Purpose – Using the recent attempts by the Ghanaian Government to privatize its urban water services, this paper seeks to understand the role and functioning of accounting within the global move to “reinvent government.” Design/methodology/approach – Unlike the attempts made in other...

Purpose – Using the recent attempts by the Ghanaian Government to privatize its urban water services, this paper seeks to understand the role and functioning of accounting within the global move to “reinvent government.” Design/methodology/approach – Unlike the attempts made in other...

Social purpose alliances are an increasingly important organizational form used by governments and supranational institutions to address large-scale social problems. Little is known, however, about how these alliances are organized and directed. This study investigates one such alliance,...