...Matti Pihlajamaa; Maria Merisalo; Patrik Saari Purpose This study aims to examine the preparation of a complex Social Impact Bond (SIB) project in Finland, exploring how challenges and solutions reflect the interplay between new public management (NPM) and new public governance (NPG) logics...

...’ year-end procurement spending. A fundamental pillar of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) is to improve the governance of the public sector. Supreme audits institutions (SAIs) are “the linchpin of a country’s integrity system” (Dye and Stapenhurst, 1998), at the forefront of promoting good...

.../approach For the two countries, the paper sieved through government orders and notifications promulgated during and for the pandemic, examined the prevailing laws and statutes that were invoked and comprehensively scanned online news portals to gather evidence. In addition, the author also engaged...