Kaifeng Yang, Rutgers University–Newark

Equity in public performance management remains underoperationalized despite being recognized as fundamental to public administration. Recent governmental experiments with equity indicators and disaggregated data offer opportunities to examine how distributional questions can be integrated into organizational decision-making, yet significant gaps remain in understanding the translation from measurement to actual outcomes.

This symposium addresses three urgent challenges: understanding how equity information influences managerial practice, managing implications of artificial intelligence for equity outcomes, and sustaining equity commitments amid shifting political landscapes. The call seeks both academic research and practitioner expertise to bridge research-practice gaps and develop frameworks for public organizations pursuing equitable performance.

The symposium welcomes international perspectives on managing for equitable performance across different contexts. Research using quantitative, qualitative, experimental, and mixed methods is encouraged, including critical and participatory approaches that center marginalized voices.

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Potential topics

• Equity indicators and disaggregated data in performance management
• Managerial decision-making and equity information
• Street-level discretion and service design
• Leadership and analytic capacity for equity
• Gaming and unintended consequences of equity metrics
• Adoption and implementation of equity initiatives
• Stakeholder power and institutional capacity
• Equity-weighted indicators and gap-closing measures
• Defining equity standards and community voice
• Political polarization and equity goals
• AI and algorithmic equity
• Technology assessment and algorithmic accountability
• Frontline worker interactions with algorithmic tools
• Sustaining equity initiatives under political change
• Equity office institutionalization and relabeling
• Longitudinal studies of equity initiatives
• Communication and framing of equity
• Policy networks and diffusion of equity approaches

Timeline

• November 10, 2026: Abstract deadline
• August 10, 2027: Manuscript deadline

This special issue in Utilities Policy focuses on how water utilities can incorporate equity considerations into their planning and operations to achieve better outcomes for customers. The issue seeks research examining the intersection of water utility management and customer equity.

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Timeline

• January 31, 2027: Submission deadline