In response to fiscal constraint and the introduction of quasi-market mechanisms into the public sector, in public policy there appears to be the acceptance of the increased use of voluntary labour in the delivery of public services. Traditional forms of governance have tended to ignore the use...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop and test a concept of auditor as consigliere in family firms, that captures additional functions to monitoring, those of advice, mediating, and conveying. Design/methodology/approach The concept is tested through a survey conducted on 309 Swedish...

The existence of financial organizations is explained by a comparative analysis of various financial institutions which fulfil the function of financial intermediation. One of the main explanations for the existence of financial organizations is the need to create property rights to allocative...

In recent years, the local government sector in European countries has undergone important changes involving, among other things, the externalisation of local public service provision through various forms of corporatisation, public-public collaboration, public-private partnerships and...

Croatia has a transitional economy that contains conditions for the evolution of business groups. Business groups are legally independent firms that typically are joined by equity ownership, and co-ordinating their use of resources, such as capital and managerial labour. They have evolved and...