This study was carried out from 1984 to 2013 in the context of governance, with a view to
analyzing the discussions on transparency, accountability, and corruption in the public …

Los estudios sobre transparencia pública han florecido en las últimas tres décadas, pero las
revisiones comprehensivas de las investigaciones sobre el tema han sido limitadas …

Transparency is an increasingly prominent area of research that offers valuable insights for
organizational studies. However, conceptualizations of transparency are rarely subject to …

New Public Management (NPM) has been guiding public sector reform for over 25 years. Its
position on the design of effective management control rests on three key ideas:(1) …

Under certain conditions, output related performance measurement and pay-for-
performance produce negative outcomes. We argue that in public service, these negative …

Drawing on the new public management and agency theory, this study examines the
mediating role of accountability in the relationship between financial-reporting quality and …

This paper brings into focus the concept of organizational secrecy, defined as the ongoing
formal and informal social processes of intentional concealment of information from actors …

Secrecy is endemic within organizations, woven into the fabric of our lives at work. Yet, until
now, we've had an all-too-limited understanding of this powerful organizational force …

I argue that organization theory and public policy studies, two field that share many common
origins, have had surprisingly little cross-fertilization and that this state of affairs is both …

Although many contemporary organizations face institutional pressures to embrace open
organizing principles, some defer or decline the call. We examine how existing bureaucratic …