Cemil Eren Firtin

Senior Lecturer

School of Public Administration

Mail

eren.firtin@spa.gu.se

Visiting address

Sprängkullsgatan 19

41123 Göteborg

Postal address

Box 712

40530 Göteborg

About Cemil Eren Firtin

In brief

Assistant professor in public administration since 2023
PhD in public administration at the University of Gothenburg since September 2022

Research interests

Accounting, financial management and control
Professionalism
Risk and crisis management
Digitalization
Social sustainability

Teaching

Management accounting
Financial control
Public auditing
Digitalization in public administration
Supervision of bachelor and master theses

Publications (selected)

Fırtın, C. E., Tekin Bilbil, E., Karlsson, T., & Grossi, G. (2026). Standardising green city performance: Multiple framings and overflows. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 39(9), 64–96.

Bracci, E., Fırtın, C. E., & Weichselberger, G. K. (2025). Markets in absence of pricing and qualification mechanisms: Past, present and future warnings. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, 37(5), 717–737.

Fırtın, C. E., Akyuz, M., Bilbil, E. T., & Karkin, N. (2025). Digital accountability through e-participation: The moderating role of the digital divide. Public Money & Management, 1–13.

Tyskbo, D., & Fırtın, C. E. (2025). Contextualizing talent management: A practice-based study of Turkish SMEs and large organizations. Journal of Small Business Management, 1–41.

Bilbil, E. T., Fırtın, C. E., & Karlsson, T. S. (2025). More than just numbers: Exploring the transformative role of accounting practices in the Black Sea Grain Initiative for mitigating human-made crises. Public Money & Management, 45(3), 228–236.

Berlin, J., Bretzer, Y. N., Brorström, B., Fırtın, C. E., Johansson, V., & Zapata, P. (2025). Call for papers: The new landscape of public administration—Trends, challenges, and future pathways. Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration.

Fırtın, C. E. (2024). Accountingization of the pandemic multiple: Enactments of perceived completeness in accounting representations. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, 36(6), 72–96.

Bilbil, E. T., Fırtın, C. E., Zihnioğlu, O., & Bracci, E. (2024). Exploring publicness as social practice: An analysis on social support within an emerging economy. Financial Accountability & Management, 40(4), 454–474.

Weichselberger, G. K., Fırtın, C. E., & Bracci, E. (2024). Hybridisation, purification, and re-hybridisation: A study of shifting registers of value. The British Accounting Review, 56(5), 101201.

Bracci, E., Fırtın, C. E., Raudla, R., & Weichselberger, G. K. (2024). Public sector assetization: Current themes (Call for papers). Financial Accountability & Management.

Fırtın, C. E. (2023). Accountingisation of social care: The multiplicity and embeddedness of calculations and valuations in costing and caring practices. Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, 20(1), 144–166.

Karlsson, T. S., & Fırtın, C. E. (2022). Den hyperrationella förvaltningens hot mot offentlig sektors framtid. Organisation & Samhälle, 2022(2), 54–59.

Fırtın, C. E. (2022). Accounting, professions, and performativity: Exploring the limits of accountingisation in professional organisations (Doctoral dissertation, University of Gothenburg).

Karlsson, T. S., & Fırtın, C. E. (2021). Performative consequences of measuring performance—Insights from health-care contexts. In A. Farazmand (Ed.), Global encyclopedia of public administration, public policy, and governance. Springer.

Demirag, I., Fırtın, C. E., & Bilbil, E. T. (2020). Managing expectations with emotional accountability: Making city hospitals accountable during the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, 32(5), 889–901.

Fırtın, C. E., & Kastberg, G. (2020). Calculating pay in Swedish schools: Accounting, performativity, and misfires. Financial Accountability & Management, 36(4), 420–438.

Fırtın, C. E., & Karlsson, T. S. (2020). (Re)descriptions of medical professional work: Exploring accounting as a performative device within an emergency unit health-care context. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, 32(2), 159–176.

Fırtın, C. E. (2019). A transatlantic history of public administration: Analyzing the USA, Germany and France (Book review). Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration, 23(2), 97–99.