Kala Saravanamuthu
Snr.Lecturer, New England Business School
Qualifications
PhD (Business & Management, South Australia); MSc. (Management Studies, Durham, UK); B. Acc (Hons) (University of Malaya).
Contact
| Email: | ksaravan@une.edu.au |
| Phone: | 02 6773 3276 (or +61 2 6773 3276 overseas) |
| Fax: | 02 6773 3148 |
Affiliations
CA (Australia)
CPA (Malaysia)
CMA
Areas of Teaching
Management Accounting; Management control systems; Research methods.
Research interests
Interaction between sustainable (management) practices and accounting. Implications of above for management control systems, the labour process, and environmental management.
Research on sustainability toolkit may be accessed at http://www.searchsa.com.au/kala/index.htm
Publications (by research area)
1] Sustainable development: formulating appropriate information management systems
1.1] K. Saravanamuthu, (2008) "Gandhian-Vedic emancipatory accounting: engendering a spiritual revolution in the interest of sustainable development", Advances in Public Interest Accounting, vol 13, pp. 177-236.
1.2] _, (2007) "Accounting and global warming: identifying and assessing the sustainability of management practices through risk discourse", American Accounting Association annual meeting, Chicago, USA.
1.3] "Foundation principles governing accounting: Revisiting the representation of Business activities", in (Eds.) Mudacumura, G., Mebratu, D., and Haque, M.S., Sustainable Development; Policy and Administration, Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, Florida, pp. 611-633.
1.4] _, (2006) "Gandhian-Vedic paradigm: theorising sustainable development", in Methodological Issues in Accounting Research: Theories and Methods, (Ed.) Zahirul Hoque, London: Spiramus.
1.5] "Emancipatory accounting and sustainable development: a Gandhian-Vedic theorisation of experimenting with truth", Journal of Sustainable Development, 2006, 14, pp. 234-44.
1.6] _ (2005) "Benchmarking: fragmenting public policy", in International Perspectives on Corporate Social Responsibility, Vol.I, in (Eds.) Crowther D. and Jatana, R. Ansted University Press, Penang, pp. 67-96. ISBN: 81-7881-416-1.
1.7] _ (2005) "Reflexive modernisation through Gandhi's satyagrahic accountability: a search for sustainable practices in the South Australian citrus industry", Critical management studies conference, University of Cambridge, UK, July 3 to 6.
1.8] _ and Howie, H., (2005) "Searching for practices that have a less detrimental impact by engaging stakeholders in risk dialogue". Workshop paper presented at 15th International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements' Organic World Congress on "Shaping sustainable systems", Sept 20-23, Adelaide, Australia.
1.9] "What is measured counts: Harmonized corporate reporting and sustainable economic development", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 15, No. 3, April 2004, pp. 295-302.
1.10] Item [3.2] below falls into the sustainability and Information Systems category.
2] Accounting education:
2.1] _ with Tony Tinker, (forthcoming) "Ethics in education: Chinese Learner and post-Enron ethics", Critical Perspectives on Accounting.
2.2] _ (forthcoming) "Reflecting on the Biggs-Watkins theory of the Chinese Learner", Critical Perspectives on Accounting.
2.3] _ (2004) "Gold-collarism in the Academy: the dilemma in transforming bean counters into knowledge consultants", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 15, pp. 587-607.
2.4] _ and Steven Filling, (2004) "A critical response to managerialism in the Academy", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 15, pp.437-452.
2.5] _ and Tony Tinker, (2002) "The University in the New Corporate World", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 13, No. 5/6, October, pp. 545-554 (doi: 10.1006/cpac.2002.0551).
3] Information Systems (sole authored unless otherwise stated):
3.1] _, "Information technology and ideology", Journal of Information Technology, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2002, pp. 79-87 (doi: 10.1080/02683960210145977).
3.2] _, "Political lacuna in participatory systems design", Journal of Information Technology, 2002, 17, pp. 185-98.(doi:10.1080/0268396022000017743).
4] Management and workplace relations (sole authored unless otherwise stated):4.1]_, (2005) "Benchmarking: a socio-economic interrogation of its global-local disconnect", 2005, Critical Perspectives on International Business, Vol 1, No. 1, pp. 20-42.
4.2] _ and Tony Tinker, (2003) "Politics of managing: the dialectic of control". Accounting, Organizations and Society, 28, pp. 37-64.
5] Corporate Governance:
5.1] _, (2005) "Corporate Governance: Does any size fit?" Advances in Public Interest Accounting, Vol 11, pp.1-11.