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Business makes a ‘journey’ out of ‘sustainability’: creating adventures in Wonderland?

Milne, Markus J; Kearins, Kate; Walton, Sara (Working Paper, 2005)

This paper provides a critical exploration of the ‘journey metaphor’ promoted in much business discourse on sustainability - in corporate reports and advertisements, and in commentators’ reports in the political and ...
The triple bottom line: how New Zealand companies measure up

Chapman, Roslyn; Milne, Markus J (Working Paper, 2003)

Triple bottom line reporting involves the measurement, management and reporting of economic, environmental and social performance indicators in a single report. Over the past few years an increased number of New Zealand ...
From soothing palliatives and towards ecological literacy: a critique of the triple bottom line

Milne, Markus J (Working Paper, 2005)

The ‘triple bottom line’ (3BL), an idea attributed to and increasingly evangelized by John Elkington of the London-based consultancy, SustainAbility (Elkington, 1997; Wheeler & Elkington 2001), involves incorporating ...
Playing with magic lanterns: the New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development and corporate triple bottom line reporting

Milne, Markus J (Working Paper, 2005)

Within the last 4 years a coalition of leading New Zealand businesses has formed—The New Zealand Business Council for Sustainable Development (NZBCSD)—with the avowed intent of acting as a catalyst for change towards ...
Sustainability and management control

Ball, Amanda; Milne, Markus J (Working Paper, 2004)
The triple-bottom-line: benchmarking New Zealand’s early reporters

Milne, Markus J; Tregidga, Helen; Walton, Sara (Working Paper, 2003)

If recent pronouncements and events are any barometer, many organisations in New Zealand look set to begin issuing Triple-Bottom-Line reports. Such reports are intended to communicate an organisation’s social and environmental ...
From sustainable management to sustainable development: a longitudinal analysis of external communication by a leading environmental reporter

Tregidga, Helen; Milne, Markus J (Working Paper, 2005)

This paper reports the results of an interpretive textual analysis of New Zealand’s most consistent and arguably leading reporter on environmental and social impacts. It works with all of the organisation’s reports since ...
Oral and written communication apprehension in accounting students: curriculum impacts and impacts on academic performance

Gardner, Clare T; Milne, Markus J; Stringer, Carolyn P; Whiting, Rosalind H (Working Paper, 2005)

In the context of an accounting curriculum that has been significantly modified over the past decade in response to calls for skills development, this study investigates the impacts of curriculum on students’ levels of ...