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1. The Limits of Control? The Role of Sustainability Control for Constructing Accountability within Organisations
Sammanfattning : Sustainability control is grounded in pragmatic research traditions which imply that the design of formalised sustainability control systems (de-signed by managers) is enough to ensure strategic plans are met in re-sponse to external accountability demands. Through this, the individualis-ing aspects of control in a hierarchical accountability sense are empha-sised, and the main accountability relationship becomes between the supe-rior and subordinate. LÄS MER
2. Accounting for Accountability : Theoretical and Empirical Explorations of a Multifaceted Concept
Sammanfattning : This dissertation extends our understanding of accountability in the accounting literature, where discourses revolve around diverse manifestations of accountability. While accountability is often conceptualized as a management control tool, accountability also seems to operate through inter- and intra-personal mechanisms. LÄS MER
3. Understanding Media Accountability : Media Accountability in Relation to Media Criticism and Media Governance in Sweden 1940-2010
Sammanfattning : The concepts of media accountability, media criticism and media governance are analysed and discussed in a Swedish setting; how they relate to each other and interact. This is achieved by using various methods – a survey to editors, analy- ses of parliamentary debates, interviews, direct observation and document stu- dies – in studying different stakeholders, media representatives and governance conditions in Sweden during the last 70 years. LÄS MER
4. Incumbent Renomination : Accountability and Gender Bias
Sammanfattning : Party recruiters in proportional-representation (PR) systems are forced to do what their majoritarian counterparts are not: they need to rank-order all their candidates on the party ballots based on whom they most wish to get elected. Consequently, new candidates and incumbents alike compete for a limited number of electable ballot slots. LÄS MER
5. Crisis, Accountability and Blame Management : Strategies and Survival of Political Office-Holders
Sammanfattning : Crises are an integral part of our modern world; they are breaking points that disturb our sense of normalcy. While some of them are treated as ‘normal incidents’ that are bound to occur in a vast and complex array of governmental activities, others spark a blaze of media attention, public emotions, and political upheaval. LÄS MER
