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- Anell, Anders, et al.
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Well-Informed Choices? Effects of Information Interventions in Primary Care on Care Quality
- 2022
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- Market frictions, such as imperfect information or hassle costs, may reduce benefits from market incentives in healthcare settings. We use data from two randomised policy interventions in a Swedish region, which improved the access to provider information and reduced the switching costs of one percent of the adult population and of a sample of new residents. We examine the effects of the interventions on a large number of clinical process quality measures, access to care, and adverse health events, measured at the individual level. We find no significant effect of the interventions on any of the quality measures.
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- Argento, Daniela, et al.
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Are public sector accounting researchers going through an identity shift due to the increasing importance of journal rankings?
- 2020
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- Researchers in general and public sector accounting (PSA) researchers in particular are faced with increasing pressures to publish in international top journals. Recruitment procedures for new staff members, protocols for the quality assessment of existing staff members and decisions for funding research are impacted by publication metrics. This paper aims to unravel the impact of the increasing importance of publication metrics on the identity of PSA researchers. Identity of professions is applied as a theoretical lens and so-called real-life constructs are developed for empirical investigations through interviews with senior researchers. The increasing importance of publication metrics can be seen as the major pressure. However, our findings reveal that various other pressures exist, especially publishing in niche journals, doing societally relevant work, conducting high-quality teaching and serving niche-specific audiences through research. Two basic reactions to competing pressures are observed. On the one hand, a conformance/adaption reaction to the major pressure, at the expense of other pressures (for instance, by adapting to the requirements of top accounting journals, and lessening connections with the PSA field). On the other hand, resistance to the major pressure in order to preserve values attached to the other pressures (for example, by ignoring pressures from publication metrics and remaining connected to the PSA field and its journals). In addition, we found in-between reactions, ranging from a balancing of competing pressures (for example, in two-pillar publication strategies), and a reinforcing reaction (for example, seeing work for practice as an input to high-quality research), to reshaping of work devices (e.g. by distinguishing between mixed research-teaching jobs and pure teaching jobs, and/or developing career paths for excellent teachers in addition to those for excellent researchers). Also manipulation strategies can be observed, such as recycling research outcomes in different publications. Finally, researchers sometimes show opposing reactions at the same time, such as adapting to more demanding publication targets and questioning those targets. There is no evidence for an identity shift towards an ‘academic performer’, because researchers are primarily inspired by problems of public sector organizations or society at large, though young scholars may be faced with too demanding publication targets, which could give rise to an identity shift of an ‘academic performer’.
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- Argento, Daniela, et al.
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Governance and accountability (Gover-nability) of multiple values of municipal corporations : Special Issue of the International Journal of Public Sector Management
- 2023
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- Municipal corporations (MCs) have been established in different parts of the world to provide local public services (such as infrastructure, utilities, education, health care, cultural and social services) under the influence of New Public Management (NPM) doctrines and related neoliberal ideologies (Thynne, 1994; Grossi and Reichard, 2008). Their hybrid organizational nature implies that their governance is permeated by a multiplicity of values. Scant attention has been paid by previous scholars to how different actors (i.e. board members, auditors, controllers, CSR managers, etc.) and their values affect goals in hybrid municipal corporations and their role in the development of governance and accountability practices (Grossi et al., 2017). There is still limited research explicitly focusing on the role of the different actors in the design and implementation of governance and accountability practices in hybrid organizations (Skelcher and Smith 2015). Therefore, future research would likely benefit from studies inside municipal owned corporations as hybrid organizations (Pache & Santos, 2013; Seibel, 2015), seeking more in-depth insights into internal governance and accountability practices rather than investigations ‘from the outside’ or on interpretations based on what is written in different formal documents (Grossi et al., 2017). The aim is to improve the theoretical and practical understanding of the drivers, obstacles, and tensions for value creation and the accounting implications in municipally owned corporations. The aim of this special issue is also to explore the role of governance and accountability practices to disclose multiple values created by municipal corporations, with a particular focus on the societal and public values. We encourage theoretical, conceptual and empirical submissions from different institutional contexts and by scholars across disciplines. List of topics Interesting topics for the papers include but are not limited to the following issues: How can we conceptualize, evaluate, and measure the multiples values, and performance of MCs? How do multiple values shape governance and accountability practices, and reversely, in MCs? How do governance and accountability practices aim to cope with the multiplicity of values in MCs? How can governments ensure that societal and public values and value creation are protected? How do corporate actors (i.e. board members, auditors, controllers, CSR managers, etc.) work to create governance and accountability practices in MCs? How is it possible to protect the public values in a context with multiple values and actors? How can citizens and other stakeholders be involved to create participatory governance and accountability practices in MCs? What are the effects of hybridity of MCs on value creation and the forms of accounting and accountability practices?
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