Collaborative governance in the digital transformation age : a systematic literature review with bibliometric mapping

Maulana, Rio Yusri (author), Dečman, Mitja (author)

Purpose: The article aims to provide an updated and comprehensive overview of academic research in the field of collaborative governance and digital transformation, with an emphasis on the emerging topic of collaborative digital transformation. Digital transformation is a recurrent theme in today’s society, fuelled by events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, global climate challenges, and other crises reshaping the world. As societies increasingly rely on digital platforms and online communication, the prime urge and necessity of the human race – i.e., to communicate and collaborate in tackling these challenges – puts collaborative governance in digital transformation high on the agenda of governments, the private sector, and citizens. Design/Methodology/Approach: To address this topic, we performed a bibliometric analysis using various analytical and visualisation tools to evaluate and visualise existing scientific bibliographic materials. The analysis covers 286 articles published in the Scopus and Web of Science databases over the past two decades in the area of collaborative governance and digital transformation, employing established and innovative bibliometric approaches. Graphical analyses are used to illustrate coauthorship, keywords co-occurrence, research topics evolution, and the network of influential researchers within collaborative governance and digital transformation. Findings: The results show that the relationship between collaborative governance and digital transformation is still limited and needs further study, considering that these two concepts have been emerging trends in public administration over the past two decades. In addition, the findings reveal a significant growth in research of these topics over time, although not specifically focused on collaborative digital transformation. Practical Implications: The article provides a summary of key aspects of collaborative governance and digital transformation research and helps lay the foundations for shaping the future of this evolving field of public administration. Thus, it helps researchers understand the development of collaborative digital transformation research over the past two decades, as collaborative digital transformation is a relatively new field of research characterised by rapid growth and evolution. Originality/Value: The research contributes to the understanding of collaborative digital transformation as a distinct research area within the broader concepts of digital transformation and collaborative governance, which is still seeking its own identity in academic literature, and offers a definition of collaborative digital transformation (CDT).

• Language: English
• Keywords: digital transformation, e-governance, collaborative governance, collaboration, collaborative digital transformation, bibliometric mapping, literature review
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FU - Faculty of Administration
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 31-60, 105-106
• Numbering: Vol. 21, no. 1
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-148682
• UDC: 35:004:005
• ISSN on article: 2591-2240
• DOI: 10.17573/cepar.2023.1.02
• COBISS.SI-ID: 157478147
• Publication date in RUL: 31.08.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Central European public administration review
• Shortened title: CEPAR
• Publisher: Fakulteta za upravo
• ISSN: 2591-2240
• COBISS.SI-ID: 293849600

Licences

• License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Description: The most restrictive Creative Commons license. This only allows people to download and share the work for no commercial gain and for no other purposes.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Sodelovalno upravljanje v dobi digitalne preobrazbe

Abstract

Namen: Članek ponuja celovit in posodobljen pregled akademskega raziskovanja na področju sodelovalnega upravljanja in digitalne preobrazbe s poudarkom na novi temi – sodelovalni digitalni preobrazbi. Digitalna preobrazba, ki jo dodatno spodbujajo dogodki, kot so pandemija covida-19, globalni podnebni izzivi in druge krize, je stalnica dandanašnjih razprav. Ker družbe primarno potrebo človeštva, tj. komuniciranje in sodelovanje pri reševanju izzivov, vse bolj prenašajo v digitalno in spletno okolje, je sodelovalno upravljanje na področju digitalne preobrazbe visoko na dnevnem redu vlad, zasebnega sektorja in državljanov. Zasnova/Metodologija/Pristop: Za obravnavo omenjene tematike je bila izvedena bibliometrična analiza, v kateri so bila uporabljena različna analitična in vizualizacijska orodja za vrednotenje in vizualizacijo obstoječih znanstvenih bibliografskih gradiv. Analiza zajema 286 člankov, objavljenih v podatkovnih zbirkah Scopus in Web of Science v zadnjih dveh desetletjih na temo sodelovalnega upravljanja in digitalne preobrazbe, pri čemer so bili uporabljeni uveljavljeni in inovativni bibliometrični pristopi. Soavtorstvo, soobstoj ključnih besed, razvoj raziskovalnih tem in mreže vplivnih raziskovalcev na področju sodelovalnega upravljanja in digitalne preobrazbe so ponazorjeni z grafičnimi analizami. Ugotovitve: Rezultati kažejo, da je povezava med sodelovalnim upravljanjem in digitalno preobrazbo še vedno omejena in jo je treba dodatno preučiti, saj gre za koncepta, ki se v zadnjih dveh desetletjih vse pogosteje pojavljata tudi v javni upravi. Poleg tega ugotovitve razkrivajo, da se je raziskovanje teh tem sčasoma sicer razširilo, vendar ni posebej osredotočeno na sodelovalno digitalno preobrazbo. Vpliv v praksi: Članek povzema ključne vidike raziskav na področju sodelovalnega upravljanja in digitalne preobrazbe ter postavlja temelje za oblikovanje prihodnosti tega razvijajočega se področja javne uprave. S tem pomaga raziskovalcem razumeti razvoj raziskav sodelovalne digitalne preobrazbe v zadnjih dveh desetletjih, saj gre za razmeroma novo raziskovalno področje, za katero sta značilna hitra rast in razvoj. Izvirnost/Vrednost: Raziskava prispeva k razumevanju sodelovalne digitalne preobrazbe kot ločenega raziskovalnega področja znotraj širših konceptov digitalne preobrazbe in sodelovalnega upravljanja, ki se v znanstveni literaturi šele uveljavlja, ter ponuja opredelitev sodelovalne digitalne preobrazbe.

• Keywords: digitalna preobrazba, e-upravljanje, sodelovalno upravljanje, sodelovanje, sodelovalna digitalna preobrazba, bibliometrično kartiranje, pregled literature

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Project number: P2-0426
• Name: Digitalna preobrazba za pametno javno upravljanje