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CallforpapersforInternationalJournalofPublicSectorManagement
Governanceandaccountability(Gover-nability)ofmultiplevaluesofmunicipalcorporations
Guesteditors:DanielaArgento(KristianstadUniversity),GiuseppeGrossi(KristianstadUniversityandNordUniversity),MariekevanGenugten(RadboudUniversity)andAnnaThomasson(CopenhagenBusinessSchool)
Municipalcorporations(MCs)havebeenestablishedindifferentpartsoftheworldtoprovidelocalpublicservices(suchasinfrastructure,utilities,education,healthcare,culturalandsocialservices)undertheinfluenceofNewPublicManagement(NPM)doctrinesandrelatedneoliberalideologies(Thynne,1994;GrossiandReichard,2008).Theirhybridorganizationalnatureimpliesthattheirgovernanceispermeatedbyamultiplicityofvalues.
Scantattentionhasbeenpaidbypreviousscholarstohowdifferentactors(,auditors,controllers,CSRmanagers,etc.)andtheirvaluesaffectgoalsinhybridmunicipalcorporationsandtheirroleinthedevelopmentofgovernanceandaccountabilitypractices(Grossietal.,2017).Thereisstilllimitedresearchexplicitlyfocusingontheroleofthedifferentactorsinthedesignandimplementationofgovernanceandaccountabilitypracticesinhybridorganizations(SkelcherandSmith2015).Therefore,futureresearchwouldlikelybenefitfromstudiesinsidemunicipalownedcorporationsashybridorganizations(PacheSantos,2013;Seibel,2015),seekingmorein-depthinsightsintointernalgovernanceandaccountabilitypracticesratherthaninvestigations‘fromtheoutside’oroninterpretationsbasedonwhatiswrittenindifferentformaldocuments(Grossietal.,2017).
Theaimistoimprovethetheoreticalandpracticalunderstandingofthedrivers,obstacles,andtensionsforvaluecrecountabilitypracticestodisclosemultiplevaluescreatedbymunicipalcorporations,,conceptualandempiricalsubmissionsfromdifferentinstitutionalcontextsandbyscholarsacrossdisciplines.
Interestingtopicsforthepapersincludebutarenotlimitedtothefollowingissues:
Howcanweconceptualize,evaluate,andmeasurethemultiplesvalues,andperformanceofMCs?
Howdomultiplevaluesshapegovernanceandaccountabilitypractices,andreversely,inMCs?
HowdogovernanceandaccountabilitypracticesaimtocopewiththemultiplicityofvaluesinMCs?
Howcangovernmentsensurethatsocietalandpublicvaluesandvaluecreationareprotected?
Howdocorporateactors(,auditors,controllers,CSRmanagers,etc.)worktocreategovernanceandaccountabilitypracticesinMCs?Howisitpossibletoprotectthepublicvaluesinacontextwithmultiplevaluesandactors?
HowcancitizensandotherstakeholdersbeinvolvedtocreateparticipatorygovernanceandaccountabilitypracticesinMCs?
WhataretheeffectsofhybridityofMCsonvaluecreationandtheformsofaccountingandaccountabilitypractices?
SpecialIssueonlineCIRIECWorkshop
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