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Geraldine Robbins

B.Comm., H.Dip. Ed., ACMA, MBA, Ph.D. Lecturer in Accountancy & Finance
Email:	Geraldine.Robbins nuigalway.ie
Phone:	353 (0)91 493072
Fax:	353 (0)91 494565
Office Location:	Room 353 Top Floor, Cairnes Building

Awards and Distinctions

Awarded Sir Charles Harvey Award (Irish Management Institute) for outstanding performance in Postgraduate Business Studies for MBA in1992.
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, CIMA - PhD Scholarship Award 2001.
Research fellowship “Accounting in the Reform of European Healthcare Systems (AREHCAS), 2003.

Research Interests

Dr Robbins’ research interests centres around public sector management reform/ new public management (NPM) initiatives in Ireland. However, her teaching focuses mainly on financial management and corporate finance at both undergraduate and post graduate level. Her public sector research work to date has involved a review and analysis of public sector wide reforms in Ireland, public hospital and Irish Revenue e-government reform initiatives. She was awarded two successive Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) senior Research Scholarships in 2003 and 2004 which facilitated early completion of her PhD work at the University of Edinburgh.

Dr Robbins has explored the use of accounting in facilitating control and improvement in management decision-making in respect of development and implementation of service planning at hospital level. Dr Robbins has also examined the role of organisational structure in the management of Irish hospitals, in particular she focused on the role of accounting in the management of public voluntary (primarily religious-owned) Irish hospitals. Her work on accounting in public sector organisations has been extended to include non-accounting controls that form part of the organisational performance management system. She has looked at information flows and systems in both public hospitals and in the Irish Revenue authority. Her book on her PhD research published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland focuses on the usefulness of the various accounting control mechanisms in facilitating better control of Irish hospitals. More recently Dr Robbins has examined the limitations of NPM in assisting in implementation of cross-departmental eGovernment initiatives. She and her colleague Mr. Murray Scott identified the limitations of this approach in its inability to comprehensively account for social or public values in e-government service delivery initiatives. Their work contributes to the growing literature on eGovernment through the development of an NPM framework that can be used to identify NPM features in the development of reform policies and thus analyse the relative success of their impact in other reform contexts.

She is currently working on a paper examining the barriers to development and implementation of accounting information systems to support the introduction of new public management (NPM) ideas in Irish hospitals.

She recently hosted the European Institute of Advanced Management Studies (EIASM) 7th Workshop on the Challenges of Managing the Third Sector at NUI Galway. (June 2011). She is currently co-editing a Special Issue of Public Money and Management on the theme of the Challenges of Managing the Third Sector.

She has one PhD student who is examining performance measurement in the non-profit sector and is co-supervisor on a second PhD in the early stages of a review of performance management systems.

Recent Publications

Robbins, G. and I. Lapsley, 2005, NPM and the Irish Public Sector: From Reluctant Reformer to Statutory Codification in J. Guthrie, C. Humphrey, O. Olson and L. Jones (eds.), International Public Financial Management Reform: Progress, Contradictions and Challenges (Information Age Press, USA).

Robbins, G., 2007, Obstacles to the implementation of NPM ideas in Irish hospitals, Financial Accountability & Management Journal. Volume 23, Issue 1.

Robbins, G. and I. Lapsley, 2008. Irish Voluntary Hospitals: An Examination of a Theory of Voluntary Failure. Accounting Business and Financial History. Volume 18, Issue

Robbins, G. and M. Scott, (2010). Unravelling eGovernment: Understanding Implementation from an NPM Reform Context Perspective Communications of the Association for Information Systems (ACIS), Vol. 27, Article 26.

Robbins, G and G. Kester, (2010) Financial Policies and Practices of Companies listed on the Irish Stock Exchange, Irish Accounting Review, Winter Issue, Vol.17 (2), pp.65-94.

Robbins, G and G. Kester, (2011) Dividend Policy of Listed Irish Companies, Accountancy Ireland Vol. 43, No.2 pp.42-44.

Robbins, G and G. Kester (2011) Dividend Policy, Global Accounting Alliance 2011 Vol. 4, No.2 pp.24-26.

Robbins, G and G. Kester, Capital Budgeting Practices of Listed Irish Companies, Accountancy Ireland 2011 Vol. 43, No.1 pp.28-30.

Robbins, G and G. Kester (2011) Capital Budgeting Practices of Listed Irish Companies, Global Accounting Alliance, Vol. 4, No.1 pp.23.-25.

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