Table of contents - Special Issue: Accounting for Cities in the 21st Century
Accounting for the city
Irvine Lapsley, Peter Miller, Fabrizio PanozzoThis paper aims to identify the study of cities as an important and neglected focus for accounting researchers.
Manufacturing competition: how accounting practices shape strategy making in cities
Martin Kornberger, Chris CarterRecent years have witnessed an increasing number of cities develop strategies. The discourse of strategic management has become an obligatory point of passage for many city…
Do environmental and task characteristics matter in the control of externalized local public services?: Unveiling the relevance of party characteristics and citizens' offstage voice
Daniela Cristofoli, Angelo Ditillo, Mariannunziata Liguori, Mariafrancesca Sicilia, Ileana SteccoliniThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the mechanisms adopted by cities to control the provision of externalized public services and to explore the determinants of such…
Contending legitimations: Performance measurement coupling and decoupling in two Finnish cities
Antti Rautiainen“Contending legitimations” (Meyer and Scott) in cities – and especially multiple conflicting institutional pressures on decision makers – have not received sufficient accounting…
Asset management in cities: polyphony in action?
Michela Arnaboldi, Irvine LapsleyThe purpose of this paper is to examine asset management in three cities. It is informed by polyphony as a theoretical perspective and draws on the fact‐building process to…
Translation impossible? Accounting for a city project
Barbara CzarniawskaThe purpose of this paper is to illustrate the complexity of accounting for the city, on a specific example of an urban project in Rome.
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Prof James Guthrie
- Prof Lee Parker