Collective institutional entrepreneurship for the EPSAS programme: The missing link

Abstract

IMPACT Three categories of institutional entrepreneurs are potentially capable of accomplishing multi-level accounting change processes, such as the issuing of European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS): the supranational, national and subnational. This article shows that, if the mediating role of national institutional entrepreneurs at the interface between supranational and subnational institutional entrepreneurs is limited, international accounting harmonization halts. The lessons in this article will be of particular value to accounting standard-setters and policy-makers in the field of public sector accounting.