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... sector accounting Public sector reform In the current era of austerity measures and cutbacks in the public sector, governments in Europe and elsewhere are on the lookout for instruments that can help them reduce costs. One such “instrument” that has increasingly caught the eyes of government...

...Enrico Bracci; Sue Llewellyn Purpose This article aims to focus on one of the most intriguing issues related to the public sector reforms: the accountability systems. In particular the paper aims to deal with the relationships between accounting‐based reforms, forms of accountability, and people...

...). United Kingdom Public administration Public sector reform Accountability Government New public management Research impact Academic management The term impact has quickly gained ascendancy in academic life, thanks most recently to the latest incarnation of the UK research assessment exercise...

.../value The paper's mobilisation of Foucault's governmentality framework in the study of a local authority case study in a contemporary setting is relatively unusual. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Markets Local government Public sector organizations Public sector reform New...

... public sector – reforms that are occurring in almost every country in the world (Hopwood and Tomkins, 1985 ; Guthrie, 1994 ; Llewellyn, 1998 ; Lapsley, 1999 ; Lawrence, 1999 ; Llewellyn and Northcott, 2005). The main motive(s) for such reforms, some studies have noted, include the need...

... Limited 2005 Consumerism Students Performance measures Public sector reform Universities Sweden The present study adopts an organisational field perspective, focusing on more overriding developments in PM and quality control in an organisational area made up of multiple actors...