Purpose –The aim of the paper is to illustrate the changing structure of accountability under a new public governance … accountability and public governance literature, in particular, the accountability framework proposed by Hupe and Hill. The evidence … studies evidence changes in the accountability and governance process, particularly with respect to the personal budget regime …

accountability systems. In particular the paper aims to deal with the relationships between accounting-based reforms, forms of … accountability, and people-changing or people-processing approaches to service provision within Italian social work. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper draws on the accountability and people changing/processing literature to interpret and discuss the evidence …

Accountability arrangements in networks present special concerns because of the potential for accountability to get … is to investigate, through an exploratory case study, how accountability is shaped in a network of public and private … public sector. The paper, drawing from the accountability literature (Romzek and Dubnick, 1987; Romzek et al., 2012 …