Professor Lee Parker

Previous academic posts include the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Monash, Griffith, Flinders, Adelaide, South Australia and Royal Holloway University of London, and visiting professorships in the USA, UK, Australasia, Asia and the Middle East.

His research appears in over 200 articles and books on management and accounting internationally. His Google Scholar H index is 51 and his Google Scholar citations presently total over 10,000. Professor Parker is joint founding editor of the internationally prominent ISI listed interdisciplinary research journal Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal and serves on over 20 journal editorial boards internationally. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research at the University of St Andrews, and research advisor/assessor to universities, government research granting bodies and professional associations internationally.

His academic leadership roles have included President of the Academy of Accounting Historians (USA), the American Accounting Association (AAA) Public Interest section and Vice-President International of the AAA. He currently chairs the AAA centennial celebrations taskforce. He has also been Deputy Chair of the Australian Institute of Managment Board and state President of CPA Australia in South Australia. Currently he is member of the Council of the Adelaide College of Divinity.

Employed on a fractional basis at RMIT, Professor Parker is heavily committed to supporting supervisory teams, serving advisory roles to School of Accounting staff researchers and PhD students, and mentoring research projects across the school.

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Research Interests

• Strategic Management and control
• Corporate Governance
• Accounting and Management History
• Social and Environmental Accountability
• Public/Nonprofit Sector
• Qualitative and Historical Research Methodology

Current Research Projects

• Costing profession history
• Accountants’ professional role and imagery
• The office as scientific management performance stage
• Performance audit in the Australian public sector
• Qualitative research methodology issues
• Accountability and performance management in the non-profit sector
• Social responsibility & accountability – history and current practice
• Scientific management history
• Professional firm use of social media

Awards

• University of South Australia Division of business award for Postgraduate Research Student Supervisor of the Year, 2011.
• Highly Commended Award winner for paper by Parker, LD & Warren, S 2009, ‘Bean Counters or Bright Young Things? Towards the Visual Study of Identity Construction Among Newly Qualified Professional Accountants’, published in Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, vol. 6 no. 4, pp. 205-223
• Listed as one of the highest frequency published accounting research journal authors in study “Most Prolific Authors in the Accounting Literature Over the Past Half-Century: 1959-2008” by Jean L. Heck, Haub School of Business, Saint Joseph’s University, USA
• Emerald Publishing Company Literati Network outstanding service award for 20 years of editing Auditing, Accounting and Accountability Journal, 2008
• Emerald Publishing Company Outstanding Special Issue award (2006) for the special issue of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, “NGO Accountability”, Vol. 9 No.3
• Academy of Accounting Historians (USA) Hourglass Award for "significant contribution to knowledge through research and publishing in accounting history over a sustained period of time", 2004
• Emerald Publishing Company Leading Editor award, 2002, for editorship of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2002
• Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, New York, Poetry prize for ‘The New Management Accountant’, 2002
• International Federation of Accountants, Financial and Management Accounting Committee, 2001 Particular Merit Award, for the paper “Environmental Costing: A Path to Implementation”, Australian Accounting Review, Vol.10 No.3, 2000, pp.43-51
• Emerald Publishing Company Leading Editor award, 1994, for editorship of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
• Emerald Publishing Company Editor-of-the-Year award, 1993 (inaugural year of this award), for editorship of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
• The Association of University Teachers of Accounting UK, Winner of the 1978/79 Walter Taplin Prize for the best research article published in Volume 9 Accounting and Business Research, for paper entitled: ‘Divisional Performance Management: Beyond an Exclusive Profit Test’, No 36, Autumn 1979, pp. 309-319

Grants

• CPA Australia grant 2014, with Associate Professor S Lodhia and Dr G Stone (University of South Australia), ’Strategising for Social Media: A Public Accounting Practice Perspective’, $35,000
• CPA Australia grant 2012, with Professor K. Jacobs (UNSW), ’Public Sector Performance Audit: A Critical Review Of Scope and Practice in the Contemporary Australian Context’, $65,650
• City University of Hong Kong grant 2007, with Professor J. Courtis and Dr S. Leung, City University of Hong Kong, ’Annual Report Disclosure: Manipulative Silence’, $HK 100,000
• Hong Kong Research Grants Council grant 2007, with Professor J. Courtis and Dr S. Leung, City University of Hong Kong, ’Annual Report Disclosure: Manipulative Silence’, $HK 913,300
• Cornell-Nanyang Institute of Hospitality Management, Singapore grant 2007, with Associate Professor Chung, L.H. (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), ’From Policy to Performance: Mapping Environmental Performance Management Processes in the Hotel Industry’, $S 10,000
• CPA Australia grant 2006, with Professor S. Warren (Essex University, UK), ’Generational Change Attitudes: Understanding Younger Accountants’ Self-Image and Associated Expectation Drivers’, $30,000
• University of Adelaide seeding grant 2000, with P.Ritson (University of Adelaide), ’Management and Strategy: Henri Fayol Revisited’, $2,000
• Australian Society of CPAs, Management Accounting Centre of Excellence grant 1995, with Lewis, N. Mangos, N., Tilt C. and McMurtrie, T., ’Accounting for Environmental Costs’ $11,500
• Emerald Publishing Company grant 1995, with Prof J. Guthrie (Macquarie University), ’On the social Construction of Quality in Management and Accounting Journals’, $10,000
• Flinders University grant 1994, with Obrien, P. and Roffey, B. ’Corporate Philanthropy in Australia and Asia’, $7,700
• Flinders University grants 1989-1991, ’An Extended Field Study of Planning, Control and Information Use in a Social Nonprofit Organization’, $15,425
• Griffith University grant 1989, ’Historical Methodology Bibliography for the Academy of Accounting Historians“, $4,000
• Australian Accounting Research Foundation grant 1987, ’Accounting for Government Departments’, $5000
• Australian Accounting Research Foundation grant 1985, ’Value-For-Money Auditing ’, $5000
• Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales grant 1983, ’Communication in Financial Reporting’, $5,000
• Coopers & Lybrand grant 1981, with P. Sutcliffe (Monash University), ’Corporate Financial Reporting to Employees’, $2,500

• Doctor of Philosophy (Accounting/Management) Monash University, Australia
• Master of Philosophy (Accounting) University of Dundee, UK
• Bachelor of Economics (Commerce) University of Adelaide, Australia
• CPMgr, Certified Professional Manager, Australian Institute of Management
• FAIM, Fellow, Australian Institute of Management
• F.C.A., Fellow, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia
• F.C.P.A., Fellow, CPA Australia