'We have received very good feedback for our special issue on digital transformation in an uncertain time,' says a smiling BETA editor Ingeborg Kleppe.

Together with the team at BETA, the professor emerita has created a special issue with the two guest editors, Fred Strønen and Professor Karl Joachim Breunig from OsloMet.

'The guest editors took their own professional environment as a starting point. Digitization and digital transformation are not only technological changes, but also new services, products, business models and new forms of value creation,' explains Kleppe.

The topic has offered many interesting angles and research articles.

One of the articles was written by Ann-Karin Tennås Holmen, professor at the University of Stavanger and Hans Erik Haugvaldstad from Sola municipality. They have investigated how Digi Rogaland is developing at the intersection between national policy and requirements, and regional adaptation and needs.

Digi Rogaland is a regional collaboration between 20 Rogaland municipalities and Rogaland County Municipality. The goal is to ensure that the region's residents get access to good digital citizen services regardless of which municipality they live in. The study explores collaboration platforms as a theoretical concept and as an emerging management method to support digital transformation in public administration.

'BETA can be a stepping stone for researchers. We accept research articles in the Scandinavian languages ​​or in English. It is a short way to the editorial office, and it is possible to start projects through BETA, explains Kleppe, who guarantees a high professional standard.

The editors manage to revise around 40 per cent of submitted manuscripts to published articles. Kleppe would like to hear from even more researchers who wish to publish their articles. The list of researchers who have published in BETA since its inception in 1987 is long, and the list includes researchers such as professors Nicolai Foss and Peter Mollgaard.

In addition, fellows can publish "kappa" in BETA. Many doctoral theses contain a significant background section, "kappa", which is not published. BETA provides a unique opportunity to publish this literature review/overview section. One NHH employee who took this opportunity was Karen Sæbbø Osmundsen.

'Thank you to Ingeborg Kleppe and Paul Gooderham for their guidance and that they thought my work was worthy of publication in BETA. I recommend other young researchers to use this opportunity too,' says Osmundsen, who rewrote her "kappa" from 2021 and had it published in BETA's new special issue.