...James Brackley; Penelope Tuck; Mark Exworthy Purpose This paper examines the contested value of healthy life and wellbeing in a context of severe austerity, exploring how the value of “Public Health” is constructed through and with material-discursive practices and accounting representations...

...Annette Quayle Purpose This paper aims to generate new research directions at the intersection of accounting, whistleblowing and publicness: defined as the attainment of public goals, interests and values. Design/methodology/approach A problematising review is used to challenge and rethink...

...Ileana Steccolini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect various pathways for public sector accounting and accountability research in a post-new public management (NPM) context. Design/methodology/approach The paper first discusses the relationship between NPM and public sector...