How Has ‘Accountability’ Been Used? : A Study on the Usages in Accounting, Economics, Business Administration, Politics, Public Administration, Educational Administration and School Management
The usage of the term ‘accountability’ today is widely different from field to field, as each of the fields concerned - accounting, economics, business administration, politics, public administration, educational administration and school management - only has its own definition of this term, and the researchers in these fields have ever tried to reach almost no consensus on the essence of this concept, although this lack of effort has disabled us even from discussing ‘accountability’. Thus, this article categorizes those usages and characterizes each of them focusing on the following two points; (1) the constituents of the definitions, such as ‘responsiveness’, ‘answerability’ and ‘sanction’; (2) the relationships among ‘principals’, ‘agents’ and for what the actors are accountable, in terms of principal-agent theory. In the end, this article shows two suggestions - (a) the degree of uncertainty of the ‘principal’ - who is assumed to be ‘the principal’? - may differentiate the usage in politics, public administration, educational administration and school management from that in accounting, economics and business administration, (b) the degree of uncertainty of the ‘agent’ - who is assumed to be ‘the agent’? - may differentiate the usage in educational administration and school management from that in politics and public administration.
内容記述
個人論文
Individual Paper
雑誌名
東京大学大学院教育学研究科教育行政学論叢 = The Journal of Educational Administration Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo
巻
39
ページ
29 - 60
発行年
2019-10-31
ISSN
13421980
書誌レコードID
AA1220520X
著者版フラグ
publisher
出版者
東京大学大学院教育学研究科学校開発政策コース
出版者別名
Department of School Improvement and Education Policy Studies, Graduate School of Education The University of Tokyo
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