Lee Parker

Biography/ Background

Professor Parker is Professor of Commerce (appointed 1997) and Associate Head (Research) in the School of Commerce. He is also Honorary Professor of Management and Accounting Control at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK. His previous positions include the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Monash, Griffith and Flinders as well as visiting professorships in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Singapore and Kuwait. Professor Parker has published over 150 articles and books on management and accounting internationally and is a regular presenter and plenary speaker at international conferences and seminars.

Qualifications

B.Ec.(Adel) M.Phil.(Dundee) Ph.D.(Monash) FCA FCPA FAIM CPMgr

Teaching Interests

Strategic management
Coporate social responsibility
Qualitative research methods
Management accounting

Research Interests

Strategic Management

Management Control and Performance Evaluation

Corporate Governance

Accounting and Management History

Social and Environmental Accountability and Strategy

Public and Nonprofit Sector Accountability and Management

Qualitative and Historical Research Methodology

Publications

Selected publications include:
"Control in Organisational Life: The Contribution of Mary Parker Follett", The Academy of Management Review, (1984), 9:4,pp. 736-745

"The Impact of Corporate Characteristics on Social Responsibility Disclosure: A Typology and Frequency-Based Analysis", with S. Cowen and L. Ferreri, Accounting Organizations and Society, (UK), (1987), 12:2, pp. 111-122.

"An Historical Analysis of Ethical Pronouncements and Debate in the Australian Accounting Profession", Abacus, (Aust), (1987), 23:2, pp. 122-139.

"British Entrepreneurs and Pre-Industrial Revolution Evidence of Cost Management" with R. K. Fleischman, The Accounting Review, (1991), 66:2,pp. 361-375.

"Professional Accounting Body Ethics: In Search of The Private Interest" Accounting, Organizations and Society, (UK), (1994), 19:6,pp. 507-525.

"Back to the Drawing Board: Revisiting Grounded Theory and the Everyday Accountant's Reality", with B. Roffey , Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, (1997), 10:2, pp. 212-247.

"Historiography For the New Millennium: Adventures in Accounting and Management", Accounting History, (1999), 4:2, pp.11-42.

"Reactive Planning in a Christian Bureaucracy", Management Accounting Research, (2001), 12:3,pp.321-356.

"Back to the Future: The Broadening Accounting Trajectory", British Accounting Review, (2001), 33:4, pp.421-453.

"20th Century Textbook Budgetary Discourse: Formalisation, Normalisation and Rebuttal in an Anglo-Saxon Environment", European Accounting Review, (2002), 11:2, pp.305-327.

"Its Been a Pleasure Doing Business With You: A Strategic Analysis and Critique of University Change Management", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, (2002), 13:5-6, pp.603-619.

"Presenting the Past: Perspectives on Time For Accounting History", Accounting, Business and Financial History, (2004), 14:1, pp.1-27.

"Corporate Governance Crisis Downunder: Post-Enron Accounting Education And Research Inertia", European Accounting Review, (2005), 14:2,pp.303-314.

"Revisiting Fayol: Anticipating Contemporary Management" with P. Ritson, British Journal of Management, (2005), 16, pp.175-194.

"Social and Environmental Accountability Research: A View From the Commentary Box", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, (2005), 18:6,pp.842-860.

"Integrating Hotel Environmental Strategies with Management Control: A Structuration Approach", with L.H. Chung, Business Strategy & the Environment, forthcoming 2006.

"Boardroom Operational & Financial Control: An Insider View", British Journal of Management, forthcoming 2007.

"Professional Association Boardroom Strategising: Processual and Institutional Perspectives", Journal of Management Studies, forthcoming 2007

Career publications can be accessed in the file attached at the bottom of this page

Professional Associations

Fellow of CPA Australia

Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management

Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia

Member

The Academy of Accounting Historians (USA), The American Accounting Association, The Academy of Management (USA), The British Accounting Association, The Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management, The Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand

Professional Interests

Professor Parker is joint founding editor of the internationally prominent interdisciplinary research journal Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/aaaj/aaaj.jsp, and serves on 20 other journal editorial boards internationally. He is a founding Fellow of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research at the University of St Andrews (Scotland), a panel member for the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, and has been a Reader in Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences for the Australian Research Council, and international advisor to the Accountancy Panel of the 1996 and 2001 British universities Research Assessment Exercises. Professor Parker has been a president of the Academy of Accounting Historians (USA), the American Accounting Association Public Interest section and Vice-President International of the American Accounting Association. He is also a past-president of CPA Australia (SA Division), and past deputy president of the Australian Institute of Management (SA Division). He is a member of CPA Australia's national Professional Education Board and a member of the American Accounting Association Membership Committee

Files

• Career Publications - LParker-Career_Publications.pdf [127.3K] (application/pdf)

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Expertise	Strategic management Coporate social responsibility Social and environmental reporting Corporate and profession ethics Management accounting Management Control Corporate Governance Accounting History Management History
Notes	Professor Lee D Parker B.Ec. M.Phil. Ph.D. FCA FCPA FAIM CPMgr is Professor of Commerce and Associate Head (Research) in the School of Commerce at the University of Adelaide, South Australia and Honorary Professor of Management & Accounting Control at the School of Management, the University of St Andrews, Scotland. His previous positions include the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Monash, Griffi
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