CSPGAP staff profile

Dr Robert Ochoki Nyamori

Associate Professor, Higher Degrees Research Coordinator

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

La Trobe Business School
Department of Accounting

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD(Massey), MMS(Waikato), BEd(Hons)(KU), CPA

Membership of professional associations

CPA Australia

Area of study

Accounting

Brief profile

 

Dr Robert Ochoki Nyamori joined La Trobe University in July 2008 a two year stint at Qatar University in Qatar and after over nine years at Massey University in New Zealand. He completed his PhD from Massey University in 2005, which focussed on transformations in local government in New Zealand following the embrace of New Public Management. Robert completed his Masters in Management Studies in Accounting from the University of Waikato in New Zealand in 1997 and a Bachelor of Education with Honours from Kenyatta University in Kenya in 1990.   Since joining the School of Accounting, Robert has taught in Advanced Management Accounting and Introductory Management Accounting and is currently teaching Accounting and Accountability for the Public Sector. He has also been recently elected to the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law Board and is the Higher Degrees by Research Corrdinator for School of Accounting. Robert’s research interests include accounting and accountability in the public sector, strategic management accounting, corporate governance and accounting and subjectivity. His work has been published in Journal of Accounting Literature, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Financial Management and Accountability Journal and International Journal of Human Resource Management. He is currently studying performance contracting and accountability in the Kenyan public sector, accounting and accountability for the Constituency Development Fund in Kenya, and strategic and accounting change and performance in SMEs in Australia.

Research interests

Accountability and performance management in the public and not-for-profit sectors

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Management accounting and organisational change

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Teaching units

  • ACC3AAP Accounting and Accountability in the Public Sector
  • ACC3AMA Advanced Management Accounting
  • ACC3 PAM Public Sector Accounting and Management

Recent publications

Publications

Nyamori, R., Lawrence, S. R. and Perera, H. (2012), Revitalising Local Democracy: A Social Capital Analysis in the Context of a New Zealand Local Authority, Critical Perspectives on Accounting 23(7-8): 572-594..

Nyamori, R. (2009), Construction and effects of markets on a local authority in New Zealand, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 22(7): 1055-1086.

Nyamori, R. (2009), Making development accountable: a critical analysis of the Constituency Development Fund in Kenya, Journal of Accounting and Organisational Change 5(2): 197-227.

Cahan, S., Chua, F. and R. Nyamori, (2005), Corporate governance and executive compensation: New Zealand Evidence, Journal of Financial Accountability and Management 21(4) November: 437-465.

Nyamori, R., Perera, M.H.B. and S. Lawrence, (2001), The concept of strategic change and implications for management accounting research, Journal of Accounting Literature, 20 60-81.

Guthrie, J., Spell, C. S. and R. Nyamori, (2002), Correlates and consequences of high involvement work practices: The role of competitive strategy, International Journal of Human Resource Management, 13(1) February: 183-197.

 

Conferences

Nyamori, R., Lawrence, S. R. and H. M. Perera  (2011), Markets, Strategic Performance Management Systems and Revitalisation of Local Democracy: A Social Capital Analysis in the Context of a New Zealand Local Authority, Paper Presented at the European Network for Research into Accounting and Organisational Change (ENROAC), June 1-3rd 2011, Lisbon, Portugal.

Nyamori B. and R. O. Nyamori (2010), Slaying the dragon: Mobilising taxation as an anti-corruption strategy in Kenya, paper presented at the Global Accounting Organisational Change Conference, Boston, 22-24th July 2010.

Governing the local: Markets, Private Sector Managerial Practices and subjectivity in the context of the local in New Zealand, Paper presented at the 4th International Conference on Accounting, Auditing and Management in Public Sector Reforms, European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM) Conference, Siena, Italy, September 7-9 2006.

Strategic performance measurement systems and subjectivity in the context of local government in New Zealand: A Foucaultian Analysis, Paper presented at the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, Wellington, July 4 2006.

Governing the local: Strategic performance measurement systems and subjectivity in local government in New Zealand, Paper accepted at the European Accounting Association Conference in Dublin, 22-24 March 2006.

Strategic accounting: Revisiting the agenda, Paper presented at the IPA Young Scholars Colloquium, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, University of Manchester, July 2000.

Conceptualising organisational change and its implications on strategic management accounting research, Paper presented at the AAANZ Conference, Hamilton Island, Australia, July 2000 (With Hector Perera and Stewart Lawrence).

Corporate governance and executive compensation in the New Zealand public sector, Paper presented at the AAANZ Conference, Hamilton Island, Australia, July 2000 (With Steven Cahan and Frances Chua).

Human resource management practices and firm performance: Evidence from New Zealand, Paper presented to the 1998 Annual Meeting of the academy of International Business, Vienna, Austria (With James Guthrie).