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Gender, work and organization, Feb 24, 2024

Journal of Pragmatic Constructivism, Dec 21, 2022

Gender, Work & Organization, Nov 27, 2023

Revue internationale des sciences administratives, Sep 14, 2023

Work, Employment and Society

This study explores how khwajasiras, a community of gender-variant persons in Pakistan, engage in... more This study explores how khwajasiras, a community of gender-variant persons in Pakistan, engage in relational work to gain recognition in a heteronormative world. We highlight how these workers negotiate the meanings of their intimate relationships with different forms, frequencies, amounts, and payment media of financial exchanges. We have identified four such relations i.e. romantic relations, spousal relations, taboo relations, and professional relations. Our analysis shows how these relations and associated financial exchanges allow khwajasiras to navigate gender norms and negotiate recognition by alternatively and creatively playing the role of the khwajasira lover, the khwajasira wife, the khwajasira survival prostitute, and the khwajasira professional sex worker. In enacting these roles, they simultaneously reaffirm, redefine, and challenge dominant gender norms while resisting stable and fixed definitions of transgender sex work(ers). These findings unpack the contingent and ...

Gender, Work and Organization, Mar 9, 2023

International Review of Administrative Sciences, 2021

Previous studies have overlooked how partnerships between public and private actors (PPPs) play o... more Previous studies have overlooked how partnerships between public and private actors (PPPs) play out as an effect of cultural and historical conditions in the context of a smart city. Our analysis investigates the peculiar context of Japan, where smart city initiatives stem from a historically and culturally embedded “partnership” between government and businesses. Unlike other smart city settings, the adoption of a neoliberal logic of an all-embracing market world by prioritizing business interests over other civic issues is not inevitable. This paper contributes to the literature on PPPs and smart cities by presenting the case of a partnership between public and private actors that overcomes the antagonistic and transactional relationship problematized in previous studies. We demonstrate that the workings of PPPs are historically and culturally embedded. Thus, we caution policy-makers against adopting a universal framework for partnerships in smart city initiatives. In the case of ...

Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2020

Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 2021

PurposeThis study offers a critical inquiry into accountability vis-à-vis organizational identity... more PurposeThis study offers a critical inquiry into accountability vis-à-vis organizational identity formation. It investigates how accountability evolves in the transformation of an NGO operating in the field of migration management from an informal grassroots group into a fully-fledged organization.Design/methodology/approachThe paper is the outcome of a participatory action research project on Welcome Refugees (WR), a UK-based NGO. The project involved documentary analysis, focus group and semi-structured interviews, field notes, and participant observation. The analysis draws from poststructuralist theorization to explain the interplay between organizational identity and different forms of NGO accountability over time.FindingsThe study shows how different forms of accountability became salient over time and were experienced differently by organizational members, thus leading to competing collective identity narratives. Organizational members felt accountable to beneficiaries in dif...

Accounting Forum, 2021

This research adds to sparse accounting literature on immigration by problematizing the intertwin... more This research adds to sparse accounting literature on immigration by problematizing the intertwined relationship between accounting and ethics in the neoliberal era. It explains ethical paradoxes inherent in the neoliberal project and how these unfold in the accounting practices deployed by the Italian state to handle the ongoing refugee crisis. Our analysis shows how the State’s proclaimed conviction to the human right cause turned out to be neoliberal in nature. On the one hand, the use of accounting was indeed partially dictated by the State’s mission of constructing the neoliberal citizen. On the other hand, accounting practices mainly prioritized efficiency over care and reflected the unwillingness of the State to enact responsibility for immigrants' human rights. We conclude that the use of accounting epitomizes complementary rather than opposing forms of neoliberalism and ultimately unveils the inability of the State to offer a humanitarian response to the immigration crisis.

Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism, 2017

Revue internationale des sciences administratives, 2020

Proceedings of Pragmatic Constructivism, May 29, 2015

The present research wishes to adopt a pragmatic constructivist approach in order to understand a... more The present research wishes to adopt a pragmatic constructivist approach in order to understand and explain the functionality of private-inspired reforms in the public sector. In particular, the research investigates the introduction and implementation of a relevant but challenging managerial reform, performance-based budgeting (PBB), become widespread in the public sector worldwide. PBB is one of the labels whereby mechanisms and procedures designed to use performance information during the budgeting process have become widespread (OECD, 2007; Robinson, 2007). Despite its faraway origins, PBB has gained renewed attention as a component of the broadest reform movement known under the umbrella term of New Public Management (NPM) (Hood, 1991, 1995; Hyndman et al., 2014). Indeed, the focus on measuring and managing performance that drives PBB is at the heart of the NPM movement. The main rationale beyond this reform movement lies in the assumption about the public goodness of the management of private corporations (Stiglitz, 1989) to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the public sector. Therefore, since the 1980s, the public sector has undertaken waves of reforms inspired by the private sector in order to improve its performance. The feasibility and usefulness of this approach has been object of great scrutiny and debate. Indeed, on the one hand, NPM has been criticized because of its poor implementation and difficulties in meeting the initial expectations (Lapsley, 2008; Lynn, 1998). Scholars have critically underlined how a managerial approach in the public sector can lead to the diffusion of an entrepreneurial ethos (Morales et al., 2014), transforming the public servant in a new homo oeconomicus (Hoskin, 2015) with the risk of privatizing moral concerns (Dobel, 1978), penalizing the public sphere (Lehman, 2010) and the common understanding of public interest (Johnston, 2015). On the other hand, previous studies have pointed out that although the inevitable paradoxes linked to a new reform movement as NPM, it can still worth the efforts (Dan and Pollitt, 2014; Hood and Peters, 2004), and indeed it still plays an influencing role in the current public sector agenda (de Vries and Nemec, 2013). However, the general principles of NPM call for adaptation in light of the specific context where they have to be applied. As ter Bogt et al. (2015) pointed out through their empirical analysis on PBB, the practice challenges NPM assumptions and call for adaptation to be realizable.

A Philosophy of Management Accounting, 2017