Increasingly, private corporations engage in “private politics”, or “corporate social responsibility” (CSR). In some cases, such as the infamous Enron affair, huge discrepancies between stated and actual policies have been revealed, while in others corporations seem to have been taken...

English abstract: Allocation models distribute resources from an overarching level of control to decentralized service provider units using mathematical formulas. Performance based allocation models are characterized by involving incentives for effect. This article discusses how the production...

English abstract: This article examines how managers in a municipal social service department use and interpret accounting information and make sense of changes in social work when new methods of cost control, and consequently a need for a more cost-conscious behavior, are introduced. Previous...