Dr Basil Tucker

Senior Lecturer UniSA Business

City West Campus (WL3-39)
tel +61 8 830 29116

email Basil.Tucker@unisa.edu.au

Available for media comment
Research Degree Supervisor

About me

The research-practice gap
Strategy, Management Control Systems & Performance
Social Network Theory
Space Exploration, Space Research and Space Policy
Mixed-Methods research

Dr Basil Tucker is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting within UniSA Business, course co-ordinator of the MBA course, Accounting for Decision Making and Coordinator of the Humanities, Arts & Social Science Space & Cosmology (HASS) Research Group. Basil was a lecturer in Accounting within the International Graduate School of Business, and, is Discipline Leader for the course, Accounting For Decision Making. Basil has also taught in introductory accounting and management accounting courses Undergraduate as well as in Post-graduate Programs.

Before joining UniSA, Basil had been a Management Consultant – firstly with an international consulting firm, and then with a South Australian based practice. He has over twelve... Read more

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About me

In the media

Date	Title
25/05/2022	Low staff turnover, high loyalty and productivity gains: the business benefits of hiring people with intellectual disability, https://theconversation.com/low-staff-turnover-high-loyalty-and-productivity-gains-the-business-benefits-of-hiring-people-with-intellectual-disability-180587

Research

Research focus

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
Business and Management
Curriculum and Pedagogy
Policy and Administration
Accounting

Highlights

UniSA Business School Research Excellence Awards: Research Commendation (2019)

Research

Outputs

Research outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2017	Tucker, B & Hoque, Z 2017, 'Mixed methods for understanding accounting issues', in Z Hoque et al. (eds), The Routledge companion to qualitative accounting research methods, Routledge, UK, ch. 18, pp. 301-320. 12
2016	Tucker, BP, Parker, LD & Merchant, KA 2016, 'With a little help from our friends: an empirical investigation of co-authoring in accounting research', British Accounting Review, vol. 48, pp. 185-205. 19 18
2013	Tucker, B 2013, 'Environmental disturbances, organizational transitions and transformations : a view from the dark side', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 242-259. 13 10

Books

Year	Output
2018	Ferry, L, Steccolini, I, Saliterer, I & Tucker, B 2018, The research-practice gap on accounting in the public services, Palgrave McMillan, Cham, Singapore.
2013	Smith, M & Tucker, B 2013, Advanced strategic management accounting: theory and practice, Cengage Learning Australia, Australia.

Chapters

Year	Output
2019	Tucker, B 2019, ''Where there's a will... the research-practice gap in accounting'', The research practice gap on accounting in the public service, Palgrave MacMillan, Cham, Switzerland, ch. 2, pp. 9-31.
2019	Tucker, B, Ferry, L, Saliterer, I & Steccolini, I 2019, 'We build too many walls and not enough bridges', The research-practice gap on accounting in the public services, Palgrave MacMillan, Cham, Switzerland, ch. 4, pp. 115-128.
2017	Tucker, B & Hoque, Z 2017, 'Mixed methods for understanding accounting issues', in Z Hoque et al. (eds), The Routledge companion to qualitative accounting research methods, Routledge, UK, ch. 18, pp. 301-320. 12
2017	Tucker, BP & Leach, M 2017, 'Learning from the experience of others: lessons on the research-practice gap in management accounting - a nursing perspective', in MA Malina (ed.), Advances in management accounting, Emerald, UK, ch. 5, pp. 127-181. 6 3
2014	Tucker, B 2014, 'Conceptualising performance in the not-for-profit sector: a tale of two theories', in Z Hoque & L Parker (eds), Performance management in nonprofit organizations: global perspectives, Routledge, US, ch. 14, pp. 313-336. 3

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2024	Grossi, G, Laguecir, A, Ferry, L & Tucker, B 2024, 'Accounting and accountability for managing diversity tensions in hybrid organisations', British Accounting Review, vol. 56, no. 5, article no. 101470, pp. 1-12. Open access
2024	Tucker, B, Parker, LD & Scully, G 2024, 'Dysfunctional behaviour in university accounting schools: a tale of management control', Journal of Accounting and Organisational Change, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 21-57. Open access 1 1
2024	Tucker, BP & Alewine, HC 2024, 'Like a Phoenix from the Ashes: management control and organizational resilience during NASA's Apollo and space shuttle programs', Abacus: A Journal of Accounting, Finance and Business Studies, online, pp. 1-30. Open access 1 1
2024	Tucker, BP & Alewine, HC 2024, 'Not because it is easy … accounting research enters the space age', Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 1245-1257. Open access
2023	Tucker , B & Alewine, H 2023, 'Solutions looking for problems? How the humanities, arts and social sciences can inform the space sector', Space Policy, vol.67, article no. 101595, pp. 1-13. 1 1
2023	Tucker, BP & Alewine, HC 2023, 'Everybody's business to know about space: cross-disciplinarity and the challenges of the new space age', Space Policy, vol. 66, article no. 101573. 6 5
2023	Tucker, BP & Alewine, HC 2023, 'The roles of management control: lessons from the Apollo Program', Contemporary Accounting Research, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 1046-1081. Open access 2 2 2
2023	Tucker, BP & Nash, E 2023, 'Good for business: towards a management control research agenda relating to the employment of workers with intellectual disability', Journal of Accounting Literature, online, pp. 1-21. 1
2023	Tucker, BP 2023, 'Vanishing down the black hole of reviewing delays', Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 36, no. 2, pp.766-767. Open access 1
2022	Tucker, B & Alewine, HC 2022, 'It's not rocket science: Humanities, arts and social sciences in the space sector', vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1-15. Open access 1
2022	Tucker, BP & Alewine, HC 2022, 'Space for accounting and accountability: realising potential management accounting research contributions to the space sector', Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1353-1374. Open access 12 10
2021	Tucker, B, Halkett, I & James, A 2021, 'Necessity: the mother of invention? The tension between management control and creativity: lessons from Apollo 13', Journal of Management Accounting Research, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 163-168. Open access 12 10
2021	Tucker, BP & Alewine, H 2021, 'The sunk cost fallacy and throwing the baby out with the bathwater: a little like rocket science', Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 1016-1017. 4 4
2021	Tucker, BP 2021, 'Jumping through hoops: publishing interview-based management accounting research', Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 34, no. 1 pp. 223-241. Open access 16 14
2020	Martin-Sardesai, A, Guthrie, J & Tucker, BP 2020, 'What you see depends on where you look: performance measurement of Australian accounting academics', Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1193-1218. Open access 29 24
2020	Tucker, B, Ferry, L, Steccolini, I & Saliterer, I 2020, 'Debate: The practical relevance of public sector accounting research; time to take a stand-A response to van Helden', Public Money and Management, vol. 40, no. 1, pp. 5-7. Open access 7 6
2020	Tucker, BP & Lawson, R 2020, 'EMBAs perceived usefulness of academic research for student learning and use in practice', British Accounting Review, vol. 52, no. 5, article no. 100877, pp. 1-17. Open access 7 6
2020	Tucker, BP & Parker, LD 2020, 'The question of research relevance: a university management perspective', Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 33, no. 6, pp. 1247-1275. Open access 12 9
2020	Tucker, BP & Scully, G 2020, 'Fun while it lasted: executive MBA student perceptions of the value of academic research', Accounting Education: An International Journal, 29, no. 3, pp. 263-290. Open access 5 4
2019	Tucker, B & Parker, L 2019, 'Researcher perceptions and choices of interview media: the case of accounting research', Accounting and Finance, vol. 59, no. 3, pp. 1489-1517. Open access 14 12
2019	Tucker, B 2019, 'Heard it through the grapevine: conceptualizing informal control through the lens of social network theory', Journal of Management Accounting Research, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 219-245. Open access 24 20
2019	Tucker, BP & Tilt, CA 2019, ''You know it when you see it': in search of 'the ideal' research culture in university accounting faculties', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol. 64, article no. 102069, pp. 1-21. 11 9
2019	Tucker, BP, Waye, V & Freeman, S 2019, 'The use and usefulness of academic research: an EMBA perspective', The International Journal of Management Education, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1-18. Open access 10 7
2018	Leach, MJ & Tucker, B 2018, 'Current understandings of the research-practice gap in nursing: a mixed-methods study', Collegian: The Australian Journal of Nursing Practice, Scholarship and Research, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 171-179. 34 28 6
2017	Leach, MJ & Tucker, B 2017, 'Current understandings of the research-practice gap from the viewpoint of complementary medicine academics: a mixed-method investigation', Explore: the Journal of Science and Healing, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 53-61. Open access 19 18 6
2017	Tucker, B & Lawson, R 2017, 'Moving academic management accounting research closer to practice: a view from US and Australian professional accounting bodies', Advances in Management Accounting, vol. 27, pp. 167-206. 8
2017	Tucker, BP 2017, 'Figuratively speaking: analogies in the accounting classroom', Accounting Education: An International Journal, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 166-190. Open access 15 7
2016	Tucker, BP & Schaltegger, S 2016, 'Comparing the research-practice gap in management accounting: a view from professional accounting bodies in Australia and Germany', Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 29, no, 3, pp. 362-400. Open access 32 28
2016	Tucker, BP, Parker, LD & Merchant, KA 2016, 'With a little help from our friends: an empirical investigation of co-authoring in accounting research', British Accounting Review, vol. 48, pp. 185-205. 19 18
2015	Evans, M & Tucker, BP 2015, 'Unpacking the package: management control in an environment of organisational change', Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 346-376. Open access 13 7
2015	Tucker, BP & Parker, LD 2015, 'Business as usual? An institutional view of the relationship between management control systems and strategy', Financial Accountability and Management, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 113-149. 21 8
2014	Tucker, B & Parker, L 2014, 'In our ivory towers? The research-practice gap in management accounting', Accounting and Business Research, vol. 44, no. 2, pp. 104-143. Open access 62 52
2014	Tucker, BP & Lowe, AD 2014, 'Practitioners are from Mars; academics are from Venus? An investigation of the research-practice gap in management accounting', Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 394-425. 94 76 1
2013	Tucker, B & Thorne, H 2013, 'Performance on the right hand side : organizational performance as an antecedent to management control', Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, vol. 10, no. 3-4, pp. 316-346. 10 9
2013	Tucker, B 2013, 'Environmental disturbances, organizational transitions and transformations : a view from the dark side', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 242-259. 13 10
2013	Tucker, BP & Parker, LD 2013, 'Managerial control and strategy in nonprofit organizations : doing the right things for the wrong reasons?', Nonprofit Management and Leadership, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 87-107. 15 13
2013	Tucker, BP & Parker, LD 2013, 'Out of control? Strategy in the NFP sector : the implications for management', Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 234-266. 36 35
2013	Tucker, BP, Thorne, H & Gurd, BW 2013, 'Uncharted waters: exploring the relationship between strategy processes and management control systems in the nonprofit sector', Nonprofit Management and Leadership, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 109-133. 10 11
2010	Tucker, B 2010, 'Through which lens? Contingency and institutional approaches to conceptualising organisational performance in the not-for-profit sector', Journal of Applied Management Accounting Research, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 17-33.
2009	Thorne, H, Gurd, BW & Tucker, BP 2009, 'Management control Systems and Strategy: What's Been Happening?', Journal of Accounting Literature, vol. 28, pp. 123-163.

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

Appointed to the Editorial Board of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal (Effective January 2016)

Appointed to the Editorial Board of Accounting Forum (July 2014)

Appointed as Associate Editor, The British Accounting Review (July 2014)

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg	GERMANY
Aston University	UNITED KINGDOM
Central Queensland University	AUSTRALIA
Curtin University	AUSTRALIA
Durham University	UNITED KINGDOM
Edhec Business School	FRANCE
Edith Cowan University	AUSTRALIA
Essex Business School	UNITED KINGDOM
Institute of Management Accountants	UNITED STATES
Kozminski University	POLAND
La Trobe University	AUSTRALIA
Leuphana University	GERMANY
Macquarie University	AUSTRALIA
Newcastle University, United Kingdom	UNITED KINGDOM
RMIT University	AUSTRALIA
University of Alabama	UNITED STATES
University Of Alabama In Huntsville	UNITED STATES
University of Freiburg	GERMANY
University of Glasgow	UNITED KINGDOM
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Southern California	UNITED STATES

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Associate Editor British Accounting Review	2018
Editorial Board Member Accounting Forum	2018
Editorial Board Member Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ)	2018
Associate Editor British Accounting Review	2017
Editorial Board Member Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ)	2017
Editorial Board Member Accounting Forum	2017
Member Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)	2017
Member CPA Australia	2017
Associate Editor British Accounting Review	2016
Editorial Board Member Accounting Forum	2016
Editorial Board Member Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal (AAAJ)	2016
Member Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)	2016
Associate Editor British Accounting Review	2015
Editorial Board Member Accounting Forum	2015
Member Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)	2015
Associate Editor British Accounting Review	2014
Editorial Board Member Accounting Forum	2014
Member Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)	2014
Member Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)	2013
Member Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)	2012
Member Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)	2011
Member Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)	2010
Member Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)	2009
Member Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ)	2008

Teaching & student supervision

Teaching strengths

Management Accounting
Introductory Accounting
Management Control
Research Methods

Highlights

UniSA Business School Teaching and Learning Excellence Awards: Teaching Commendation (2019), Teaching Commendation (2017), Teaching Commendation (2016), Top Performing Staff (2013), Top Performing Staff (2012)

Teaching & student supervision

Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
239- Export Competition: Impacts and potential cooperation challenges for the Australian wine sector	Current
Disability not inability - The management control implications of workers living with intellectual disability	Current
Multi-national corporations and business Human rights: Australian perspectives, procedures and conduct	Current
How are management controls designed and used to achieve the organisation's objectives?	Completed
Improved accountability in Australian not-for-profit entities through enhanced financial reporting	Completed

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