J. Manag. 2016, 4, 3–24.
  4. Sharma, G.D.; Mahe ndru, M. Thirst for a New Management Theory. Asian J. Manag. 2017, 8, 921–924.

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Keywords

  • digitalization
  • digital government
  • digital governance
  • innovation
  • knowledge
  • Internet of Things

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Applying the Open Government Principles to the University’s Strategic Planning: A Sound Practice
Sustainability 2020, 12(5), 1826; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12051826 - 28 Feb 2020
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This paper describes an innovative experience based on the citizen participation as a fundamental principle of the Open Government, regarding the strategic planning in higher education institutions. Such innovation lies on two main pillars: the stakeholders’ approach (versus the traditional product-service orientation) and [...] Read more.
This paper describes an innovative experience based on the citizen participation as a fundamental principle of the Open Government, regarding the strategic planning in higher education institutions. Such innovation lies on two main pillars: the stakeholders’ approach (versus the traditional product-service orientation) and a web platform based on UserVoice® and Wordpress® software. The web platform was designed not only for building up a consensual strategic plan in a medium-sized Spanish public university, but also to monitor and control it once implemented. During the participation stage, all the proposals were openly discussed and voted by the whole university community. One year later, the online platform for monitoring the Strategic Plan was re-launched in order to rate, comment and vote the values reached by the key performance indicators. The adoption of such technological tools turns into a sound practice of governance for sustainable strategic management, by encouraging the collaborative workflow, participation, reflection and learning. Moreover, it promotes the stakeholders’ identification with corporate goals and enhance their commitment to the university’s strategic plan. Full article
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From Digital Government to Digital Governance: Are We There Yet?
Sustainability 2020, 12(3), 860; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12030860 - 23 Jan 2020
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This paper focuses on the knowledge problem of economics by discussing its current status in light of digitalization. This problem highlights the paradox of not having the necessary knowledge to take an economic decision, but pretending to have it and act, hence questioning [...] Read more.
This paper focuses on the knowledge problem of economics by discussing its current status in light of digitalization. This problem highlights the paradox of not having the necessary knowledge to take an economic decision, but pretending to have it and act, hence questioning the legitimacy of governmental decision-making and its impacts on the economy. Current technological developments are challenging this problem. Big Data has been a neglected phenomenon when it comes to its impact on the nature of knowledge and the decision-making processes associated with it, and it is easy to think that Big Data solves this problem. This research gap is evaluated by re-visiting the knowledge problem and evaluating whether the knowledge problem can still be valid in the digital era. The digital governance issue has been largely covered by literature in terms of technical possibilities. However, the main challenge is not the technical one, but rather how to create governance structures to involve people in decision-making processes, and at the same not fall into the trap of the knowledge problem. The sustainable transition from digital government to digital governance is a transition from a technical structure to multiple processes on different levels, and these processes have their own limits. Full article
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Equality in Income and Sustainability in Economic Growth: Agent-Based Simulations on OECD Data
Sustainability 2019, 11(20), 5803; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205803 - 18 Oct 2019
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In countries that have developed under the current market economy, inequalities in income distribution tend to increase with three different trends, i.e., high (United States, United Kingdom, Japan), low (North Europe countries), and medium Gini coefficient levels. On the other hand, the relationship [...] Read more.
In countries that have developed under the current market economy, inequalities in income distribution tend to increase with three different trends, i.e., high (United States, United Kingdom, Japan), low (North Europe countries), and medium Gini coefficient levels. On the other hand, the relationship between income distribution and social welfare is generally a difficult problem to solve in economics. So, this paper discusses the impact of income distribution on the macroeconomy, limiting the scope to consistency with long-term economic growth. We attempt to answer these economic policy issues by simulation using an agent-based model based on replicator dynamics. As a result of the simulation in this paper, in general, in countries with the high marginal propensity to consume, long-term growth can be maintained by inducing equality in income distribution. On the other hand, a mature country with a low marginal propensity to consume can sustain not so high but stable growth despite increasing inequality in income distribution. According to simulation results based on OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) data, in the former UK, US, and Japan, the lower the Gini coefficient is, the higher the growth potential is, while in the latter Norway and Luxembourg, relatively stable growth is maintained even if the Gini coefficient increases. Full article
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