Innovations in public services / Irvine Lapsley, Peter Miller and John Burns, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lapsley, Irvine, editor.

Miller, Peter, editor.

Burns, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Municipal services--United States.

Municipal services.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (133 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.

Summary:

The primary focus of this special issue is on the role of accounting in framing and shaping the everyday experiences of citizens, managers and policy makers in public services' delivery. The role of accountants in such settings has grown significantly over recent decades; indeed, today's accountants embody one of the central forms of expertise shaping management practices, organisational processes and regulatory mechanisms in multiple organisational settings. This special issue offers a collection of papers which extend our understandings of the intermingling of accounting practices and bureaucratic procedures, in the context of reforms to and within public service organisations.

Contents:

Cover

EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS

Guest editorial

Role attribution in public sector accountability processes

Lean and process-orienting health care - linking and disentangling activities

New public management a re-packaging of extant techniques?

Exploring organisational hybridity from a learning perspective

Ex-citable accounting and the development of pervasive innovation

The interplay of managerial and non-managerial controls, institutional work, and the coordination of laterally dependent hospital activities.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78754-558-X