Dr Basil Tucker

Welcome to Basil Tucker's homepage at the University of South Australia.

I am located at the School of Commerce in the Way Lee Building at the City West Campus.

I am a lecturer for the courses; Management Accounting, Management Accounting M, Management Control Systems, and Cost Management Systems. I also teach the course, Accounting For Decision Making course in the IGSB.

If you have any questions relating to my research interests, or need assistance with courses in which I am involved, please contact me.

This page was last updated in November 2008.

• Management Accounting
• Strategy
• Management Control
• Management Consulting
• Quantitative Methods

• Management Control
• The relationship between strategy, management control systems, and performance
• The Not-for-Profit Sector
• Structural Equation Modeling

• Kay, A & Tucker, B, ""Applying revolutionary concepts to conservative organisations”, Conference Paper presented at the 5th Annual International Conference on Advances In Management, Brayford Pool, Lincoln, UK, July, 1998

• Tucker, B & Kay, A, "It couldn't possibly work": a case study of Implementing the team-based approach to management developed by Ricardo Semler, Teamworking - some International perspectives, Centre for Research In Education, Equity and Work, University of South Australia, 2000.

• Tucker, B & Hannan, M, " Risk Management, Organisational Culture and the implications of Computer Network attacks and Malware incidents”, Conference Paper presented at the Sixth International Management Control Systems Research Conference: Management and Control, Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, July 2004.

• Tucker, B & Hannan, M, “The implications of computer network attacks and Malware incidents on organizational risk management” The 2nd Australian Information Security Management Conference 2004 (InfoSec04), Perth, Western Australia on Thursday, 25 November 2004

Tucker, B. Thorne, H,& Gurd, B. “Measuring what matters – an approach to evaluating performance in the third sector”, accepted for presentation in the refereed stream at the Australian and New Zealand Third Sector Research Conference: Navigating New Waters to be held in Adelaide from the 26th to 28th November 2006.

Tucker, B. Thorne, H,& Gurd, B. "Management Control and Strategy - What's been happening?", Annual Conference of the Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, held at the Wellington Convention Centre, New Zealand from 2 - 4 July 2006. This paper won the award for best paper in the management accounting stream at the Conference.

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Accounting, Management Accounting, Postgraduate management education

• Management Control
• Managemement Control and Strategy
• Management Accounting
• Strategic Management Accounting