School Governance, Accountability and Performance Management

Public Sector Governance and Accountability Series Performance Accountability and Combating Corruption

Public sector governance and accountability

The collection of papers in this special issue has primarily been drawn from the papers representing the ‘‘Corporate Governance and accountability in the Public Sector’’ stream of the Seventh International Critical Management Studies Conference (CMS 7), which was held at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, in July 2011. The stream was inspired by international reforms focussed on the m...

Centre for Research in Accounting, Accountability and Governance Working Papers School of Management Assessing English Hospitals: Contradiction and Conflict

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the micro effects of performance measures introduced in England to control hospitals, following the changing context in the policy directing the delivery of healthcare introduced by the Labour Government. The legislative framework established in 1999 reflected a discontinuity in the way that hospitals are controlled in this country. Design/methodology/approa...

Educational Performance and Charter School Authorizers: The Accountability Bind

Charter schools involve a trading of autonomy for accountability. This accountability comes through two forces—markets through the choices of parents and students, and accountability to government through the writing of contracts that must be renewed for schools to continue to operate. Charter schools are supposed to be more accountable for educational performance than traditional public school...

Performance Management: Ensuring Accountability for Results

Reforms of the size and scale to which Race to the Top States have committed, require unprecedented planning, oversight and problem solving to implement. Although many factors influence the outcomes of these reform efforts, performance management is a key structural element in realizing sustainable reforms that are durable and adaptive, and persistently focused on improved student growth in the...