The effectiveness of the reforms of the health sector in New Zealand will depend on the development of new accounting and information systems. The reforms have been rapid and significant. Increasing attention is being given to the development of costing and budgeting as a part of the reform...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. The first part introduces a theoretical argument from Giddens to help explain the way in which accounting systems and systems of accountability have changed abruptly in New Zealand’s health care sector. The changes are proceeding, surrounded by controversy...

Studies the transformation of social systems in health organizations in New Zealand and the way in which accounting systems are an integral part of the challenge to extant structures of signification, legitimation and domination. By categorizing various modes or types of social change, and...

Einleitung -- Die Konzeption Institutionelle Reflexivität -- Methodik -- Fallstudien zum Einsatz von Managementinstrumenten im organisationalen Innovationsprozess -- Fall 1: Diversifikationsprozess in einem Lifesciences-Unternehmen -- Fall 2: Post-Merger-Integrationsprozess und strategische...

Communications are important when you are a National Health Service Trust caring for a remote and largely rural community in Northern Ireland. On top of that you are responsible not only for acute hospital care, but also community care services, mental health and elderly care. So when the Trust...