Neoliberalism, consultants and the privatisation of public policy formulation: The case of Britain's rail industry

Jupe, Robert E.; Funnell, Warwick

doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2015.02.001

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“…As indicated in Table 1, the interviewees included: 14 individuals who were board members, at the time of their interview, in at least one public company; 11 consultants (most of them specializing in risk management); five Chief Risk Officers (CROs); two think-tank executives; one recently retired Big Four audit partner; and one principal, in charge of the risk oversight domain within a professional institute (interviewed twice). Consultants were included in the interviewee set because of the extent of their influence on boards and top executives (Jupe & Funnell, 2015;Sturdy, 1997). Most board members we interviewed had experience on audit committees and some of them sat, when it existed, on the board's risk management committee.…”

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The Construction of Risk Management Credibility Within Corporate Boardrooms

Gendron¹,

Brivot²,

Guénin-Paracini³

2015

European Accounting Review

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Despite various corporate collapses over the last decades, risk management is increasingly influential across organizations worldwide, as if the apparatus' credibility was impermeable to scandals that, from critical angles, cast doubt on its efficacy. Relying on a cultural perspective of analysis highlighting the range of social processes that protect prevailing institutions' legitimacy from aberrations, we examined the sense-making approaches employed by corporate boardroom actors to maintain their confidence in the credibility of the risk management apparatus despite being exposed to a continuous flow of corporate failures pointing to risk management efficacy limitations. Specifically, we conducted 35 interviews with corporate board stakeholders, mostly board members and corporate consultants. Our analysis indicates that actors involved in risk management processes tend to interpret aberration cases through perspectives that put the blame on some implementation deficiency, thereby ensuring that risk management's core assumptions are not questioned. These perspectives point to a defensive system of thought grounded in the director and consultancy communities, whose main referents are subject to intense work and re-conceptualization in the aftermath of aberrations, thereby providing community members with the means to make sense of the frictions of organizational life in ways that maintain the legitimacy of the risk management apparatus.

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The Construction of Risk Management Credibility Within Corporate Boardrooms

Gendron¹,

Brivot²,

Guénin-Paracini³

2015

European Accounting Review

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“…For accounting scholarship in this area, see Cooper et al (), Dillard and Vinnari (), Jupe and Funnell (), Morales et al (), and Morales and Sponem ().…”

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The Construction of the Efficient Office: Scientific Management, Accountability, and the Neo‐Liberal State

Parker

Jeacle

2019

Contemporary Accting Res

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The office has been a central site of organizational planning, accountability, and control since the 19th century. Yet it has been the subject of relatively little accounting research. Through the dual theoretical lenses of Foucaultian and Labour Process theories, this study employs historical photo‐elicitation methodology to investigate the implementation of management control and accountability in the scientifically managed office which emerged in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Our analysis reveals the manner in which accounting records created new modes of disciplinary control and surveillance within the office and how accounting tasks were de‐skilled in a gradually feminized and mechanized office environment. We also witness the role of accounting in the physical structuring of office space through the assembly line arrangement of office furniture to facilitate paper flows and the installation of record‐keeping systems of surveillance. In addition, our visually derived historical account of these transformations in office administration allows us to reflect on some contemporary issues. The production‐line design and efficiency so promoted by scientific management served as a forerunner to today's open‐plan office, as well as influencing contemporary office management philosophies such as Activity‐Based Working. Furthermore, we seek to inform current debates on the role of accounting in contemporary neo‐liberal society. In the history of the scientific office, we gain an early glimpse of the subsequent role that accounting comes to play within a neo‐liberal agenda as a powerful technology of micro‐measurement and micro‐management.

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“…Another objective is the interoperability aimed at an optimal level of technical harmonization (Panák et al 2017;Nedeliakova and Panák 2015). Liberalization, privatization and globalization of economies have led to high level of competition in railway sectors and that transportation sector is growing at an exponential rate and various regulations and directives are particularly seen in this industry (Jupe and Funnell, 2015;Ozkan et al 2016). One of the most clear objective of EU legislation is to allow third parties access to the network and to make competition a key lever in the revitalization of the sector to support security and interoperability (Crozet, 2016;Kurosaki and Singh, 2016).…”

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Creating Safe and Competitive Conditions for the Provision of Rail Transport Services

Stasiak-Betlejewska

Török

2019

System Safety: Human - Technical Facility - Environment

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Safety is a key and necessary condition for the sustainable development of the railway industry. Every entity operating in the railway area should maintain and increase the level of security as part of its operations. The subject of the analysis of data on the rail transport safety in European countries and content of the safety culture program implemented in Poland, whose main objective is to implement safety culture principles in the railway transport and to encourage all companies operating in the railway industry to improve the rail transport safety as the key condition for the sustainable development of railway industry. Paper contains results of the analysis of the European rail transport safety level in the context of the objectives set for Poland indicated by the European Union (CSI value) as improvement areas.

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Neoliberalism, consultants and the privatisation of public policy formulation: The case of Britain's rail industry

Cited by 87 publications

References 43 publications

The Construction of Risk Management Credibility Within Corporate Boardrooms

The Construction of Risk Management Credibility Within Corporate Boardrooms

The Construction of the Efficient Office: Scientific Management, Accountability, and the Neo‐Liberal State

Creating Safe and Competitive Conditions for the Provision of Rail Transport Services

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