UN Sustainable Development Goals, Governance, Accountability and Organizational Change .

We are pleased to announce that the 2023 Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change (JAOC) conference will be held on 8-9 November online. This conference follows the last fifth biennial international conference of the Global Organizational and Accounting Change Research (GOACR) network held at La Trobe University in Melbourne, 26 – 28 November 2017.

The GOACR network is committed to high quality research on contemporary issues in organizational and accounting change. It aims at providing a platform for international researchers and practitioners from multiple disciplines to disseminate information on organizational and accounting systems change.

We are pleased to announce that from this year we will hold this Symposium under the banner of JAOC in association with the Department of Accounting at Prince Sultan University.
Founded in 2005, JAOC represents a new emphasis on exploring how organisations change, and how the change process affects organisational and social processes. For further details about the journal, visit:http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/jaoc/jaoc.jsp .

We hope you enjoy a stimulating Symposium

Key themes:

UN Sustainable Development Goals, Governance, Accountability and Organizational Change

The 2023 Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change (JAOC) Annual

JAOC, published by Emerald Group Publishing, is designed to provide a platform for interdisciplinary researchers and practitioners to disseminate information on contemporary organizational changes and accounting practices in industry, public and non-profit organizations, or in the private sector.

Empirical and review papers are sought from a variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives. We welcome manuscripts from any emerging, developed economies and gulf nations both in the public and private sectors in the following areas.

• UN sustainable development goals, organisational change, and accounting's role therein
• Interface between data analytics and accounting
• Future of accounting profession in the changing digitalised environment
• Governance, policy change, social transformation, and accounting
• Changes in social and environmental accounting and performance reporting
• Accountability and performance in the public and private sectors
• Accounting change in gulf nations and MENA countries
• Public sector reform and accounting change in Gulf nations and MENA countries
• Corporate failure and auditing change
• Independence of auditors, ethics, and accounting professions
• Digital auditing and forensic accounting

These themes are only indicative. Papers outside of these themes with relevance to understanding the role of accounting in organisational (and social) change are also welcome. Only full papers will be considered for presentation.

All manuscripts submitted will normally only be considered for Symposium subject to a detailed blind review by at least two reviewers.

A special issue will be published by the Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change in late 2024 or early 2025.

Registration fee: Complimentary