... to examine changes in the New Zealand electricity industry over the past four decades. As the approach is a flexible one, it allowed exploration of the critical features of change. Findings – Analysis revealed compelling evidence of two new proposed stages to the ECT which operated in conjunction...

...Peter Steane; Yvon Dufour; Donald Gates Purpose – When new public management (NPM) emerged in the mid-1980s, most governments such as New Zealand, Australia and Canada embraced it as a better way to provide public services. A more recent assessment of NPM would conclude that its appeal has faded...

... of the interpretation, interaction and resulting influence of two or more subcultures on change initiatives within the same organisation in an effort to further advance our understanding of planned change. In this research, we provide a single‐organisation case from New Zealand that places two distinct subcultures...

... management Forestry Control Case studies Interviews New Zealand This paper presents the findings of an in depth case study of an organization engaged in a high technology service function in the forestry industry. The organization unit studied is a subsidiary of a large New Zealand‐based forestry...

...Linda J. Twiname; Maria Humphries; Kate Kearins Purpose As part of an ongoing project on worker well‐being, this paper aims to examine the application of flexible work arrangements through the experiences of core workers in a small, European‐owned, New Zealand manufacturing firm. Design...

...Deborah Jones “Managing diversity” has emerged as a new and contested vocabulary for addressing issues of difference in organisations. This paper uses a New Zealand case study to exemplify a feminist post‐structuralist reading of managing diversity. The paper argues that a feminist post...

...Bev Gatenby; Karen Morrison Hume Describes an action research project in a church affiliated, community‐based social service organisation in Aotearoa, New Zealand, in which feminist and poststructural discourse theory is drawn on to examine collaboratively the discourses available and impinging...

...Alan Lowe The adoption of DRG coding may be seen as a central feature of the mechanisms of the health reforms in New Zealand. This paper presents a story of the use of DRG coding by describing the experience of one major health provider. The conventional literature portrays casemix accounting...

..., literary texts suggest that root metaphors in organizational culture influence action, then it would follow that management initiative to change a root metaphor could lead to change in action outcomes. © MCB UP Limited 1997 Competitive strategy Corporate culture Ethics Metaphors New Zealand...

...Toby Harfield; R.T. Hamilton Represents an experiment in style and methodology. Presents stories of managing decline in a rapidly deregulating environment. Collected data from managers in the New Zealand footwear manufacturing industry in face‐to‐face interviews with the intention of giving...

... categories commonly used to group people. Employment outcomes of people categorized in these ways show distinct patterns of inequality and, some argue,unfairness. This approach to equity underpins many of the legislative and policy attempts to influence employment outcomes. In New Zealand,for example...