...Amir Moradi-Motlagh Purpose This study aims to analyse productivity change and its determinants in Australian public universities from 2001 to 2022. Design/methodology/approach The study uses bootstrap data envelopment analysis ( DEA ) and the Malmquist Productivity Index to examine...

...Amir Moradi-Motlagh; Christine Jubb; Keith Houghton Purpose Facing budgetary challenges, successive Australian Governments have chosen to proportionally reduce public expenditure on universities relative to levels of activity in both teaching and research. The question asked in this paper...

... of service performance issued by New Zealand universities in 2000. Design/methodology/approach Using concepts drawn from information systems design, the authors develop an index which is applied to archival reports. Findings The index is negatively correlated with existing disclosure indices applied...

...Michael Gaffikin Purpose This paper seeks to present an invited response to a paper describing the historical relationship between the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants (and its predecessor body) and the universities in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach The paper...

...Bernadette F. Devonport Purpose This paper aims to explore the relationship between New Zealand universities and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand (ICANZ), the main organization of the accounting profession in New Zealand. Design/methodology/approach The relationship...

...Amanda Ball; Joanna Brewis; Fiona Anderson‐Gough; Rhoda Brown Purpose This paper sets out to examine the problematic gendered effects of the spread of an accounting mentality in university performance appraisal, academic awareness that accounting only ever tells part of the story notwithstanding...