public sector organisations and effects on accountability among public decision makers. Design/methodology/approach – The … to as Sunset City, in Finland from 2008 to 2013. Findings – The relationship between institutionalisation of competitive … tendering and accountability for total costs of public services depends on how public officials use management accounting and …

accountability and efficiency. Changes have occurred in public sector management and in public sector accounting. Techniques such as … framework of accountability.  …

the demise, in Australia, of Westminster accountability conventions.  … between civil servants, as APS managers, and their ministers has changed. Explores the accountability implications of the … commercialization of the APS in the context of the recasting of the accountability responsibilities of civil servants associated with …

Takes an exploratory approach to the development of an accountability framework for environmental performance of the … Australian Commonwealth public sector. Explains that the aim of the environmental performance accountability framework is for the … reporting, and links it to the concept of environmental accountability. Drawing on this literature, explores interrelationships …

changes proposed by the new Labour government after May 1997. It concludes that competition is an important management tool …

marketplace. Explains the concept of buyer sophistication in terms of the skills necessary for successful competition in markets …

this article, to phenomena such as regulations, public accountability, procedures and forms. From this stems the belief …

engendering this enhanced accountability. First reviews the meaning of accountability and the different level of accountability in … the public sector. Then reviews the principal changes in the accountability processes caused by the reforms of the 1980s … and 1990s and questions whether these reforms have led to greater accountability. Concludes that this accountability is …