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Oral and written communication apprehension in accounting students: curriculum impacts and impacts on academic performance
In the context of an accounting curriculum that has been significantly modified over the past decade in response to calls for skills development, this study investigates the impacts of curriculum on students’ levels of ...
The triple bottom line: how New Zealand companies measure up
Triple bottom line reporting involves the measurement, management and reporting of economic, environmental and social performance indicators in a single report. Over the past few years an increased number of New Zealand ...
Business makes a ‘journey’ out of ‘sustainability’: creating adventures in Wonderland?
This paper provides a critical exploration of the ‘journey metaphor’ promoted in much business discourse on sustainability - in corporate reports and advertisements, and in commentators’ reports in the political and ...
From sustainable management to sustainable development: a longitudinal analysis of external communication by a leading environmental reporter
This paper reports the results of an interpretive textual analysis of New Zealand’s most consistent and arguably leading reporter on environmental and social impacts. It works with all of the organisation’s reports since ...
The triple-bottom-line: benchmarking New Zealand’s early reporters
If recent pronouncements and events are any barometer, many organisations in New Zealand look set to begin issuing Triple-Bottom-Line reports. Such reports are intended to communicate an organisation’s social and environmental ...
Playing with magic lanterns: the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development and corporate triple bottom line reporting
Within the last 4 years a coalition of leading New Zealand businesses has formed—The New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development (NZBCSD)—with the avowed intent of acting as a catalyst for change towards ...
From soothing palliatives and towards ecological literacy: a critique of the triple bottom line
The ‘triple bottom line’ (3BL), an idea attributed to and increasingly evangelized by John Elkington of the London-based consultancy, SustainAbility (Elkington, 1997; Wheeler & Elkington 2001), involves incorporating ...