The shaping of public services through calculative practices: The roles of accountants, citizens, professionals, and politicians

Irvine Lapsley, Peter Millar, Ileana Steccolini

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Abstract / Description of output

This contribution introduces the special issue on the roles of accounting practices in the context of reforms to and within public service organizations. The papers in the special issue provide fresh insights into the ways in which calculative practices intervene in public services, and thus come to affect the experiences of such actors, offering important perspectives on how the latter act to resist, reshape, redefine, and change those very practices, or strategically and tactically use (or avoid the use of) accounting to impact the ways in which services are defined and delivered.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)343-346
JournalFinancial Accountability and Management
Volume36
Issue number4
Early online date11 Oct 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2020

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • calculative practices
  • public services
  • NPM
  • public sector accounting

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