... research and assist standard setters to act in the public interest. Design/methodology/approach The approach is primarily a literature and document review of relevant issues, summarising New Zealand’s standard setting arrangements, providing examples of successful policy-changing research, and making...

...Ralph Adler; Carolyn Stringer; Paul Shantapriyan; Kenneth A. Merchant Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss the general failure of management accounting research to be useful for practitioners. Design/methodology/approach The paper discusses the causes and consequences of the problem...

...Kevin Clarke; Jack Flanagan; Sharron O'Neill Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the performance of accounting researchers in winning competitive Australian Research Council (ARC) grants, when compared with researchers from the medical, engineering and law professions, during a period...

... and dissemination of pre‐deal research. Design/methodology/approach The study examines a broad sample of initial public offerings made between 2000 and 2004. The author conducts univariate and multivariate tests to assess the relationship between IPO underpricing and the dissemination of pre‐deal research...