Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles

• Amoako KO., Dixon K., Amoako IO., Marfo EO., Tuffour J. and Lord BR. (2023) Stakeholders’ perceptions of sustainability performance of a gold mining subsidiary in Ghana. Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JAOC-08-2022-0119.

• Blesia JU., Dixon K. and Lord B. (2023) A braided chronology to elucidate temporalities of a mine on New Guinea. The Extractive Industries and Society 15 101300: 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2023.101300.

• Blesia JU., Dixon K. and Lord BR. (2023) Indigenous experiences and perspectives on a mining corporation's community relations and development activities. Resources Policy 80 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2022.103202.

• Dixon K. (2023) Consequences of accountings, distributional and otherwise. Critical Perspectives on Accounting http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2023.102576.

• Gunatilake G., Lord B. and Dixon K. (2023) Politics of accounting evidence in privatising telecommunications in Sri Lanka. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print) http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-09-2019-4160.

• Adler R., Roberts H., Crombie N. and Dixon K. (2021) Determinants of accounting students’ undergraduate learning satisfaction. Accounting and Finance 61(4): 5231-5254. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/acfi.12756.

• Amoako K., Lord B. and Dixon K. (2021) Narrative accounting for mining in Ghana: An old defence against a new threat? Resources Policy 72 102439: 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resourpol.2021.102439.

• Blesia JU., Wild S., Dixon K. and Lord BR. (2021) Corporate community relations and development: engagement with indigenous peoples. Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal 12(4): 811-845. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/SAMPJ-10-2018-0278.

• Amoako KO., Lord BR. and Dixon K. (2017) Insights from the websites of five plants operated by Newmont Mining Corporation. Meditari Accountancy Research 25(2): 186-215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/MEDAR-02-2016-0020.

• Dixon K. and Gaffikin M. (2014) Accounting practices as social technologies of colonialistic outreach from London, Washington, et Cetera. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 25(8): 683-708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2013.11.001.

• Daniel E., Myers A. and Dixon K. (2012) Adoption rationales of new management practices. Journal of Business Research 65(3): 371-380. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2011.06.033.

• Dixon K. (2011) One Down, Nine to Go: A View from the Podium at a University Engaging in Disaster Recovery. Accounting Education: An International Journal 20(6): 585-588. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09639284.2011.632911.

• Dixon K. (2010) Research and exposure. Chartered Accountants Journal of New Zealand 89(11): 46-49.

• Dixon K. and Gaffikin M. (2009) Viewpoint on Pacific odyssey. Pacific Accounting Review 21(3) http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/par.2009.34221caa.001.

• Daniel E., Myers A. and Dixon K. (2008) Don't blame the tools: the adoption and implementation of managerial innovations. Research Executive Summaries Series 4(2): 1-10.

• Dixon K. and Coy D. (2007) University governance: Governing bodies as providers and users of annual reports. Higher Education 54(2): 267-291. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10734-005-3146-0.

• Coy D. and Dixon K. (2004) The Public Accountability Index: Crafting a parametric disclosure index for annual reports. British Accounting Review 36: 79-106.

• Dixon K. (2004) Economic and political reforms in the central Pacific Republic of Kiribati. Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies, 6 (Suppl. 2): 21-53.

• Dixon K. (2004) Experiences of an accounting educator in Kiribati. Accounting Education: An International Journal 13: 311-327.

• Lovell A. and Dixon K. (2004) Experiences of the transfer of accounting education (based upon anglo/american notions of accounting and education) into less-developed economies. International Journal of Phytoremediation 21(1): 285-288. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0963928042000273771.

• Coy D., Dixon K., Buchanan J. and Tower G. (1997) Recipients of public sector annual reports: Theory and an empirical study compared. British Accounting Review 29: 103-127.

• Dixon K., Coy D. and Tower G. (1995) Perceptions and experiences of annual report preparers. Higher Education 29: 287-306.

• Coy D., Tower G. and Dixon K. (1994) PUBLIC SECTOR REFORM IN NEW ZEALAND: THE PROGRESS OF TERTIARY EDUCATION ANNUAL REPORTS, 1990 ? 92. Financial Accountability and Management 10(3): 253-261. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0408.1994.tb00011.x.

• Coy D., Tower G. and Dixon K. (1994) Public sector reform in New Zealand: The progress of tertiary education annual reports, 1990-92. Financial Accountability and Management 10: 253-261.

• Coy D., Tower G. and Dixon K. (1993) Quantifying the quality of tertiary education annual reports. Accounting and Finance 33: 121-129.

• Coy D., Dixon K. and Tower G. (1991) Tertiary education in New Zealand: Radical changes to funding and accountability. Journal of Tertiary Education Administration 13: 83-93.

• Dixon K., Coy D. and Tower G. (1991) External reporting by New Zealand universities 1985 89: Improving accountability. Financial Accountability and Management 7: 159-178.

• Dixon K. (1990) Hospital effectiveness, organisational culture, and benefit-cost.. New Zealand health & hospital 42(2).

• Dixon K. (1989) Cost determination and cost recovery pricing in non business situations: The case of university research projects. Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration 11(2): 173-189.

Authored Books

• Dixon K. (2021) Acclimatising to Higher Ground The Realities of Life of a Pacific Atoll People. 260.

• Daniel E., Myers A. and Dixon K. (2009) Don't blame the tools. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-1-85617-682-8.X0001-X.

• Daniel EM., Myers A. and Dixon K. (2009) Don't blame the tools: The adoption and implementation of managerial innovations. London: Butterworth-Heinmann. 78pp.

Edited Volumes

• Dixon K. and Gaffikin M. (2009) Pacific Accounting Review, 21(3). Special issue: Pacific Odyssey: Views of accounting in the South Seas from the centre and from the periphery. Bingley: Emerald Group Publishing Limited. 131pp.

• Lovell A. and Dixon K. (2004) Accounting education in transitional economies [Special issue]. Accounting Education: An International Journal 13(3).

Reports

• Adler R., Roberts H., Crombie N. and Dixon K. (2016) Lecturing Proficiency and Effectiveness of New Zealand Accounting and Finance Academics.AKO Aotearoa National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence. Commissioned by Ako Aotearoa Southern Hub Regional Fund 2014. 112.

• Adler R., Crombie N., Roberts H. and Dixon K. (2015) Lecturing Proficiency and Effectiveness of New Zealand Accounting and Finance Academics.AKO Aotearoa National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence. Commissioned by AKO Aotearoa. 54.

Conference Contributions - Published

• Amoako K., Lord BR. and Dixon K. (2017) Stakeholders' perceptions of sustainability and management accounting in the mining sector: Evidence from Gold Fields Ghana. In 11th New Zealand Management Accounting Conference - Abstracts and Programme: 6-6.

• Dixon K. and Gaffikin M. (2016) Devising Classificatory Frameworks of Accountings’ Consequences: An illustrative Pacific study of the economic, social, cultural and natural. In.

• Dixon K. (2012) A genealogy of knowledge as an accountable commodity. In.

• Dixon K. (2012) Functions of accounting, types of rulership (-archies) and forms of rule (-[o]cracies). In.

• Dixon K. (2010) A Retrospective analysis of the people's representatives approving Crown appropriations in New Zealand. In.

• Dixon K. (2010) Calculative practices in higher education: A retrospective analysis of curricular accounting focusing on university enlargement. In.

• Dixon K. (2010) Consequences for New Zealand Accounting Knowledge Discovery of Distant Performance Measurement of the Academic Person: A Retrospective Analysis. In Proceedings.

• Dixon K. (2010) Curricular accounting and standards and equivalence of university-student learning. In.

• Dixon K. (2007) Accounting about I-Kiribati through Protectorate, Colony and Republic. In.

• Dixon K. (2007) The Pedigree of Accounting in Kiribati and its Consequent Prospects in the Transparency and Accountability Stakes, Sponsored by the International Financial Institutions. In : 72pp.

• Mordaunt J. and Dixon K. (2005) The dilemmas and paradoxes of user-led governance: the case of the Oak Children's Centre. In.

Conference Contributions - Other

• Blesia J., Dixon K. and Lord B. (2023) Strangers in their own lands: A people entangled in a minerals’ curse. Christchurch: Sustainability Accounting Research Network Conference, 1-1 Sep 2023.

• Dixon K. (2021) Acclimatising to higher ground: The realities of life of a Pacific Atoll People. Online: 2021 Aotearoa Virtual Sustainability Development Goals Summit, 2-3 Sep 2021.

• Dixon K. (2021) Facilitating learning of public governance, management, administration, accounting and finance among undergraduates majoring in accounting and other commerce disciplines. Online: 18th Biennial Comparative International GovernmentalAccounting Research (CIGAR) Conferenc, 23-25 Jun 2021.

• Amoako K., Lord B. and Dixon K. (2018) Stakeholder perceptions of sustainability performance in Ghana’s mining sector: A case study of Gold Fields Limited. Chelmsford: Accounting & Accountability in Emerging Economies Conference & Emerging Scholars Colloquium, 27-29 Jun 2018.

• Amoako KO., Lord BR. and Dixon K. (2018) Stakeholders’ perceptions about the connection between sustainability and accounting practices: Insights from mining in Ghana. University of Edinburgh, UK: 12th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, 11-13 Jul 2018.

• Dixon K. (2018) A retrospective analysis of curricular accounting. University of Canterbury, Christchurch: Talking Teaching 2018 Ako Aotearoa Conference, 29-30 Nov 2018.

• Dixon K. (2018) The "inequal" consequences of applications of accounting technologies to I-Nikunau. Cambridge, England: 12th European Society for Oceanists Conference ‘Dealing with Inequality: Pacific perspectives, Pacific futures’, 7-10 Dec 2018.

• Dixon K., Lord B., Wild S. and Blesia J. (2018) Engaging Indigenous Communities through Social Investment Programmes: A Study of Pt. Freeport Indonesia’s Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives in West Papua. Chelmsford: Accounting & Accountability in Emerging Economies Conference & Emerging Scholars Colloquium, 27-29 Jun 2018.

• Gunatilake G., Lord BR. and Dixon K. (2018) Politics of Accounting Evidence in Privatising Sri Lanka Telecom. Brussels, Belgium: 11th Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting, 12-14 Dec 2018.

• Dixon K. (2017) Circumstances of a Pacific people in diaspora: A retrospective analysis of I-Nikunau. Munich, Germany: Experiencing Pacific Environments: 11th Conference of the European Society for Oceanists, 29 Jun-2 Jul 2017.

• Adler R., Crombie N., Dixon K. and Roberts H. (2016) Lecturing and Learning in Accounting: Interpreting Intricacy. Melbourne, Australia: Asia-Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference (APIRA 2016), 13-15 Jul 2016.

• Amoako K., Lord BR. and Dixon K. (2016) Sustainability reports of a multinational mining corporation: A pilot study. Kwa Maritane, Pilansberg National Park, South Africa: Meditari Accountancy Research Conference 2016, 30 Jun-1 Jul 2016.

• Adler R., Crombie N., Roberts H. and Dixon K. (2015) Lecturing proficiency and effectiveness of New Zealand accounting and finance academics. Christchurch, New Zealand: Ako Aotearoa Southern Hub Projects Colloquium III, 16-16 Nov 2015.

• Amoako KO., Lord BR. and Dixon K. (2015) Sustainability and environmental reports of a mining firm in Ghana: A pilot study. Lincoln, New Zealand: 9th New Zealand Management Accounting Conference, 19-20 Nov 2015.

• Dixon K. (2015) Accounting research outputs about New Zealand 1960-2011. Auckland, New Zealand: 2015 Performance Measurement Association of Australasia Conference (PMAA), 2-4 Feb 2015.

• Dixon K. (2015) Functions of accounting, types of rulership (-archies) and forms of rule (-[o]cracies) from Runneymede to Wellington. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: New Zealand Historical Association Biennial Conference (NZHA), 2-4 Dec 2015.

• Dixon K. and Gaffikin M. (2015) Exploring consequences of accounting usages: Inducting from the case of Nikunau Islanders and their diaspora 1750-2015. Ballarat, Australia: 8th Accounting History International Conference, 19-21 Aug 2015.

• Gunatilake G., Lord BR. and Dixon K. (2015) Accounting Practices: The Change I See. Stockholm, Sweden: 11th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference (IPA), 8-10 Jul 2015.

• Li M., Dixon K. and Lord BR. (2015) Responsiveness to a new course and new performance controls: Insights from inside a recently conglomerated Chinese state-owned enterprise. Lincoln, New Zealand: 9th New Zealand Management Accounting Conference, 19-20 Nov 2015.

• Dixon K. (2014) The human consequences for Kain Nikunau of two centuries of usages by I-Matang of accounting. Auckland, New Zealand: Human Rights in the Pacific: Priorities, Practice and Sustainability, 8-10 Dec 2014.

• Dokkularb P., Lord BR. and Dixon K. (2014) Management Control in a Thai-Owned Chicken Company in Thailand. Auckland, New Zealand: 8th New Zealand Management Accounting Conference, 24-25 Nov 2014.

• Dokkularb P., Lord BR. and Dixon K. (2013) Management control practices in Thai culture. Kobe, Japan: 7th Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference (APIRA), 26-28 Jul 2013.

• Dixon K. (2012) A retrospective analysis of the publication of accounting research about New Zealand consequent on distant performance measurement of the academic person. Palmerston North, New Zealand: 6th New Zealand Management Accounting Conference, 22-23 Nov 2012.

• Dixon K. (2012) Functionings of accounting in the rulership and rule transplanted from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Christchurch, New Zealand: Democracy in the Pacific, 18-19 Oct 2012.

• Liu M., Lord B. and Dixon K. (2012) Financial and non-financial information transfer and communication within small and medium enterprises. Palmerston North, New Zealand: 6th New Zealand Management Accounting Conference, 22-23 Nov 2012.

• Mohd Khalid F., Lord BR. and Dixon K. (2012) Environmental management accounting implementation in environmentally sensitive industries in Malaysia. Palmerston North, New Zealand: 6th New Zealand Management Accounting Conference, 22-23 Nov 2012.

• Dixon K. (2010) Reflection and constitution of "new" public service and "new" university education in and through curricular accounting. Hamilton, New Zealand: 4th New Zealand Management Accounting Conference, 18-19 Nov 2010.

• Li M., Dixon K. and Lord B. (2010) Management accounting change in a Chinese state-owned enterprise: An institutional perspective. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand: 4th New Zealand Management Accounting Conference, 18-19 Nov 2010.

• Dixon K. (2009) Curricular Accounting the Canterbury way. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: 3rd New Zealand Conference on Management Accounting, 19-20 Nov 2009.

• Dixon K. (2009) The genesis of calculative practices in higher education: Credit point systems. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand: Performance Measurement Association (PMA) Conference 2009, 14-17 Apr 2009.

• Dixon K. and Gaffikin M. (2009) Attributing consequences to accountancy: Pacific insights. University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand: 8th Australasian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR), 6-8 Dec 2009.

• Daniel E., Myers A. and Dixon K. (2008) Adoption of Managerial Innovations: Effect of Adoption Rationales on the Adoption Process. Harrogate, UK: British Academy of Management (BAM) Annual Conference 2008, 9-11 Sep 2008.

• Dixon K. and Lord B. (2008) Making management accounting learning practical. Auckland, New Zealand: Second New Zealand Management Accounting Conference 2008, 20-21 Nov 2008.

• Dixon K. (2007) Consequences of Accounting and Accountability for te Utu Originating from the Pacific Island of Nikunau. Toronto, Canada: Accounting and Subalternity Conference, 1-1 Aug 2007.

• Dixon K. and Gleadle P. (2007) Accounting education for managers: A managerial work perspective on their curriculum. Auckland, New Zealand: Inaugural International Management Conference. New Zealand: Small Country - Big Laboratory, 12-13 Apr 2007.

• Dixon K. (2006) Making Accounting Transparent Retrospectively: a Longitudinal Case Study of Accounting Practices Played Among the I-Kiribati. Nantes, France: Eleventh World Congress of Accounting Historians, 19-22 Jul 2006.

• Dixon K. (2005) Consistent Financial Reporting in English schools: An artefact of leadership, governance, and local and central administrative relations. University of Edinburgh Management School, Edinburgh.: British Accounting Association Public Sector Special Interest Group New Public Sector Workshop, 1 Dec 2005.

• Dixon K. (2004) Consistent financial reporting in English schools: Leadership and governance boundaries. Aston, Birmingham: Management Accounting Research Group Conference, 1 Sep 2004.

• Dixon K. and Coy D. (2004) University governance: The use of annual reports by council members in New Zealand [Abstract]. University of Nottingham, UK: Governance of the Private and Public Sectors: Distant Cousins or Non-Identical Twins. Programme and Collected Abstracts of the British Accounting Association Special Interest Groups in Corporate Governance and Public Services Accounting (p. 8), 1 Jan 2004.

• Dixon K. and Gleadle P. (2004) Accounting for managers: A managerial work perspective on the accounting curriculum [Abstract]. Edinburgh, UK: Sixth International Management Control Systems Research Conference: Abstract of Conference Papers, 1 Jan 2004.

Discussion/Working Papers

• Dixon K. (2013) Growth and dispersion of accounting research about New Zealand before and during a National Research Assessment Exercise: Five decades of academic journals bibliometrics. .

• Dixon K. (2011) Assessment at the centre of strategies of [accountant] learning in groups, substantiated with qualitative reflections in student assessments. Munich Personal RePEc Archive. 35pp.

• Dixon K. (2009) Calculative practices in higher education: a retrospective analysis of curricular accounting about learning. MPRA Munich Personal RePEc Archive.

Additional Publications

• Dixon K. (2013) Accounting education in New Zealand: A slightly irreverent take from Cantabria on where we are and how we have got there. Accounting Educators Professional Periodical(July): 11-13.

• Dixon K. (2011) Assessment at the centre of strategies of learning in groups, substantiated with qualitative reflections in student assessments. Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand: School of Accounting Research Seminar.

Student Supervision

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Current
• PhD - Daboug CB: Public-Sector Management Accounting and Controls Practices Dynamics in A Polarized Multi-Party Democracy: Evidence from Ghana
• PhD - Richards R: Accounting, Culture and International Financial Reporting Standards
Completed
• PhD - Amoako KO: Sustainability and environmental reports of a mining firm in Ghana (2018)
• PhD - Blesia J: Community Engagement in the Mining Industry: An Indigenous Perspective (2021)
• PhD - Dokkularb P: Management Accounting and Control in a Thai-Owned Chicken Company in Thailand (2013)
• PhD - Gunatilake G: Accounting Practices: The Change I See (2014)
• Masters - Li M: Management accounting change in a Chinese state-owned enterprise: an institutional perspective (2010)
• Masters - Liu M: Financial and Non-financial Information Transfer and Communication within Small and Medium Enterprises (2012)
• Masters - Ma'afu A: An exploratory study of the practice of corporate planning and programme budgeting in the Government of the Kingdom of Tonga: Evidence from a central government agency (2017)

Editorial Work

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• Accounting Education: An International Journal Associate Editor ( 2012 - 2023)
• Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies Editorial Advisory Board Member ( 2010 - 2023)

Review and Refereeing

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• Accounting History ( 2012 - 2023)
• British Accounting Review ( 2007 - 2011)
• Financial Accountabilty and Management ( 2019 - 2023)
• Pacific Accounting Review ( 2012 - 2023)