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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Debate: Training for public audit43
The role of participatory arts within co-creation/social innovation35
Irish local government accounts—general accessibility, complexity and confidence of financial statements narrative content29
Transportation and coproduction: looking for vulnerabilities to boost and enhance co-assessment29
Fostering accountability through digital transformation: leadership’s role in enhancing techno-work engagement in public sector28
Antecedents and use of cost accounting systems in Dutch executive agencies24
Assurance of the sustainability report of municipally-owned entities21
Finding triggers for training transfer: evidence from the National Human Resource Development Institute in Korea20
Debt as a motivation for earnings management by Portuguese municipalities?20
New development: Understanding the relationship between public sector consulting and public value destruction—An epistemic learning perspective18
Policy control as an alternative approach to performance-based budgeting (PBB) to strengthen the link between policy and financial means18
Does accrual information impact municipal bond prices? Evidence from Japan using AI18
Embedding or expanding? Rethinking sustainability in public sector accounting education16
Debate: A relational agenda for changing public administration research and practice16
Debate: Realizing the opportunities of system-wide audit reform14
Debate: Which private sector management knowledges may be useful in current public sector management education programmes and why?14
Supporting co-creation processes through modelling13
Tools for accountability or politics? The USA’s state special revenue fund accounting and balances13
Debate: English devolution and the elected mayor13
New development: Rethinking public sector accounting systems by rediscovering their relational nature13
Strategic public management for sustainable development: public value co-creation experiences13
Debate: Blood, Grenfell, Hillsborough, the Post Office and Windrush—the need for new public service codes12
New development: Translating restorative practices into public sector organizations12
Debate: Let's abandon interviews12
Debate: Dishing on performance budgeting—a new recipe for budgeting that legislators can digest12
Impact evaluation of the Brazilian Integrated Border Health System11
The effect of treating public services as commodities11
Analysing cutback management strategies amidst the Covid 19 pandemic: Insights from Pennsylvania municipalities11
Facilitating internal audit quality and improving the performance of medical clinics11
Buyer beware! How cognitive biases can influence the hiring of consultants by public servants11
The effect of political budget cycle on local governments’ financial statements in a young democracy11
How far can mandatory requirements drive increased levels of disclosure?11
Debate: Addressing the unexplained growth of consultancies in the public sector—unexplored avenues10
Editorial: Gender budgeting—Insights from contemporary experiences9
Citizens’ choice of government vendors: sector, trust, and information9
Rethinking the way a public university does business9
From demand-side to supply-side regulation of government consultants: Recent trends in three OECD countries9
The vicious circle of ambiguity: how governance deters digital transformation in municipal conglomerates9
Navigating timeliness: Decoupling in corporate external reporting by Indonesian state-owned enterprises (SOEs)9
Debate: The (in)completeness of Whole of Government Accounts in accounting for democracy—A UK experience9
Exploring value creation from an ecosystem perspective: A critical examination of social procurement policy9
Debate: Accounting information performativity and politicians’ use (or not)8
The impact of digital red tape on non-compliant behaviour: the moderating effect of infection risk8
E-governance and policy efforts advancing carbon neutrality and sustainability in European countries8
Assessing public spending efficiency in South East European countries—a data envelopment analysis (DEA) approach8
Public sector accounting education: A structured literature review8
Participatory budgeting—The ultimate way to co-create services for social innovation?8
New development: Local corporate governance and the German Public Corporate Governance-Model Code for international support8
The impact of fiscal education on civic attitudes toward public finance: Evidence from South Korea8
The unintended consequences of co-creation in public services—the role of professionals and of civil society organizations8
Audit and financial reporting under austerity localism—the case of the Birmingham City Council ‘bankruptcy’8
Using different types of performance information: implications for hybrid professionals’ decision-making8
Land management innovation and sustainability in Victoria, Australia—a longitudinal view8
New development: The shift of public sector auditing under the influence of institutional logics—the case of European Court of Auditors8
New development: The paradox of ambitious intentions and poor outcomes of cutbacks on the government’s workforce8
Earnings management in public hospitals: The case of Greek state-owned hospitals8
Debate: Algorithmic bureaucracy in the age of AI—ChatGPT Gov, DeepSeek, and public administration7
Debate: Whole of Government accounts and British think tanks7
From commodification to entrepreneurialism: how commercial income is transforming the English NHS7
Value-for-money and the small charity7
New development: Relational public services—reform and research agenda7
New development: Clinicians in management—past, present, future?7
New development: Ethical dilemmas and emotional labour—what can we learn from the shared Covid-19 crisis?7
Innovation as a robust response to crises in public healthcare organizations: Evidence from Italy7
Implementing new funding and governance structures in Scottish schools: associated social risks7
Intelligent government: The impact and mechanism of government transparency driven by AI7
Reading between the lines: An exploratory study on how graph distortions shape perceptions and use of performance information6
Digitalization and SDGs accounting: Evidence from the public healthcare sector6
New development: Red tape and digital accounting technology in the public sector6
Debate: A public service fit for purpose6
Debate: What exactly is systems leadership?6
Imagining grim stories to reduce redundant deliberation in critical incident decision-making6
New development: Loyalty to principle or politics—The US civil service under attack … but is it justified?6
Debate: Remote audit—navigating the pros and cons6
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: the ultimate public servant6
Modelling public sector accounting on private sector practices: the perspectives of practitioners in Polish local government6
Budgetary responses by the USA to support Ukraine during and after the war6
Debate: In contracts, we trust—managing risk in public contracts through a relational approach6
Doctors in leadership roles: consequences for quality and safety6
Debate: Giving credence to SDG reporting—the role of supreme audit institutions6
New development: Too many absences—An empirical study of children missing from education in Nottingham6
Governance solutions for municipally owned companies: practical insights from England and Canada6
Debate: Can state and local governments harness AI towards SDG realization?6
New development: Climate consulting and the transformation of climate governance6
Enhancing public service innovation through value co-creation: Capacity building and the ‘innovative imagination’6
Politicians’ use of performance information in the budget process6
Editorial: Recruiting, training and retaining excellent public servants5
Constraints on achieving strong horizontal accountability in a public sector context—A case study of refugee resettlement in New Zealand5
Reflections on being CIGAR Executive Board Chair5
Debate: An essential contribution - doctors in senior leadership5
System of choice promotes ethnically-profiled elderly care and older migrants’ use of elderly care: Evidence from Sweden’s three largest cities5
Civic crowdfunding for local governments: Trends and perspectives from a bibliometric analysis5
From co-creation to public value through collaborative platforms—the case of Norwegian kindergartens5
Debate: The future of public sector audit training5
Addressing complexity and planning for the uncertain: local finances in wartime Ukraine5
New development: Every thorn counts—The Baltic response to uncertainty and war in Ukraine5
New development: Public service innovation5
Readability versus obfuscation to fight corruption: evidence from Italian local governments5
New development: So close, yet so far? Challenging the cost-savings assumption in environmental impact bonds5
Social enterprise in prisons: enabling innovation and co-creation5
Debate: The ‘transactional gaze’ and other lenses shaping and constraining the delivery of public services5
Developing resilience interventions for emergency service responders—a view from the field5
Budget transparency and fiscal soundness: Citizens’ political participation as a moderating factor5
New development: Bridging the gap—analysis of required competencies for management accountants in the public sector5
Debate: Accounting training for politicians—an alternative approach5
Who is on the campus dance floor of sustainability reporting? The Spanish case5
Contracting out social care services to for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in Italy: Social categorization and governance choices5
Heuristics of exchange legitimacy: Citizen reactions to ministerial use of performance data in a pandemic5
Are SDGs being translated into accounting terms? Evidence from European cities5
The political economy of digital government: How Silicon Valley firms drove conversion to data science and artificial intelligence in public management4
More than a compliance exercise? The case of consolidated financial accounts in Swedish municipalities4
PMM CIGAR Annual Issue 2022, Public Money & Management, Vol. 42, No. 7 (October 2022)4
The effect of board gender diversity on financial and non-financial performance: evidence from Italian public universities4
Risk disclosure practices: Does institutional imperative matter?4
Toward a ‘shared administration’ approach: Do local governments walk the talk?4
Sustainability reporting from the preparers’ perspective in locally-owned public enterprises4
Sleepless for the family: The relationship between public employees’ family motivation and work stress4
Empowering first-line managers as change leaders towards co-creation culture: the role of facilitated sensemaking4
Spatial inequalities in charitable fundraising and income generation for NHS acute trusts in England4
New development: Assurance on public sector sustainability reporting—time to be proactive4
New development: Management control for emergent risks in the public sector—a levers of control perspective4
New development: Implicit government debt in China—past, present and future4
Political budget cycle and unfunded pension liabilities in states in the USA4
Informal practices and efficiency in public procurement4
New development: Do accounting and asset management at governments evolve together?4
Public value is in the eye of the beholder: stakeholder theory and ingroup bias4
Are the SDGs embedded in university strategies and reporting practices? Analysing influencing factors4
Debate: Will the UK's diversity initiatives mirror US rollbacks?4
New development: Using counter accounting as a methodology in public accountability and management research4
New development: The ethics of accounting information manipulation in the political arena4
New development: Strategic planning in interesting times—From inter-crisis to intra-crisis responses4
Social value—are we measuring up?4
Developing a model of circular economy engagement for public sector organizations4
Gender responsive budgeting: The case of Croatia4
Differential reporting in the public sector—financial reporting for small- and medium-sized entities4
Human-made disasters in a decentralized context: How Czech municipalities are dealing with the Ukrainian crisis4
Re-humanizing the system—how storytelling can be used to bridge the divide between services and citizens4
Clinicians’ informal acquisition of accounting literacy in UK clinical commissioning groups4
Debate: Popular reports lack standards—A path to also reporting on sustainability to citizens4
New development: A ‘journey of personal and professional emotions’—emergency ambulance professionals during Covid-194
New development: Gender-responsive budgeting beyond institutionalization—challenges from the health sector4
Editorial: Management accounting and risk management—research and reflections4
Starting right: Identifying material sustainability impacts for public sector organizations3
Root influence on public sector audit committee effectiveness: revisiting methodological and theoretical research dimensions3
Debate: Accountability of municipally owned corporations—beyond principals and agents3
Content and process approach to the job demands-resources model of emotional labour: A conceptual model3
Designing learning success and avoiding learning failure through learning analytics: the case of policing in England and Wales3
The consequences of the temporary employment of project managers for public innovation: An analysis of EU projects in Finland3
Debate: Local audit parties are pulling in different directions3
Are values driving consultants in public sector financial management advice?3
Intensity and fragility of Czech participatory budgeting during the Covid 19 crisis3
Examining the Covid 19 driven changes in public administration and their longevity: the case of Czechia3
Evaluating commodification and commodifying evaluation3
Overcoming ‘departmentalism’ to facilitate SDG achievement: evidence from Italian state universities3
Gendering digital education: A role model for public management3
‘While you’re there, can you just … ’ The emotional labour of role extending in public services3
Meeting report: Public accountability and democracy in times of crisis—the CIGAR Network 2023 conference3
Editorial: Learning from success and failure in action3
Negotiating the budget for evidence-informed policy-making: insights from a UK government department3
Editorial: The commodification of the public good—who wins and who loses?3
The role of performance measurement and management systems in changing public organizations: An exploratory study3
Public leadership meta-skills in the 2020s3
Debate: Supreme audit institutions aiding governments to drive and steer sustainable development3
Debate: Unlocking AI’s potential for the public sector3
Characterization and analysis of the supply network of the Brazilian national school feeding programme3
New development: In-house consulting—a critical appraisal3
Gender-responsive budgeting within the medium-term budgetary framework in Bangladesh3
New development: Great expectations—whole of government accounting: An Australian perspective of its adoption, development and future use in the current environment3
Debate: Extending the literature on accounting information manipulation3
Social impact measurement as a ‘public value guarantee’ in public–private partnerships? Evidence from a realist evaluation3
Debate: Joining forces to increase digital skills in accounting education3
Bolstering resilience in a polycrisis scenario: A cross-country analysis on the role of IT3
Does financial sustainability affect local resident satisfaction? The case of the Victorian local government system3
Debate: If politicians hardly care about performance information (in the annual budget), who cares about performance and when?3
When innovation comes to town—the institutional logics driving change in municipalities3
Editorial: Public sector accounting current developments—insight, critique and transformative redefinitions3
New development: Accounting for human-made disasters—comparative analysis of the support to Ukraine in times of war3
New development: A strategic re-set—Sustaining public service well-being3
Municipally owned corporations and autonomy in centralized states—A comparative analysis of Turkey and Israel3
New development: Public sector accounting education for users—embedding eLearning and technology in teaching3
Debate: Consulting firms, institutional corruption and the hollow state3
Debate: Improving communication effectiveness or wasting taxpayers’ money? The use of social media influencers in public organizations3
Politically-driven public administration or co-creation? On the possibility of modernizing public services in rural Hungary3
Does the Civil Service Commission in Bangladesh map skills to align education, recruitment testing, and training?3
Innovation, exnovation and intelligent failure3
New development: How working from home influences the governance of municipally owned corporations and affects the public interest3
Debate: How to give university public sector accounting education the relevance it truly deserves3
New development: Ten years of consolidated accounts in the United Kingdom public sector—taking stock3
Are credit rating agencies users of government accounting information? Evidence from the sovereign rating process2
Value-led participatory design approach for improving public health clinic services2
Designing public financial management systems: exploring the use of chatbot-assisted case studies2
New development: From blanket coverage to patchwork quilt—rethinking organizational responses to fraud in the National Health Service in England2
The impact of healthcare board characteristics on NHS trust performance2
Debate: Expanding research on politicians’ data use2
Voluntary adoption of the International Standards on Auditing (ISA) in local government audits—empirical evidence from Finland2
The impact of International Public Sector Accounting Standards on economic policy uncertainty2
Is water management really transparent? A comparative analysis of ESG reporting of Andalusian publicly-owned enterprises2
Debate: Solving supply shortages and delays in a challenged local public audit system2
Switching on and off the management accounting system in a public higher education institution2
Substantive versus symbolic paths in SDG disclosure via social media: evidence from Italian local governments2
Debate: The role of intermediaries between demand and supply of performance information—the missing link?2
Debate: Peer reviews at the crossroads—‘To AI or not to AI?’2
Debate: Towards accountability in the village enterprise accounting system2
Debate: Two steps forward, one step back, on the way to effective public financial management2
New development: The elephant in the room—Cultural participation for well-being2
The impact of institutional pressure and resource provision on reforms for performance-based budgeting: empirical evidence from China2
New development: Understanding the statement of accounts—the use of financial information in UK local authorities2
Debate: Researching in challenging times—adapting and enhancing public sector accounting practices2
Debate: Climate change, environmental challenges, sustainable development goals and the relevance of accounting2
The effect of contract- and network management on performance and innovation in infrastructure projects2
NGO engagement in the creation of public service innovations: A configurational, explorative approach2
Debate: Local public audit in England2
Debate: ‘Hyper lean’ post managerialism: exploring the impact of the ‘Trojan Horse’ effect of Covid 19 in decimating resourcing of the public sector workforce2
Management consultants and university futures: Academic capitalism and the capture of UK public higher education2
New development: Fiscal reporting—new potential to drive decision-making and behavioural change2
New development: Public governance in the discursivity of the Brazilian government—a reflection on conceptual reduction2
Multi-level governance of grant programmes. The case of Cohesion and External Action in the European Union2
New development: Mitigating disvalue through a material understanding of public value co-creation2
Different sustainability endgames: Institutional logics in the performance management of local governments2
Assessing the stakeholders’ responses in public discussions of IPSASB standards from a cultural perspective2
The emotive power of accounts during war time2
New development: Value destruction in public service delivery—a process model and its implications2
The market doesn’t care2
Public aspects of public manager training, education and development2
Debate: Place-based public service ecosystems and the performance of local public services2
New development: Green budgeting—integrating environmental goals into the resource allocation process2
Debate: From financials to societal wellbeing—expanding the scope of public sector climate reporting to advance the SDGs’ agenda2
Debate: Whether and how public innovations create value2
Correction2
Debate: Politicians' use of accounting information—the myth of rationality2
Debate: AI as a framework for public service innovation2
Debate: Parliament’s quest to improve accounting information in the Netherlands2
Watching the neighbours: gender budgeting in Scotland and Wales2
Debate: Can gender mainstreaming overcome the weaknesses of gender budgeting?2
Editorial: An international vision for local public audit2
Strategic management of social responsibilities: a mixed methods study of US universities2
Innovations in Indian public administration2
Debate: When our bodies and minds rebel2
New development : Income and gender equality, Spanish spending reviews and public values2
Debate: Public audit to the rescue of Britain!2
Managing the unmeasurable: Developing a new performance management framework for the voluntary sector2
New development: Government accounting reforms in southern Africa—lessons from Malawi2
Professionalizing the management of political advisers2
Debate: Austria and Germany—diametrically-opposed approaches to gender budgeting2
New development: The limits of business accounting in the public sector context—the case of concessionary leases and right-of-use assets in-kind2
Public sector readiness for value co-creation: the diffusion of a governance innovation2
New development: Digital social care—the ‘high-tech and low-touch’ transformation in public services2
Top-down or bottom-up digital transformation? A comparison of institutional changes and outcomes2
The capacities of local government in early response to Covid 19: Evidence from South Korea2
Debate: Can audit reduce information asymmetry? The case of English local government2
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