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Social Accounting and Public Management.

This volume brings together researchers from a range of disciplines including accounting, political science, management, sociology and policy studies to discuss and develop our knowledge and theory of the nature of 'accountability' in contemporary global society and the challenges it may p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Osborne, Stephen P.
Otros Autores: Ball, Amanda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Colección:Routledge critical studies in public management.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Accounting-For the Common Good?; Part I Social Audit and Social Accounting: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives; 2 A Brief Re-Evaluation of "The Social Accounting Project": Social Accounting Research as if the World Matters; 3 Participatory Governance and Social Audit in the Third Sector; 4 Budget and Social Capital System Theory: Empirical Research Tools; 5 What Is It Worth?: Social Accounting for Membership Organisations; 6 Exploring the Potential of Shadow Accounts in Problematising Institutional Conduct.
  • Part II Accountabilities7 Czech Elites and Citizens as Part of a Public Accountability System; 8 Non-Profit Organisations, Democratisation, and New Forms of Accountability: A Preliminary Evaluation; 9 An Accountability Model and Self-Assessment Initiative for Third Sector Organisations in Hungary; 10 Reporting for Public Sector Agencies: A Stakeholder Model; 11 Agencies as Instruments of New Public Management: Models of Accountability in Italy; 12 Evolving Accountabilities: Experience and Prospects from Scottish Public Services; Part III Social Accounting and Sustainability.
  • 13 The Carbon Neutral Public Sector: Governmental Accounting and Action on Climate Change14 Choosing a Smart Set of Sustainable Development Indicators for "Governments at All Levels"; 15 Social and Sustainability Reporting in Italian Local Governments: What Is Not Reported?; 16 Stakeholder Responses to a Social and Environmental Reporting Model for the Credit Union Sector; 17 Prolegomena to Sustainability Reporting: Preventing Premature Closure of Debate Surrounding the Meaning of Sustainability; Part IV Social Accounting, Social Capital, and the Social Economy.
  • 18 Social Accounting and Auditing: Assessing the Contribution of Social Capital to Social Enterprise and the Social Economy19 Social and Public Value Measurement and Social Audit: The Czech Experience; 20 The Contribution of Religious Congregations to the Local Social Economy; Part V Social Accounting, Accountability, and Ethics; 21 A Social Accountability Framework for Public Sector Conflict of Interest: Private Interests, Public Duties, and Ethical Cultures; 22 Corruption and Accountability in a Globalised World: A Comparative Study of Japan, Hong Kong, and China.
  • 23 An Accreditation Framework for the Indian Third Sector24 Conflicts of Interest, Corruption, and Ethics in Public Services: A Public Governance Approach; 25 Ethical Audit Control, Performance, and Review; 26 Social Accounting and Public Management: Accountability for the Public Good-Conclusions; Contributors; Index.