Research Portfolio

Leading Researchers

Detailed profiles are provided for the entire Waikato Management School faculty on staff web pages which are accessible via the Staff Directory and Department web pages.  In this section, the School's professorial faculty are briefly introduced.   

1. Dr Michele Akoorie is Professor of International Management.  Her research interests focus on the specialist fields of foreign direct investment, small firm internationalisation and clusters.
2. Dr James Barker is Professor of Organisational Theory and Strategy in the Department of Strategy and Human Resource Management. His research interests focus on the role of strategy in the development of sustainable knowledge, innovation, and change initiatives and the consequences of these initiatives on organisational governance systems, markets and practices.
3. Dr Ron Bird is a Professor in Finance.  His research interests largely concentrate in the investments areas and those areas that interface with financial reporting.  Since 1999, his interest have progressively moved towards increasing our understanding of the extent to which markets fail and the costs imposed on the community as a consequence of these failures.
4. Dr Delwyn Clark is a Professor of Strategic Management, and Associate Dean Research for Waikato Management School.  She specialises in research in strategic innovation and entrepreneurial processes, strategic management processes and models, and the resource based view of the firm.
5. Dr Jim Corner is Professor of Decision Sciences in the Department of Management Systems. His research interests include: multiattribute/multiobjective decisions making, decision analysis, decision support systems and systems intelligence.
6. Dr Howard Davey is a Professor of Professional Accounting, and Co-Chairperson of the Department of Accounting. He specialises in external reporting, financial accounting and accounting theory, including non-traditional measures of performance, taxation and professional issues.  
7. Dr Charl de Villers is Professor of Accounting.  His main research focus is on sustainability accounting choice by managers and regulators, but he also explores the impact of corporate governance, the accounting profession, accounting control systems, and audit fee movements.
8. Dr John Gibson is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics.  His research uses empirical analyses of human behaviour in the areas of health, education, and welfare.  His current projects are on poverty, migration, wealth distribution and the effects of measurement error in economics variables.  His research has a geographical focus on the Pacific Islands and China.
9. Dr Clive Gilson is a Professor of Human Resource Management in the Department of Strategy and Human Resource Management and Editor of the Electronic Journal of Radical Organization Theory. He specialises in human resource management, and employment practices and performance.
10. Dr Mark Harcourt is a Professor in the Department of Strategy and Human Resource Management.  He specialises in strategic human resource management, employment rights, discrimination, unions, health and safety, labour turnover and labour relations. 
11. Dr Mark Holmes is a Professor in the Department of Economics. He specialises in applied macro-economics, international finance, and the economics of the less developed countries.
12. Dr Kerr Inkson is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Strategy and Human Resource Management.  He specialises in careers organizational psychology, organizational behvior and management studies
13. Dr Stewart Lawrence is a Professor in the Department of Accounting.  He specialises in research on performance measurement and evaluation practices, accounting measures for decision-making, and sustainable management practices and reporting.
14. Dr Philip McCann is a Professor in the Department of Economics. His research specialities are urban and regional economics, transport economics, and international business economics. His theoretical and empirical research involves mathematical optimisation modelling, empirical micro-econometrics and also case study analyses.
15. Dr Alison McIntosh is a Professor in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management.  Her main research interests are in tourists' experiences of heritage, spirituality and culture, and the sustainable development of cultural tourism particularly with reference to issues of interpretation and hosting.
16. Dr David McKie is a Professor in the Department of Management Communication. His specialties are public relations, emotional intelligence and action research, leadership, imagination and complexity science.
17. Dr Bob McQueen is Professor of Electronic Commerce Technologies in the Department of Management Systems. His specialities are groupware, knowledge management and electronic commerce.
18. Dr John Oetzel is a Professor of Communication.  His research centres on understanding and improving problematic interactions between and among people of different cultural backgrounds.
19. Dr Les Oxley is Professor of Economics.  His research interests include applied econometrics, economic growth, human capital, energy economics, economics of innovation, knowledge economy, intellectual property and cliometrics.
20. Dr Mike Pratt is a Professor of Sustainability and Leadership.  His research specialities are leadership, performance and organisational theory.
21. Dr Juliet Roper is a Professor of Management Communication.  Her main interests lie in the area of corporate communication and pubilc affairs, focusing on public relations and sustainability. 
22. Dr Jacqueline Rowarth is the Professor of Agribusiness.  Her research over the past 25 years has focused on efficient use of fertilizer (product yield and quality with minimum environmental impact).
23. Dr Chris Ryan is a Professor in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management and Editor of Tourism Management.  He is intereseted in research methods and epistemologies, and in tourist behaviours and the consequences of those behaviours in terms of impacts - social, psychological and environmental; and in business organisations that shape those tourist experiences.
24. Dr Riccardo Scarpa is a Professor in Environmental Economics in the Department of Economics. His main research interest is modelling behavioural choices to derive estimates for non-market environmental goods. His research focuses on recreational travel cost models to forest sites; the valuation of cultural heritage and museums and assessing the recreational value of environmentally protected areas. 
25. Dr Frank Scrimgeour is the Professor in Environmental Economics and Dean of the Waikato Management School. His research specialities are environmental and natural resources.
26. Dr Harald J. van Heerde is the Professor of Marketing in the Department of Marketing. His research has dealt with building econmetric models in various substantive domains such as sales promotions, pricing, new product introductions, and loyalty programs, and it is branching out into new areas such as strategies for building brands, assortment optimization and price wars.
27. Dr Richard Varey is a Professor of Marketing in the Department of Marketing. His specialities are marketing systems, internal relationship marketing and marketing communication systems.
28. Dr Ed Vos is a Professor in the Department of Finance.  He specialises in research on corporate finance, portfolio formation and management, small  business finance and personal finance.
29. Dr Kay Weaver is a Professor in the Department of Management Communication.  Her research draws on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches including theories of reception and communication effects, feminist and poststructuralist analysis.