Ralph Adler
Professor
Accountancy and finance
Otago University
New Zealand
Biography
Professor Ralph Adler is the Director of the Otago Centre for Organisational Performance Measurement and Management (COPMM) and is the Convenor of the Performance Measurement Association of Australasia (PMAA). COPMM is a School of Business strategic initiative and PMAA is a joint partnership between leading performance management scholars at the universities of Otago, Melbourne, and Tasmania. Prof Adler joined the Department in 1991. He has over 25 years of teaching experience, teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Prior to arriving at Otago, he worked in the USA for 10 years as a CPA and then a business consultant before completing his PhD at Albany State (USA). He holds a BA from Colgate University and a MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
Research Interest
His research interests are in performance management, strategic management accounting, organisational effectiveness, and business education
Publications
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Adler, R., Mansi, M., Pandey, R., & Stringer, C. (2014, November). Do organizations report on human rights of vulnerable groups? A study of New Zealand's profit and not for profit organizations. Verbal presentation at the International Conference on Multidisciplinary Approaches in Business Management and Sustainability (ICMABMS), Bhubaneswar, India.
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Adler, R., & Stringer, C. (2016). Practitioner mentoring of undergraduate accounting students: Helping prepare students to become accounting professionals. Accounting & Finance. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12249
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Adler, R., Mansi, M., Pandey, R., & Stringer, C. (2017). United Nations decade on biodiversity: A study of the reporting practices of the Australian mining industry. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-04-2015-2028
