01609nam a22001577a 4500 515065 515065 210109b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Carter, Chris et al 24293 Strategic change, leadership and accounting: A triptych of organizational reform Public Administration 98(1), 2020: p.62-91 Strategic change in public sector organizations has been well documented. This article suggests that public management research would benefit from a greater appreciation of how calculative practices are deeply imbricated with, and constitutive of, organizational life. In turn, the article argues that the field of interdisciplinary accounting has much to learn from public administration, especially in terms of leadership. The overarching argument is that understanding strategic change in public organizations can be enhanced by bringing together insights from the academic fields of public administration and interdisciplinary accounting. In this respect, organizational reform can be understood as a triptych, involving strategic change, leadership and accounting practices. We illustrate this thesis through a case study of strategic change in the world's largest public service broadcaster—the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). It is shown how, during the tenure of one organizational leader—John Birt—accounting became pivotal to his leadership. - Reproduced Public sector organizations, Public management, Leadership 23603 Public Administration PUBLIC SECTOR ENTERPRISES AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 389098 IIPA IIPA 2021-01-09 98(1), 2020: p.62-91 AR123838 2021-01-09 AR