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Overview

Irvine Lapsley is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh in the United Kingdom. Their research focuses primarily within the fields of Social Sciences and Business, Management and Accounting, with significant contributions to subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Public Administration, Management Information Systems, Finance, and Political Science and International Relations.

The main topics of Lapsley's work include Public Policy and Administration Research, Accounting and Organizational Management, Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering, Community Development and Social Impact, Public-Private Partnership Projects, Management and Organizational Studies, and Sport and Mega-Event Impacts.

Lapsley has published extensively in academic journals, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • Financial Accountability and Management
  • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
  • Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change
  • Public Money & Management
  • Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Lapsley are:

  • "Debate: Politicians' use of accounting information-the myth of rationality", 2021, Public Money & Management
  • "Whatever happened to New Public Management?", 2022, Financial Accountability and Management
  • "The shaping of public services through calculative practices: The roles of accountants, citizens, professionals, and politicians", 2020, Financial Accountability and Management

Lapsley has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Noel Hyndman
  • Marc Jegers
  • Ileana Steccolini
  • Sandra Cohen
  • María-Dolores Guillamón

Best Publications

  • New Public Management: The Cruellest Invention of the Human Spirit?1

    Irvine Lapsley

  • THE NPM AGENDA: BACK TO THE FUTURE

    Irvine Lapsley

  • Accounting and the New Public Management: Instruments of Substantive Efficiency or a Rationalising Modernity?

    Irvine Lapsley

  • Performance Management in the Public Sector: The Ultimate Challenge

    Michela Arnaboldi;Irvine Lapsley;Ileana Steccolini

  • The diffusion of management accounting innovations in the public sector: a research agenda

    Irvine Lapsley;Elisa Wright

  • Challenges in Managing Nonprofit Organizations: A Research Overview

    Bernd Helmig;Marc Jegers;Irvine Lapsley

  • Accounting, management and organizational change: A comparative study of local government

    Irvine Lapsley;June Pallot

  • On the Adoption of Accrual Accounting in the Public Sector: A Self-Evident and Problematic Reform

    Irvine Lapsley;Riccardo Mussari;Gert Paulsson

  • The Diffusion of Accounting Practices in the New 'Managerial' Public Sector

    Audrey Jackson;Irvine Lapsley

  • Accountingization v. Legitimation: A Comparative Study of the Use of Accounting Information in Intensive Care

    Liisa Kurunmaki;I. Lapsley;K. Melia

  • New Public Management: The Story Continues

    N. Hyndman;Irvine Maclaren Lapsley

  • Responsibility accounting revived? Market reforms and budgetary control in health care

    Irvine Lapsley

  • Transforming the Public Sector: Management Consultants as Agents of Change

    Irvine Lapsley;Rosie Oldfield

  • On the Implementation of Accrual Accounting: A Study of Conflict and Ambiguity

    Michela Arnaboldi;Irvine Lapsley

  • Choice of auditors and earnings management during the Asian financial crisis

    Yew Ming Chia;Irvine Lapsley;Hing‐Wah Lee

  • Modern Costing Innovations and Legitimation: A Health Care Study

    Michela Arnaboldi;Irvine Lapsley

  • Understanding key factors affecting electronic medical record implementation: a sociotechnical approach.

    Maria Cucciniello;Irvine Lapsley;Greta Nasi;Claudia Pagliari

  • Transforming the public sector: 1998–2018

    Irvine Maclaren Lapsley;Peter Miller

  • Activity Based Costing in Healthcare: A UK Case Study

    Michela Arnaboldi;Irvine Lapsley

  • On the efficiency of public, welfare and private hospitals in Germany over time: a sectoral data envelopment analysis study.

    Bernd Helmig;Irvine Lapsley

  • Accounting, transparency and governance: the heritage assets problem

    Lucia Biondi;Irvine Lapsley

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Jegers
Marc Jegers Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Noel Hyndman
Noel Hyndman Queen's University Belfast
Peter Miller
Peter Miller London School of Economics and Political Science
Mahmoud Ezzamel
Mahmoud Ezzamel IE University
Hans Knutsson
Hans Knutsson Linköping University
Ileana Steccolini
Ileana Steccolini University of Essex
Falconer Mitchell
Falconer Mitchell University of Edinburgh
Claudia Pagliari
Claudia Pagliari University of Edinburgh
Andrew Pettigrew
Andrew Pettigrew University of Oxford

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