Handbook of Accountability Research

Edited by Yannis Papadopoulos, Professor Emeritus, Institute of Political Studies, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, Jill Atkins, Professor of Accounting, Cardiff Business School, University of Cardiff, UK, Angela T. Hall, Associate Professor, School of Human Resources and Labor Relations, Michigan State University, USA and Menelaos Markakis, Associate Professor, Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands

• ContentsIntroduction to the Handbook: multidisciplinary perspectives on accountability 1Yannis Papadopoulos, Angela T. Hall, Menelaos Markakis and Warren MarounPART I POLITICS1 Accountability in representative government 16Anthony Michael Bertelli2 Accountability in public administration research: from conceptualizationsand normative concerns to theories and empirical tests 33Marija Aleksovska, Sjors Overman and Thomas Schillemans3 Crisis management and accountability of policy-makers 55Sanneke Kuipers4 Political accountability in the European Union 74Yannis Papadopoulos5 Accountability going global 95Gisela HirschmannPART II LAW6 Accountability in public law 116Pia Lange and Alexander Thiele7 Accountability in EU law: are we focusing on the trees and losing sight ofthe forest? 137Diane Fromage8 Accountability in international organizations 157Andria Naudé Fourie9 Navigating corporate accountability in international economic law: acritical overview 191Federica Violi10 Tort law and accountability: how tort law facilitates and enhances ideals ofaccountability 215Elbert de Jong and Douwe de LangePART III BUSINESS11 Financial accounting and accountability 228Warren Maroun and Dannielle Cerbone12 A chaotic perspective of accounting and accountability’s evolution 243Wayne van Zijl13 No sustainability without accountability 261Sean van Zijl and Warren Maroun14 Accounting and accountability in the European Union context 276Federica Doni, Antonio Corvino and Silvio Bianchi Martini15 Biodiversity accounting and accountability: the business of preventingextinction of species 293Warren Maroun and Jill AtkinsPART IV WORK16 Measurement within accountability research: a review of currentchallenges and opportunities 311John E. Baur, Jon Carr and Dominique Foster17 Felt accountability of employees 332Jacob McCartney and Angela T. Hall18 Managerial accountability enactment: a path for future research 345B. Parker Ellen III and Jeremy Brees19 Accountability for others 363M. Todd Royle20 Diverse perspectives: accounting for the felt accountability of understudiedand underrepresented employees 380Angela T. Hall and Jacob McCartney

‘The Handbook of Accountability Research is an impressive collection, identifying concerns with accountability across disciplinary boundaries, while acknowledging the existence of disciplinary silos. Each are grounds for insightful research, including when accounting, accountability and governance are each examined as multidimensional technical, social and moral practices.’