Creating Value for Citizens in Public Service Ecosystems | Public Money & Management
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Creating Value for Citizens in Public Service Ecosystems
Journal: Public Money & Management
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Manuscript Deadline: 01 December 2026
About the Special Issue
Public Money & Management invites submissions for its Special Issue on "Creating Value for Citizens in Public Service Ecosystems."
The Special Issue explores how public services create social, economic, and ecological value for citizens within Public Service Ecosystems (PSEs). It seeks to advance understanding of how public organizations, policymakers, service users, professionals, families, communities, and technologies interact to enable or hinder value creation in public services.
Contributions are encouraged that examine how value is created at individual, organizational, and institutional levels, while addressing the tensions between individual needs and collective public interests. The issue welcomes both theoretical and empirical research that contributes to public administration, public management, policy, and practice.
Topics of Interest
Submissions may address, but are not limited to:
Value co-creation involving service users, families, and vulnerable populations
Public Service Ecosystems (PSEs) and Public Service Logic (PSL)
Technologies and digital transformation in public services
Public-benefit services such as transport, housing, utilities, prison management, and urban development
Place-based public service delivery
Individual, organizational, and institutional dynamics influencing value creation
Value destruction and barriers to effective public service delivery
Regulatory frameworks, governance, and institutional contexts
Public policy and management approaches for citizen value creation
Conflict, collaboration, and ecosystem interactions within public services
Types of Contributions
The journal welcomes:
Research Articles (up to 8,000 words)
Debate Articles (up to 1,000 words)
New Development Articles (up to 3,500 words)
Both theoretical and empirical contributions employing diverse research methods are encouraged.
Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts must follow the Public Money & Management author guidelines.
All submissions should be made through the journal's ScholarOne submission system.
Authors must declare any relevant conflicts of interest during submission.
Accepted papers will be published online with a DOI upon acceptance without waiting for the complete Special Issue.
Important Dates
Research Articles & New Development Articles: 01 December 2026
Debate Articles: 01 March 2027
Special Issue Editors
Paula Rossi, University of Vaasa, Finland & University of Edinburgh Business School, UK
Jim Broch Skarli, University of Inland Norway
Maria Petrescu, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, USA
Edwina Zhu, University of Edinburgh Business School, UK
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