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Associate Professor Eva Collins

Eva Collins

Associate Dean of Research & Postgraduate - Waikato Management School
Executive Director of New Zealand Institute for Business Research (NZIBR)

Qualifications: BS (Hons) Portland State, MA Essex, PhD George Washington

Contact Details

Email: evacolln@waikato.ac.nz
Room: MSB.3.38B
Phone: +64 7 838 4083

About Eva

Eva Collins is Associate Dean of Research and Postgraduate at Waikato Management School; Director of the New Zealand Institute for Business Research; Council Member, University of Waikato Council; Trustee of the Community Enterprise Leadership Foundation; (2016-2017) Visiting Fellow for sustainability research at Cambridge University.
Her research is focused on the tensions and paradoxes related to management and sustainability. She is a key researcher on a $2.8 million research programme funded by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), which is entitled, "People, Cities and Nature: Restoring indigenous nature in urban environments."  Prior to her University appointment, she did government affairs in Washington, D.C. for ten years for United Technologies Corporation.

Recent Publications

  • Tregidga, H., Kearins, K., & Collins, E. (2019). Towards transparency? Analysing the sustainability governance practices of ethical certification. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 39(1), 44-69. doi:10.1080/0969160X.2019.1568276

  • Kariyapperuma, N., Collins, E., & Bowden, S. (2018). Green expectations: Transferring environmental values in family business. In Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship (SEE) Conference. Conference held Washington D.C., USA.

  • Gibb, J., Whittaker, L., Connolly, H., Bowden, S., Collins, E., & Pavlovich, K. (2018). Xero: Beautiful Accounting Software - Beautiful Business (44th Waikato Management School Case Competition). Waikato Management School.

  • Pavlovich, K., Bowden, S., Simnadis, T., Connolly, H., Collins, E., & Gibb, J. (2018). Allbirds: New Zealand shoes taking the world by storm! (45th Waikato Management School Case Competition). Waikato Management School.

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