Staff profile

Dr Gordon Boyce

Associate Professor

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

La Trobe Business School
Department of Accounting

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BCom (Hons), BSc, PhD, MACS(Snr), CPA

Membership of professional associations

CPA Australia, Australian Computer Society

Area of study

Accounting

Brief profile

Associate Professor Boyce’s research agenda revolves around various dimensions of social accounting. His interdisciplinary research encompasses social, critical and interpretive perspectives that combine methodological and theoretical rigour with practical relevance. He is particularly interested in the investigation of accounting’s connection to contemporary sociopolitical and environmental issues and the associated role of technologies of accounting and accountability in public discourse.

 

Gordon’s doctoral thesis, “Critical, Social and Environmental Accounting: Prospects and Possibilities for Gramscian Intellectual Praxis in a Globalising World”, was awarded a Macquarie University Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation for exceptional merit and a Highly Commended Award in the Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. He was the co-recipient of the 2009 Macquarie University Innovation Award for Innovative Partnership for his work in a collaborative research engagement with Ombudsman Victoria, on Understanding Conflict of Interest in the Public Sector. In both 2008 and 2009, and again in 2011, Gordon was a recipient of the Outstanding Reviewer Award from Accounting Education: An International Journal, and in 2001 he received the Mary Parker Follett Award (MCB University Press Award for Excellence) for the most outstanding paper published in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal in 2000.  

 

Published research by Gordon includes work on environmental and social accounting; public administration and accountability; interactions between globalisation and accounting; professionalism and the public interest; and accounting education.  He serves on several journal Editorial Boards and has been involved, both as a participant and an organiser, in the Australasian conferences on Social and Environmental Accounting Research for a number of years.  

 

Gordon’s teaching experience at La Trobe and in previous academic posts at Deakin University (Geelong) and Macquarie University (Sydney) encompasses subjects across the spectrum of accounting, including financial accounting, accounting information systems, accounting and society, social and critical perspectives on accounting, issues in management accounting, and contemporary developments in accounting research.  

Research interests

Social, environmental and sustainable management and reporting, environmental performance, business ethics, corporate accountability and human rights

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Recent publications

  • Boyce G, Greer S, Blair B, and Davids C (2012) "Expanding the horizons of accounting education: Incorporating social and critical perspectives", Accounting Education: An International Journal, 21(1): 47–74.
  • Boyce G and Adams C (2011) Incorporating climate change impacts and adaptation into capital investment decision-making. Melbourne: Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research.
  • Boyce G (2011) “Sustainability in Austerity: How Local Government Can Deliver During Times of Crisis”, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, 2(1), pp. 172–175.
  • Boyce G and Davids C. (2010) “A social accountability framework for public sector conflict of interest: Private interests, public duties, and ethical cultures” – in Ball A and Osborne S P, eds. Social Accounting and Public Management: Accountability for the Public Good, Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 275–286.
  • Boyce G and Davids C (2009) “Conflict of interest in policing and the public sector: Ethics, integrity, and social accountability”, Public Management Review, 11(5), pp. 601–640.  
  • Boyce G, Prayukvong W, and Puntasen A (2009) “Social accounting for sufficiency: Buddhist principles and practices, and their application in Thailand”, Advances in Public Interest Accounting, 14, pp. 55–119.   
  • Boyce G (2008) “Arguing for and from faith?: A review of Hollender and Fenichell (2004). What Matters Most, New York: Basic Books”, Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 28(1), pp. 56–57.  
  • Davids C, and Boyce G (2008) “The perennial problem of police gratuities: Public concerns, political optics, and an accountability ethos”, Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 3(1), pp. 44–69.  
  • Boyce G (2008) “The Social Relevance of Ethics Education in a Global(ising) Era: From Individual Dilemmas to System Crises”, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 19(2), pp. 255–290.  
  • Boyce G, Greer S, Blair B, and Davids C (2008)" Integrating sociological concepts into the study of accounting: Yielding the benefits of team teaching", Asian Social Science, 4(3), pp. 49–58.  
  • Blair B, Boyce G, Davids C, and Greer S (2007) “Reflecting on Contemporary Accounting: Teaching and Learning Social and Critical Perspectives”, in Meyers N M, Smith B N, Bingham S A, and Shimeld, S F (eds) Proceedings of the Second Innovation in Accounting and Corporate Governance Education Conference. 31 January – 2 February. Hobart, Tasmania, 22 pp. (Recipient of the National Institute of Accountants Award for the best paper presented at the conference.)
  • Blair B and Boyce G eds (2006) Accounting and Information Systems, with Social and Organisational Perspectives. Milton, Queensland: Wiley.  
  • Boyce G and Blair B eds (2004) Accounting Systems. Sydney: McGraw-Hill.  
  • Van Dyk G, Milam J, Davids C and Boyce G (2005) “Art in the Boardroom: Questioning the Ethics of Corporate Collecting Practices”, in Crowther, D and Jatana R (eds) Social Responsibility in India, London: Social Responsibility Research Network.  
  • Boyce G (2004) “Critical Accounting Education: Teaching and Learning Outside the Circle”, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 15(4–5), pp 565–586.  
  • Boyce G, and Davids, C (2004) “The Dimensions of Governmentality Studies in Accounting: Complementary and Critical Potentials”, in Parker, Lee and Low, Aik Meng (eds) Collected papers of APIRA 2004, Singapore: Singapore Management University and APIRA. 39 pp.  
  • Boyce G, Emmanuel C, and Williams S (2003) “Reflexive Self-Consciousness and Research Design: Incorporating Personal Attributes Into the Processes of Research”, in the proceedings of the 2003 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Madrid, Spain: Universidad Carlos III, 33 pp.  
  • Boyce G (2002) “Now and Then: Revolutions in Higher Learning”, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 13(5/6), pp. 575–601.  
  • Boyce G and Williams S (2002) “Public Sector Asset Accounting: A Matter of Faith or A Challenge to Orthodoxy?”, in the proceedings of the South African Accounting Association Biennial International Conference, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, pp. 1–21  
  • Boyce G (2002) “Beyond Privacy: The Ethics of Customer Information Systems”, in IS2002: Proceedings of the Informing Science + IT Education Conference, Cork, Ireland, pp. 107–125.  
  • Boyce G, Williams S, Kelly A, and Yee H (2001) “Fostering Deep and Elaborative Learning and Generic (Soft) Skill Development: The Strategic Use of Case Studies in Accounting Education”, Accounting Education: An International Journal, 10(1), pp 37–60.  
  • Boyce G (2000) “Valuing Customers and Loyalty: The Rhetoric of Customer Focus versus the Reality of Alienation and Exclusion of (Devalued) Customers”, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 11(6), pp 649–689.  
  • Boyce G (2000) “Public Discourse and Decision-making: Exploring Possibilities for Financial, Social, and Environmental Accounting”, Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal, 13(1), pp 27–64. (Recipient of the Mary Parker Follett Award for the most outstanding paper published in Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal during the year 2000.)
  • Boyce G (1999) “Computer-Assisted Teaching and Learning in Accounting: Pedagogy or Product?” Journal of Accounting Education, 17(2/3), pp 191–220.