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Associate Professor Glen Lehman

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Associate Professor Glen Lehman

Associate Professor Glen Lehman is Senior Research Fellow: Accounting at the University of South Australia Business School, where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses and conducts research in the fields of accounting, philosophy and social theory. Professor Lehman is also a member of the Centre for Applied Financial Studies (CAFS) which merges financial theory and practice by bringing together academics and industry experts to facilitate international research collaborations in Finance.

Professor Lehman completed a PhD in ecological political theory at Flinders University, where he also attained degrees in economics, accounting and political science, and an MBA at the University of South Australia. He was the... Read more

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Associate Professor Glen Lehman is Senior Research Fellow: Accounting at the University of South Australia Business School, where he teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses and conducts research in the fields of accounting, philosophy and social theory. Professor Lehman is also a member of the Centre for Applied Financial Studies (CAFS) which merges financial theory and practice by bringing together academics and industry experts to facilitate international research collaborations in Finance.

Professor Lehman completed a PhD in ecological political theory at Flinders University, where he also attained degrees in economics, accounting and political science, and an MBA at the University of South Australia. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the internationally influential interdisciplinary research journal Accounting Forum from 1994 - 2018. He has served on more than ten journal editorial boards internationally providing his experience and knowledge. Professor Lehman has published scholarly articles in a range of prestigious journals, is a member of the British, the American and the Australian Accounting Associations, and has been a visiting researcher in Australia and the United Kingdom. He provides ongoing mentoring to his PhD students and has over two decades of PhD supervision experience helping to establish the careers of numerous early career researchers. With a record of academic success, Professor Lehman brings a wealth of experience, knowledge and wisdom to the teaching and research capabilities of the UniSA Business School.

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Professional Associations

  • Member of the British Accounting Association
  • Member of the American Accounting Association
  • Member of the Australian Accounting Association
  • Member of the Politics Society
  • Visiting Research Fellow, Flinders University of South Australia (2003 to present)
  • Principal Resarch Fellow, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
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Experience

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy Flinders University

  • Master of Business Administration University of South Australia

  • Diploma of Accounting

  • Bachelor of Economics Flinders University

  • Bachelor of Arts Flinders University

Work history

Associate Professor in Accounting, School of Commerce, UniSA Business School (2005-present)

Senior Research Fellow,  School of Accounting and Information Systems, University of South Australia (2001-2004)

Visiting Fellow, School of Politics & International Systems,  Flinders University (2002-2003)

Research Fellow, Hawke Centre, University of South Australia (1998)

Lecturer, School of Accounting and Information Systems, University of South Australia (1994-1998)

Tutor, University of South Australia (1990-1994)

Tutor, South Australian Institute of Technology (1989)

Research Assistant (1985-1988)

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Research

Research themes

  • Transforming societies

Research focus

  • Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
  • Business and Management
  • Accounting
  • Applied Economics
  • Applied Ethics

Highlights

  • Corporate Social Reporting and Environmental Accounting
  • Globalisation, Harmonisation and International Accounting
  • Accounting Theory and its Development
  • Critical and Social Theory
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Projects

Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.

  • Accounting for culture and the environment in a globalized world: cultural perspective on sustainability, Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, 01/11/2010 - 31/12/2011

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Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus

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Books

Year Output
2015

Lehman, G 2015, Charles Taylor's ecological conversations: politics, commonalities and the natural environment, Palgrave Macmillan, UK.

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Chapters

Year Output
2018

Lehman, G 2018, 'Philosophical traditions', in Robin Roslender (ed), The Routledge companion to critical accounting, Routledge, London, UK, ch. 5, pp. 68-90.

2008

Lehman, GD & Yusoff, H 2008, 'International Differences of Corporate environmental accounting developments: a comparison between Australia and Malaysia', in Zeljco Sevic and Michael Burrow, Accounting and finance in transition, Greenwich University Press, UK, vol. 4, pp. 92-124.

Journal Articles

Year Output
2018

Haslam, C, Tsitsianis, N, Lehman, G, Andersson, T & Malamatenios, J 2018, 'Accounting for decarbonisation and reducing capital at risk in the S&P500', Accounting forum, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 119-129.

2017

Lehman, G & Kuruppu, SC 2017, 'A framework for social and environmental accounting research', Accounting forum, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 139-146.

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2017

Lehman, G & Morton, E 2017, 'Accountability, corruption and social and environment accounting: micro-political processes of change', Accounting forum, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 281-288.

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2017

Lehman, G 2017, 'The language of environmental and social accounting research: The expression of beauty and truth', Critical perspectives on accounting, vol. 44, pp. 30-41.

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2016

Kuruppu, S & Lehman, G 2016, 'Commentary: A proposal for theoretical models of stakeholder perceptions of a new financial reporting system', Accounting forum, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 167-169.

2015

Lehman, G & Thorne, K 2015, 'Corruption, criminality and the privatised state: the implications for accounting', Accounting forum, vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 366-370.

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2015

Sikka, P & Lehman, G 2015, 'The supply-side of corruption and limits to preventing corruption within government procurement and constructing ethical subjects', Critical perspectives on accounting, vol. 28, pp. 62-70.

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2014

Beck, C & Lehman, G 2014, 'On Gray, Malpas, and Brennan's 'the role of social accounts: situating political ideas'', Accounting forum, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 291-295.

Open access
2014

Haslam, C, Butlin, J, Andersson, T, Malamatenios, J & Lehman, G 2014, 'Accounting for carbon and reframing disclosure: a business model approach', Accounting forum, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 200-211.

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2013

Lehman, G & Haslam, C 2013, 'Accounting for the Apple Inc business model: corporate value capture and dysfunctional economic and social consequences', Accounting forum, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 245-248.

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2013

Lehman, G 2013, 'Moral will, accounting and the phronemos', Critical perspectives on accounting, vol. 25 no. 3, pp. 210-216.

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2012

Tregidga, H, Milne, M & Lehman, G 2012, 'Analyzing the quality, meaning and accountability of organizational reporting and communication : directions for future research', Accounting forum, vol. 36, no. 3, pp. 223-230.

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2011

Lehman, GD 2011, 'Interpretivism, postmodernism and nature: ecological conversations', Philosophy and social criticism: an international, interdisciplinary journal, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 795-821.

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2010

Lehman, GD 2010, 'Interpretive Accounting Research', Accounting Forum, vol. 34, no. 3-4, pp. 231-235.

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2010

Lehman, GD 2010, 'Perspectives on accounting, commonalities & the public sphere', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 724-738.

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2009

Lehman, GD 2009, 'A Festschrift for Michael Gaffikin', Accounting Forum, vol. 33, pp. 253-265.

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2009

Yusoff, H & Lehman, GD 2009, 'Corporate environmental reporting through the lens of semiotics', Asian review of accounting, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 226-246.

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2008

Chwastiak, M & Lehman, GD 2008, 'Accounting for war', Accounting Forum, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 313-326.

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Conferences

Year Output
2013

Lehman, G 2013, 'Perspectives on accountability : accounting, ethics and forgiveness', 2013 Alternative Accounts Conference, Schulich School of Business, pp. 1-9.

2013

Lehman, G 2013, 'The moral potential of individualism, instrumentalism and secularisation in accounting research: a comment', 12th A-CSEAR Conference 2013: Social and Environmental Accounting Past, Present and Future, University of Waikato, pp. 1-20.

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2013

Lehman, GD 2013, 'Accountability, ethics and transparency', 12th A-CSEAR conference, The University of Waikato, pp. 1-19.

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2012

Lehman, G 2012, 'Accounting, accountability, closeness and transparency', 11th Australian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research Conference, University of Wollongong, pp. 1-28.

2012

Lehman, G 2012, 'Accounting, reality and sustainability reporting', 2012 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, pp. 1-49.

2012

Lehman, GD 2012, 'Critical reflections on Laughlin's middle range research approach : language not mysterious?', 11th Australian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research Conference, University of Woolongong.

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2012

Lehman, GD 2012, 'Davidson, Dreyfus and Taylor: accounting for realism', 11th Australian centre for social and environmental accounting research conference, University of Wollongong, pp. 1-22.

2011

Lehman, G 2011, 'A comment on McKernan, Davidson and Taylor: the art of sustainability', 10th A-CSEAR Conference, University of Tasmania, pp. 1-48.

2011

Lehman, GD 2011, 'Accountability: engaging closeness and transparency', Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference 2011, Elsevier, pp. 145-169.

Open access
2010

Lehman, GD 2010, 'Accountability and Sustainability: Davidson's and Taylor's means to engage the world', in Deborah Smith, APIRA 2010, University of Sydney, pp. 1-40.

Open access
2010

Lehman, GD 2010, 'Critical Accounting Activism and the Public Sphere', in Deborah Smith, APIRA 2010, University of Sydney, pp. 1-29.

Open access
2010

Lehman, GD 2010, 'Decline of Accounting Activism: Civil Society and its Public Spheres', in Rubin Roberts, CSEAR 2010, University of Central Florida, pp. 1-36.

Open access
2010

Lehman, GD 2010, 'Objective Values and Financial Accounting', in Rubin Roberts, CSEAR 2010, University of Central Florida, pp. 1-12.

2010

Lehman, GD 2010, 'Postmodernism, closeness and modern accountability', Managing for Unknowable Futures, ANZAM, pp. 1-45.

Open access
2009

Lehman, GD & Fiedler, BA 2009, 'Retirement Village Contracts, Justice and Fairness', in Thomas Kern, Nicholas McGuigan, Amanda Ball, Markus J. Milne, 8th Australasian Conference for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, CSEAR, pp. 1-28.

2009

Lehman, GD 2009, 'Sustainability & the Art of Political Interpretation', in Wendy Proctor, 2009 ANZSEE Conference: Green milage in the global meltdown: an ecological economics way forward, Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics, pp. 1-21.

2009

Yusoff, H & Lehman, GD 2009, 'Culture and Environmental Reporting in Malaysia and Australia', in Thomas Kern, Nicholas McGuigan, Amanda Ball, Markus J. Milne, 8th Australasian Conference for Social and Environmental Accounting Research, CSEAR, pp. 1-29.

2008

Lehman, GD & Fiedler, BA 2008, 'Accountability, Obligation and social responsibility: a case study of retirement villages', in Roger Burritt, A-CSEAR, University of South Australia, pp. 368-384.

Open access
2008

Lehman, GD 2008, 'Accounting's great retreat: decline of the public sphere and critical accounting activism', 7th Australasian conference for social and environmental accounting research, A-CSEAR, University of South Australia, article no. 582, pp. 385-395.

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Other outputs

Book Chapter - Philosophical Perspectives on Accounting, Routledge, Handboodk of Critical Perspectives on Accounting, (Ed). Robin Roslender, London, Routledge, 2017. (forthcoming)

Grant Industry - Accounting for culture and the environment in a globalized world: cultural perspective on sustainability, Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, 2016-2017, $16,687 (forthcoming)

Industry Engagement – Food Security Forum, Canberra 2016.

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  • Corporate Social Reporting and Environmental Accounting
  • Globalisation, Harmonisation and International Accounting
  • Accounting Theory and its Development
  • Critical and Social Theory
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Collaborations

Organisation Country
Auckland University of Technology NEW ZEALAND
CPA Australia AUSTRALIA
Queen Mary University of London UNITED KINGDOM
RMIT University AUSTRALIA
RVA Consulting UNITED STATES
University of Canterbury NEW ZEALAND
University of Durham UNITED KINGDOM
University of Essex UNITED KINGDOM
University of Hertfordshire UNITED KINGDOM
University of New Mexico - Albuquerque UNITED STATES
University of South Australia AUSTRALIA
University of Sydney AUSTRALIA
University of Technology Malaysia MALAYSIA
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Engagement/recognition Year

Editorial Board Member

British Accounting Review

2018

Visiting Research Fellow

Flinders University of South Australia

2018

Editor-in-Chief

Accounting Forum Journal, Elsevier

2017

Member

British Accounting Association

2017

Member

American Accounting Association

2017

Member

Australian Accounting Association

2017

Member

Centre for Applied Financial Studies (CAFS)

2017

Principal Research Fellow

Politics Society

2017

Principal Research Fellow

University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

2017

Visiting Research Fellow

Flinders University of South Australia

2017

Editor-in-Chief

Accounting Forum Journal, Elsevier

2016

Member

CPA Australia Global Research Perspectives Program

2016

Visiting Research Fellow

Flinders University of South Australia

2016

Editor-in-Chief

Accounting Forum Journal, Elsevier

2015

Member

CPA Australia Global Research Perspectives Program

2015

Visiting Research Fellow

Flinders University of South Australia

2015

Editor-in-Chief

Accounting Forum Journal, Elsevier

2014

Visiting Research Fellow

Flinders University of South Australia

2014

Editor-in-Chief

Accounting Forum Journal, Elsevier

2013

Visiting Research Fellow

Flinders University of South Australia

2013

Editor-in-Chief

Accounting Forum Journal, Elsevier

2012

Visiting Research Fellow

Flinders University of South Australia

2012

Editor-in-Chief

Accounting Forum Journal, Elsevier

2011

Visiting Research Fellow

Flinders University of South Australia

2011

Editor-in-Chief

Accounting Forum Journal, Elsevier

2010

Visiting Research Fellow

Flinders University of South Australia

2010
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Highlights

  • Accounting Theory and Its Development
  • Financial Accounting and Accountability (and Honours)
  • Environmental Accounting and Social Accounting
  • Liberal and Communitarian Debates as applied to Accounting and Accountability
  • Ecological Politics, Accountability and Social Theory
  • Applied Political Theory - environmental and social transformations.
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Courses I teach and/or co-ordinate

  • ACCT 3005 Auditing Theory and Practice (2018)
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Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title Student status
Corporate social responsibility motivation and performance from a traditional developing country setting  perspective from Islamic banking Current
An institutional perspective on corporate environmental management accounting in China Completed
Readability and understandability in written communications from CPA practioners to small business clients: power relationships, social action and personality typology influences Completed
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