Embedding a Risk Management Framework in Public Sector Governance, Performance, and Accountability Practices*

This chapter highlights and reflects on the importance of embedding a risk-management framework in public sector governance, performance, and accountability practices. To this end, it focuses on Australian public sector reforms over the past five decades. The current status of practices and challenges are discussed concerning governance, performance measurement, accountability, and risk management. It draws on the dialectic between structural changes of reforms and the social reality of embedding them into practice. A wide range of data were collected from secondary sources including archival reports and web-based information. The findings provide insights for future research, governments, managers, and policymakers to expand understanding and knowledge on transforming public sector reforms into a collective organizational practice.