Organizational accountability is considered critical to organizations’ sustained performance and survival. Prior research examines the structural rhetorical responses that organizations use manage pressures from different constituents. With emergence of social media, shift relatively clear well-specified demands identifiable stakeholders unclear unspecified concerns a pseudonymous crowd. This f...

in this paper, by using a model of the new keynesians, we investigated the role of the central bank's accountability to shocks that causes deviations in the performance of the monetary policymakers. for this purpose, we used quarterly data for 69: 1 to 93: 3, and estimated the basic equations of the new keynesians model. then, by calculating the optimal values for the central bank's a...

The article examines one of the most intriguing issues related to the public sector reforms; the changing accountability systems. The debate about the relevance of accounting-based reform in the caring professions is not new, but little research has been conduct in the field of social work. Accounting, in such endeavour, risks to be often, and erroneously, equated to accountability and control....

As the power and influence of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in international debates on social and moral matters increases, questions concerning their legitimacy and accountability become all the more challenging. Some starting points are given for a defensible account of the legitimacy and accountability of internationally operating NGOs. Special attention is given to the use of new inf...

As maternal health specialists accelerate efforts towards Millennium Development Goal Five, attention is focusing on how to best improve service accountability to target communities as a strategy for more effective policy implementation. We present a case study of efforts to improve accountability in Orissa, India, focusing on the role of local women, intermediary groups, health providers and e...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. Firstly, it assesses the extent to which corporate reporting on ethical, social and environmental issues reflects corporate performance in ICI. This ‘reporting-performance’ gap is a key measure of the extent to which an organisation is accountable to its stakeholders. ICI’s disclosures concerning its ethical, social and environmental performance for the yea...

BACKGROUND Many medical schools express a commitment to social accountability. However there are significant short comings in the ways doctors are educated with respect to the social contract between medicine and society. Being socially accountable in the context of a medical school is to conduct health, research and training activities in such a way that best prioritises the health needs of th...