"Expertly navigating the complex relationships between accounting and the development of hybridized public governance, this erudite Handbook critically analyses the most pressing challenges and limitations currently facing accounting and public governance research. Comprehensively drawing...

Public governance development has reshaped the boundaries of public sector accounting and proposed new questions regarding how to understand and theorise accountability, performance measurement, budgeting and reporting practices to preserve public value. This chapter introduces public governance...

This chapter examines hybridity in organisations and society from a relational perspective. Within organisations, previous examinations of hybrids have concentrated on their forms, rationales and identities but have given less attention to the hybridity of networks. In society, strict separation...

This chapter presents conclusions of the Handbook’s endeavour to delve into complex relationships between accounting and hybridised public governance. The Handbook has connected three elements - accounting, public governance and hybridisation - by asking: how can we understand the role and...

Purpose This paper reflects on Sven Modell's (2022) study discussing uses of institutional theorising for studying performance measurement and management (PMM) in the public sector context. The paper provides arguments for critically analysing the assumptions and characteristics of PMM research....