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Public private partnerships: an exploratory study in health care
Sciulli, Nick - 2008
Purpose – Public private partnerships (PPPs) are a relatively new policy that some governments now use to secure infrastructure assets. The objective of this paper is to document the construction and development of a Victorian state government hospital, Casey Hospital (CH), to identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009478077
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The effects of trust and management incentives on audit committee judgments
Rose, A; Rose, J; Dibben, MR - 2010
We investigate the effects of audit committee members' dispositional trust and management incentives on audit committee judgments. Results of an experiment indicate that: (1) When management has incentives to manage earnings, less trusting audit committee members are more likely to support the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484284
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The implications of auditors' dispositional trust and career advancement opportunities for the detection of fraud
Rose, A; Rose, J; Dibben, MR - 2010
profession, wecollected dispositional trust measures from 53 graduate accounting students who planned toenter the auditing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484285
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Research Productivity of Accounting Academics in Challenging Times: A meta-analysis
Wills, DI; Ridley, GJ; Mitev, HM - 2008
increase the research productivity of higher education institutions. Such mechanisms have put pressure on accounting academics … accounting graduates leading to increased teaching loads.These developments make it timely to investigate the factors that affect … the research productivity of accounting academics. The research reported upon in this paper undertook a meta-analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484321
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Modelling Factors Influencing the Research Productivity of Accounting Academics
Wills, DI; Ridley, GJ; Mitev, HM - 2008
This paper is one of a set of two that report upon a meta-analysis of international studies from accounting and related … accounting academics. These themes operate within a context with two others. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484322
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Board Leadership Structure and Firm Risk-Taking Behaviour
Wang, Yi; Wilmshurst, TD - 2008
In this paper the conceptual frameworks, which make different predictions about the effect of boardleadership structure on firm risk-taking behaviour, are examined. From a sample of 243 Australian listed firms, it is found that leadership structure does not have any significant influence on firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484323
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Board composition and firm performance variance: Australian evidence
Wang, Yi; Oliver, J - 2009
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between board composition and firm performance variance in the context of recent corporate governance reforms, based on the agency and organisational literatures.Design/methodology/approach This paper uses 384 of the top 500...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484329
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Is there a 'business case' for board diversity?
Wang, Yi; Clift, RC - 2009
AbstractPurpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between board diversity, as represented by the percentage of female, minority or female and minority directors on the boards of directors, and firm financial performance, and to explore the potential determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484330
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Voluntary Disclosure of Intangibles among Australian Publicly Listed Companies
Abdul Halim, H; Baxter, TI - 2010
This study examines the disclosure of intangibles in the annual reports and the prospectuses to establish evidence that established firms tend to increase disclosure of intangibles information to reduce information asymmetry when they intend to issue equity. It is prompted by the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484335
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International trade in Australian accounting services and Australian accounting firms: State of play
O'Donovan, GM; Carroll, PGH; Gibson, KM - 2010
This paper examines the current involvement of Australian accounting firms in international trade in accounting … both to the accounting profession and the Australian economy. It argues that there is an urgent need for empirical studies … accounting services. It also raises questions that would be usefully answered by studies which focus on the issues faced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484342