Outside of an earlier set of research questions, it was amateur football club focus group data which revealed previously unidentified research questions of key interest to participants: how do amateur sports organisations weather a crisis for survival? What are the roles of leadership which...

Concomitant with the intensification of private provision of public services, government purchasers are managing third party service providers’ performance through accountability demands. As the excesses of New Public Management (NPM) are superseded by a post-NPM ethos, these purchasers are...

The objective of this research is to explore the impact of the failure of provision of clear and stable role definitions on performance-based compensation arrangements. A recent historical perspective on compensation agreements in CA partnerships revealed an unexpected instability, diversity,...

This study examines whether profit-sharing arrangements within accounting firms are associated with the riskiness of their client portfolios. Our results use unique data about the profit-sharing arrangements of the Big 8 firms during the period 1985 to 1994. We investigate whether there is a...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the circumstances that gave rise to an adverse audit opinion by a New Zealand (Christchurch) accounting firm, Hicks and Ainger, on the annual financial report of the local firm, T.J. Edmonds Ltd, in 1976. In so doing, this study revealed not...