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Higher education and sustainable development: Exploring possibilities for organisational change
Jasmin Godemann, Jan Bebbington, Christian Herzig, Jeremy MoonThis paper seeks to create the context within which research into how higher education institutions (HEIs) might engage with the goal of sustainable development. In particular…
Can accreditation help a leopard change its spots?: Social accountability and stakeholder engagement in business schools
Stuart Cooper, Carole Parkes, John BlewittNeo-institutional theory suggests that organisations change occurs when institutional contradictions, caused by exogenous and endogenous dynamics, increase over time to the point…
Making water count: water accountability change within an Australian university
Matthew EganDrought conditions affected an acute water scarcity crisis across large parts of Australia through the late 1990s and into the 2000s. Public policy responses emphasised demand…
France's new economic regulations: insights from institutional legitimacy theory
Mohamed Chelli, Sylvain Durocher, Jacques RichardThe paper seeks to adopt an institutional view of legitimacy to examine how a sample of French companies reacted to the introduction of the “New Economic Regulations” in French…
Management, accounting and philosophy: The development of management accounting at Kyocera, 1959-2013
Hiroshi Takeda, Trevor BoynsThe purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of the “Kyocera approach” to business, i.e. the relationship between the Kyocera philosophy, the amoeba management system…
The religious imperative of cost accounting in the early industrial revolution
Warwick Funnell, Robert WilliamsThe paper aims to extend research which has sought to explain Britain's early success as an industrial power by identifying the influence of religious doctrine of the Dissenting…
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