Association of Chartered Certified Accountants - Sustainability Forum
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland - Sustainability Advisory Group
Council member - Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research
Teaching
Business Environment
Management Accounting
Social and environmental accounting
Research Interests
Varieties of capitalism and their relationship with accounting and finance practice
Social indicators
Social and environmental accountability
Corporate propaganda
Research Grants
"Exploration of the rationale for shareholder primacy in UK company law" ACCA (Collison D.J., Cross, S.,Ferguson J., Power D.M. & Stevenson L.A.), £11,500
ICAS "The Role of the Textbook and other Teaching materials in the Construction of Accounting Knowledge:
A Stakeholder Approach" (Jointly with R.J.Ferguson, D.M.Power and L.Stevenson), 2004, £7,000
"Legal Determinants of External Finance Revisited: The Inverse Relationship between Investor Protection and Societal Well-being", (Collison D.J., Cross, S., Ferguson J., Power D.M. & Stevenson L.A.) Journal of Business Ethics
"A Comparison of Japanese and UK Students' Perspectives Regarding the Objectives of Business" (Collison, D.J., Ferguson, J., Kozuma, Y., Power, D.M. & Stevenson, L.A Accounting Forum
"Constructing Meaning In The Service Of Power: An Analysis Of The Typical Modes Of Ideology In Accounting Textbooks", (Ferguson, J., Collison, D.J., Power, D.M. & Stevenson, L.A.) Critical Perspectives on Accounting
Published
"Accounting Education, Socialization and the Ethics of Business" (Ferguson, J., Collison, D.J., Power, D.M. & Stevenson, L.A.), Business Ethics: A European Review, 2011, Vol.20, No.1, pp.12-21
"Anglo-American capitalism: the role and potential role of social accounting", (Collison, D., Dey, C., Hannah, G. and Stevenson, L.) Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2010, Vol. 23, No. 8, pp. 956-981. Awarded a High Commendation in the 2010 Mary Parker Follett Awards
"The views of 'Knowledge Gatekeepers' about the use and content of Accounting textbooks", (Ferguson J., Collison D.J., Power D.M. & Stevenson L.A.) Accounting Education, 2010, Vol. 19 No. 5, 2010 pp. 501-525.
"Introductory Financial Accounting Students' Views of Course Texts", (Ferguson, J., Collison, D.J., Power, D.M. & Stevenson, L.A.) 2010, International Journal of Management Education, 2010, Vol.9, No.1, pp.81-90.
FTSE4Good: Exploring Its Implications for Corporate Conduct" (Collison D.J., Cobb, G., Power, D.M. & Stevenson, L.A.)
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2009, Vol. 22 No.1, pp.35-58.
"The Financial Performance of the FTSE4Good Indices" (Collison D.J., Cobb, G., Power D.M. & Stevenson L.A.)
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 2008, Vol. 15, pp.14-28.
Refereed research monograph
Forthcoming
Shareholder Primacy in UK Corporate Law: An Exploration of the Rationale and Evidence, (Collison D.J., Cross, S., Ferguson J., Power D.M. & Stevenson L.A.) ACCA, London.
Published
An analysis of the role of the textbook in the construction of accounting knowledge, ICAS, Edinburgh, 2008, pp. 224, (Ferguson J., Collison D.J., Power D.M. & Stevenson L.A.)
Contributions to edited volumes
"Not only economic, but also social hubris? Is child mortality in the wealthiest OECD nations a case to answer for "Anglo-American countries and their approach to accounting and business? (Collison, D., Dey, C., Hannah, G., & Stevenson, L.) in Tavidze, A., (ed) Progress in Economics Research, 2010, Vol. 18, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. New York
Further contributions
"Easter Island- Recent Findings and a Paradox Explained", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2010, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 135-137
"The profession must do more", Pass Magazine, October 2008, p34.
Current Work in Progress
Shareholder Primacy
Financialisation
Lobbying
The accountancy profession and its engagement with environmental issues
Selected Publications Prior to 2008
"Child mortality and income inequality in wealthy nations", (with Dey C., Hannah G. & Stevenson L.A.)
Poverty (Journal of the Child Poverty Action Group), 2007, Issue 127, Summer, pp.18-19
"Income inequality and child mortality in wealthy nations" (with Dey C., Hannah G. & Stevenson L.A.)
Journal of Public Health, 2007, Vol. 29, No. 2, pp. 114-117.
"Exploring lecturers' perceptions of the emphasis given to different stakeholders in introductory accounting textbooks", (with Ferguson J., Power D.M. & Stevenson L.A.) Accounting Forum, 2007, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2007 pp. 113-127.
"Accounting Textbooks: Exploring The Production of a Cultural and Political Artifact" Accounting Education: An International Journal, 2006, Vol.15 (3) pp.243-260. (with Ferguson, J., Power, D. & Stevenson, L.)
"Making NGOs accountable or making people accountable to capital?" Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2006, Vol.19(3) pp.319-348. (with Gray, R. & Bebbington. J.)
"What are Recommended Accounting Textbooks Teaching Students about Corporate Stakeholders?" British Accounting Review,2005, 37 (1)pp.23-46. (with John Ferguson, David Power and Lorna Stevenson)
Measuring Success: Profit and Propaganda in Yahya R. Kamalipour & Nancy Snow (eds) War, Media and Propaganda; A Global Perspective, pp 33-45Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2004.
A Comparative Analysis of Perception of Dividends by Financial Managers. Research in International Business and Finance, 2004, Vol 18, pp. 73-113. (with George M. Frankfurter, Arman Kosedag, Kevin Chiang, David M. Power, Hartmut Schmidt, Raymond So, Mihail Topalov)
"Corporate Environmental Disclosure and Reporting Developments in Europe." Social and Environmental Accounting Journal.2004 Vol. 24(1)pp.1-11.(with Hibbet, C.
"An Analysis of the Stock Market Impact of Environmental Performance Information." Accounting Forum, 2004 Vol 28 No 1 pp. (with Nathan Lorraine, and David Power)
"Corporate propaganda: Its implications for accounting and accountability", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2003, Vol16 No.5, pp853-886.
"An exploration of corporate attitudes to the significance of environmental information for stakeholders", Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management,2003, Vol 10, 2003, pp199-211.(with Nathan Lorraine and David Power)
"Environmental performance measurement through accounting systems: A survey of UK practice", in M.Bennett., P.Rikhardsson and S.Schaltegger (eds), Environmental Management Accounting: Purpose and Progress, pp189-232 Kluwer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, 2003, (with R.Clark, J.Barbour, A.Buck, R.Fraser, R.Lyon, A.Magowan and A.Sloan)
"Can't see the wood for the trees, can't see the trees for the numbers? Accounting education, sustainability and the public interest", Critical Perspectives on Accounting,Vol 13, 2002, pp797-836. (with Rob Gray)
"The European Commission's recommendation on environmental issues in company annual accounts and reports", in The Big Picture: How the Environment Influences Corporate Profit, pp40-41. ACCA, London, 2003.
"Market rationality and environmental issues: A brief review essay", Social and Environmental Accounting Journal,2002, Vol 22 No. 1, pp15-18.
"Japanese social cohesion: An impediment to business success?", Accounting & Sustainability e-Newsletter, Issue 8 - December 2002. (with Y.Kozuma)
The Professional Accountancy Bodies and the Provision of Education and Training in Relation to Environmental Issues, ICAS, Edinburgh, 2001, pp220.(with R.H.Gray, J.French and K.McPhail and L. Stevenson)
"Environmental accounting, auditing and reporting: The role of FEE", European Accounting Review, Vol 9, No.1, 2000, pp111-129, (with S.Slomp)
Head of Accounting & Finance
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