COVID-19 and the governmentality of emergency food in the City of Turin

Sargiacomo, Massimo; Corazza, Laura; D’Andreamatteo, Antonio; Dumay, John; Guthrie, James

doi:10.1108/aaaj-09-2020-4926

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“…According to their findings, this method allows shared responsibility and benefits for municipal councils, businesses, and households for recyclable commodities, leading to the lowest waste costs and creating economic, social, and environmental benefits for households. An accounting perspective was also adopted by Sargiacomo et al (2021), who showed the accounting, accountability, and calculative practices associated with emergency food allocations by the City of Turin through a program developed amidst COVID-19. Their findings suggested that the accounting tools of governmentality are always incomplete.…”

Section: Performance and Measurement Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circularity of food systems: a review and research agenda

Bernardi

Bertello

Forliano

2022

BFJ

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to appraise and evaluate empirical research on circular economy in food systems, consolidating the existing knowledge and identifying shortcomings in this emerging body of research.Design/methodology/approachThe authors conducted a systematic literature review of 136 studies from the electronic databases Scopus and Web of Science. The authors also developed a thematic analysis and summarized the results in a framework.FindingsThe authors identified seven critical issues for the transition to circular food systems: consumer behavior, multistakeholder coordination, business models, digital technologies, barriers, transition processes and performance and measurement systems. Moreover, the authors provide an agenda for future research on these topics.Originality/valueWhile reviews on the circular economy are spreading rapidly, no reviews have comprehensively addressed the critical issues for the transition to circular food systems in the business, management, and organization domains.

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Section: Performance and Measurement Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Circularity of food systems: a review and research agenda

Bernardi

Bertello

Forliano

2022

BFJ

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“…Indeed, fundamental shift in decision-making practices that are rooted in organizational culture can be exceptionally challenging during the best of times and even more daunting in a time of crisis that often involves increased pressure on resources and enhances employee resistance (Bovey and Hede 2001;Bordia et al, 2006;Peters, Pierre, and Randma-Liiv 2011;Sargiacomo et al, 2021;Thelen 2000). Hence, our findings do not find significant change in decision-making methods and the associated data use during the COVID-19 pandemic (also see Thelen 2000).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 58%

Municipal performance management during the covid pandemic

Pasha

Jacobson

2022

Public Policy and Administration

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The COVID-19 pandemic brought a major shift in governmental operations, including decision-making processes. In the midst of an unprecedented crisis, public managers had to make rapid decisions within an uncertain landscape and ambiguous timeline. This exploratory study aims to understand how the pandemic impacted public managers’ behavior as they attempted to better cope with the crisis. In particular, we focus on the impact of the pandemic on performance management practices in municipal governments, examining a range of components, including data analysis and use. Our cross-sectional analysis of 103 line managers from North Carolina municipal departments finds that local government managers increased their use of performance management practices during the pandemic compared to the previous (non-pandemic) year. The increased use was amplified when existing performance information practices were established before the pandemic. These exploratory findings contribute to a better understanding of the role of performance information in decision-making during a crisis and to performance management scholarship more broadly.

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“…Recognising that accounting presents information partially and has social and moral imperatives as well as technical applications (Carnegie et al , 2021a, 2021b), this study adopts a broad interpretation of accounting and, subsequently, of what constitutes “an account”. Similar to Sargiacomo et al (2012, p. 396), this study focuses on “an accounting” of and for the Newmarch House crisis, necessitating “alternative accounts that re-situate the human experience as worthy of inclusion and value” (Twyford, 2021, p. 354).…”

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Crisis accountability and aged “care” during COVID-19

Twyford

2022

MEDAR

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Purpose This study aims to fill the gaps in mandated reports with social accounts to provide more inclusive accountability during a crisis using the illustrative example of Anglicare’s Newmarch House during a deadly COVID-19 outbreak. Design/methodology/approach This study uses a close-reading method to analyse Anglicare’s annual review, reports, board meeting minutes and Royal Commission into Aged Care submissions. Informed by Foucault’s concept of biopolitics, the study collocates alternate “social accounts” in the form of investigative journalism, newspaper articles and media commentary on the events that transpired at Newmarch House to unveil a more nuanced and human-centric rendering of the ramifications of a public health/aged care crisis. Findings COVID-19 exacerbated pre-existing issues within the aged care sector, exemplified by Newmarch House. The privileging of financial concerns and lack of care, leadership and accountability contributed to residents’ physical, emotional and psychological distress. The biopolitical policy pursued by powerful actors let die vulnerable individuals while simultaneously making live more productive citizens and “the economy”. Research limitations/implications Organisations express their accountability by using financial information provided by accounting, even during circumstances with more prevailing humanistic concerns. A transformational shift in how we define, view and teach accounting is required to recognise accounting as a social and moral practice that should instead prioritise human dignity and care for the betterment of our world. Originality/value This paper contributes to the limited literature on aged care, extending particularly into the impact of COVID-19 while contributing to the literature concerned with crisis accountability. To the best of the author’s knowledge, this paper is also the first to examine a form of biopolitics centred on making live something other than persons – the economy.

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COVID-19 and the governmentality of emergency food in the City of Turin

Cited by 17 publications

References 17 publications

Circularity of food systems: a review and research agenda

Circularity of food systems: a review and research agenda

Municipal performance management during the covid pandemic

Crisis accountability and aged “care” during COVID-19

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