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Reflecting on Management Change in the UK Public Sector: Was it all Worth it? (2024)
Book Chapter
Hyndman, N., & Liguori, M. (2024). Reflecting on Management Change in the UK Public Sector: Was it all Worth it?. In I. Lapsley, & P. Miller (Eds.), The Resilience of New Public Management (317-344). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198883814.003.0014

Over almost three decades, central governments in many countries have engaged in reforms aimed at improving public-sector practices, with a main area of change involving accounting processes. Such changes (particularly with respect to financial accou... Read More about Reflecting on Management Change in the UK Public Sector: Was it all Worth it?.

Public-Sector Accountability: A Journey from Performance Measurement to Performance Governance (2023)
Book Chapter
Liguori, M., & Kelly, M. (2023). Public-Sector Accountability: A Journey from Performance Measurement to Performance Governance. In G. Carnegie, & C. Napier (Eds.), Handbook of Accounting, Accountability and Governance (258-280). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800886544.00022

Over the last thirty years, the public sector has been characterised by continuous upheavals and pressures to demonstrate increased accountability. Buhr (2012) has drawn attention to the momentum for changes in government financial reporting, largely... Read More about Public-Sector Accountability: A Journey from Performance Measurement to Performance Governance.

Accounting change in the public sector: rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic? (2023)
Book Chapter
Hyndman, N., & Liguori, M. (in press). Accounting change in the public sector: rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?. In T. Rana, & L. Parker (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Public Sector Accounting. New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003295945-7

Change and crisis are concepts often intertwined. In the public sector, ideas related to New Public Management (and associated accounting changes) were themselves introduced, from the 1970s onwards, in response to ballooning public-sector expenditure... Read More about Accounting change in the public sector: rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic?.