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Increasing Public Managers' Perceived Autonomy by Decreasing the Level of Detail in Payment Models? The Dependency and Interdependency of Control Practices 通过降低支付模式的细节水平来增加公共管理者的感知自主权？控制实践的依赖性和相互依赖性

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1111/faam.70018

Anna Glenngård, Lina Maria Ellegård

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Governing the Costs and Financial Sustainability Standardization of Italian Universities 管理意大利大学的成本和财务可持续性标准化

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1111/faam.70024

Massimo Sargiacomo, Vincenzo Sforza, Antonio D'Andreamatteo, Francesca Manes Rossi, Rosanna Spanò

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The Use of Sustainable Tourism Performance Information: Assessing the Impact on Small Municipalities' Policy-Making and Management 可持续旅游绩效信息的使用：评估对小城市决策和管理的影响

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-12 DOI: 10.1111/faam.70020

Elisabetta Reginato, Isabella Fadda, Patrizia Modica, Michela Floris

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Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Feedback Orientation, Feedback Quality, and Feedback Use on Budgetary Performance in Public Healthcare 探讨反馈导向、反馈质量和反馈使用对公共卫生预算绩效的直接和间接影响

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1111/faam.70017

Manuela S. Macinati, Marco Giovanni Rizzo, Zahirul Hoque

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The Role of Management Controls in Managing Competing Institutional Logics: A Case Study of a Non-Government Organization 管理控制在管理竞争性制度逻辑中的作用：以一个非政府组织为例

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1111/faam.70023

Frank Yuelong Ma, David Gilchrist, Vincent K. Chong, Lyndie Bayne

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Rethinking Accountability in Government Procurement in Africa Within the Neoliberal Governing Reforms: Some Evidence From Ghana 新自由主义治理改革下对非洲政府采购问责制的反思：来自加纳的证据

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1111/faam.70014

Sarah Lauwo, Daniela Senkl, Philippe Lassou

{"title":"Rethinking Accountability in Government Procurement in Africa Within the Neoliberal Governing Reforms: Some Evidence From Ghana","authors":"Sarah Lauwo, Daniela Senkl, Philippe Lassou","doi":"10.1111/faam.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/faam.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The paper draws on the “politics of the belly” framework to locate procurement of government contracts within a kind of governing in which often conflicting dynamics are closely intertwined and shape accountability practices differently. By taking a historical view, we show how neoliberal reforms evolved new organizational forms, embedded in the traditional way of doing business in Africa, and “succeeded” in promoting political elite interests in Ghana. Contrary to the neoliberal reforms ideology of promoting accountability, the paper shows how the socialization of individuals through informal political networks and the “politics of the belly culture” incubates corrupt practices and inevitably constrains accountability in public procurement. The paper contributes to scholarship on public sector reform, corruption, and accountability by showing how neoliberal accountability regimes, when introduced into political systems structured by informal power, are reconstituted to serve rather than challenge elite interests. It also offers practical implications for reform agendas that seek to engage with African states on more contextually appropriate terms. The paper argues that accountability in public procurement in Africa reflects the complex interplay of local political practices and informal networks, consistent with the logic of the politics of the belly. The question for policy actors is no longer just “how do we strengthen procurement systems?”—but “whose accountability do these systems serve, and how might reforms be co-designed to account for, and counteract, embedded political interests?”</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47120,"journal":{"name":"Financial Accountability & Management","volume":"42 2","pages":"155-171"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147714977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Translation and Counter-Translation of Performance Funding Into Public Organizations’ Budgeting 绩效基金在公共组织预算中的转化与反转化

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1111/faam.70022

Thomas Holde Skinnerup

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Reporting in Times of Crisis: Rhetoric Strategies for Gaining Legitimacy and Accountability in Health Charities 危机时期的报道：卫生慈善机构获得合法性和问责制的修辞策略

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-17 DOI: 10.1111/faam.70015

Cherrie Yang, Ahesha Perera, Julia Wu, Ahsan Habib

{"title":"Reporting in Times of Crisis: Rhetoric Strategies for Gaining Legitimacy and Accountability in Health Charities","authors":"Cherrie Yang, Ahesha Perera, Julia Wu, Ahsan Habib","doi":"10.1111/faam.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/faam.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines how health charities employed rhetorical strategies in their reporting to gain legitimacy and accountability during a crisis. Drawing on rhetorical theory and analyzing both voluntary and mandatory reports from 52 New Zealand health charities between 2020 and 2022 during COVID-19, we find that while all charities primarily used logos (logic) to justify crisis responses and secure pragmatic legitimacy and calculative accountability, they combined ethos (credibility) and pathos (emotion) with logos to construct narrative accountability and moral legitimacy. Narrative accountability was grounded in reporting of mission- and value-driven, culturally embedded, and equity-focused commitments, and further strengthened through shared responsibility among diverse stakeholders to promote collaborative crisis response. This study advances understanding of how charities gain accountability and legitimacy through crisis communication, extends the accountability in crisis and rhetoric reporting discussion to the nonprofit setting, and demonstrates how charity size and characteristics shape rhetorical strategies and reporting practices.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47120,"journal":{"name":"Financial Accountability & Management","volume":"42 2","pages":"172-186"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147715195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Exploring the Direct and Indirect Effects of Feedback Orientation, Feedback Quality, and Feedback Use on Budgetary Performance in Public Healthcare 探讨反馈导向、反馈质量和反馈使用对公共卫生预算绩效的直接和间接影响

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-27 DOI: 10.1111/faam.70017

Manuela S. Macinati, Marco Giovanni Rizzo, Zahirul Hoque

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The Translation and Counter-Translation of Performance Funding Into Public Organizations’ Budgeting 绩效基金在公共组织预算中的转化与反转化

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Financial Accountability & Management Pub Date : 2026-04-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-22 DOI: 10.1111/faam.70022

Thomas Holde Skinnerup

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