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Reinventing Government: How the En-trepreneurial Spirit is Transforming the Public Sector
D. Osborne, T. Gaebler
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ABSTRACT This empirically grounded commentary explores the impacts of the COVID‐19 pandemic on the strategic direction of Canada's accounting profession and highlights opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in the post‐pandemic era. We undertake a systematic literature review using deductive and inductive approaches within both the academic ...
Merridee Bujaki +4 more
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Losing Control: The Erosion of Disciplinary and Pastoral Power in Accounting Firms
ABSTRACT Accounting firms have traditionally operated as both elite and reinventive institutions that offer a structured and prestigious career path and enforce a deeply transformative socialization process for auditors. However, recent labor market shifts and evolving work preferences are challenging this regime of power, with significant implications
Oriane Couchoux +2 more
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Nature on the balance sheet: Accountability for Nature Positive
Abstract Nature loss poses a growing risk to the global economy, prompting calls for enhanced business accountability. To support the urgent business transformations required to achieve Nature Positive goals, decision‐makers, investors, lenders and other stakeholders need consistent, comparable and decision‐useful information on the state of nature and
Greg Smith +6 more
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The siege of Tobruk is one of the most well‐known Australian actions of the Second World War, enjoying special attention on Anzac Day. Its elevation within Australian national memory is by no means accidental. Rather, it is the result of decades of lobbying by the Rats of Tobruk Association (ROTA), which positioned veterans of the siege as the ...
Nicole Townsend
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Certified Organic Forests & Timber: the Hippocratic Opportunity [PDF]
Organic farming was proposed in 1940 by Lord Northbourne as a response to chemical agriculture. Since then, organic agriculture has developed into an international A$50 billion industry with annual growth reported up to 30%.
Paull, John
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ABSTRACT Scholars working on conflict and violence often engage with local organisations, yet the methodological and ethical implications of volunteering‐while‐researching are rarely discussed in writing. This article contributes to debates on decolonizing research by conceptualising volunteering‐while‐researching as a practice that—while imbued with ...
Shona Loong
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The New Governance and the Tools of Public Action: An Introduction [PDF]
A fundamental re-thinking is currently underway throughout the world about how to cope with public problems. Stimulated by popular frustrations with the cost and effectiveness of government programs and by a new-found faith in liberal economic theories,
Salamon, Lester M.
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Sustainability at the Summit: Transforming Haute Cuisine With Circular Business Models
ABSTRACT The adoption of circular economy principles poses a vibrant challenge for firms by becoming a potential and sustainable way for them to keep pace with highly dynamic changes in a competitive environment. Although previous research has examined experiences and practices that firms adopt to facilitate their transition to a circular economy ...
Alessandra Costa +3 more
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ABSTRACT In multi‐stakeholder initiatives, actors across sectors develop voluntary standards to guide firms' sustainability efforts. While multi‐stakeholder initiatives have long been a prevalent instrument of sustainability regulation, recently, there has been an uptake of legislation that makes it mandatory for firms to acknowledge sustainability ...
Leona A. Henry, Eva van der Zee
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