Transforming Management Accounting: Digitalisation, Sustainability and Organisational Change

Call for Papers

Transforming Management Accounting: Digitalisation, Sustainability and Organisational Change

Journal: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management
Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 01 March 2027

Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management invites submissions for its Special Issue on Transforming Management Accounting: Digitalisation, Sustainability and Organisational Change.

About the Special Issue

Rapid advances in digital technologies, increasing sustainability expectations, and ongoing organisational transformation are fundamentally reshaping the role of management accounting. Beyond its traditional focus on financial control, management accounting is increasingly supporting strategic decision-making, sustainability initiatives, organisational resilience, and long-term value creation.

This Special Issue seeks qualitative research that explores how management accounting practices evolve in response to digitalisation, artificial intelligence, sustainability challenges, and organisational change. It welcomes context-rich studies that deepen theoretical and empirical understanding of management accounting transformation across diverse organisational, institutional, and geographical settings.

Topics of Interest

Submissions may include, but are not limited to:

• Digitalisation, analytics, and AI in management accounting

• Sustainability, ESG, and management accounting

• Beyond budgeting and adaptive control

• Strategy, value creation, and business model transformation

• Platforms, ecosystems, and inter-organisational control

• Behavioural and cultural transformation

• The changing role of management accountants

• Governance, ethics, and performance measurement

• Management accounting in the public sector, healthcare, education, and social purpose organisations

• Risk management and organisational resilience

• Crisis-driven organisational transformation

• Emerging economies and indigenous accounting practices

• Qualitative methods for studying organisational transformation

Preferred Article Types

The journal welcomes:

• Qualitative Research Articles only

Submission Information

• Manuscript Submission Opens: 01 November 2026

• Manuscript Submission Deadline: 01 March 2027

• Manuscripts must be submitted through the ScholarOne Manuscripts submission system.

• Authors should select the appropriate Special Issue during the submission process.

• Only qualitative research articles will be considered for peer review.

• All submissions must strictly follow the journal's official Author Guidelines.

• Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.

Guest Editors

• Umesh Sharma, University of Waikato, New Zealand

• Chris Akroyd, University of Waikato, New Zealand

• Yuki Guo, University of Auckland, New Zealand

• Leanne Johnstone, Örebro University School of Business, Sweden

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