This e-book is inspired by our recent review of the IC literature in Guthrie et al. (2012, p. 74) in which we found that the public sector is one of the least addressed areas of IC research. This is surprising considering that the public sector contributes a significant proportion of GDP in most...

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 to...

With the introduction in the 1998-99 state budget of accrual output-based management (AOM), the state of Victoria in Australia is now at the cutting edge of a global public sector management transformation movement. The fundamental elements of financial management change are a full accrual...

By analysing the organsiation's management challenges and activities from an IC perspective, the research study made visible the organisation's invisible sources of value creation and identified inconsistencies in the enactment of knowledge resources. The ICVC framework proved particularly...

This paper focuses on issues and consequences for the public sector from the current policy decision to adopt sector-neutral International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) from reporting periods on or after 1 January 2005. It contends that an examination of the history of private and public...