At Brown Bag Seminars, faculty and graduate students engage in knowledge sharing in a collegial environment where they explore a broad range of research topics and working papers. Join the Department of Management on November 16 for a talk by Sina Bahramirad.

Bring your lunch – we’ll bring the beverages!

We look forward to seeing you there!

About the presentation

Accountability is a considerably complex and ambiguous social construct involving multiple elements. Notions of accountability have been proposed and interpreted in multiple lenses, including public accountability. A recent initiative aimed at improving public accountability has been introduced and implemented in the public governments and is titled “Open Government” (OG). Even though the objective of OG is to enhance accountability, the accountability of local governments to citizens in the OG context has not been widely studied. The aim of this research is to explore public accountability relationship between a local democratic open government and the electors (citizens). More specifically, the focus of this research is to investigate, how accountability of a local open government towards its people is supposed to work, and how it actually is working. Moreover, our emphasis will be on the use of accounting information in implementing and maintaining OG. Accounting functions as a means of accountability. The objective is to study how accounting practices (systems of accounting, auditing and reporting) shape accountability relationships in local Open Governments. As my PhD research proposal, I will present the background of these research questions along with an appropriate research methodology and expected research contributions for this study.