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 regulatory...

Governments around the world are criticized as inefficient, ineffective, too large, too costly, overly bureaucratic, overburdened by unnecessary rules, unresponsive to public needs, secretive, undemocratic, invasive into rights of citizens, self-serving, and failing in provision of the quantity...

The objective of this paper is to critique the modernization of an essential public service - Air Navigation Services (ANS) - since the early 1980s. The paper focuses on the changes to the financial management and accountability regimes of four Anglo-American ANS providers.Frederickson and Smith...