... through this complex budgeting process. A broadened network and community (wantok) is revealed, and through a sympathetic melding of Melanesian and Church tradition, a new ethnic-identity emerges. Issues of parishioners’ isolation, women’s roles and central accountability are not, as yet, fully integrated...

... Group Publishing Limited 2013 Universities Management control system Budgets Autonomy NPM Performance indicators Control The corporatisation of universities (Parker, 2011) appears nevertheless less sharply in France than in other countries, possibly because of the relatively...

...Masayoshi Noguchi; Trevor Boyns Purpose This paper aims to examine the role of the Japanese state in the development of budgets within “special companies” in the transportation sector between 1928 and 1945. Design/methodology/approach Using evidence contained in the archives of “closedown...

... organisations. The budget system was found to be the most important organizational process with respect to accountability and this paper focuses on the core relationship discovered between budgetary practices and accountability perceptions. The way in which accountability was perceived and the budgetary...