Public Money & Management

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Volume 45, issue 7, 2025

Editorial: Ensuring a sustainable world—building better systems for measuring, managing and reporting on the SDGs pp. 637-642

Francesca Manes Rossi, Patria De Lancer Julnes and Annamaria Zampella

Debate: Popular reports lack standards—A path to also reporting on sustainability to citizens pp. 643-645

Peter C. Lorson, Ellen Haustein and Alicia Malin Schlünß

Debate: From financials to societal wellbeing—expanding the scope of public sector climate reporting to advance the SDGs’ agenda pp. 646-648

Caterina Cavicchi and Emidia Vagnoni

Debate: Giving credence to SDG reporting—the role of supreme audit institutions pp. 649-650

Carolyn Cordery

Debate: Supreme audit institutions aiding governments to drive and steer sustainable development pp. 651-653

Jaakko Rönkkö and Mika Luhtala

Debate: Embedding or expanding? Rethinking sustainability in public sector accounting education pp. 654-656

Jens Heiling and Sotirios Karatzimas

Debate: Can state and local governments harness AI towards SDG realization? pp. 657-658

Alan R. Shark

Are the SDGs embedded in university strategies and reporting practices? Analysing influencing factors pp. 659-669

Isabel Brusca, Jorge Olmo and Cristina Pérez-Espés

Assurance of the sustainability report of municipally-owned entities pp. 670-678

Marco Bisogno, Alfonso Di Carlo, Giuseppe Iuliano and Gaetano Matonti

Strategic public management for sustainable development: public value co-creation experiences pp. 679-691

Simone Cifolelli, Marco Berardi, Antonella Russo and Andrea Ziruolo

The relationship between public service effectiveness and public value in local authorities pp. 692-700

Luca Papi, Giorgia Gobbo, Enrico Deidda Gagliardo and Enrico Bracci

Integrating sustainability into local government strategy: a configurational analysis on the role of administrative capacity pp. 701-711

Nora Annesi, Giorgio Giacomelli, Patrizia Gragnani and Massimo Battaglia

Overcoming ‘departmentalism’ to facilitate SDG achievement: evidence from Italian state universities pp. 712-723

Lucia Giovanelli, Federico Rotondo and Alberto Ezza

SDGs and changes in Indonesia local government’s accounting indicators: lessons from a learning organization perspective pp. 724-734

Habib Muhammad Shahib and Yulianti Abbas

Different sustainability endgames: Institutional logics in the performance management of local governments pp. 735-743

Elina Vikstedt, Mika Luhtala, Olga Welinder, Lotta-Maria Sinervo and Harri Laihonen

Substantive versus symbolic paths in SDG disclosure via social media: evidence from Italian local governments pp. 744-752

Giuseppe Nicolò, Vitiana L’Abate, Nicola Raimo and Filippo Vitolla

Digitalization and SDGs accounting: Evidence from the public healthcare sector pp. 753-765

Martina Pisarra and Marta Marsilio

New development: A resilient framework for optimizing the Republic of Kosovo's sustainable development pp. 766-769

Haris Alibašić

New development: Green budgeting—integrating environmental goals into the resource allocation process pp. 770-775

Birgit Moser-Plautz and Sanja Korac

New development: Gender-responsive budgeting beyond institutionalization—challenges from the health sector pp. 776-780

Benedetta Siboni, Paola Canestrini and Giovanna Galizzi

Debate: What exactly is systems leadership? pp. 781-782

Paul Cairney and Claire Toomey

Debate: Scaling life sciences impact in the EU—Building sustainable management and public governance capacity pp. 783-784

Jurgen Willems and Thomas Crispeels

Debate: AI as a framework for public service innovation pp. 785-787

Jianxiang Tan and Yanto Chandra

Developing a model of circular economy engagement for public sector organizations pp. 788-798

Gary Walpole, Emily Bacon, Tegwen Malik and Nick Rich

Budget transparency and fiscal soundness: Citizens’ political participation as a moderating factor pp. 799-808

Hoyong Jung and Bong Hwan Kim

The impact of institutional pressure and resource provision on reforms for performance-based budgeting: empirical evidence from China pp. 809-818

Renxing He, Wensheng He and Shan Shen

Navigating timeliness: Decoupling in corporate external reporting by Indonesian state-owned enterprises (SOEs) pp. 819-827

Ni Luh Sari Widhiyani, Putu Ery Setiawan, Komang Ayu Krisnadewi, Putu Agus Ardiana, Ni Made Seri Widiani, Ericha Aulya Pratama and Kadek Dwi Linda Yanthi

The vicious circle of ambiguity: how governance deters digital transformation in municipal conglomerates pp. 828-836

Johan Magnusson, Tomas Lindroth, Nataliya Berbyuk Lindström and Jacob Torell

Volume 45, issue 6, 2025

Editorial: Whole of government accounting: the jury continues its deliberations pp. 535-537

Ciaran Connolly and Elaine Stewart

Debate: The (in)completeness of Whole of Government Accounts in accounting for democracy—A UK experience pp. 538-539

Laurence Ferry and Henry Midgley

Debate: Whole of government accounting for Ireland pp. 540-542

Joan Curry

Debate: Two steps forward, one step back, on the way to effective public financial management pp. 543-545

Martin Wheatcroft

Debate: UK Whole of Government Accounts—past, present and future pp. 546-547

Andrew Cartner

Debate: Whole of Government accounts and British think tanks pp. 548-549

Tom Packer

The under-realized potential usefulness of the UK Whole of Government Accounts pp. 550-564

Lynn Bradley, David Heald and Ron Hodges

Preserving hopes in accounting reforms—the case of WGA pp. 565-573

Danny Chow, Christopher Humphrey and Jodie Moll

More than a compliance exercise? The case of consolidated financial accounts in Swedish municipalities pp. 574-581

Pierre Donatella, Johanna Sylvander and Torbjörn Tagesson

New development: Great expectations—whole of government accounting: An Australian perspective of its adoption, development and future use in the current environment pp. 582-586

Pat Barrett AO

New development: Whole state accounting—Experiences of the state of Hesse pp. 587-591

Gerrit Rüdiger and Harald Bott

Debate: Place-based public service ecosystems and the performance of local public services pp. 592-596

Stephen Osborne, Toshihiko Ishihara, Carmine Bianchi, Maria Cucciniello and Greta Nasi

Debate: Auditing policy coherence—insights from the environmental audit community pp. 597-598

Vivi Niemenmaa

Debate: A perilous fork in the road pp. 599-601

Hillary J. Knepper

Debate: Will the UK's diversity initiatives mirror US rollbacks? pp. 602-603

Gillian Fawcett

Co-creation for public innovation: The role of living labs and user-engagement methodologies pp. 604-614

David Gago and Luis Rubalcaba

Enhancing accountability through integrated reporting in public higher education institutions: international evidence pp. 615-623

Guler Aras, Ozlem Kutlu Furtuna and Evrim Hacioglu Kazak

Does the Civil Service Commission in Bangladesh map skills to align education, recruitment testing, and training? pp. 624-633

Gazi Mahabubul Alam, Romana Kader, Karima Bashir, Md. Mahfuzur Rahman and Nor Azni Binti Abdul Aziz

New development: Real-time audit in the public sector—benefits, challenges and a roadmap pp. 634-636

Reena Kumari and Jagan Kumar Sur

Volume 45, issue 5, 2025

Editorial: The immoveable objects of desire pp. 373-376

Pasquale Ruggiero, Antonio Barretta, Roger Levy and Gyorgy Hajnal

Debate: The spending (in)capacity of EU member states—a call for a micro-level approach in academic research on EU funds management pp. 377-379

Antonio D. Barretta and Pasquale Ruggiero

Debate: Conditionality as a rule-of-law instrument—A perspective from Hungary pp. 380-382

György Hajnal

Multi-level governance of grant programmes. The case of Cohesion and External Action in the European Union pp. 383-390

Antonio-Martín Porras-Gómez

Local autonomy and the partnership principle: Collaborative governance in the European Social Fund in Sweden pp. 391-399

Vanja Carlsson, Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren and Mats Fred

Organizational dilemmas of EU-funded policy development: the case of Estonian government task forces pp. 400-403

Külli Sarapuu and Mariliis Trei

Performance management of European Structural and Investment Funds—The case of Slovakia pp. 404-413

Marek Radvanský, Ivan Lichner and Karol Frank

Managing the impact of workplace trauma for Australian first responders: Harmonizing policy and practice pp. 414-423

Aglae Hernandez Grande, Fleur Sharafizad, Ben Farr-Wharton, Yvonne Brunetto and Matthew Richman

NGO engagement in the creation of public service innovations: A configurational, explorative approach pp. 424-434

Stefanie Gesierich, Anne Nordli and Anthony Arundel

Public sector readiness for value co-creation: the diffusion of a governance innovation pp. 435-446

Kenneth Nordberg and Inga Narbutaité Aflaki

Sleepless for the family: The relationship between public employees’ family motivation and work stress pp. 447-455

Lin Han Yu, Jian An Zhong, Gary Schwarz and Qing Miao

Top-down or bottom-up digital transformation? A comparison of institutional changes and outcomes pp. 456-465

Justine Marienfeldt, Liz Marla Wehmeier and Sabine Kuhlmann

Hiding when you're not green: An empirical analysis on green public procurement pp. 466-475

Jordi Rosell, Michal Plaček, František Ochrana and Markéta Šumpíková

Why has IPSAS been set as an agenda but not adopted in Myanmar? pp. 476-486

Thet Hnin San and Seunghoo Lim

Risk and conditioning factors in the public internal control. Weaknesses in public management concerning the procurement of expenditure files pp. 487-497

Rosario Pérez-Morote, Humberto Nuno Rito Ribeiro, Javier Calleja-Lozano and Jesús Fernando Santos-Peñalver

Value-led participatory design approach for improving public health clinic services pp. 498-507

Chai-Huei Sher and Tung-Jung Sung

Public leadership meta-skills in the 2020s pp. 508-513

Marika Tammeaid

New development: The ‘liberated method’—a transcendent public service innovation in polycrisis pp. 514-522

Mark Smith, Hannah Hesselgreaves, Ron Charlton and Rob Wilson

New development: System diplomacy—an alternative to system leadership pp. 523-527

Catherine Needham, Nicola Gale and Justin Waring

New development: Translating restorative practices into public sector organizations pp. 528-533

Malgorzata Ciesielska, Gill Danby and Nikki D’Souza

Volume 45, issue 4, 2025

Editorial: A changing world—Lively discussions are needed and welcome pp. 275-275

Andreas Bergmann

Debate: Innovation—there is no alternative pp. 276-276

Michael Bichard

Debate: What can academia contribute to public administration? pp. 277-278

Michael Sanders

Debate: Which private sector management knowledges may be useful in current public sector management education programmes and why? pp. 279-280

Ewan Ferlie

Debate: The Malaysian Madani narrative in reviving the tiger economy pp. 281-282

Zamzulaila Zakaria, Zarina Zakaria and Laurence Ferry

Debate: Studying the regulatory space of public sector audit—the historical turn pp. 283-284

Laurence Ferry, Henry Midgley and Aileen Murphie

Debate: English devolution and the elected mayor pp. 285-286

John Fenwick

He who has the power holds the purse: unpacking the mechanisms of leveraging public funds. Lessons from Poland pp. 287-289

Magdalena Musiał-Karg, Fernando Casal Bértoa and Tomasz Gąsior

Debate: Reflections on PMM Live! 2024 pp. 290-290

Michael Bichard

Debate: Not having an AI policy is a policy to use AI freely pp. 291-291

David Lyford-Tilley

Debate: Unlocking AI’s potential for the public sector pp. 292-293

Ruth Kelly

Constraints on achieving strong horizontal accountability in a public sector context—A case study of refugee resettlement in New Zealand pp. 294-303

Thuy Thi Thu Tran, Rodney Dormer and Carolyn Fowler

Exploring value creation from an ecosystem perspective: A critical examination of social procurement policy pp. 304-313

Michael J. Roy, Anna Spiesova, Maeve Curtin, Roksolana Suchowerska, Jack Rendall, Kirsty Strokosch, Martin Loosemore and Jo Barraket

Civic crowdfunding for local governments: Trends and perspectives from a bibliometric analysis pp. 314-326

Annarita Trotta, Francesco Rania, Lina Scalise and Eugenia Strano

Bolstering resilience in a polycrisis scenario: A cross-country analysis on the role of IT pp. 327-337

Diletta Vito, Daniele Tammaro, Carlo Vermiglio and Vincenzo Zarone

The grand bargain on local government debt: Evidence from China's intergovernmental relations pp. 338-348

Xuefeng Shao and Xinda Li

Advancing the practice of public procurement performance measurement: a framework for conceptualizing efficiency and effectiveness pp. 349-359

Emily Boykin, Ryan J. Lofaro, Clifford McCue and Eric Prier

Intensity and fragility of Czech participatory budgeting during the Covid 19 crisis pp. 360-368

Sona Kukuckova (Balcarkova), Eduard Bakoš and Gabriela Samsonová

New development: A strategic re-set—Sustaining public service well-being pp. 369-372

Adele Bezuidenhout

Volume 45, issue 3, 2025

Editorial: The role of accounting in ensuring financial and social sustainability during crises—a multi-actor perspective pp. 183-188

Giuseppe Grossi and Veronika Vakulenko

Debate: Government support for businesses and new ventures during wartime—the road to recovery pp. 189-190

Oleksandra Tymoshenko and Massimo Sargiacomo

Debate: Budgeting through ESG dimensions—Managing the impacts of the war in Ukraine pp. 191-192

Grygorii Kravchenko and Inna Tselinko

Debate: The new role of international financial institutions in the era of continuous crises and the war in Ukraine pp. 193-194

Natalia Konovalenko and Veronika Vakulenko

Emergency budgeting for resilience during the war. The case of Ukraine pp. 195-205

Yuliya Markuts and Fabiana Roberto

Addressing complexity and planning for the uncertain: local finances in wartime Ukraine pp. 206-216

Veronika Vakulenko, Massimo Sargiacomo and Veronika Klymenko

The emotive power of accounts during war time pp. 217-227

Valeriia Melnyk, Olga Iermolenko and Carolyn Cordery

More than just numbers: Exploring the transformative role of accounting practices in the Black Sea Grain Initiative for mitigating human-made crises pp. 228-236

Ebru Tekin Bilbil, Cemil Eren Fırtın and Tom S. Karlsson

Budgetary responses by the USA to support Ukraine during and after the war pp. 237-246

Philip Joyce and Olha Krupa

Budgeting for the human-made disaster of war: US aid to Ukraine pp. 247-255

James W. Douglas, Justin Conrad and Joseph A. Frederick

The role of accountability and transparency in government during disasters: the case of Ukraine–Russia war pp. 256-265

Javier Cifuentes-Faura

New development: Every thorn counts—The Baltic response to uncertainty and war in Ukraine pp. 266-269

Peeter Peda

New development: Supporting crisis budgeting in Ukraine—The role of the EU pp. 270-274

Sara Giovanna Mauro

Volume 45, issue 2, 2025

Editorial: Recruiting, training and retaining excellent public servants pp. 93-95

Andrew Massey

Debate: Tackling the public sector workforce crisis pp. 96-97

Michael Bichard

Debate: Let's abandon interviews pp. 98-99

Martin Stanley

Debate: Fixing the foundations—the case for a UK college of public service leadership pp. 100-101

Sir Geoff Mulgan

Following the mob? How diversity as dogma can damage public services pp. 102-110

Stuart Green

Public aspects of public manager training, education and development pp. 111-118

Jean Hartley

Educating a civil service that is fit for purpose: perceptions from UK stakeholders pp. 119-128

Ian C. Elliott, Karin A. Bottom, Russ Glennon and Karl O’Connor

Scrutiny of ministerial ethics and standards of conduct in the UK: diluted accountability? pp. 129-138

Sean Kippin and Robert Pyper

New development: Re-investigating the influence of China on the British civil service examination system pp. 139-143

Pan Suk Kim and Andrew Massey

New development: Loyalty to principle or politics—The US civil service under attack … but is it justified? pp. 144-150

Jos C. N. Raadschelders and Hon Ronald P. Sanders

New development: Public service innovation pp. 151-156

Lorraine Johnston and John Fenwick

New development: Is Nolan enough? Why senior officers need to understand public values at the street-level perspective pp. 157-161

Steven Parker and Joyce Liddle

New development: Addressing wicked policy problems through cross-government collaboration—Insights from the UK context pp. 162-166

Olga Siemers and Ileana Daniela Serban

New development: Is it time for New Public Service Bargain? pp. 167-169

Karen Johnston

New development: The implementation (gap) of senior civil service recruitment reform—a matter of organizational size? pp. 170-177

Francesco Vidè, Claudio Buongiorno Sottoriva and Raffaella Saporito

New development: Picking a way through minefields—Leadership with political astuteness for senior police pp. 178-181

Jane Roberts and Jean Hartley

Volume 45, issue 1, 2025

Editorial: Relationalism and relativism of evidence pp. 1-2

Karen Johnston

Debate: A relational agenda for changing public administration research and practice pp. 3-5

Koen P. R. Bartels, Dina von Heimburg, Gerald Jordan and Ottar Ness

Debate: Beyond the New Public Management? pp. 6-7

John Clarke and Janet Newman

Debate: The ‘transactional gaze’ and other lenses shaping and constraining the delivery of public services pp. 8-9

Joy MacKeith

Debate: Trust and accountability—consequences for the quality of policy advice pp. 10-11

Matthew Collins

Citizens’ e-participation in the digital world: empirical insights from Europe pp. 12-21

Giuseppe Iuliano, Beatriz Cuadrado-Ballesteros and Marco Bisogno

Analysing cutback management strategies amidst the Covid 19 pandemic: Insights from Pennsylvania municipalities pp. 22-33

Theodore Arapis and Vaswati Chatterjee

The capacities of local government in early response to Covid 19: Evidence from South Korea pp. 34-44

Kee Hoon Chung, DaEun Kim and Dong Chul Shim

Are credit rating agencies users of government accounting information? Evidence from the sovereign rating process pp. 45-52

Claudio Columbano

Negative effects on SMEs’ success rates when framework agreements are used in bidding for public contracts pp. 53-61

Daniel Arosa, Iván Arribas and José Vila

Who is on the campus dance floor of sustainability reporting? The Spanish case pp. 62-71

Javier Garcia-Lacalle, Emilio Martin and Sonia Royo

Managing the unmeasurable: Developing a new performance management framework for the voluntary sector pp. 72-81

Cathy Knowles

New development: Radically reshaping PFM? A review of ‘Advice, Money, Results’ pp. 82-86

Marc Robinson

New development: Assessing the influence of Brazil's public governance narrowness on the Brazilian Army pp. 87-91

Karina Furtado Rodrigues and Carlos Eduardo Ribeiro Pacheco Filho