Jim Rooney

Biography

Since Jim’s appointment in December 2008, his research and teaching interests have included corporate governance, risk management, management control, supply chain sustainability and management decision-making topics. His doctoral thesis examined the dynamics of management control change in outsourcing relationships. Jim has lectured on undergraduate and postgraduate accounting units in topics ranging from financial/management accounting through to corporate governance. Responsibilities have included coordination of corporate governance units at under-graduate and masters levels as well as coordination of masters level units in performance & reward and business start-ups. He has supervised HDR students (to completion) for 1 PhD, 1 masters and 3 honours degrees. Jim has also completed appointments as a Research Fellow at the Weatherhead Centre for International Relations at Harvard University as well as the Sustainability Transparency Accountability Research (STAR) Lab at Sydney University, working with senior academics at Harvard, Stanford and Sydney Universities. In terms of university and community service, Jim currently serves on NSW judging panels for the Telstra Business Awards and Telstra Businesswoman of the Year. He also serves on the Editorial Working Party of the Labour History journal and the Executive of the Sydney branch of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History. Over the past five years, Jim has served in official capacities for the Genesis student entrepreneurial competition and on the technical committee of the Sydney University Economic Model. Prior to his full time appointment at the University of Sydney, Jim has had 25 years business experience in general management, service operations, accounting, consulting and Information Technology roles, largely in the Financial Services industry. He has worked for and with a number of leading Australian and global financial institutions and consulting organisations including Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, KPMG, IBM, GE Money, Citibank, Abbey National, Westpac and NAB.

Research Interest

Jim's research concentrates on management and expert decision-making associated with organisational risk mitigation, management control and social responsibility. This includes corporate governance influences and implications. The empirical focus of this research is supply chain sustainability in a financial services, emergency services and philanthropic context. Accounting history of significant social movements such as labour migration is also a strong research interest.