Associate Professor Glen Lehman

Adjunct Associate Professor UniSA Business

City West Campus (WL4-65)
tel +61 8 830 20293

email Glen.Lehman@unisa.edu.au

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About me

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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Research

Research focus

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
Business and Management
Philosophy
Accounting
Applied Economics

Highlights

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

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 or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Books

Year	Output
2023	Lehman, G 2023, Accountability and transparency in the modern anthroposcene, Springer, Singapore.
2021	Lehman, G 2021, Accountability, philosophy and the natural environment, Routledge, UK. 2
2015	Lehman, G 2015, Charles Taylor's ecological conversations: politics, commonalities and the natural environment, Palgrave Macmillan, UK. 2

Chapters

Year	Output
2023	Lehman, GD 2023, 'Environmental accounting', in BM Haddad & BD Solomon (eds), Dictionary of Ecological Economics: Terms for the New Millennium, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, pp. 194-194.
2018	Lehman, G 2018, 'Philosophical traditions', in R Roslender (ed.), The Routledge companion to critical accounting, Routledge, UK, ch. 5, pp. 68-90.
2008	Yusoff, H & Lehman, GD 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
2023	Moggi, S, Lehman, G & Pagani, A 2023, 'The juridification of social accounting and the transposition process of the non-financial reporting directive 2014/95/EU', Meditari Accountancy Research, vol. 31, no. 7, pp. 185-211. Open access 2 2
2021	Lehman, G & Mortensen, C 2021, 'Finance, nature and ontology', Topoi: an International Review of Philosophy, vol. 40, pp. 715-724. 2 1
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. Open access 11 8
2018	Kuruppu, S & Lehman, G 2018, 'Commentary: a proposal for theoretical models of stakeholder perceptions of a new financial reporting system', Accounting Forum, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 167-169.
2017	Lehman, G & Kuruppu, SC 2017, 'A framework for social and environmental accounting research', Accounting Forum, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 139-146. 24 20
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. 14 10
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. 33 43
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. 12 6
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. Open access 60 53
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. Open access 32 18
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. 8
2013	Lehman, G 2013, 'Moral will, accounting and the phronemos', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol. 25 no. 3, pp. 210-216. 18 13
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. 45 34
2011	Lehman, GD 2011, 'Interpretivism, postmodernism and nature: ecological conversations', Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 795-821. 8 18
2010	Lehman, GD 2010, 'Interpretive Accounting Research', Accounting Forum, vol. 34, no. 3-4, pp. 231-235. 20 29
2010	Lehman, GD 2010, 'Perspectives on accounting, commonalities & the public sphere', Critical Perspectives on Accounting, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 724-738. 21
2009	Lehman, GD 2009, 'A Festschrift for Michael Gaffikin', Accounting Forum, vol. 33, pp. 253-265. 1
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. 22 12
2008	Chwastiak, M & Lehman, GD 2008, 'Accounting for war', Accounting Forum, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 313-326. 46 34

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

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.

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Auckland University of Technology	NEW ZEALAND
Queen Mary University of London	UNITED KINGDOM
RMIT University	AUSTRALIA
RVA Consulting	UNITED STATES
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
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 Rome Tor Vergata	ITALY
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Sydney	AUSTRALIA
University of Technology Malaysia	MALAYSIA
University of Verona	ITALY

External engagement & recognition

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 Centre for Applied Financial Studies (CAFS)	2017
Member American Accounting Association	2017
Member Australian Accounting Association	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

Teaching & student supervision

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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Research degree supervision

Supervisions from 2010 shown

Thesis title	Student status
An institutional perspective on corporate environmental management accounting in China	Completed
Corporate social responsibility practices in a traditional developing country - perspectives from the Islamic banking sector	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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Associate Professor Glen Lehman

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