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Public Sector to Public Services: 20 Years of 'Contextual' Accounting Research
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to review and critique the field of public sector accounting research. Many nation states deliver essential public services. In recent times, many of these…
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Changes in the Public Sector: A Review of Recent“Alternative” Accounting Research
Reviews some recent contributions to “alternative” accounting research in relation to the changes which have taken place in the public sector, and which have altered the structure of the sector. An…
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Performance management systems: A conceptual model
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Control and Legitimation in Government Accountability Processes: The Private Finance Initiative in the UK
Abstract This paper explores a number of dimensions of the accountability processes of governments. Accountability is associated with giving reasons for conduct for responsibilities or authority…
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Research in Management Control: An Overview of its Development
SUMMARY This paper builds on a series of earlier reviews of the management control literature (Giglioni and Bedeian, 1974; Hofstede, 1968; Merchant and Simons, 1986; Parker, 1986) and considers the…
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ENGAGEMENT, EDUCATION AND SUSTAINABILITY A REVIEW ESSAY ON ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING
Environmental accounting (EA)[1] research has emerged over the last 20 years as a distinct thread of academic research within the broader area of social accounting (see, e.g. AAA, 1975; Belkaoui,…
Recent financial and administrative changes in the NHS: A critical theory analysis
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Organisational and accounting change: theoretical and empirical reflections and thoughts on a future research agenda
There has been considerable interest in the theory and practice of organisation change. Similarly there has been a great deal of attention given to the processes that lead to and result from…
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRINCIPAL–AGENT, CONTRACTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: CONCEPTUAL AND CULTURAL PROBLEMS
Abstract The aim of this paper is to raise questions about the development of the principal-agent, contracting and accountability relationships in the UK Public Sector at the present time. We argue…
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THE GENDERED NATURE OF ''ACCOUNTING LOGIC'': POINTERS TO AN ACCOUNTING THAT ENCOMPASSES MULTIPLE VALUES
Abstract This paper examines the possibility of developing an approach to accounting which will be more enabling. My concern is with the nature of the values which are represented by accounting.…
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