Browsing by Author "Lawrence, Stewart R."

• Business networks and the uptake of sustainability practices: the case of New Zealand 

  Collins, Eva Marie; Lawrence, Stewart R.; Pavlovich, Kathryn; Ryan, Chris (Elsevier, 2007)

  This paper reports on the adoption of sustainability practices by a sample of over 800 firms in New Zealand, contrasting results from members of the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) with non-members. The study also ...

• Community-led initiatives: reforms for better accountability? 

  Awio, Godwin; Lawrence, Stewart R.; Northcott, Deryl (Emerald, 2007)

  Purpose – This paper sets out to contrast the ubiquitous, globalizing influence of new public management (NPM) with an alternative approach more attuned to the local needs of communities, especially those with health and ...

• Constructing strategies for sustainable development the communitarian way 

  Arunachalam, Murugesh; Lawrence, Stewart R. (Emerald, 2010)

  Purpose – The paper aims to draw on recommendations of Agenda 21 and communitarian theory to examine collaboration between local district community and local authorities to formulate strategies for the sustainable development ...

• Does accounting construct the identity of firms as purely self-interested or as socially responsible? 

  Lawrence, Stewart R.; Botes, Vida; Collins, Eva Marie; Roper, Juliet (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2013)

  Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to argue that it is time for change in the way the paper teach, theories and practice accounting. Traditional accounting practice constructs the identity of the accountable entity as ...

• Global remedies for local needs: Corporate governance and public sector reforms in Fiji 

  Sharma, Umesh Prasad; Lawrence, Stewart R. (Emerald, 2009)

  Purpose – This paper aims to extend the literature on public sector reforms in less-developed countries in the Pacific. It seeks to examine the roles of accounting and control systems in the reforming of two public sector ...

• Public sector accounting and financial management in the context of a developing country: an empirical study of the Volta River Authority in Ghana 

  Rahaman, Abu Shiraz (The University of Waikato, 1997)

  Using the Volta River Authority, a major Ghanaian corporation responsible for the generation and distribution of electricity in Ghana and neighbouring countries, as a case study, this thesis seeks to gain an empirical ...

  

• Accounting in action in the New Zealand health reform process: an analysis informed by a specific case study of a major health provider 

  Lowe, Alan (The University of Waikato, 1997)

  This thesis constitutes an empirical study of accounting in action, focussing attention on patient based cost systems. The thesis contributes an in depth understanding of the mobilisation of casemix and related information ...

  

• Discourse on the operationalisation of and accounting for development in a Fijian context 

  Ali, Nur Bano (The University of Waikato, 1998)

  The differentiation of social practices between societies, be it accounting or any other social science discipline, constitutes the foundation and premise upon which this thesis is constructed. With this as the initial ...

  

• 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 ...

  

• Accounting for total quality management 

  Lord, Beverley Rae (The University of Waikato, 2000)

  This thesis examines changes to the culture of three manufacturing organisations, two of which had implemented total quality management (TQM), and one in which a TQM implementation was unsuccessful. The effects of this ...

  

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