Examines the move towards a commercialized, economically driven, health sector in New Zealand. Reforms involve extensive organizational rearrangements and the creation of profit‐driven businesses in place of public hospitals. These institutional rearrangements involve the fabrication of new...

Little is known of how accounting is used in the home, or about the potential relevance of business‐like techniques in this domain. This paper reports findings from an exploratory study into the practices of home accountants. Ten cases based on interviews with both accountants and lay people...

Cover -- The disillusion of calculative practices in academia -- Mergers and acquisitions: the latest university fashion? -- Failed promises - performance measurement ambiguities in hybrid universities -- Actors' reflexivity and engagement in the formation of new accounting tools during...