Purpose: Nearly 40 years since they first appeared, there is renewed interest in dashboards, engendered by the diffusion of business intelligence (BI) desktop software, such as Power BI, QlikView and Tableau, denoted collectively as “self-service” BI. Using these commodity software tools,...

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...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to add to our understanding of the nature of accrual accounting by examining the process involved in its construction, as a dynamic and controversial process. This paper reveals how it is built and constantly modified, reinforced or negated during the...