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
Editor-in-Chief of the Scandinavian Journal of Public Administration (SJPA)

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. (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.

Weichselberger Kastberg, G., Fırtın, C.E., & Bracci, E. (2023). Hybridisation, purification, and re-hybridisation: A study of shifting registers of value. The British Accounting Review, 101201.

Fırtın, C.E. (2022). Accounting, Professions, and Performativity: Exploring the limits of accountingisation in professional organisations. PhD thesis, defended 16 September 2022, School of Public Administration, University of Gothenburg.

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.

Demirag, I., Fırtın, C.E., & Tekin-Bilbil, E. (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.