...Jane Baxter; Martin Carlsson-Wall; Wai Fong Chua; Kalle Kraus Purpose The purpose of this paper is to extend the understanding of “the” accounting entity, demonstrating how it is a contestable socio-political construction informed by a nexus of market, state and community actors. Design...

...) , NPM has evolved to NPG emphasising public sector values and outcomes which has, in part, been “a response to the NPM-oriented developments in the public sector, especially with respect to ‘market-isation’ and ‘accounting-isation’”. NPM has drawn on the neo-liberal political and economic dogma...

...Robert Ochoki Nyamori Purpose The purpose of this paper is to make intelligible the rationalities and mechanisms through which markets have been proffered as alternatives or complements to traditional welfare‐based provision and the effect of this development on the subjectivity of workers...

... scope for accounting expertise. However, as the profession faces the end of a boom in audit services, the question of how its markets can be self‐consciously expanded has re‐emerged. To understand the dynamics of professional expansion we examine the way in which accountants attempted to develop...