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Forms of power, politics and leadership in asynchronous virtual project environment : An exploratory analysis in South Africa

Muganda, Nixon; Pillay, Kiyashen - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 6 (2013) 3, pp. 457-484

Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the forms of power, politics and leadership exercised by project leaders within … forms of power and politics within a VPE. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical data are based on a quantitative … of particular forms of power and politics relevant for the exercise of effective leadership in asynchronous virtual …

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The Challenge of Management Development in South Africa: So Little Time and So Much to Do

Templer, Andrew; Beaty, David; Hofmeyr, Karl - In: Journal of Management Development 11 (1992) 2, pp. 32-41

Seeks to provide understanding of the challenges facing management development in South Africa in the next decade: a desperate shortage of managerial skills; a particular need for trained Black managers to fill the opportunities that are opening up. Describes management development techniques...

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Re‐framing strategy: power, politics and accounting

Carter, Chris; Clegg, Stewart; Kornberger, Martin - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 23 (2010) 5, pp. 573-594

Purpose – This paper aims to analyse the rise and institutionalization of the discourse of strategic management. It seeks to advance an agenda for studying strategy from a sociologically informed perspective. Moreover, it aims to make a case for a critically informed, interdisciplinary...

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Strategy, enrolment and accounting: the politics of strategic ideas

Whittle, Andrea; Mueller, Frank - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 23 (2010) 5, pp. 626-646

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to use Actor Network Theory to explore the role of management accounting systems (MAS) in the construction of business strategy. Design/methodology/approach – The paper draws on findings from an ethnographic study of a UK‐based firm. Theoretical...

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Congestion charging: a tale of two cities

Lapsley, Irvine; Giordano, Filippo - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 23 (2010) 5, pp. 671-698

power relationships in political organisations, it seeks to study the manner in which accounting and politics are involved …

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Climate change : Explaining and solving the mismatch between scientific urgency and political inertia

Boston, Jonathan; Lempp, Frieder - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 24 (2011) 8, pp. 1000-1021

Purpose – This paper has two main purposes. First, it considers the detrimental effects of four politically‐salient asymmetries on the policy choices of liberal democracies when dealing with the problem of human‐induced climate change. Second, it outlines and evaluates possible solutions...

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Stakeholder responses to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act : An agenda setting perspective

Lodhia, Sumit; Martin, Nigel - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 25 (2011) 1, pp. 126-145

Purpose – This paper aimed to explore the submissions made to the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting (NGER) policy paper by corporations and other stakeholders. It also sought to establish whether broader climate change issues were addressed in the context of the submissions....

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Negative Political Feedback: An Examination of the Problem of Modelling Political Responses in Public Sector Effectiveness Auditing

Smith, Peter - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 5 (1992) 1

Draws attention to a serious shortcoming associated with the usual audit models which use traditional techniques such as regression analysis. In general, previous studies have concentrated only on the impact of the resources used by an organization on its performance indicators, and have ignored...

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Negative Political Feedback or the Auditor”s Tar Baby? Comments on “An Examination of the Problem of Modelling Political Responses in Public Sector Effectiveness Auditing”

Sharp, Colin A. - In: Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 5 (1992) 1

A response to Smith′s (1992) attempt (in AAAJ , Vol. 5 No. 1, 1992) to address the difficulties in performance auditing and production function modelling in public sector management (arguing that regression analysis is an inadequate approach for value‐for‐money auditors, and is...

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Dipping their big toe into the blogosphere : The use of weblogs by the political parties in the 2005 general election

Jackson, Nigel - In: Aslib Proceedings 58 (2006) 4, pp. 292-303

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of weblogs by political parties in the 2005 general election campaign. It seeks to identify why, why not, and how parties used their weblogs during the election campaign. Design/methodology/approach – The weblogs of the five political...

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