Public Money & Management

Papers
(The median citation count of Public Money & Management is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Debate: Embedding or expanding? Rethinking sustainability in public sector accounting education46
Debate: Which private sector management knowledges may be useful in current public sector management education programmes and why?38
Debt as a motivation for earnings management by Portuguese municipalities?32
Finding triggers for training transfer: evidence from the National Human Resource Development Institute in Korea25
Fostering accountability through digital transformation: leadership’s role in enhancing techno-work engagement in public sector25
New development: Understanding the relationship between public sector consulting and public value destruction—An epistemic learning perspective21
Assurance of the sustainability report of municipally-owned entities19
Does accrual information impact municipal bond prices? Evidence from Japan using AI19
Antecedents and use of cost accounting systems in Dutch executive agencies19
Irish local government accounts—general accessibility, complexity and confidence of financial statements narrative content18
Debate: AI in public sector reporting—Where we stand and where we (should) head to18
Debate: Training for public audit18
Debate: Let's abandon interviews17
Debate: A relational agenda for changing public administration research and practice17
Debate: Realizing the opportunities of system-wide audit reform17
New development: Translating restorative practices into public sector organizations16
Strategic public management for sustainable development: public value co-creation experiences15
Debate: English devolution and the elected mayor15
Debate: Synthetic empathy—How AI is redefining emotional labour in public encounters14
Understanding public sector accounting professionals’ intention to implement accrual accounting14
Debate: Dishing on performance budgeting—a new recipe for budgeting that legislators can digest14
Impact evaluation of the Brazilian Integrated Border Health System14
Anticipating illiberalism: drivers of bureaucratic turnover intention14
Debate: Blood, Grenfell, Hillsborough, the Post Office and Windrush—the need for new public service codes14
Evaluating performance to improve management in Argentine public universities with desirable and undesirable indicators13
The effect of political budget cycle on local governments’ financial statements in a young democracy12
Financial governance and subcontracting in US defence firms: a predictive model for public accountability12
Tools for accountability or politics? The USA’s state special revenue fund accounting and balances12
New development: Rethinking public sector accounting systems by rediscovering their relational nature12
Who says what and why? The reception of IPSAS-based reform in the European Union12
New development: I chose to let the machine choose—the rise of AIcratism 11
Buyer beware! How cognitive biases can influence the hiring of consultants by public servants11
Facilitating internal audit quality and improving the performance of medical clinics11
Navigating timeliness: Decoupling in corporate external reporting by Indonesian state-owned enterprises (SOEs)11
Healthcare street level bureaucrats’ (SLBs’) delivery of public value: The next step11
Analysing cutback management strategies amidst the Covid 19 pandemic: Insights from Pennsylvania municipalities10
Debate: Reflections on the IPSASB’s Exposure Draft (ED) 92—Tangible Natural Resources10
The effect of treating public services as commodities10
New development: E-government, transparency, and corruption in environmental sustainability policies—evidence from urbanized and energy-intensive economies10
Citizens’ choice of government vendors: sector, trust, and information10
Editorial: Gender budgeting—Insights from contemporary experiences10
Debate: Addressing the unexplained growth of consultancies in the public sector—unexplored avenues10
Debate: The (in)completeness of Whole of Government Accounts in accounting for democracy—A UK experience10
Debate: Public financial management and defence logistics under pressure—a comparison of Ukraine and Poland10
The vicious circle of ambiguity: how governance deters digital transformation in municipal conglomerates9
Digital transformation of government, innovation resource reallocation, and urban resilience: The key elements needed to build an efficient and sustainable society9
From demand-side to supply-side regulation of government consultants: Recent trends in three OECD countries9
The impact of digital red tape on non-compliant behaviour: the moderating effect of infection risk9
What is in the name? Distinguishing the role of financial, business and policy controllers9
The impact of fiscal education on civic attitudes toward public finance: Evidence from South Korea9
Exploring value creation from an ecosystem perspective: A critical examination of social procurement policy9
E-governance and policy efforts advancing carbon neutrality and sustainability in European countries8
From commodification to entrepreneurialism: how commercial income is transforming the English NHS8
Using different types of performance information: implications for hybrid professionals’ decision-making8
Debate: Whole of Government accounts and British think tanks8
Innovation as a robust response to crises in public healthcare organizations: Evidence from Italy8
New development: Local corporate governance and the German Public Corporate Governance-Model Code for international support8
New development: The shift of public sector auditing under the influence of institutional logics—the case of European Court of Auditors8
Audit and financial reporting under austerity localism—the case of the Birmingham City Council ‘bankruptcy’8
New development: The paradox of ambitious intentions and poor outcomes of cutbacks on the government’s workforce8
Debate: Accounting information performativity and politicians’ use (or not)8
New development: Clinicians in management—past, present, future?7
New development: Relational public services—reform and research agenda7
Modelling public sector accounting on private sector practices: the perspectives of practitioners in Polish local government7
Debate: Giving credence to SDG reporting—the role of supreme audit institutions7
Budgetary responses by the USA to support Ukraine during and after the war7
Debate: In contracts, we trust—managing risk in public contracts through a relational approach7
The impact of key audit matters (KAMs) on transparency and accountability in public sector auditing7
Debate: Algorithmic bureaucracy in the age of AI—ChatGPT Gov, DeepSeek, and public administration7
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: the ultimate public servant7
Debate: A public service fit for purpose7
Debate: Can state and local governments harness AI towards SDG realization?7
Report: The European Accounting Association’s Public Sector Accounting Committee (ΕΑΑ PSAC)—Taking stock of its first year of activities7
New development: Too many absences—An empirical study of children missing from education in Nottingham7
Intelligent government: The impact and mechanism of government transparency driven by AI7
Debate: Remote audit—navigating the pros and cons7
Digitalization and SDGs accounting: Evidence from the public healthcare sector7
Debate: What exactly is systems leadership?7
Doctors in leadership roles: consequences for quality and safety7
Debate: Civil servants resist illiberalism in response to vignettes, and succumb in reality6
Heuristics of exchange legitimacy: Citizen reactions to ministerial use of performance data in a pandemic6
Are SDGs being translated into accounting terms? Evidence from European cities6
New development: So close, yet so far? Challenging the cost-savings assumption in environmental impact bonds6
Readability versus obfuscation to fight corruption: evidence from Italian local governments6
New development: Climate consulting and the transformation of climate governance6
New development: Public service innovation6
Debate: The ‘transactional gaze’ and other lenses shaping and constraining the delivery of public services6
New development: E-government, open data and citizen participation for G20 sustainable development6
New development: Assurance on public sector sustainability reporting—time to be proactive6
Editorial: Management accounting and risk management—research and reflections6
New development: The ethics of accounting information manipulation in the political arena6
Information use and preferences: Insights from Italian regional politicians6
From co-creation to public value through collaborative platforms—the case of Norwegian kindergartens6
Debate: Accounting training for politicians—an alternative approach6
Debate: An essential contribution - doctors in senior leadership6
New development: Loyalty to principle or politics—The US civil service under attack … but is it justified?6
Governance solutions for municipally owned companies: practical insights from England and Canada6
Reflections on being CIGAR Executive Board Chair6
Budget transparency and fiscal soundness: Citizens’ political participation as a moderating factor6
Editorial: Recruiting, training and retaining excellent public servants6
New development: How politicians as intermediaries can increase the relevance and understandability of accounting information6
Debate: Speaking truth to power—Academic institutions as empirical backyards for understanding science–policy interface failures6
Civic crowdfunding for local governments: Trends and perspectives from a bibliometric analysis6
Who is on the campus dance floor of sustainability reporting? The Spanish case6
Reading between the lines: An exploratory study on how graph distortions shape perceptions and use of performance information6
New development: Red tape and digital accounting technology in the public sector6
Contracting out social care services to for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in Italy: Social categorization and governance choices6
Financial management information systems, treasury single accounts, and expenditure budget credibility: a moderation-effect approach6
Intra-governmental collaborative transformation in the UK: Paving the way forward6
Clinicians’ informal acquisition of accounting literacy in UK clinical commissioning groups5
How public employees address the tensions between bureaucratization and de-bureaucratization: A relational approach in hiring5
Debate: Better government for civil society5
New development: Resilience without justice? How resilience agendas can drift nonprofits toward neutrality logics5
Developing resilience interventions for emergency service responders—a view from the field5
Addressing complexity and planning for the uncertain: local finances in wartime Ukraine5
Debate: The future of public sector audit training5
Constraints on achieving strong horizontal accountability in a public sector context—A case study of refugee resettlement in New Zealand5
Bureaucracy at scale: profiling organizational attitudes in Türkiye’s Ministry of National Education5
Public value is in the eye of the beholder: stakeholder theory and ingroup bias5
The political economy of digital government: How Silicon Valley firms drove conversion to data science and artificial intelligence in public management5
New development: Implicit government debt in China—past, present and future5
Debate: Popular reports lack standards—A path to also reporting on sustainability to citizens5
Social value—are we measuring up?5
Debate: Will the UK's diversity initiatives mirror US rollbacks?5
Spatial inequalities in charitable fundraising and income generation for NHS acute trusts in England5
Toward a ‘shared administration’ approach: Do local governments walk the talk?5
From draft to accounting standard: stakeholders’ views on heritage assets in the IPSASB’s due process5
Are the SDGs embedded in university strategies and reporting practices? Analysing influencing factors5
New development: Strategic planning in interesting times—From inter-crisis to intra-crisis responses5
New development: Using counter accounting as a methodology in public accountability and management research5
New development: Every thorn counts—The Baltic response to uncertainty and war in Ukraine5
New development: Gender-responsive budgeting beyond institutionalization—challenges from the health sector5
Sleepless for the family: The relationship between public employees’ family motivation and work stress5
Debate: Joining forces to increase digital skills in accounting education4
Debate: Which is more useful to local government representatives—the annual budget or financial statements?4
Intensity and fragility of Czech participatory budgeting during the Covid 19 crisis4
Gender-responsive budgeting within the medium-term budgetary framework in Bangladesh4
New development: How could incentive-based sources of finance fund English local government effectively?4
New development: A strategic re-set—Sustaining public service well-being4
New development: Great expectations—whole of government accounting: An Australian perspective of its adoption, development and future use in the current environment4
Are values driving consultants in public sector financial management advice?4
Differential reporting in the public sector—financial reporting for small- and medium-sized entities4
Debate: The digital transparency-accountability paradox4
More than a compliance exercise? The case of consolidated financial accounts in Swedish municipalities4
Informal practices and efficiency in public procurement4
Debate: Improving communication effectiveness or wasting taxpayers’ money? The use of social media influencers in public organizations4
Does the Civil Service Commission in Bangladesh map skills to align education, recruitment testing, and training?4
Evaluating commodification and commodifying evaluation4
Debate: Extending the literature on accounting information manipulation4
Characterization and analysis of the supply network of the Brazilian national school feeding programme4
Relational contracting and the duty of good faith: Divergent judicial pathways in the UK and the US4
Public leadership meta-skills in the 2020s4
Gender responsive budgeting: The case of Croatia4
New development: In-house consulting—a critical appraisal4
New development: Do accounting and asset management at governments evolve together?4
Editorial: Navigating non-linear reforms in public sector accounting, towards digitalization, sustainability and usability4
PMM CIGAR Annual Issue 2022, Public Money & Management, Vol. 42, No. 7 (October 2022)4
Developing a model of circular economy engagement for public sector organizations4
New development: From principles to practice—advancing accrual-based accounting and sustainability reporting in Latin America4
Gendering digital education: A role model for public management4
Devolution within devolution? A SWOT analysis of introducing combined authorities to Scotland4
Examining the Covid 19 driven changes in public administration and their longevity: the case of Czechia4
Do local government accounts provide decision-useful information? Externalities of fiscal rules4
Debate: Local audit parties are pulling in different directions4
The effect of board gender diversity on financial and non-financial performance: evidence from Italian public universities4
Debate: How to give university public sector accounting education the relevance it truly deserves4
Debate: Unlocking AI’s potential for the public sector4
The degree of digital transformation in Italian local government: the impact of their governance characteristics4
Debate: Democracy and secrets: the Afghan data breach and the UK's financial constitution4
Human-made disasters in a decentralized context: How Czech municipalities are dealing with the Ukrainian crisis4
Sustainability reporting from the preparers’ perspective in locally-owned public enterprises4
Political budget cycle and unfunded pension liabilities in states in the USA4
New development: The limits of business accounting in the public sector context—the case of concessionary leases and right-of-use assets in-kind3
Overcoming ‘departmentalism’ to facilitate SDG achievement: evidence from Italian state universities3
Public management for a sustainable future: Insights from a systematic literature review3
Debate: Whole of Government Accounting in the UK; history and future challenges3
NGO engagement in the creation of public service innovations: A configurational, explorative approach3
Debate: The collaboration dilemma: how fragmented standards hobble e-government transparency and sustainability in BRICS+3
Extinction of central and local government accounting education: Self-reinforcing institutional processes—a Norwegian warning3
Struggling with consolidated financial statements: a circular view on local government dynamics3
Editorial: The commodification of the public good—who wins and who loses?3
Can digital transformation improve government expenditure efficiency? An empirical analysis3
Debate: Consulting firms, institutional corruption and the hollow state3
New development: How working from home influences the governance of municipally owned corporations and affects the public interest3
Debate: Can audit reduce information asymmetry? The case of English local government3
Substantive versus symbolic paths in SDG disclosure via social media: evidence from Italian local governments3
Enhancing audit quality through research-based practices: a comparative study of China and Indonesia3
Voluntary adoption of the International Standards on Auditing (ISA) in local government audits—empirical evidence from Finland3
Bolstering resilience in a polycrisis scenario: A cross-country analysis on the role of IT3
New development: From blanket coverage to patchwork quilt—rethinking organizational responses to fraud in the National Health Service in England3
Meeting report: Public accountability and democracy in times of crisis—the CIGAR Network 2023 conference3
Top-down or bottom-up digital transformation? A comparison of institutional changes and outcomes3
Management consultants and university futures: Academic capitalism and the capture of UK public higher education3
Editorial: Public sector accounting current developments—insight, critique and transformative redefinitions3
Debate: ‘Hyper lean’ post managerialism: exploring the impact of the ‘Trojan Horse’ effect of Covid 19 in decimating resourcing of the public sector workforce3
The ‘unprecedented innovation’ of police and crime commissioners: Learning from a failed experiment3
The role of performance measurement and management systems in changing public organizations: An exploratory study3
Transparency, accountability, and the SDGs: A European e-governance perspective3
When innovation comes to town—the institutional logics driving change in municipalities3
Starting right: Identifying material sustainability impacts for public sector organizations3
Debate: Peer reviews at the crossroads—‘To AI or not to AI?’3
New development: The elephant in the room—Cultural participation for well-being3
Managing the impact of workplace trauma for Australian first responders: Harmonizing policy and practice3
Integrating sustainability into local government strategy: a configurational analysis on the role of administrative capacity3
Debate: Accountability of municipally owned corporations—beyond principals and agents3
Editorial: An international vision for local public audit3
Negotiating the budget for evidence-informed policy-making: insights from a UK government department3
Watching the neighbours: gender budgeting in Scotland and Wales3
New development: Public governance in the discursivity of the Brazilian government—a reflection on conceptual reduction3
New development: E-government and policy transparency in sustainable cities and communities—A quantile analysis3
Debate: If politicians hardly care about performance information (in the annual budget), who cares about performance and when?3
Social impact measurement as a ‘public value guarantee’ in public–private partnerships? Evidence from a realist evaluation3
Debate: Supreme audit institutions aiding governments to drive and steer sustainable development3
Municipally owned corporations and autonomy in centralized states—A comparative analysis of Turkey and Israel3
Value-led participatory design approach for improving public health clinic services3
Debate: The apprenticeship saga—narrowing participation for public sector finance professionals3
New development: Green budgeting—integrating environmental goals into the resource allocation process3
New development: The implementation (gap) of senior civil service recruitment reform—a matter of organizational size?2
Debate: Decentralization, participation, and responsibility—the role of the not-for-profit sector2
Debate: Tackling the aged care workforce2
Healthcare budgeting for cyclicality: Structured literature review of accounting, public administration and ­­­health management2
Debate: NPM and the reproduction of power in rural enterprise institutions2
The impact of institutional pressure and resource provision on reforms for performance-based budgeting: empirical evidence from China2
Using a time conditions framework to explore the impact of government policies on the commodification of public goods and women’s defamilization risks2
Debate: Researching in challenging times—adapting and enhancing public sector accounting practices2
New development: Value destruction in public service delivery—a process model and its implications2
Public sector readiness for value co-creation: the diffusion of a governance innovation2
New development: The commodification of social security medical assessments—academic analysis and practitioner experience2
Switching on and off the management accounting system in a public higher education institution2
The grand bargain on local government debt: Evidence from China's intergovernmental relations2
Fiscal transparency practice, challenges, and possible solutions: lessons from Covid 192
New development: A prototype framework to assess the coverage of financial management topics in MPA/MPM programmes2
Debate: Management consultants and public management reforms2
Debate: Auditing and political accountability in local government—dealing with paradoxes in the relationship between the executive and the council2
Assessing the stakeholders’ responses in public discussions of IPSASB standards from a cultural perspective2
Is water management really transparent? A comparative analysis of ESG reporting of Andalusian publicly-owned enterprises2
Debate: The role of intermediaries between demand and supply of performance information—the missing link?2
Debate: Will AI affect the transparency and accountability of public sector accounting?2
Debate: Two steps forward, one step back, on the way to effective public financial management2
New development : Income and gender equality, Spanish spending reviews and public values2
Debate: Social media and cultural identity in public policy—the digital shift in cultural governance2
New development: The high cost of the free rider in public water services in developing and emerging economies2
Social identity and IPSAS adoption: cross-national evidence2
Debate: Financial reporting for heritage in the public sector—the views of the IPSASB2
Debate: The spending (in)capacity of EU member states—a call for a micro-level approach in academic research on EU funds management2
Debate: Scaling life sciences impact in the EU—Building sustainable management and public governance capacity2
Correction2
New development: Digital social care—the ‘high-tech and low-touch’ transformation in public services2
Are credit rating agencies users of government accounting information? Evidence from the sovereign rating process2
New development: Is it time for New Public Service Bargain?2
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