Staff profile

Dr Susan Greer

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

La Trobe Business School
Department of Accounting

Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

PhD, BEc (Hnrs), BBus, CA

Area of study

Accounting

Brief profile

Dr Susan Greer joined the School of Accounting in January 2011.  Prior to joining La Trobe University, she was a senior lecturer in accounting at the University of Sydney.  Susan joined Sydney in 2007 after completing a PhD at Macquarie University under the supervision of Professor Dean Neu, York University.  Susan’s thesis, titled “Governing Indigenous Peoples: A History of Accounting Interventions in the New South Wales Aborigines Protection and Welfare Boards 1883-1969” was the recipient of the 2006 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award in the category of Interdisciplinary accounting research.  Susan has provided evidence from her PhD research findings in a number of forums, including the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs Inquiry into Aboriginal Stolen Wages (Unfinished business: Indigenous stolen wages. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, 2006).

Susan’s research interests are primarily concerned with unveiling the roles of accounting and accountability in the mediation of relations between governments and populations segments such as Indigenous peoples and refugees.  Her research interests also include the role of critical and interpretive perspectives on accounting.  This research considers the organisation, operation and pedagogical features of social and critical perspectives on accounting and accountability in the classroom and in the wider society.
 

Research specialisation

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

Recent publications

• Greer, S. (2009) “‘In the interests of the children’: Accounting in the control of Aboriginal Family Benefits’ Accounting History Special Edition: Accounting in Other Places, Accounting by Other Peoples, 14(1/2), pp.166-191.
• Greer, S. and Neu, D. (2009). “Colonialism and Indigenous Peoples”, In S. Walker and R. Edwards (Eds), The Routledge Companion to Accounting History, pp.470-484, Routledge: London.
• Boyce, G. Greer, S, Blair, B. & Davids, C. (2008) “Integrating sociological concepts into the study of accountancy: Yielding the benefits of team teaching”, Asian Social Science, 4(3), pp.49-59.
• 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).
• Greer, S. and Patel, C. (2000) “The issue of Australian Indigenous world-views and accounting”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp.307-329.
• Chew, A. and Greer, S. (1997) “Contrasting world views on accounting: Accountability and Aboriginal culture”, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol.10, No 3, pp.276-298.

Refereed conference proceedings (full paper)

• Greer, S. (2009). “Accounting and Assimilation” Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, 9 -11 July (published at URL: http://www.uibk.ac.at/atr/ipa2009/intranet/paper_downloads).
• Greer, S. and Neu, D. (2008). “Unfinished business”: Accounting and the enslavement of Aboriginal children” 8th Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Baruch College, City University of New York, April (published at URL: http://aux.zickin.baruch.cuny.edu/Tinker/cpa2008).
• Greer, S. (2007). “Paying the rent: Accounting in the service of assimilation policies”, Accounting and Subalternity Conference, Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, 13-15 August. (published at URL: http://www.schulich.yorku.ca/asconference).
• Greer, S. (2007). “Accounting interventions in the constitution of Aboriginal citizenship” 5th Accounting History Conference, Banff, Alberta 9 -11 August (published at URL: http://www.commerce.usask.ca/special/5ahic/papers.asp).
• Greer, S. (2000). Reconciling accounting: indigenous perspectives, Proceedings of the Young Scholars Colloquium, 6th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, University of Manchester, 7-9 July, (published at URL http://www.les.man.ac.uk/IPA/ysc/greer.pdf).
• Greer, S. & Patel, C. (1999), Accounting and culture: The issue of a unique Australian Indigenous world-view, Proceedings of the 1999 Fifth Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference  New York, United States of America; Baruch College, City University of New York. (published on CD ROM and at http://www.bus.baruch.cuny.edu/critical/HTML/greer.html).