Workshop and PhD Seminar

This workshop aims at giving a wider outlook at various perspectives on public sector governance. Since the 70-ties, New Public Management (NPM) has been a central reference for public management. Its focus on performance serves multiple purposes such as providing for political control over public services, providing transparent information to the public and motivating employees. Despite criticism, NPM is continually expanding and changing. The complexity of both the concept itself and of its practice requires multi-dimensional considerations of what public management is and what it may become. The workshop will offer an arena to discuss both present and future development.

As the pressures for public reforms will not abate and the evolution will continue to be severely contested, this workshop invites participants to discuss topics on e.g. the Audit Society, the role of accounting and transparency in New Public Management, Performance Management in public services and the impact of the Global Fiscal Crisis on government activities. Empirical areas of interest may be e.g. charities, cultural arrangements, local and central government and the welfare sectors. Three international researchers, Professor John Burns, Professor Irvine Lapsley and Professor Hanne Nörreklit have been invited as keynote speakers who will contribute to the future agenda of research within the area.
The workshop will also provide an opportunity for doctoral students to present and discuss their work at a specific PhD seminar . All papers will be assigned a senior discussant. 

Although the theme of the workshop is the public sector this year, we also welcome participants who focus on other empirical fields, using both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Workshop participants are responsible for their own travel costs and overnight arrangements. There is no registration fee for the workshop participants. Contact e-mail for queries and abstracts is tbs-conferences@hist.no

Deadline for registration is 25 September 2014. Click to register.

Participants are required to submit extended abstracts no later than 1 October 2014.

Preliminary program for the workshop 

PhD seminar, October 15^th, 2014 

Trondheim Business School organizes a seminar for PhD students within the field of management, management accounting and financial accounting.

Date & time: 15 October 2014, 13.30 – 18.30

Venue: Radisson Blu Hotel, Trondheim Airport, Norway

Purpose: The seminar provides PhD students with an opportunity to present and discuss their on-going work with experienced scholars.

Key features: The seminar will focus on the work of the students and extensive feedback on each presentation will be provided by an experienced discussant. The seminar will be led by Professor Irvine Lapsley.

Target audience:  A) PhD students who are in their later phase of collection of empirical data and have decided upon their theoretical framework.

Workshop leader: Professor Irvine Lapsley is Professor of Accounting emeritus at University of Edinburg, Business school. His research includes public sector reforms, particularly the Audit Society, the role of accounting and transparency in New Public Management, Performance Management in public services and the impact of the Global Fiscal Crisis on government activities. He is currently the director of Institute of Public Sector Accounting research and the editor of the journal Financial Accountability and Management. He also holds visiting professorships at University of Mannheim, University of Lund, Politecnico di Milano and Queen’s University, Belfast.

Seminar participants are responsible for their own travel costs and overnight arrangements. There is no registration fee for the seminar participants. Contact e-mail for queries and registration tbs-conferences@hist.no.

Deadline for registration is 25 September 2014. Click to register.

Participants are required to submit extended abstracts no later than 1 September and full papers should be submitted no later than 1 October 2014.

Preliminary program for the PhD seminar 15 October: