...Enrico Bracci; Iris Saliterer; Mariafrancesca Sicilia; Ileana Steccolini Purpose This paper aims to highlight the importance of (public) value(s) and publicness in accounting and accountability research. It pinpoints a range of issues that scholars need to contemplate when reconsidering publicness...

... the existing accounting and whistleblowing literature by incorporating readings from the public interest and public value literature. The paper draws on the work of Dewey (1927), Bozeman (2007) and Benington (2009) to open up new ways of theorising relations between accounting, whistleblowing and publicness...

...Linda Höglund; Maria Mårtensson; Kerstin Thomson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to enhance understanding of the conceptualisation and operationalisation of public value in practice by applying Moore's (1995) strategic triangle as an analytical framework to study strategic management...

...Hendrik Vollmer Purpose This paper explores the role of accounting in ecological reconstitution and draws attention to the public value as a topic of strategic interest for developing it. Design/methodology/approach The process of ecological reconstitution described by Latour in the “Politics...

... and maintenance of public value and democratic participation. Ileana Steccolini can be contacted at: ileana.steccolini@newcastle.ac.uk © Emerald Publishing Limited 2018 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Austerity Public sector accounting Wicked problems New public...