Browsing by Supervisor "Lawrence, Stewart R."
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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 ... -
Action-research in education: a narrative of a longitudinal case study
(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 ... -
A Communitarian Approach to Accountability for the Common Good: A Case Study of Community Participation in Planning and Policy Making for Lake Taupo
(The University of Waikato, 2010)This thesis seeks to gain a theoretical and empirical understanding of the meaning of a communitarian approach to accountability for the common good (CAACG). The hermeneutic analysis adopted in this study starts by explaining ... -
Corporate social responsibility practices in a developing country: Empirical evidence from Sri Lanka
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Does Corporate Performance Improve After Acquisitions? A Case of Indian Companies
(University of Waikato, 2012)This thesis examines the results of merger and acquisition (M&A) activities of Indian corporates related to Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI). The key issue is the extent to which these M&As create value for the ... -
Health Literacy: A Hermeneutic Study of New Zealand Baby Boomers
(University of Waikato, 2015)Health literacy has traditionally been conceptualised as individual skills in a health context. Although there is growing consensus that health literacy is a multidimensional construct, interacting with socio-cultural ... -
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 ... -
Public Sector Performance Auditing and Accountability:A Fijian Case Study
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis examines how and theorises as to why performance auditing in the Fijian public sector was inexplicably discontinued in 1997. The Fijian socio-political history during, after and prior to the 1970-2000 period, ... -
Social capital and the budgeting process
(University of Waikato, 2017)This thesis arose out of a previous study of budgeting practices carried out at a not-for-profit church. This initial study had found that relationships played an important role in budgeting practices. Interviewees carried ... -
Social deprivation in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2019)The purpose of the thesis was to better understand the phenomenon of social deprivation, world-wide and in particular in New Zealand. Social deprivation has been defined in many ways with multiple surrogates used to ‘measure’ ... -
Testing times: New Zealand’s clinical laboratories under the 1990s health sector reforms
(The University of Waikato, 2001)This thesis examines New Zealand’s clinical laboratory services during the 1990s, a recent period of major neo-liberally driven health sector change in New Zealand. Internationally, although estimates of expenditure on ... -
Understanding accountability in an ever-changing New Zealand health system
(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 ... -
Virtue Ethics and Corporate Governance
(University of Waikato, 2013)The purpose of this interpretative phenomenological study was to explore directors’ lived experience of ethics in their task of corporate governance so as to capture some of the multiple facets of this phenomenon: specifically ...
