Professor Lee Parker

Professor Parker is a Professor in Accounting in the School of Commerce. He is also Honorary Professor in the School of Management at the University of St Andrews, and Adjunct Professor in the School of Business at Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. His previous academic posts include the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Monash, Griffith, Flinders and Adelaide.

He has also held visiting professorships at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; London School of Economics; University of California, Berkeley; University of Otago, New Zealand; Kuwait University; University of Mississippi; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; University of Dundee, Scotland, University of Alabama; The University of Trisakti, Jakarta, Indonesia; University of Manchester; Royal Holloway College, the University of London; Glasgow University; Singapore Management University; University of Aberdeen.

He 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. Professor Parker is joint founding editor of the internationally prominent interdisciplinary research journal Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal and serves on 30 journal editorial boards internationally.

He is a founding Fellow of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research at the University of St Andrews, 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), past deputy president of the Australian Institute of Management (SA Division) and has also served on CPA Australia’s national Education Advisory Committee.
 

• Strategic management
• Corporate social responsibility
• Qualitative research methods
• Management accounting

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

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

• 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
• Accounting and organisational communication

The following represent a selection from Professor Parker's (over 150) publications:

“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.

“Budgetary Incrementalism in a Christian Bureaucracy”, Management Accounting Research (UK) (2002), 13:1, pp.71-100.

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

“It’s 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.

"Financial Management Strategy in a Social Welfare Organization: A Boardroom Perspective”, Financial Accountability & Management, (2003), 19:4, pp.341-374.

“ ‘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.

“Financial and External Reporting Research: The Broadening Corporate Governance Challenge”, Accounting & Business Research, (2007), 37:1, pp.39-54.

“Developing Research Journals And Qualitative Inquiry: The Role of the Editorial Board”, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, (2007) 14:3, pp.168-182.

“Internal Governance in the Nonprofit Boardroom: a Participant Observer Study”, Corporate Governance: An International Review, (2007), 15:5, pp. 923-934.

“Professional Association Boardroom Strategising: Processual and Institutional Perspectives”, Journal of Management Studies, (2007), 44:8, pp.1454-1480.

“Boardroom Operational & Financial Control: An Insider View”, British Journal of Management, (2008), 19, pp.65-88.

“Strategic Management and Accounting Processes: Acknowledging Gender”, Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, (2008), 21:4, pp. 611-631.

“Photo-elicitation: An Ethno-Historical Accounting and Management Research Prospect”, Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, (2009), 22:7, PP.1111-1129.

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