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Schedule
2012
Sunday, December 2nd
1:30 PM

Evidence for the institutionalisation of water management change in Sydney

Matthew Egan, University of Sydney

Bld 67.201

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

1:30 PM

Officers’ Due Diligence: Making Work Health and Safety an Accounting Problem?

Sharron O'Neill, Macquarie University
Karen Wolfe, Safety Institute of Australia

Bld 67.102

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

1:30 PM

Revisiting Autopoiesis: A Research Note and Another Narrative on Accounting and Sustainability

Tehmina Khan, RMIT University, Melbourne
Rob Gray, RMIT University, Melbourne

Bld 67.202

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM

Accounting, Accountability, Closeness and Transparency

Glen Lehman, University of South Australia

Bld 67.202

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

2:00 PM

Employee Voluntary Disclosures in Annual Reports: A Stakeholder Perspective

Pamela Kent, Bond University
Carolyn Windsor, Bond University
Tamara Zunker, Bond University

Bld 67.102

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

2:00 PM

Revisiting the link between environmental performance and financial performance: who cares about private companies?

Wei Qian, University of South Australia

Bld 67.101

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM

Exploring Sustainability Considerations in Capital Budgeting Decisions

Geoff Frost, University of Sydney
Jim Rooney, University of Sydney
Philip Lee, University of Sydney

Bld 67.101

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

2:30 PM

Sustainable Development: 1987 to 2012 - Don’t Be Naive, it’s not about the Environment

Nick Barter, Griffith University
Sally Russell, Griffith University

Bld 67.202

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

2:30 PM

Visualization techniques to disclose the link between managers’ remuneration and organisation’s performance

Alessia D'Andrea, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Martina Vallesi, Università Politecnica delle Marche
Marco Montemari, Università Politecnica delle Marche

Bld 67.102

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

3:30 PM

Can Early Environmental Reporting Research Offer Insights into Integrated Reporting Guidelines Comparability?

Jean Raar, Swinburne University

Bld 67.202

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

3:30 PM

The interplay between management control systems and organisational interpretive schemes in change towards sustainability

Venkateshwaran Narayanan, La Trobe University

Bld 67.101

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

3:30 PM

Where is the responsible in RI engagement?

Ben Jacobsen, James Cook University

Bld 67.102

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

CSR practices in BIMB: factors and benefits

Fathiyyah Abu Bakar, Univesiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia
Mohd 'Atef Md Yusof, Univesiti Utara Malaysia, Malaysia

Bld 67.101

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:00 PM

Environmental Policy Instruments and Policy Principles

Juergen H. Seufert, University of Wollongong
Brian Andrew, University of Wollongong

Bld 67.202

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:00 PM

Factors influencing socially responsible investment in self-managed superannuation funds

Roger Colbeck, University of Tasmania

Bld 67.102

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM

4:30 PM

An Assessment of CSR Reporting Practice in China’s Mining and Minerals Industry

Shidi Dong, University of South Australia
Roger Burritt, University of South Australia
Wei Qian, University of South Australia

Bld 67.101

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

4:30 PM

An enhanced approach of content analysis in examining the quality of corporate environmental disclosure: an Australian resources sector context

Salina Siddique, Victoria University
Nick Sciulli, Victoria University

Bld 67.102

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

4:30 PM

Getting it Right: Directors’ assessment of information

K. O'Donnell, University of Tasmania
B. Hicks, University of Tasmania
J Streeter, University of Tasmania
P. Shantapriyan, University of Tasmania

Bld 67.202

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Monday, December 3rd
9:00 AM

Indigenous Peoples, Mining and Impacts & Benefit Agreements: Who is Keeping Score?

Nola Buhr, University of Saskatchewan

67.104

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

11:00 AM

Do Companies Reduce CSR Disclosures during Recessions?

Sydelle Pinto, University of Auckland
Charl de Villiers, University of Waikato

Bld 67.102

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

11:00 AM

Exploring the role of accounting in periods of transition: the case of China from 1949 to 1957

Lina Xu, University of Wollongong
Corinne L. Cortese, University of Wollongong
Ying Zhang, University of Wollongong

Bld 67.101

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

11:00 AM

The BP Gulf Oil Spill: Public and Corporate Governance Failures

Carolyn Windsor, Bond University
Patty McNicholas, Monash University

Bld 67.201

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

11:30 AM

Accountability Failures in an iTaukei corporation: The case for a Fiji provincial company

Masilina Tuiloa, University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Michael White, University of the South Pacific - Fiji

Bld 67.101

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

11:30 AM

The current trends of Corporate Social and Environmental Reporting (CSER) in Bangladesh

Moazzem Hossain, Curtin University
Anna Lee Rowe, Curtin University
Mohammad Quaddus, Curtin University

Bld 67.102

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

11:30 AM

Travel carbon emission reduction: managing and accounting in a global company

Nadia Di Giacomo, Bologna University, Italy
J. Guthrie, Macquarie University
Federica Farneti, Bologna University, Italy

Bld 67.101

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

12:00 PM

Corporate Social Reporting Practices in India

B Mahadevappa, University of Mysore, India
Sri Rechanna, JSS College for Women, Karnataka, India
S Shankarappa, JSS College for Women, Karnataka, India

Bld 67.101

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

12:00 PM

Stakeholders' Perspectives on Standardised Water Accounting Reports: Accountability Perspective

Edward Tello-Melendez, Macquarie University
Lorne Cummings, Macquarie University
James Hazelton, Macquarie University

Bld 67.201

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

12:00 PM

Sustainability Reporting – Inside out or Outside In?

Cornelia Beck, University of Sydney
John Dumay, University of Sydney
Geoff Frost, University of Sydney

Bld 67.102

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

1:30 PM

Biodiversity offsetting and reporting: Challenges in how to account for snails, ducks and kiwi

Helen Tregidga, Auckland University of Technology

Bld 67.101

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

1:30 PM

Davidson, Dreyfus and Taylor: Accounting for Realism

Glen Lehman, University of South Australia

Bld 67.102

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

1:30 PM

Voluntary disclosure of GHG emission information

Janice Hollindale, Bond University
Pamela Kent, Bond University
Carolyn Windsor, Bond University

Bld 67.201

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

2:00 PM

Accounting and Accountability for Australian Groundwater Resources

Edward Tello, Macquarie University

Bld 67.101

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

2:00 PM

Factors that Influence GHG Assurance Provider Quality Perceptions

Wendy Green, University of New South Wales
Stuart Taylor, University of New South Wales

Bld 67.201

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

2:00 PM

The Rise and Fall of Asbestos: A tale of two companies

Lee Moerman, University of Wollongong
Sandra van der Laan, University of Sydney
David Campbell, University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

Bld 67.102

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM

(Ac)counting in Organisations: Managers and Non‐Financial Information

Vijaya Murthy, University of Sydney
James Guthrie, Macquarie University

Bld 67.102

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

2:30 PM

Our place is special: the response of a major fossil-fuel company to emissions trading developments in New Zealand

Ian G. Mason, Unversity of Canterbury
Markus Milne, University of Canterbury
Amanda Ball, University of Canterbury

Bld 67.201

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

2:30 PM

Revisiting accounting’s role in past injustice: Income management and the case of Aboriginal apprenticeship programs in NSW

Susan Greer, La Trobe University
Dean Neu, York University, Toronto

Bld 67.101

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Tuesday, December 4th
9:00 AM

Critical Reflections on Laughlin’s ‘middle range research approach’: Language not mysterious?

Glen Lehman, University of South Australia

Bld 67.102

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

9:00 AM

The Public Sector Accountants’ Perspective on Sustainability

Belinda Williams, University of Tasmania

Bld 67.202

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM

9:30 AM

Accounting, Public Policy, and the Hegemony of 'Cost': The Framing of Prison Privatisation in NSW

Jane Andrew, University of Sydney
Damien Cahill, University of Sydney

Bld 67.202

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

9:30 AM

Impacts of Mega-events on Sustainability Reporting Practices: The Chinese Banking Sector

Tairan Huang, University of Wollongong
Corinne L. Cortese, University of Wollongong
Matthew Pepper, University of Wollongong

Bld 67.102

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

10:30 AM

Socially Responsible Investment in Malaysia: Behavioural Framework in Evaluating Investors’ Decision Making Process

Ainul Azreen Adam, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Elvia Shauki, University of South Australia

Bld 67.101

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

10:30 AM

The Impact of the Environment Management Act on the Accountability of Companies in Fiji

Glen Finau, University of the South Pacific - Fiji
Jale Samuwai, University of the South Pacific - Fiji
Tevita Veituna, University of the South Pacific - Fiji
Clayton Kuma, University of the South Pacific - Fiji

Bld 67.102

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM

Influences on Sustainability Reporting Practices in Selected South Australian Local Councils: An Explanatory Case study

Kuntal Goswami, University of South Australia
Sumit Lodhia, University of South Australia

Bld 67.202

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

11:00 AM

The Gladiatorial Combat: using an Arena Metaphor in Social and Environmental Accounting Research

Yanwen Shao, University of Wollongong
Corinne Cortese, University of Wollongong
Lee C. Moerman, University of Wollongong

Bld 67.102

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM