This timely and important book provides a critical analysis of the changes and challenges that currently affect European universities. Using both theoretical contributions and applied case studies, leading experts argue that universities as institutions are in need of change – although the...

<title/> This article focuses on the role of the different types of trust (system, contractual, competence and goodwill) involved in developing effective private finance initiatives (PFI) in Italian health care trusts. Previous work has tended to focus on trust between the public and private partners....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature, roles and dynamics of change of management accounting systems (MAS), in processes of continuous organisational learning and transformation. By studying the interaction between the accounting (and finance) function and the...