This paper examines the success and failure of the once pre-eminent New Zealand charity, the Council for the Organisation of Relief Services Overseas (CORSO). While delivering aid for government in its early years was a factor in its success, so too was its broad membership base. Voluntary...

Purpose – This paper seeks to analyse accountability relationships developed since the introduction of reforms requiring nonprofit primary health organisations (PHOs) to discharge holistic accountability. Design/methodology/approach – Case study data were obtained principally through...

This research demonstrates how sustained charity fraud is supported when organisations do not develop strong accountability links to salient stakeholders. Whilst increased regulation is one response to reduce charity fraud and to increase organisational accountability, regulators seldom...

The relevance structure of an accounting course is the experience by a student of the aim or direction of participating in a course. It is what they experience as being potentially in it for them of completing the various learning tasks in a course. It is one of the driving forces of learning...

Don't ask [the teacher] what he wants. [The teacher] doesn't want anything, instead ask yourself: ‘What do I want?'There is evidence a large proportion of accounting students experience extrinsic motivation when studying accounting at university, which has a strong relationship to surface...

Resource dependency theory holds that organizations dependent on single funders have a strong motivation to behave in a manner which reduces funders‟ power over them. Dependent organizations are required to meet funders‟ accountability demands at the expense of other stakeholders. However,...

When Hofstede published the book Culture's Consequences International Differences in WorkRelated Values in 1980, he established indices of culture; culture was to be a measurable variable in international business studies. Hofstede's theoretical basis is traced to a comparative approach...