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Otago Biodiversity Data Management Project Part 1: Questionnaire Report
The ‘Otago Biodiversity Data Management Project’ aims to establish the framework for managing and sharing Otago biodiversity primary research data. This 12-month Library funded initiative has the support of the University ...
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 ...
Accounting and enabling greater accountability: The suppressed role of the accounting intellect
This paper extends the work of Weiss and Berney (2004), Clarke et al., (2003), Chambers (1980; 1999) and Schuetze, (2001) by developing the argument further that the current Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) ...
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 ...
Analyzing corporate governance in Czech and New Zealand hospitals
Business corporate governance principles have recently been discussed in the managerial literature in regards to management practice in the public sector. Health services rank among the largest public sectors in OECD ...
Lessons from the indigenous east for western organisations? Mechanistic and organic approaches to organization and management
There are two common sets of underlying assumptions about organizations and their management - Mechanistic and Organic. The mechanistic paradigm has led to the adoption of a scientific rationality which makes whole human ...
What can management accounting practitioners and academics do to improve risk measurement and forewarn of impending financial crises?
We discuss some perceived shortcomings of management accounting in the light of the financial crisis of 2008. We describe current trends in management accounting thinking and Japanese perspectives on the discipline. Our ...
Accounting students’ information disclosure decisions: is there a need for changing the status quo on disclosure through accounting education?
The disclosure of minimum information required by law and accounting standards appears to be the status quo on corporate disclosure. This brings into question the fairness of corporate financial statements. The paper reports ...
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 ...