Identify and prioritize the factors affecting fiscal discipline in Municipalities

Volume 7, Issue 4 - Serial Number 28
Autumn 2022
Pages 469-486

Document Type : ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE

Authors

1 Department of Accounting, Islamic Azad University, Yazd Branch, Yazd, Iran .

2 Department of Accounting, Islamic Azad University, Yazd Branch, Yazd, Iran

Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Global events in recent months, such as the (COVID-19) pandemic, have put pressures on the public budget Especially in municipalities that have made it more difficult to understand and measure. Meanwhile, Fiscal discipline as one of the most basic concepts of optimal management of resources and expenditures requires purposeful research and in this regard, the present study was conducted to identify and ranking the factors affecting the fiscal discipline of Municipalities to improve financial aspects of urban management.
METHODS: In this research, the mixed exploratory approach has been used so that the qualitative method has played an exploratory role and the quantitative method has played a confirmatory role. Also, in the qualitative stage, the Meta-Synthesis Method and in the quantitative stage, the Shannon entropy method have been used to ranking the factors.
FINDINGS: By reviewing 34 studies out of 114 initial studies, researchers identified 14 indicators and 110 codes as factors affecting the Fiscal discipline of Municipalities mentioned in various studies during the years 2000 to early 2021; Identified and categorized in the form of four balanced scorecard (BSC) perspectives.
CONCLUSION: The results of this research, in addition to the richness of the literature on the concept of fiscal discipline, assist municipalities in managing fiscal discipline and supervisory institutions in assessments by providing a categorized checklist of factors.

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Municipality of Tehran

  • Receive Date 07 March 2022
  • Revise Date 22 May 2022
  • Accept Date 15 June 2022