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Gordon Boyce

Gordon_Boyce

Formal Name: Gordon Boyce

Personal Title: Dr

Position: Senior Lecturer

Organisational Unit: Department of Accounting and Finance

Qualifications: BCom (Hons) Deakin, BSc Deakin, PhD Macquarie, ASA, MACS

Telephone: (+61-2) 9850-8530

Fax: (+61-2) 9850-8497

Email: gordon.boyce@mq.edu.au

Location: E4A 340

Publications

Refereed International Journals

  • 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.
  • 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 Accountancy: Yielding the Benefits of Team Teaching”, Asian Social Science, 4(3), pp. 49–58.
  • Boyce G (2004) “Critical Accounting Education: Teaching and Learning Outside the Circle”, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 15(4–5), pp 565–586.
  • Boyce G (2002) “Now and Then: Revolutions in Higher Learning”, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 13(5/6), pp. 575–601.
  • 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.

Books/Monographs

  • Holt D, Boyce G, Carnegie G, Lourens J, and Bigelow A (1995) Intelligent Computer-Assisted Learning in Accounting Education, Geelong: Australian Society of CPAs
  • Wines G, Carnegie G, Boyce G, and Gibson R (1994) Using Case Studies in the Teaching of Accounting, Geelong: Australian Society of CPAs

Book Chapters

  • Boyce G and Davids C. (forthcoming in 2010) “A social accountability framework for public sector conflict of interest: Private interests, public duties, and ethical cultures” – in Osborne S P and Ball A, eds. Social Accounting and Public Management: Accountability for the Public Good, Routledge.
  • 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.
  • Davids C and Boyce G (2005) “An Abrogation of Social and Ethical Responsibility: Conflicts of Interest in Professional Accounting”, in Crowther, D and Jatana R (eds) Social Responsibility in India, London: Social Responsibility Research Network.
  • Altmann G and Boyce G (1997) “Competitive Systems—Seducing Cicero”, in Stowell F A, Ison R L, Armson R, Holloway J, Jackson S, and McRobb S (eds) Systems for Sustainability: People, Organizations, and Environments, New York: Plenum.
  • Altmann G and Boyce G (1996) “Requirements Engineering—Softly Seeking a Solution”, in Bray M, Ross M, and Staples G (eds) Improving Quality, London: Mechanical Engineering Publications.

Published Conference Papers

  • 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.
  • 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 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

Selected Published Teaching Materials

  • 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.
  • Boyce G and Blair B eds (2003) Accounting Information Systems Sydney: McGraw-Hill.
  • Boyce G, Van Eekelen T, and Hilo E (1996) General Ledger (computer-assisted learning software), Version 2.0, Software Development and Manufacturing Services, Deakin University.
  • Boyce G and Hilo E (1996) Accounting Equation (computer-assisted learning software), Version 1.2, Software Development and Manufacturing Services, Deakin University.
  • Boyce G and Hilo E (1995) Financial Ratios (computer-assisted learning software), Version 1.0, Software Development and Manufacturing Services, Deakin University.

Research

Research Areas

  • Social and environmental accounting
  • Critical and interpretive perspectives on accounting and information systems
  • Environmental and social accounting
  • Public administration, ethics, and accountability
  • Research methodology and methods
  • Accounting and information systems education
  • Soft systems and critical systems thinking

Current Research

  • Boyce G and Davids C. “Conflict of interest in the public sector: Mapping modes of response to demands for accountability”.
    • This research considers various dimensions of accountability in the context of unanticipated or untoward behaviour that is subjected to valuative inquiry, examining the strategies adopted by public sector players when called to account by the Ombudsman.
  • Boyce G. “Critical, Social and Environmental Accounting: Prospects and Possibilities for Gramscian Intellectual Praxis in a Globalising World”.
    • An examination of the intellectual and practical dimensions of critical, social, and environmental accounting in the contemporary global context, guided by a “philosophy of praxis” – thus, the study of past history and present activity to analyse and construct possible futures.  The focus is on the possibilities and prospects for critical, social, and environmental accounting, building on the work of the first generation Frankfurt School Critical Theorists (especially Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, and Herbert Marcuse), together with two Twentieth-Century Marxist thinkers, Georg Lukács and Antonio Gramsci.
  • Boyce G, Blair B, Di Lernia C, Hazelton J, and Leong S. “University sustainability: Issues for practice, reporting and accountability”.
    • Examination and analysis of sustainability reporting and the ways universities are responding to the challenge of sustainability.
  • Boyce G, Blair B, Cowen J, Davids C, Greer S, Narayanan V, and Williams S. “Incorporating sociological concepts and approaches into contemporary accounting education”.
    • Reflexive action research of globally informed and locally enacted accounting education reform; includes consideration of the incorporation of sociological concepts and approaches into accounting education in order to enhance disciplinary knowledge, develop accounting student capabilities, and produce competent graduates.
  • Boyce G and Davids C. “Governmentality studies in accounting”.
    • A critical examination of the manner in which the analytical tools provided by the “governmentality” perspective may be utilised in the analysis of issues that emerge from a study of empirical phenomena in accounting and related disciplines.

Teaching

Current Teaching

  • Accounting and Society
  • Social and Critical Perspectives on Accounting
  • Contemporary Developments in Accounting Research
  • Accounting and Information Systems
  • Accounting Systems Design and Development

Past Teaching Areas

  • Introductory Accounting
  • Corporate Accounting
  • Financial Accounting
  • Accounting Theory
  • Auditing and Assurance
  • Business Finance
  • Statistics and Computing Concepts
  • Information Systems and Data Processing
  • Systems Concepts and COBOL
  • Computer Science
  • Accounting Information Systems
  • Information Systems for Management