Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide an evaluation of public sector research in the 1998–2018 period. Design/methodology/approach: The paper uses the extant literature of this era to study the theorisation of, and the findings of, public sector research. Findings: This is a...

This essay addresses the implications of accounting and hybrids for the management of risk. We argue firstly and most generally for a definition of hybrids that extends beyond organisational forms. The existing literature, we suggest, has been too focused on organisational forms, and has largely...

This paper examines how the category of failure was economised and made calculable. It explores the preconditions for this shift in three stages. First, it explores how failure came to be 'forgiven' in both the US and the UK across the nineteenth century, how it came to be defined as something...

This essay addresses the implications of accounting and hybrids for the management of risk. We argue firstly and most generally for a definition of hybrids that extends beyond organisational forms. The existing literature, we suggest, has been too focused on organisational forms, and has largely...