The 20-year history of whole of government reports (WGR) implementation in Australia has some important lessons for other countries. These include factors that need to be considered regarding the process, the positive influences that contributed to successful implementation that are worth...

The economic development and land use policies pursued in Southern California throughout most of the twentieth century encouraged rapid population growth and urbanization of land. The five counties of Southern California – Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to determine the appropriateness of a general-purpose financial reporting model derived from a “decision-useful” framework for government departments. Design/methodology/approach – This research in this paper uses a survey methodology to access...

<title>Abstract</title> This article presents the findings of a project investigating the intended and unintended consequences of the contemporary performance-driven environment in the Australian higher education sector (AHES) focusing on the performance mechanisms used and the performance information...

<title>Abstract</title> This article provides a critique of the Global Reporting Initiatives (GRI) guidelines, sustainability reporting (SR) guidelines and also examines their applicability to public and third sector organizations. The article finds that these guidelines promote a ‘managerialist’ approach...

<title>Abstract</title> In recent decades, Australian universities have corporatized. Encouraged by government policies, universities adopted modernization practices that have been widely questioned. ‘Collegial entrepreneurialism’ is an approach that builds on collegial processes to protect academic values...

<title>Abstract</title> This article reports on part of a larger empirical study examining senior managers' perceptions of corporate environmental management (CEM) and reporting in China. ‘Coercive government institutional involvement’ emerged as one of the major influencing themes of CEM. The state...