Looks at the papers presented at the APIRA Conference in the public sector accounting area. There were some international comparative studies. The conference highlighted the need to understand different cultural contexts; the widening of the idea of public sector to the not for profit sectors...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the management control systems developed by universities and groups within them, to manage research within UK University Business and Management Schools. Specifically, the paper analyses how universities develop their internal management...

This paper explores the resistance strategies of organisations to unwanted changes. It is concerned with the way satellite organisations are created to provide a counter force to environmental disturbances such as changes introduced in the context of what has come to be called New Public...

Purpose – One of the most important considerations in any research project is a compelling research question, the addressing of which will produce socially and/or economically relevant and beneficial insights based on high‐quality evidence. The purpose of this paper is to explain that each...

Purpose The paper aims to categorise the nature of the research undertaken in respect of gender and accounting to identify where research is undertaken and where there remains lacunae in the field. It seeks to offer prescriptions for more research in the field and for the consideration of a...

As the old century comes to an end and the new one begins, we can see a tendency to consider where we are as individuals, communities and nations. This is undertaken by both looking back at where we have come from and reflecting on where we might go. Whilst in some ways the turn of the century...

This book critically analyses the extensive forms of societal regulatory requirements using forms of Accounting Control, particularly those that are exerted over public sector organisations and the strategies of Controlling Accounting that are used by these organisations to minimise the effects...