Professor Lee D. Parker
B.Ec.(Adel) M.Phil.(Dundee) Ph.D.(Monash) FCA FCPA FAIM CPMgr
Honorary Professor of Management and Accounting Control
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
Research Interests
Strategic Management
Management Control and Performance Evaluation
Corporate Governance
Accounting and Management History
Social and Environmental Accountability and Strategy
Public and Non-profit Sector Accountability and Management
Qualitative and Historical Research Methodology
Professionalisation
Accounting and Organisational Communication
Teaching Interests
Strategic management
Corporate social and environmental responsibility
Qualitative research methods
Management accounting and control
Biography / Background
In addition to his honorary professorship in the School of Management at the University of St Andrews, Professor Parker is Professor of Accounting in the School of Commerce at the University of South Australia and adjunct professor of accounting at AUT University Business School (New Zealand) and RMIT University School of Accounting (Australia). 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 and Accountability Journal http://www.emeraldinsight.com/info/journals/aaaj/aaaj.jsp, and serves on more than 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, 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).
Selected Publications
Parker, L.D. (2011) "Qualitative Management Accounting Research: Assessing Deliverables and Evidence", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, in press.
Parker, L.D. and Ritson, P (2011) 'Rage Rage Against the Dying of the Light: Lyndall Urwick's Scientific Management', Journal of Management History, in press.
Parker, L.D. (2011) 'University Corporatisation: Driving Redefinition', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 22:4, pp.434-450.
Parker, L.D. and Ritson, P (2011) 'Accounting's Latent Scientism: Revisiting Classical Origins', Abacus, 47:2, pp. 234-265.
Parker, L.D. (2011) "Twenty One Years of Social and Environmental Accountability Research: A Coming of Age", Accounting Forum, 35:1, pp.1-10.
Parker, L.D. (2011) 'Building Bridges to the Future: Mapping the Territory for Developing Social and Environmental Accountability', Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 31:1, pp.7-24.
'Using Ideas to Advance Professions: Public Sector Accrual Accounting', with M. Christensen, Financial Accountability & Management, (2010), 26:3, pp. 246-266.
'Managing Social and Environmental Action and Accountability in the Hospitality Industry: A Singapore Perspective', with Chung, L.H. Accounting Forum, (2010), 34, pp. 46-53.
'Bean Counters or Bright Young Things? Towards the Visual Study of Identity Construction Among Newly Qualified Professional Accountants', with Warren, S., Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, (2009), 6:4, pp. 205-223.
'Photo-elicitation: An Ethno-Historical Accounting and Management Research Prospect', Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, (2009), 22: 7, pp. 1111-1129.
'Boardroom Operational & Financial Control: An Insider View', British Journal of Management, (2008), 19, pp. 65-88.
"Professional Association Boardroom Strategising: Processual and Institutional Perspectives", Journal of Management Studies, (2007) 44:8, pp.1454-1480.
"Internal Governance in the Nonprofit Boardroom: a Participant Observer Study", Corporate Governance: An International Review, (2007) 15:5, pp. 923-934.
"Developing Research Journals And Qualitative Inquiry: The Role of the Editorial Board", Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, (2007) 14:3, pp.168-182.
"Financial and External Reporting Research: The Broadening Corporate Governance Challenge", Accounting & Business Research, (2007) 37:1, pp.39-54.
"Social and Environmental Accountability Research: A View From the Commentary Box", Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, (2005), 18:6, pp.842-860.
"Revisiting Fayol: Anticipating Contemporary Management" with P. Ritson, British Journal of Management, (2005), 16, pp.175-194.
"Corporate Governance Crisis Downunder: Post-Enron Accounting Education and Research Inertia", European Accounting Review, (2005), 14:2, pp.303-314.
"'Presenting the Past': Perspectives on Time For Accounting History" Accounting, Business and Financial History, (2004), 14:1, pp.1-27.
"Financial Management Strategy in a Social Welfare Organization: A Boardroom Perspective", Financial Accountability & Management, (2003) 19:4, pp.341-374.
"It's Been a Pleasure Doing Business With You: A Strategic Analysis and Critique of University Change Management", invited refereed paper, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, (2002), 13:5-6, pp.603-619.
"20th Century Textbook Budgetary Discourse: Formalisation, Normalisation and Rebuttal in an Anglo-Saxon Environment", invited refereed paper, European Accounting Review, (2002), 11:2, pp.305-327.
"Budgetary Incrementalism in a Christian Bureaucracy", Management Accounting Research ( UK) (2002), 13:1, pp.71-100.
"Back to the Future: The Broadening Accounting Trajectory", British Accounting Review, (2001), 33:4, pp.421-453.
"Reactive Planning in a Christian Bureaucracy", Management Accounting Research, (2001), 12:3, pp.321-356.