Description
Conference organizer, chair LOCSociety faces increasingly complex and “wicked” issues. Governments must act, for instance, to achieve the SDGs, manage migration, or combat crime (Kattel & Mazzucato 2018), with accounting having been shown to play a central role in alleviating, but also creating new forms of “wickedness” (Thomasson et al., 2020). Tackling these issues is becoming a central component of ‘public value creation’ (Moore 1995, 2013; O’Flynn 2021). The attention for public value is also noticeable among public finance experts, accounting professionals as well as public sector accounting scholars.
Responding to calls for more interdisciplinary efforts, and to rediscover the role of publicness in shaping accounting and performance measurement practices (Steccolini, 2019), an increasing body of literature has highlighted the role of accounting to reflect, measure, decide upon and shape public value and values (for example, Bracci et al., 2021), and the ways in which a focus on public value can impact on budgeting (Douglas and Overmans 2020, Chohan 2019), performance measurement (Papi et al. 2019, Meynhardt and Jasinenko 2021) and reporting practices (Tommasetti et al 2020). At the same time, practitioners are increasingly developing and testing value-oriented forms of management, control, and accounting.
Although there are clear connections between science and practice, we believe that strengthening public value accounting benefits from a structured discussion in which both scientists and practitioners participate. Therefore, the workshop brings together academic scholars, researchers, and practitioners to exchange and share their recent experiences, research ideas and results on accounting and accountability in general, and public value accounting in particular.
The workshop is organized as recurring event of the Public Service Accounting and Accountability Group (PSAAG), this year in close collaboration with the Utrecht University School of Governance and the Dutch GOAL network, a learning community of practitioners that is currently experimenting with value-driven routines and tools of accounting.
| Period | 25 Oct 2021 → 26 Oct 2021 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Utrecht, NetherlandsShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |