Overview
- Discusses how academics and practitioners can better engage to define research agendas and deliver findings relevant to accounting and accountability in the public services
- Presents practitioner perspectives from the heads of three leading international professional accounting bodies actively involved in the public services arena
- Argues for engaging a broad cross-section of academics and practitioners at an international level to address the research-practice gap
Part of the book series: Public Sector Financial Management (PUSEFIMA)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
Keywords
- Research-Practice Gap
- Accounting
- Accountability
- Public Sector
- Academics
- Practitioners
- Research relevance
- Research policy
- Good practice
- research-practice nexus
- comparative global analysis
- public sector accounting
- public sector management
- academic engagement
- impact of research
- absence of engagement
- Practitioners
- academic rigour
- universities
- government
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Iris Saliterer is Professor of Public and Non-Profit Management at the Albert-Ludwigs University in Freiburg, Germany, and was Schumpeter Fellow at Harvard University, USA, in 2015/2016. Her main research interests include performance management, public sector accounting and financial management (reforms), financial and administrative resilience, and innovative forms of public service delivery.
Ileana Steccolini is Professor of Accounting & Finance at Newcastle University London, UK, and the chair and founder of the IRSPM accounting and accountability special interest group. Her research develops at the interface between accounting and public administration.
Basil Tucker is currently a senior lecturer in the School of Commerce, UniSA Business School, Australia. He has published extensively on the relevance of academic research, and in particular, the research-practice “gap” in management accounting.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Research-Practice Gap on Accounting in the Public Services
Book Subtitle: An International Analysis
Authors: Laurence Ferry, Iris Saliterer, Ileana Steccolini, Basil Tucker
Series Title: Public Sector Financial Management
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99432-1
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99431-4Published: 20 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99432-1Published: 11 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-5494
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 137
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Political Communication, Governance and Government, Research Methodology, Accounting/Auditing