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The emergence of Green Budgeting in public organizations

The challenges of a new environmental performance control system

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ID9963980
AuthorsLéonard Gourbier (0009-0004-8000-6951, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL), Céline Du Boys (0009-0009-5830-1264, Aix-Marseille Université, corresponding author), Sébastien Dony (Université de Bretagne Sud)
Year2026
Publication date2026-02-03
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review of Administrative Sciences (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-8523 • E-ISSN: 1461-7226
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00208523251414031
OpenAlexW7127394767
LanguageEN
References cited23

Green Budgeting is an important new tool for managing environmental performance in public organizations. Despite its growing popularity in recent years, particularly in Europe, few studies have focused on this tool in the field of administrative sciences. What is more, the term ‘Green Budgeting’ tends to cover a wide variety of practices in public organizations. In response to the current limitations of the academic literature, and to clarify the concept of Green Budgeting, our article examines the challenges of Green Budgeting and the choices that public organizations make when implementing this approach. Based on a literature review, two case studies, expert interviews and our participation in various Green Budgeting think-tank events, we identify and discuss three challenges arising from the design and one challenge arising from the use of this new environmental performance monitoring tool, and propose a framework for analysing promising Green Budgeting initiatives with a view to future research

Control (management · Cover (algebra · Field (mathematics · Popularity · Public sector · Sustainability · Variety (cybernetics · Public Policy and Administration Research · Public Procurement and Policy · Sustainable Building Design and Assessment

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