Mr Kym Thorne

I am a Senior Lecturer in the School of Commerce

University of South Australia

• Global Business Regulation
• Management Accounting

Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants

Public Administration Theory Network

American Society for Public Administration

Bachelor of Arts (Flinders University) awarded Commonwealth University Scholarship

Graduate Diploma in Education (Flinders University)

Graduate Diploma in Accounting (Flinders University)

Master of Business Administration (University of Adelaide) placed on the Director's List of Outstanding Students

Currently completing PhD at the University of South Australia

2001 University of South Australia Supported Academic Teacher Award

2006 University of South Australia Supported Researcher Award

Kym Thorne 'Designing Virtual Organizations? Themes and Trends in Political and Organizational Discourses' Journal of Management Development, Volume 24, Issue 7, 2005 received a Highly Commended Award in the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence 2006. The paper was judged as one of the four best papers published in the Journal of Management Development during 2005

Member of the Program Committee for the Twentieth Annual Conference of Public Administration Theory Network to be held at Penn State, Harrisburg 2007

• Globalisation
• Global Business Regulation
• Virtual and Imaginary Organisations
• Visible and Invisible Organisations
• Strategic Management Accounting Economic Development Elites
• Human Rights
• Strategic Management Accounting
• Economic Development

Edited Book

Kym Thorne and Geoff Turner (Edited) (2001), 'Global Business: Some Research Perspectives' Prentice Hall Sydney

Book Chapters

Kym Thorne, Bruce Gurd and Ayadurai Jothidas (2001), 'Challenges in Developing Management Control Systems in a Global Environment' in Kym Thorne and Geoff Turner (Edited) Global Business: Some Research Perspectives Prentice Hall Sydney

Kym Thorne (2000), 'Accounting for Empowered Teams: A Leadership and Group Dynamics Perspective' in Malcolm Smith and Bruce Gurd (edited) Accounting, Organisations and Society Prentice Hall Sydney

Kym Thorne (2005), 'Do(ing) Everything Wrong' in Tricia Vilkinis (edited) The Thesis Journey Prentice-Hall, Sydney

Kym Thorne, and Alex Kouzmin, (2008), ‘Borders in an (In)visible World: Colonizing the Divergent and Privileging the “New World Order”,’ in Dar, S. and Cooke, B. (Eds), The New Development Management: Critiquing the Dual Modernization, Zed Books, London, pp.129-149.

Rebecca Neil and Kym Thorne (forthcoming) 'A Case of Technological Contempt: Mothering with Disembodied Information and Communication Technologies' in Monika Kostera and Jerzy Kociatkieiwcz (edited) The Virtuality Challenge

Kym Thorne, ‘The Myth of the Virtual Organization’ in Kostera, M. (edited) 2008 Organizational Epics and Sagas: Tales of Organizations, Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 93-103.

Symposium Coordinator

Kym Thorne, symposium on Network Theory in the 21st Century: new direction or dead-end for Public Administration?' Administration Theory & Praxis, Vol. 31, No.1, March.

Referred Journal articles

Kym Thorne and Malcolm Smith (1997) 'Synchronous Manufacturing: Back to Basics' Management Accounting (UK) 75(11): 58-60

Kym Thorne and Malcolm Smith (2000), 'Competitive Advantage in World Class Organisations; a View of the New Millennium' Management Accounting (UK) 78(3): 22-26

Kym Thorne and Malcolm Smith (2000), 'Accounting Control and Performance Measurement in a Teamworking Environment' Managerial Auditing Journal 15(7):348-357

Kym Thorne and Alex Kouzmin (2004), Borders in an (In)visible World; Revisiting Communities, Recognizing Gulags' Administrative Theory and Praxis journal symposium on Community, Identity and Public Administration, Volume 26, Number 3

Kym Thorne (2005), 'Designing Virtual Organizations? Themes and Trends in Political and Organizational Discourses' Journal of Management Development, Volume 24, Issue 7

Kym Thorne and Alex Kouzmin (2006), ‘A Manifesto for a Reflexive Consciousness in Public Administration: Learning to Play the ‘Pea and Thimble’ Charade - the Invisible and Very Visible Hands in the Neo-liberal Project’ Administrative Theory and Praxis journal symposium on Post-traditional Governance and Bureaucracy, Volume 28, Number 2, 2006.

Kym Thorne and Alex Kouzmin (2007), 'The Imperative of Reason and Rationality: a Politically- and Historically-Aware Netizen’s Rejoinder' Administrative Theory and Praxis symposium on Authority

Kym Thorne 2003 'The Use of Virtuality in Neo-liberal and Postmodern Thought: Unmasking the Theoretical and Practical Claims of Transcendent Virtual Organisations and Moving Towards a Less Prosaic, more Practical Approach to Understanding Virtual Organisations' Sixteenth Annual Public Adminstration Theory Network Conference June 19-21 Anchorage Alaska

Kym Thorne 2004 'The Dangerous Case of the Sovereign Individual: How Should we Cultivate in Global Cyberspace?' Seventeenth Annual Public Adminstration Theory Network Conference Omaha, Nebraska

Kym Thorne Alex Kouzmin and Julianne English 2005 'Scenes from Narcissistic and Dangerous Alpha's:Sovereign Individuals and the Problem of Cultivating the Civic In Cyberspace' Critical Management Studies Proceedings;4th International Critical Mangement Studies Conference, Cambridge University, Cambridge

Kym Thorne and Rebecca Neill 2005 'Rediscovering Dependency and Discovering Technological Contempt:Mothering with Disembodied Information and Communications Technologies' Critical Mangement Studies Proceedings;4th International Critical Mangement Studies Conference, Cambridge University, Cambridge

Kym Thorne and Alex Kouzmin 2005 'Borders in an (in)visible world: Privileging the New World Order' Critical Mangement Studies Proceedings;4th International Critical Mangement Studies Conference, Cambridge University, Cambridge

Kym Thorne Alex Kouzmin and Julianne English 2005 'So Its Come to This?' DVD Digital Video, Critical Mangement Studies Proceedings;4th International Critical Mangement Studies Conference, Cambridge University, Cambridge

Kym Thorne 2005 'Virtual Organisations: Some Uses and Abuses in Political and Organisational-Design Discourses' Critical Mangement Studies Proceedings;4th International Critical Mangement Studies Conference, Cambridge University, Cambridge

Kym Thorne 2005 'Will the People United in Cyberspace never be defeated? Reflections on the Global Multitude in the Epoch of American Empire' Eighteenth Annual Public Administration Theory Network Conference at Krakow, Poland 9-11 June

Kym Thorne and Alex Kouzmin 2005 'The Imperative of Reason: a Netizen’s Rejoinder' Eighteenth Annual Public Administration Theory Network Conference at Krakow, Poland 9-11 June

Kym Thorne 2006 ‘Empowering the Nameless: Towards a Public Administration for Cyberspace’ at the Nineteenth annual conference of the Public Administration Theory Network Evergreen College, Olympia, Washington State, February 9-10

Kym Thorne and Alex Kouzmin's 2007 (forthcoming) 'The Imperative for Darkness in Dark Times' Florida Atlantic University conference on Anti-essentialism in Public Administration/Policy' Fort Lauderdale, Florida, March 2 and 3

Kym Thorne 2007 (forthcoming) 'Patriotism without a PATRIOT Act: Australian perspectives on the visible and invisible stratagems within the war on terror' 68th American Public Administration National Conference Washington DC, 23-27 of March

Kym Thorne 2005 'Art in the Suburbs' Vitamin, Episode Seven.

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

Discipline: Accounting, Management Accounting, Postgraduate management education

• Globalisation
• New Forms of Organisations
• Public Administration