Javier Cifuentes-Faura, University of Murcia

Governments worldwide are increasingly using economic tools such as trade policy, industrial policy, and strategic investments to advance geopolitical objectives, a phenomenon known as geoeconomic statecraft. However, research has largely focused on geopolitical and economic outcomes, leaving a significant gap in understanding how public organizations manage, finance, and evaluate these interventions.

This special issue addresses this gap by examining public management and public value implications of geoeconomic governance. As governments take on roles as investors, market participants, and coordinators of critical sectors, public organizations face challenges in balancing transparency with security, efficiency with resilience, and fiscal discipline with long-term strategic goals. The issue seeks contributions exploring how public value should be defined when economic, security, and societal objectives compete.

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Potential topics

• Public management of geoeconomic strategies and strategic state interventions
• Public value creation and distribution in geoeconomic governance
• Public financial management of strategic economic interventions
• Accountability and performance management in geoeconomic and mission-oriented public policies
• Governance and management of strategic public investments
• Administrative capacity for managing geoeconomic risks and strategic industries
• Fiscal governance and accountability of industrial subsidies and strategic investments
• Transparency, oversight, and accountability in strategic public procurement
• Public sector governance of strategic infrastructure and critical sectors
• Measuring and evaluating public value in strategic economic interventions
• Public management of economic sanctions and export controls
• Governance of critical supply chains and strategic dependencies
• Accountability in sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises
• Governance of national security-related public expenditure
• Investment screening and public sector accountability
• Multi-level governance of strategic economic policies
• Public–private partnerships in strategically important sectors
• Institutional and organizational responses to geopolitical and economic uncertainty
• Comparative public management approaches to geoeconomic governance

Timeline

• December 30, 2027: Manuscript deadline for research articles and new development pieces
• March 1, 2028: Manuscript deadline for debate pieces

Carmine Bianchi, University of Palermo

Greta Nasi, Bocconi University

Bin Chen, Baruch College

Gabriela Lotta, FGV-São Paulo School of Business Administration

Public administrations confront increasingly multifaceted challenges such as social inequality, climate change, and digital transformation that standard management approaches struggle to address. The call invites examination of how place-based strategy design can foster sustainable value creation by integrating organizational capabilities with local ecosystemic contexts, moving beyond traditional linear and centralized planning models toward adaptive, collaborative approaches grounded in specific spatial, cultural, and institutional conditions.

The special issue seeks contributions that advance understanding of how public value emerges from interactions between internal strategic intent and external community demands, mediated by place-specific factors termed locus and habitus. It emphasizes the need for performance management systems sensitive to local diversity, collaborative governance platforms, and methods that balance inside-out organizational perspectives with outside-in ecosystem thinking to address wicked problems effectively.

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Potential topics

• Frameworks for place-sensitive strategic planning in public services
• How public value emerges within complex, nested ecosystems shaped by spatial and cultural dimensions of place
• Methods for enhancing collaborative policy design and implementation in place-based ecosystems
• The role of local knowledge, culture, and beliefs in shaping strategy
• Interactions between inside-out (organizational) and outside-in (contextual) strategy perspectives
• Synergies and tensions between internal capabilities and external demands in co-design of public service strategies
• Adaptive and intelligent performance management systems
• Indicators and metrics for value-in-context and value-in-society
• The role of citizen perception in evaluating public service outcomes
• How collaborative policymaking can generate value outcomes aligned with equity, accountability, transparency, trust, and social cohesion
• The dynamics of value destruction in public service ecosystems
• Collaborative platforms for cross-sector governance
• Orchestration of theme-focused ecosystems for modular place development
• Meta-governance and boundary-spanning leadership
• Governance responses to turbulence and building robust place-based public services
• Interplay of formal and informal knowledge in ecosystem adaptation
• Digital platforms enabling citizen engagement and real-time data use
• Role of AI and digital twins in place-based ecosystem visualization

Timeline

• May 31, 2026: Abstract deadline
• April 30, 2027: Full paper submission deadline

Zoe Radnor, Aston University

David Walker, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust

This special issue examines the intersection of populism and public management, inviting cross-disciplinary perspectives from law, social sciences, politics and public administration. The rise of populist movements worldwide, spanning both left and right of the political spectrum, raises fundamental questions about how public managers and administrators navigate their responsibilities when faced with politicians whose values may conflict with liberal democratic principles and established governance standards.

The issue seeks contributions that explore critical tensions in public administration under populism: whether public managers have ethical obligations to defend democratic institutions, how they balance political responsiveness with professional integrity, and whether existing accountability frameworks adequately address challenges posed by populist policies. Contributors are encouraged to consider international comparisons and examine how different governmental structures and civil service frameworks respond to populist pressures.

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Potential topics

• Are we facing the limits of traditional thinking in public management? Do public managers have a 'moral personality' with value commitment to liberal democracy and/or state continuity?
• Does populism create a challenge for public managers to abide by good governance principles?
• Are public managers obliged to defend the state from attack, rhetorical or actual?
• Have public managers traditionally lacked 'voice' within the political–administrative interface and what challenges do they face with the rise of populism?
• Is there a problem facing public managers if they are becoming answerable to politicians with antagonistic value sets or who may break the law?
• How anachronistic are Weberian doctrines of 'responsiveness' in the face of populism?
• What is 'extremism'/populism and can it be defined ex ante?
• Do public managers observe/answer to a code that protects them against orders?
• How far do existing doctrines of accountability accommodate answerability for extremist policies?
• Do public managers have ethical commitments that equip them to resist political directives that might subvert constitutional order?
• What lessons could public managers learn from international and comparative perspectives on populism?
• Is the UK a special case with its uncodified constitutional system?

Timeline

• January 31, 2027: Submission deadline for research articles and new development pieces
• March 31, 2027: Submission deadline for debate pieces

Kathy Quick, University of Minnesota

Jean Hartley, The Open University

Eckhard Schroeter, German University of the Police

Nick Caveney, Hertfordshire Constabulary

This special issue invites debate articles exploring the intersection of policing with public management and governance. The issue seeks provocative and well-considered arguments addressing how organizational, managerial, and policy frameworks shape policing legitimacy, equity, performance, and accountability across different contexts and governance systems.

The audience comprises an interdisciplinary community of academics and professionals interested in policing from organizational, managerial, governance and public policy perspectives. Contributors may draw on world practice and experience to examine questions ranging from police-community partnerships and resource management to civilian oversight and the governance of private security provision.

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Potential topics

• Legitimacy, equity, power, authority, governance and organizational performance in policing
• Strategic planning, human resource management, budgeting and evaluation in police organizations
• Coordination of operations and accountability in policing
• Cooperation between policing and public and private partners
• Value creation or destruction in policing across different settings and social environments
• Changing roles and expectations of police during political and societal change, stress and austerity
• Comparative analysis of policing values, operations, and consequences across different locales
• Political governance systems and their implications for effective, fair and accountable police services
• Police operational independence and governance structures
• Civilian scrutiny and oversight of police ('who guards the guards')
• Governance mechanisms for private and non-governmental police and security services

Timeline

• September 30, 2026: Manuscript deadline