Published research
Reporting for sustainable business
Accounting for Renewable Energy: Investigating Emerging Topics and Research Pathways
De Villiers, C., Principale, S., Galeotti, M. R. and Cicchini, D. (2025). Business Strategy and the Environment, 34(4), 4597-4621. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.4210
Integrated Reporting: Developing an Injustice Assessment Framework and a Research Agenda
Beretta, V., Demartini, M.C. & De Villiers, C. 2025. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 38(9), 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-02-2024-6917
Determinants, Mechanisms, and Consequences of UN SDGs Reporting by Universities: Conceptual Framework and Avenues for Future Research
De Villiers, C., Dimes, R. & Molinari, M. 2025. Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting & Financial Management, 37(2), 329-349. http://doi.org/10.1108/JPBAFM-07-2023-0125
How will AI text generation and processing impact sustainability reporting? Critical analysis, a conceptual framework and avenues for future research
Charl de Villiers, Ruth Dimes and Matteo Molinari. 29 September 2023. Sustainability Accounting and Policy Journal, 15(1), 96-118. https://doi.org/10.1108/SAMPJ-02-2023-0097
Corporate social responsibility disclosure, dividend payments and firm value – Relations and mediating effects
Charl de Villiers, Diandian Ma and Ana Marques. 14 July 2023. Accounting & Finance, 64(1), 185-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/acfi.13140
How Integrated Thinking Can Be Detected in Management Disclosures in Annual Reports: Insights from a Large-Scale Text-Analysis Approach
Ruth Dimes, Charl de Villiers and Li Chen. 4 July 2023. Journal of Management Accounting Research 35(3): 75–99. https://doi.org/10.2308/JMAR-2022-082
Critical analysis of the contribution of Integrated Reporting (IR) to sustainability
Charl de Villiers and Ruth Dimes. 21 July 2022. Handbook of Accounting and Sustainability, 210-223. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800373518.00020
Are Shareholders Willing to Pay for Financial, Social and Environmental Disclosure? A Choice-based Experiment
Charl de Villiers, Charles H. Cho, Michael J. Turner and Riccardo Scarpa. 12 July 2021. European Accounting Review, 32(1), 1-28. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638180.2021.1944890
Management perspectives on the Covid-19 crisis: Lessons from New Zealand
Edited by Kenneth Husted, The University of Auckland Business School, New Zealand and Rudolf R. Sinkovics, Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, UK and LUT University, Finland. 2021.
How management control systems enable and constrain integrated thinking
Ruth Dimes and Charl de Villiers. 17 September 2020. Meditari Accountancy Research, 29(4), 851-872. https://doi.org/10.1108/MEDAR-05-2020-0880
Economics of wellbeing
How Does Monetary Policy Affect Welfare? Some New Estimates Using Data on Life Evaluation and Emotional Well-Being
Lina El-Jahel, Robert MacCulloch and Hamed Shafiee. 8 June 2022. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 55(8), 1957-2243. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13000
The future of the company
Directors’ positive duty to act in the interests of the entity: shareholders’ interests bounded by corporate purpose
Susan Watson, Lynn Buckley, 2024. Journal of Corporate Law Studies, (24)1, 233-265. https://doi.org/10.1080/14735970.2024.2361507
Reimagining the Company in Aotearoa New Zealand
Susan Watson, Lynn Buckley, Billie Lythberg, Jamie Newth, Carla Houkamau and Christine Woods. New Zealand Universities Law Review. 3 June 2023
Reimagining the Corporate Entity for Aotearoa New Zealand
Susan Watson, Carla Houkamau, Billie Lythberg, Jamie Newth and Christine Woods. 1 May 2023. AI Practitioner, 25(2), 91.
Can the Modern Corporation Operate Sustainably?
Susan Watson, Chapter 9 in Beate Sjåfjell, Carol Liao and Aikaterini Argyrou (eds), Innovating Business for Sustainability: Regulatory Approaches in the Anthropocene. 14 January 2022
Indigenous economic futures
Mana Moana: Ngā Urungi o Te Ohu Kaimoana Toitū mō Anamata / Navigators of sustainable fisheries for the future
Houkamau, C. & Pouwhare, R. (2025). Auckland University Press. https://aucklanduniversitypress.co.nz/carla-houkamau-and-robert-pouwhare/
Settler Responsibilities to Decolonisation
Lythberg, B., Woods, C. and Nemec, S. (Eds.) (2025). Routledge.
Including chapters…
Woods, C. and Lythberg, B. (2025). ‘Indigenous Peer Learning in a Digital Third Space’ in Settler Responsibilities to Decolonisation, edited by Billie Lythberg, Chris Woods and Susan Nemec. Routledge. Pp. 51-65.
Lythberg, B., Woods, C. and S. Nemec. (2025). ‘Settler Responsibilities: An Introduction’ in Settler Responsibilities to Decolonisation, edited by Billie Lythberg, Chris Woods and Susan Nemec. Routledge. Pp. xxi-xxxv.
Jack, G., Evans, M., Lythberg, B. and J. Mika (Eds.) (2024). Managing the Post-colony: Voices from Aotearoa, Australia, and the Pacific. Springer.
Lythberg, B., Sisikula, S., Stringer, C. and C. Woods. (2024). Barkcloth in the Business School: Towards a theory of cross-cultural collaboration based on Tongan women’s work. Conference presentation: Gender, Work and Organisation, Cape Breton University, May 2024.
Lythberg, B. (2024). ‘Tere tohorā, tere tangata—where whales journey, people follow’ in Wider World and Scrimshaw, edited by Naomi Slipp. New Bedford Whaling Museum. Pp. 34-39.
Managing the Post-colony: Voices from Aotearoa, Australia, and the Pacific
Jack, G., Evans, M., Lythberg, B. and J. Mika (Eds.) (2024). Springer.
Including chapters…
Jack, G., Evans, M., Lythberg, B. and Mika, J. (2024). ‘Ways of Managing, Organising and Decolonising Business Futures in Aotearoa, Australia and The Pacific’ in Managing the Post-colony: voices from Aotearoa, Australia and the Pacific, edited by Gavin Jack, Michelle Evans, Billie Lythbergand Jason Mika. Springer. Pp. 1-20.
Dell, K., Lythberg, B. and C. Woods. (2024). ‘Managing Māori entrepreneurial ecosystems: Features, characteristics, and capabilities,’ in Managing the Post-colony: voices from Aotearoa, Australia and the Pacific, edited by Gavin Jack, Michelle Evans, Billie Lythberg and Jason Mika. Springer. Pp. 65-76.
Dell, K., Lythberg, B., Newth, J. and C. Woods. (2024). ‘Te Ara Hihiri: An Indigenous Framework exploring Entrepreneurial Potential,’ in Managing the Post-colony: voices from Aotearoa, Australia and the Pacific, edited by Gavin Jack, Michelle Evans, Billie Lythberg and Jason Mika. Springer. Pp. 177-185.
Jack, G., Evans, M., Lythberg, B. and Mika, J. (2024). ‘Coda’ in Managing the Post-colony: voices from Aotearoa, Australia and the Pacific, edited by Gavin Jack, Michelle Evans, Billie Lythberg and Jason Mika. Springer. Pp. 251-255.
Better off solo? Comparative well-being of Māori employers, sole traders and paid employees
Houkamau, C., Lilly, K., Newth, J., Dell, K., Mika, J., & Sibley, C. (2024). Economic and Industrial Democracy, 45(4), 1294–1324. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X231224
Balancing Anga Faka-Tonga (the Tongan way of life) with financial well-being
Ongolea, V. & Houkamau, C. (2024). MAI Journal, 13(1). https://10.20507/MAIJournal.2024.13.1.5
Integrating Māori perspectives in environmental management and fisheries
Houkamau, C., Pouwhare, R., & Steagall, M. M. (2024). LINK PRAXIS, 2(1), 126–160. https://doi.org/10.24135/link-praxis.v2i1.32
Māori Perspectives on Conscious Capitalism
Kiri Dell, Carla Houkamau, Jason Mika and Jamie Newth (2022). In Dion, M., Pava, M. (eds). The Spirit of Conscious Capitalism. Ethical Economy, vol 63. Springer, Cham. 379-397 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10204-2_20
Engaging complexity theory to explore partnership structures: Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi as a structural attractor for social innovation in Aotearoa-New Zealand
Billie Lythberg, Jamie Newth and Chris Woods (2021). Social Enterprise Journal, 18(2), 271-287. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEJ-12-2020-0131
Impact enterprise and impact capital
Emancipatory Indigenous social innovation: Shifting power through culture and technology
Ella Henry, Jamie Newth and Chellie Spiller (2017). Journal of Management & Organization.
Social enterprise innovation in context: Stakeholder influence through contestation
Jamie Newth. Entrepreneurship Research Journal. 2015, 6(4) doi.org/10.1515/erj-2014-0029
Resistance to social entrepreneurship: How context shapes innovation
Jamie Newth and Chris Woods. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. 2014. 5(2), 192-213. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2014.889739
Inclusive and sustainable management and governance
Problematising the Anthropocene: Geographic perspectives upon the riverscapes of Waimatā Catchment, Aotearoa New Zealand
Thomas, M., Brierley, G., Hikuroa, D. and B. Lythberg. (2025). The Geographical Journal. e12598. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12598
Hikuroa, D., Salmond, A., Brierley, G. and B. Lythberg.(2025). Listening to Rivers: Sharing river stories from Aotearoa New Zealand in a European context. Shima 19(1): 21-44.
Brierley, G., Thomas, M., Han, M., Hikuroa, D., Salmond, A., Lythberg, B. and H. Q. Huang. A more-than-human approach to river restoration. Lessons from Aotearoa New Zealand and China. I.S. Rivers, Lyon, June 2025.
Enablers and barriers: The conflicting role of institutional logics in business model change for sustainability
Erica Olesson, Suvi Nenonen and Jamie Newth. Organization & Environment. 1 January 2023. International Journal of Ecosocial Research, 36(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/10860266231155210
Responsible Leadership in Corporate Governance: An Integrative Approach
Monique Cikaliuk, Ljiljana Eraković, Brad Jackson, Chris Noonan and Susan Watson. ISBN 978036748156. Published 31 October 2022 by Routledge.
Board Leadership and Governance for Clear-Sighted CEO Succession at Air New Zealand
Monique Cikaliuk, Ljiljana Eraković, Brad Jackson, Chris Noonan and Susan Watson. 11 July 2022. Journal of Management & Organization, 26(5), 774-797. https://doi.org/10.1017/jmo.2018.23
COVID-19 Governance Challenges: The Board’s Role in COVID-19 Crisis Management
Maureen Benson-Rea, Ljiljana Eraković and Susan Watson. 15 January 2021. Journal of Management & Organization, 26(5), 774-797. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3765053
Corporate Governance and Leadership: The Board as the Nexus of Leadership-in-Governance
Monique Cikaliuk, Ljiljana Eraković, Brad Jackson, Chris Noonan and Susan Watson. 22 July 2020. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108895385