Jo Kirkwood

Jo teaches operations management and total quality management at the University of Otago. She worked as a Policy Advisor at the Ministry of Commerce Wellington, in the area of Radio Spectrum Management. Jo has a number of research interests, including small-medium enterprises, women entrepreneurs and quality management, and is completing a PhD in the entrepreneurship field. Her focus is on the influence of family on motivations for becoming an entrepreneur. Jo focuses on writing cases on New Zealand companies, including Hubbard’s Foods, Happy Hens, Kelly Tarlton’s and TelstraClear. In conjunction with Diane Ruwhiu, Jo has published these cases in a wide variety of books, case-clearing houses and has presented papers based on the cases in international conferences. In October 2002 Jo won an award for a case on 'Kelly Tarlton’s Underwater World and Antarctic Adventure', presented at the North American Case Research Association (NACRA) Conference in Banff, Canada.

Contacts

Department of Management
School of Business
University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin
Email: jkirkwood@business.otago.ac.nz
Tel: + 64 3 479 8523
Fax: + 64 3 479 8173

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