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Accounting Reform in Greek Universities: A Slow Moving Process
Author(s) -
Venieris George,
Cohen Sandra
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
financial accountability and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.661
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1468-0408
pISSN - 0267-4424
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0408.2004.00192.x
Subject(s) - accrual , context (archaeology) , accounting , power (physics) , public sector , process (computing) , resistance (ecology) , management accounting , new public management , political science , business , economics , public relations , law , history , ecology , physics , archaeology , earnings , quantum mechanics , biology , computer science , operating system
Reforms in the public sector have traditionally been faced by resistance and problems. Pettigrew justifies this attitude on theoretical grounds as the exercise of power from individuals and groups threatened by a change in strategy. The paper analyses this case by referring to the attempts of introducing accrual and management accounting practices in Greek Public Universities. Via a detailed examination of the context within which this reform took place and the phases it went through, we endeavour to explain, by using Pettigrew's theory regarding strategy and decision‐making, why it has not yet seriously progressed even though it was initiated in 1996.