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. He has also been a research grant assessor for governments and professional associations in Australia, Italy, Hong Kong, and Qatar. 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). Professor Parker is currently chair of the American Accounting Associations Centennial Celebrations Committee.
Selected Publications (from 2009)
Tucker B. and Parker, L.D., forthcoming 2013, 'Managerial Control and Strategy in Nonprofit Organizations: Doing the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons?', Nonprofit Management and Leadership.
Parker, L.D. forthcoming 2012, 'Beyond the Ticket and The Brand: Imagining an Accounting Research Future', Accounting and Finance.
Rammal, H. and Parker, L.D. forthcoming 2012, 'Islamic Banking in Pakistan: A History of Emergent Accountability and Regulation', Accounting History.
Tucker, B and Parker, LD forthcoming 2013, 'Out Of Control? Strategy In The NFP Sector: The Implications for Management Control', Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.
Parker, L.D. forthcoming 2013, 'Contemporary University Strategising: The Financial Imperative', Financial Accountability & Management.
Jeacle, I. and Parker, L.D. forthcoming 2012, 'The "Problem" of the Office: Governmentality and the Strategy of Efficiency', Business History.
Parker, L.D. forthcoming 2012, 'From Privatised To Hybrid Corporatised Higher Education: A Global Financial Management Discourse' Financial Accountability & Management, vol.28 no.3, pp. 1-22.
Parker, L.D. and Guthrie, J. 2012, 'Reflections and projections: 25 years of interdisciplinary perspectives on accounting, auditing and accountability research', Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol.25 no.1, pp.6-26.
Parker, L.D. 2011, 'Qualitative Management Accounting Research: Assessing Deliverables and Evidence', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol.23, pp.54-70.
Gomes, D., Carnegie, G.D. Napier, C.J. Parker, L.D. and West, B. 2011, 'Does Accounting History Matter?', Accounting History, . vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 387 - 400.
Parker, L.D. 2011, 'University Corporatisation: Driving Redefinition', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol 22, no. 4, pp.434-450.
Parker, LD and Ritson, P 2011, 'Accounting's Latent Scientism: Revisiting Classical Origins', Abacus, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 234-265.
Parker, LD and Ritson, P 2011 'Rage Rage Against the Dying of the Light: Lyndall Urwicks Scientific Management', Journal of Management History, vol.17 no.4, pp. 379-398.
Parker, L.D. 2011, 'Twenty One Years of Social and Environmental Accountability Research: A Coming of Age', Accounting Forum, vol. 35 no. 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, vol.31 no.1, pp.7-24.
Christensen, M & Parker, L.D. 2010, 'Using Ideas to Advance Professions: Public Sector Accrual Accounting', Financial Accountability & Management, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 246-266.
Parker, LD & Lai Hong, C 2010, 'Managing Social and Environmental Action and Accountability in the Hospitality Industry: A Singapore Perspective', Accounting Forum, vol. 34, no.1 pp. 46-53.r
Warren, S & Parker, L.D. 2009, 'Bean Counters or Bright Young Things? Towards the Visual Study of Identity Construction Among Newly Qualified Professional Accountants', Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, vol. 6 no. 4, pp. 205-223.
Parker, LD 2009, 'Photo-elicitation: An Ethno-Historical Accounting and Management Research Prospect', Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, vol. 22 no. 7, pp. 1111-1129.