AUT - Helen Tregidga

Dr Helen Tregidga

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

Phone: +64 9 9219999 ext 5908

Email: helen.tregidga@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

PhD in Accounting
Masters of Business (with Distinction) in Management
Bachelor of Commerce in Management

Memberships and Affiliations:

2008-2011 Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management Integration and Internationalization Team (elected position)
2006 –    Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR)

Teaching Areas:

    Social and Environmental Accounting and Reporting
    Organisation Theory and Sustainability
    Strategic Management

Research areas:

    Sustainable Development
    ‘Sustainability’ Reporting
    Textual Analysis, Discourse Theory and Method

Research Summary:

Dr Helen Tregidga joined AUT University in 2007 as a Lecturer in Management and moved to the Accounting Department in 2008.  She has a BCom, MBus and PhD all from the University of Otago.  Her doctoral thesis analysing the discourse of sustainable development within organisational reports won the 2007 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the category of Interdisciplinary Accounting Research and was recognised as an exceptional thesis (amongst the top 10% of theses examined) by the School of Business at the University of Otago.  In 2009 Helen received Marsden Fast Start Funding for a project titled ‘Corporate Chameleons, Greenwashing and Counter-Narratives’.

Current Research Projects:

Helen’s current research interests include organisations and the natural environment, sustainable development, ‘sustainability’ reporting, social movement organisations, and discourse theory and method.

Publications:

Refereed Journal Articles
Harris, C., & Tregidga, H. (forthcoming).  HR managers and environmental sustainability: Strategic leaders or passive observers?  International Journal of Human Resource Management.
Harris, C., Tregidga, H. & Williamson, D. (2011). Cinderella in Babylon: The Representation of Housekeeping and Housekeepers in the UK Television Series ‘Hotel Babylon’. Hospitality and Society, 1(1): 47-66.
Bowden, S., Kearins, K., Collins, E. & Tregidga, H. (2010).  Good Water and Good Plastic? (case and non-published instructors manual). Case Research Journal, 30(4): 1-11. Winner of the Ruth Green Memorial Award for Best Case from outside North America, North American Case Research Association (NACRA) and Second place in the oikos-Ashoka Social Entrepreneurship Case Writing Competition
Kearins, K., Collins, E., & Tregidga, H. (2010). Beyond corporate environmental management to a consideration of nature in visionary small enterprise, Business and Society, 49 (3), 512-547.
Tregidga, H., Kearins, K. & Collins, E. (2010 Winter/Fall) Kapai New Zealand: Eat your greens! (case study and non-published teaching note). Business Case Journal. 17(1): 50-69. Third place in the 2009 oikos Social Entrepreneurship Case Writing Competition.
Milne, M., Tregidga, H. & Walton, S. (2009). Words not actions! The ideological role of sustainable development reporting. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 22(8): 1211-1257. Recipient of the 2009 AAAJ Mary Parker Follett Best Paper Award.
Collins, E., Kearins, K. & Tregidga, H. (2009). Exiting in a State of Grace: Can Death Be Sustainable?  International Journal of Sustainable Strategic Management, 1(3): 258-284. Finalist in the 2007/08 oikos Sustainability Case-Writing Competition.
Williamson, D., Tregidga, H., Harris, C., & Keen, C. (2009).  The working engines of distinction: Discourse for main course in restaurant reviews. Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, 16: 55-61.
Tregidga, H. & Milne, M. (2006).  From Sustainable Management to Sustainable Development: A Longitudinal Analysis of a Leading New Zealand Environmental Reporter.  Business Strategy and the Environment, 15: 219-241.
Milne, M. J., Tregidga, H. & Walton. (2003) The Triple Bottom Line: Benchmarking New Zealand’s Early Reporters.  University of Auckland Business Review, 5(2): 36-48

Book Chapters
Kearins, K., Collins, E. & Tregidga, H. (2010). Getting more out of case research: A case for cases. In I. Hunter & K. Morris (Eds), New Zealand case series 2: Innovation and entrepreneurship (pp. 86-99). Auckland: Auckland University Press
Allen, J., Tregidga. H. & Kearins, K. (2008). Environmental and social accounting. In K. Hooper., H. Davey., G. Liyanarachchi. & S. Prescott. (Eds.). Conceptual Issues in Accounting: A New Zealand Perspective (pp. 133-159). Melbourne: Cengage Learning.

Awards:

2010    2nd Place in the oikos-Ashoka Social Entrepreneurship Case Writing Competition (with S Bowden, K Kearins and E Collins)
2009    AUT University’s Vice Chancellors Emerging Research Excellence Award
2009    The Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ) Mary Parker Follett Award for Best Paper published in 2009 (with M Milne and S Walton)
2009    Winner of the Ruth Green Memorial Award for Best Case from outside North America, North American Case Research Association (NACRA) (with S Bowden, K Kearins and E Collins)
2009    3rd Place in the oikos Social Entrepreneurship Case Writing Competition (with K Kearins and E Collins)
2008    Best Paper Award at the AOM Meetings Organizations & the Natural Environment Division (with M Milne and S Walton)
2007/08    Finalist in the oikos Sustainability Case Writing Competition (with E Collins and K Kearins)
2007    Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award Winner in the category of Interdisciplinary Accounting Research
2007    Exceptional Thesis, University of Otago (considered to be in the top 10% of theses produced annually at the University of Otago)
2003-2006 Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund Business and Sustainability Project PhD Student Researcher