The Perrin Prize for Best Paper

Each year, we award the Perrin Prize for the best paper in the previous volume of FAM. This is in honour of our founding Editor, John Perrin. You can read more about the remarkable John Perrin in this piece by our (former) Editor Irvine Lapsley from 2005. The winning paper gets £1,000.

This year two papers shared first place, so we are delighted to announce that the Editorial Board have judged the best papers published in FAM's 2024 volume to be Public university research engagement contradictions in a commercialising higher education world by Lee D Parker and Power dynamics in Australian public sector accounting reform: A Machiavellian interpretation by Ching Chau.

A total list of all Perrin Prize winning papers is below:

Open access

Public university research engagement contradictions in a commercialising higher education world

Lee D Parker, 

Power dynamics in Australian public sector accounting reform: A Machiavellian interpretation

Ching Chau, 
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The sustainability shift: The role of calculative practices in strategy implementation

Sara Brorström, 
Open access

Performance measurement in the public sector: Mapping 20 years of survey research

Berend van der Kolk, 
full access

Performance measurement systems in public service networks. The what, who, and how of control

Deborah Agostino, Michela Arnaboldi, 
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How numbers of the future are shaping today: The role of forecasts and calculations in public sector strategic thinking

Sara Brorström,