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Dr Keith Dixon

Department of Accounting and Information Systems

Fields of Research

  • Pacific peoples: accounting's consequences - socio-economic, cultural, political
  • Higher education finance, governance, credit, research performance
  • Government and the People - no taxation without consent, governmentality
  • Student-centred learning and assessment in the accounting curriculum
  • Hospital administration, accounting and finance
  • School governance, accounting and finance

Researcher Summary

I am producing a reasonable quantity of quality‐assured research outputs, am receiving some peer
recognition for my research, and am making a contribution to the research environment within the University of Canterbury. Currently, I am working on:
• A genealogy of accounting on Nikunau, Tarawa and other islands in the Gilbert Islands and Republic of Kiribati, exploring governmentality and how to identify long-term consequences of accounting applications by commodity seekers, traders, missionaries, imperial powers, aid agencies and I-Kiribati.
• A genealogy of the emergence of curricular accounting in higher education (i.e. qualification frameworks, credit points, etc.), exploring path-dependency, negotiated order and representational schemes.
• A genealogy of government budgeting in the context of the separation of powers, and taxation going hand in hand with representation
• Opportunities for NZ academics to publish research in accounting and related disciplines.
• Student-centred learning and working in groups, in connection with developing intellectual, interpersonal and communication skills among accounting students.

Subject Area: Disciplines

Future Research

  • Content analysis of 2010 New Zealand university annual reports and long term trends in reporting

Key Methodologies

  • Genealogical methods
  • Critical theory - the inadequacies of accounting in the past and present
  • Disclosure indices
  • Document analysis
  • Non-structured interviews
  • Participant-observation

Affiliations

Publications

(Selected outputs for 2004-2012)

  • Dixon, K. (2012) A genealogy of knowledge as an accountable commodity. Newcastle, UK: 13th World Congress of Accounting Historians, 17-19 Jul 2012. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • 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. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Mohd Khalid, F., Lord, B.R. 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. 31pp. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • 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. 39pp. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • 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. (Conference Contribution - Oral presentation)
  • Dixon, K. (2012) Functions of accounting, types of rulership (-archies) and forms of rule (-[o]cracies). Newcastle, UK: 13th World Congress of Accounting Historians, 17-19 Jul 2012. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • 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. http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/29861/. (Working Paper)
  • 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, 9 Mar 2011. (Oral Presentation)
  • 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. (Journal Article)
  • Dixon, K. (2010) A Retrospective analysis of the people's representatives approving Crown appropriations in New Zealand. Wellington, New Zealand: Sixth Accounting History International Conference: Accounting and the State, 18-20 Aug 2010. http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacl/6ahic/conference-papers.aspx. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Dixon, K. (2010) Consequences for New Zealand Accounting Knowledge Discovery of Distant Performance Measurement of the Academic Person: A Retrospective Analysis. Sydney, Australia: 6th Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference (APIRA 2010), 12-13 Jul 2010. In Proceedings Online. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Dixon, K. (2010) Curricular accounting and standards and equivalence of university-student learning. Wellington, New Zealand: 6th Accounting History International Conference: Accounting and the State, 18-20 Aug 2010. http://www.victoria.ac.nz/sacl/6ahic/conference-papers.aspx. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • 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. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • 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. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Dixon, K. (2010) Research and exposure. Chartered Accountants Journal of New Zealand 89(11): 46-49. (Journal Article)
  • 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. http://www.bsec.canterbury.ac.nz/csear2009/pdf/csear09_submission_37.pdf. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Daniel, E.M., Myers, A. and Dixon, K. (2009) Don't blame the tools: The adoption and implementation of managerial innovations. London: Butterworth-Heinmann. 78. (Authored Book)
  • 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. http://bam.ac.uk/conference2008/tracks.php. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • 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. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Dixon, K. (2007) Accounting about I-Kiribati through Protectorate, Colony and Republic. Banff, Alberta: Fifth Accounting History International Conference, 9-11 Aug 2007. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • 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. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • 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. Auckland, New Zealand: Fifth Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting Conference (APIRA 2007), 8-10 Jul 2007. 72pp. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • 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, December 2005. (Conference Contribution - Full conference paper)
  • Mordaunt, J. and Dixon, K. (2005) The dilemmas and paradoxes of user-led governance: the case of the Oak Children's Centre.. Kansas City, MI: Boards and Beyond: Understanding the Changing Realities of Nonprofit Organizational Governance (pp. 146-158). Kansas City, MI: University of Missouri-Kansas, Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leadership., 2005. (Conference Contribution - Paper in published proceedings)
  • Lovell, A. and Dixon, K. (Eds.). (2004) Accounting education in transitional economies [Special issue]. Accounting Education: An International Journal 13(3) (Journal Article)
  • 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. (Journal Article)
  • Dixon, K. (2004) Experiences of an accounting educator in Kiribati. Accounting Education: An International Journal 13: 311-327. (Journal Article)
  • Coy, D. and Dixon, K. (2004) The Public Accountability Index: Crafting a parametric disclosure index for annual reports. British Accounting Review 36: 79-106. (Journal Article)