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Publikováno v:
Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. 29:739-766
Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to contest Edwardset al.’s (2002) findings that resistance to the introduction of double-entry bookkeeping and the form that it took when implemented by the British Government in the mid-nineteenth century wa
Publikováno v:
Accounting and Business Research. 46:601-619
This paper examines the credibility of performance audit at the micro-level of practice using the general framework of Birnbaum and Stegner's theory of source credibility in which credibility is dependent upon perceptions of the independence of the a
Autor:
Robert E. Jupe, Warwick N. Funnell
A crucial feature of rail privatisation in Britain was franchising. Passenger services were franchised in competitive bidding processes to train operators which were meant to function with declining subsidy. The article adopts the framework of social
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Autor:
Robert E. Jupe
Publikováno v:
Public Money & Management. 33:337-341
In August 2012, the UK's Department for Transport (DfT) announced the award of the new West Coast rail franchise to FirstGroup. The incumbent operator, Virgin Rail Group, then launched legal proceedings to challenge the decision. The DfT initially de
Autor:
Robert E. Jupe
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Public Money & Management. 32:177-184
This article examines a major UK value-for-money study by Sir Roy McNulty in the context of the neoliberal public policy environment. This environment favoured rail's privatization, and subsequent reform attempts, which maintained the privatization m
Autor:
Robert E. Jupe
Publikováno v:
Accounting, Organizations and Society. 37:116-129
Following the development of the New Right Agenda, Conservative Governments in Britain introduced incrementally an extensive privatization programme. This paper focuses on the failure of the last privatization of the Conservatives: British Energy, th
Autor:
Robert E. Jupe
Publikováno v:
Business History. 53:324-343
Rail privatisation was a controversial, widely unpopular policy whose implementation was not inevitable. This article employs counterfactual history methodology to examine whether the move to rail privatisation in Britain might have failed. It places
Autor:
Robert E. Jupe
Publikováno v:
Financial Accountability & Management. 27:43-62
This paper focuses on the creation of new organisational structures under New Labour's modernisation approach in three related areas: the creation of Network Rail as a replacement for the failed company, Railtrack, in the privatised rail industry; th
Autor:
Robert E. Jupe
Publikováno v:
Public Money & Management. 30:347-354
Rail privatization led to a large increase in both costs and subsidy, and there have been substantial performance and regulatory problems with rail franchises. This article examines these problems in the context of recent developments, including the
Autor:
Robert E. Jupe
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Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. 22:709-735
PurposeThe paper aims to examine the role, funding and status of Network Rail, a very significant example of New Labour's attempt to operationalise the “third way”. The analysis of Network Rail is used to critique the “third way” approach to