Objectives

The objective of the journal is to engage with academics, regional and national policy makers and large and small businesses on the benefits and risks of digital transformation. This is done with a continually expanding and authoritative evidence base regarding the impact of digital transformation. This evidence base will draw upon the experiences, quantitative improvements and reflections of organisations worldwide, considered either individually or collectively (as a sector, region or through another unifying theme).

Readership

IJDT's target audience includes academics who incorporate awareness of the mechanisms and impact of digital transformation into their research. These academics will invariably come from a wide range of disciplines including management, organisational studies, technology studies, information systems, sociology, computer science and engineering.

A further audience is policy makers who want to maximise the benefits and minimise the risks of digital transformation within their own jurisdictions.

Academics from other disciplines wherein the impact of digital transformation is reaching into their own domain (e.g. accounting, law and languages) will also find the journal instructive for the reference it provides to previous similar experiences.

In this way, IJDT acts as a translator between technical and social perspectives, as well as encouraging integrated perspectives. The journal also encourages a critical voice on digital transformation that is beneficial and insightful for its readership.

Contents

The journal publishes original papers that address digital transformation. In addition, IJDT invites specific case studies relating to a single organisation's specific digital transformation. Case studies of digital transformation within a specific region or sector are also encouraged. Book reviews that are relevant to the concerns of the journal are welcome if this relationship is clearly articulated and argued.

The journal will occasionally publish special issues relating to specific threads of interest that can be examined in multi-disciplinary and comparable ways.