Browsing by Author "Kelly, Martin"

• Action-research in education: a narrative of a longitudinal case study 

  Kelly, Martin (The University of Waikato, 1999)

  In recent years some academics have started to approach the study of Accounting from the perspective of social studies, and several journals have evolved to promote such an approach. These academics believe accounting ...

  

• Alerting corporate leaders to the need for ethical deliberation and sustainability 

  Sharma, Umesh Prasad; Kelly, Martin (2015)

  In order to categorise business as “good” one must choose what characterises “Good Business”. Some argue that any profitable business is good business, but profitable business sometimes creates social and environmental ...

  

• Corporate social responsibility and the teaching of management accounting 

  Kelly, Martin; Bather, Andrea (Reason In Practice, 2009)

  Throughout most of the 20th century Management Accounting was developed on the premise that it should help managers to decide how best to maximise the short-term financial profits of their businesses. In the emergent ...

  

• A dialectic analysis of the whistleblowing phenomenon 

  Bather, Andrea; Kelly, Martin (Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants, 2006)

  Although whistleblowers are often portrayed as courageous individuals deserving of respect, the act of whistleblowing can be viewed as a disloyal act which may bring much harm to the whistleblower's colleagues. We argue ...

• Making use of action learning in business schools: The UK and New Zealand experience 

  Hand, Leonard; Kelly, Martin (USA Info, Inc, 2006)

  INTRODUCTION Most business schools originated in the latter half of the twentieth century. Often they were staffed by individuals from the business environment who were not skilled in teaching or research methods. The new ...

  

• Power, accommodation and resistance: A Foucauldian perspective on how internal management controls are compromised in Chinese hotels 

  Wang, Jing (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  Purpose The purpose of the thesis is to consider elements of internal management controls employed in hotels in China, specifically with respect to accounting and behavioural control. Accounting and behavioural controls ...

  

• The Accountability of New Zealand's Charities: Meeting the Needs of Charity Stakeholders through Information Disclosure 

  Dimitrov, Dara (The University of Waikato, 2017)

  For decades, New Zealand’s charity sector has been able to operate, unfettered by regulation and with low levels of accountability. For this reason, gaining any information from charities about the work they do has been ...

  

• Usefulness of Integrated Reporting Concepts to Investment Decision-making: Empirical Evidence from Taiwan 

  Hsiao, Pei-Chi (University of Waikato, 2015)

  The purpose of this thesis is to extend the knowledge and understanding of integrated reporting and investment decision-making processes, particularly from a non-Western perspective. A review of extant literature identified ...

  

• Understanding accountability in an ever-changing New Zealand health system 

  Zainal Abidin, Nor Azizah Binti (University of Waikato, 2015)

  The purpose of this research was to understand how the constant adoption of reforms affected accountability understanding and its practices in the New Zealand public health system. This study adopted a qualitative ...

  

• Corporate social responsibility practices in a developing country: Empirical evidence from Sri Lanka 

  Fernando, Susith Jude (University of Waikato, 2013)

  The purpose of this thesis is to extend the understanding of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) performance and disclosure practices, particularly from a developing country perspective. The study captures deeply rooted ...

  

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