Browsing by Supervisor "Haslam, Jim"
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Accounting for total quality management
(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 ... -
Accounting in action in the New Zealand health reform process: an analysis informed by a specific case study of a major health provider
(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
(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 ... -
New Zealand financial management reform: organizational changes in secondary schools focusing on structure, resourcing, budgeting, and reporting
(The University of Waikato, 1998)School reform associated with Tomorrow’s Schools was ostensibly mobilised to engender various changes, the major ones being changes in financial management and accounting practices in schools. The reform sought, on the ... -
Public sector accounting and financial management in the context of a developing country: an empirical study of the Volta River Authority in Ghana
(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 ...
