Professor Christopher S. Chapman

Professor Christopher S. Chapman

1. Contact

details

Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, B4.18 2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Tel: +45 3815 2261 Email: [email protected]

2. Education

London School of Economics and Political Science

 Ph.D. (1991–95), “Accountants in Organizational Networks: Mapping Patterns of

Interfunctional Communication”, supervisor: A.G. Hopwood. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

 M.Sc. (Econ) (1990–91), Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems. Funded by the Science and Engineering Research Council

 B.Sc. (Econ) (1987–90), Accounting and Finance

3.

Honours and prizes

 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (March 2010) - Fellowship S-09013 – Held at University of Kyoto

 Distinguished visitor, Center for Public Interest Accounting (November 2008) University of Calgary, Canada

 Noteable Contribution to the Management Accounting Literature Award (2008) from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association for the Handbook of Management Accounting Research

 Distinguished visiting scholar in residence (September 2005) Queens University, Canada  David Soloman’s award for best paper in Management Accounting Research (2002) –

runner-up

 M.A. (Oxon) – Honorary Degree from University of Oxford (1996)

 PhD. Received an Outstanding Dissertation Award (1995) from the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association, the first time such an award has been made to a PhD. from outside the US

4. Present

appointments

 Visiting Professor of Management Accounting (25% from Sep 2012–)  Department of Operations Management

 Teaching MBA Core Course in Management Accounting  Voted MBA teacher of the year 2014

5. Career

Imperial College, Business School

 Professor of Management Accounting (Full time Nov 2007–Aug 2012) (75% from Sep 2012-Sep 2014)

 Teaching MBA core course in Accounting and MBA elective in Strategic Management Accounting. Teaching core Accounting course on MSc International Health

University of Oxford, Fellow of Linacre College

 Professor of Accounting (May 2007–Nov 2007), Reader in Accounting (April 2006 – April 2007), University Lecturer in Management Studies-Accounting (August 1996–April 2006)  During my time at Oxford I was Head of the Accounting group (2002-2007), Chair of

Faculty (2004-2006), and a member of the school’s Executive Committee (2001-2006) London School of Economics and Political Science

 Tutorial Fellow in the Department of Accounting and Finance (October 1994–July 1996)

6. Professional

activities

Editorial boards

 Editor in chief Accounting, Organizations and Society (September 2009 - )  Board Member (July 2000–), Associate editor (March 2005–)

 Editorial board member Contemporary Accounting Research (September 2003–April 2010)  Editorial board member Journal of Management Accounting Research (January 2004–)  Editorial board member Management Accounting Research (January 2007–)

 Editorial board member Asia-Pacific Management Accounting Journal (December 2006–)  Member CIMA Research Board – January 2008 –

Grants

 Healthcare Financial Management Association – (August 12 – December 12) International comparison of healthcare costing in Europe (circa £15,000)

 Chartered Institute of Management Accountants – (October 08 – September 09) Costing and Governance: An Interventionist Study of ABC in the Chelsea and Westminster NHS

Foundation Trust Hospital (£24,365)

 Economic and Social Research Council (March 2003–February 2005) “Implications of Governance for Professional Service Firms” (with Dr. L. Empson), Contract number RES-000-22-0204 £36,287

 Rated Outstanding Project by ESRC

 Academy of Finland (January–December 2004) “Developing the contingent view of

management accounting” (With E. Laitinen and L. Kihn, University of Vaasa) Euro 80,000  European Commission (December 1997–September 1999) Member of organising committee

of a series of three workshops “Management Accounting in Europe: Engaging Research and Practice”, funded by the Training and Mobility of Researchers Programme, Contract number ERFMMACT970207 ECU76,000 (approx. £50,000)

American Accounting Association

 Member AAA Publications committee – (August 2008 – Feb 2011)

 Faculty Fellow, AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium – Lake Tahoe, June 2008

Management Accounting Section

 Chair of Committee for Jim Bulloch Award (2010), Member Doctoral Dissertation prize committee (2010), Co-Director (2008–09) Mid-year meeting Doctoral Colloquium, Member of Section Ad Hoc Strategy Committee (Aug 2006 –), Section International Co-Director (Europe) (2004–06), Member of Nominating committee for section president (2006, 2007, 2008)

European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management  Member of Board of Directors (2009 - )

 Vice-President (October 2012 - )

 Member of the Scientific Committee (June 2004–October 2008)

 Faculty co-ordinator European Doctoral Education Network workshop in Producing and Evaluating Knowledge in Management Accounting, Brussels (December 2006, 2008, 2010,1012)

 Faculty member on European Doctoral Education Network workshop in Quantitative Accounting Research, Brussels (December 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011)

Other Doctoral Education

 European Accounting Association Doctoral Colloquium (2011, 2012, 2014)

 APIRA Faculty member Emerging Scholars Forum, Sydney, Australia, (July 2010), IPA Co-chair of Emerging Scholars Forum, Innsbruck, Austria, (July 2009)

 Participation in various Doctoral Colloquia in: Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Spain, UK, USA,

Other

 External academic member of various appointment and review boards: Cardiff University, Copenhagen Business School, University of Maastricht, ESADE, Monash University, University of New South Wales

 External examiner London School of Economics and Political Science, Undergraduate management accounting courses (September 2005–2009)

 External examiner, Oxford Brookes, MBA programme (January 2002–January 2006) Consulting

BDO - 2014

 Project team member on Patient Level Costing Roadmap sponsored by Monitor regarding the development of Patient Level Costing in the NHS

Price Waterhouse Coopers - 2012

 Consultant on several projects sponsored by Monitor regarding the direction of costing guidance and regulation in the NHS

7. Publications

 Unerman, J. & Chapman, C.S. (2014) Academic Contributions to Accounting for Sustainable Development, Accounting, Organizations and Society 39(6), 385-394

 Chapman, C.S., Kern, A. & Laguercir, A. (2014) Costing Practices in Healthcare, Accounting Horizons 28(2), 353-364

 Chapman, C.S. (2012) Framing the Issue of Research Quality in a Context of Research Diversity, Accounting Horizons 26(4), 821-831

 Chapman, C.S. & Kern, A. (2012) Reflections On The Research And Practice Of Costing, Irish Accounting Review

 Chapman, C.S. (2012) Discussion of: The Role of Information Systems in Supporting Exploitative and Exploratory Management Control Activities, Journal of Management Accounting Research

 Chapman, C. S. & Kern, A. (2012) What do Academics do? Understanding The Practical Relevance of Research, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management 9(3)  Chapman, C. S. (2012) Considering the nature of accounting research, Journal of

Management Accounting Studies 3(1)

 Chapman, C. S. & Kihn, L. (2009) Integrated Information Systems, Enabling Budgetary Control and Performance, Accounting, Organizations and Society. 34(2), 151-169

Khalifa, R., Malmi, T., Mennicken, A., Mikes, A., Panozzo, F., Piber, M., Quattrone, P., & Scheytt, T. (2008). The future of interpretive accounting research - a debate. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 19(6), 840-866.

 Chapman, C. S. (2008) We are not alone – Qualitative Management Accounting Research: Rationale, Pitfalls and Potential, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management. 5(3), 247-252

 Ahrens, T. & Chapman, C. S. (2007) Management Accounting as Practice, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 32(1/2), 1-27

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2006). Doing Qualitative Accounting Research: Positioning Data to Contribute to Theory. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 31(8), 819-841  Empson, L., & Chapman, C. S. (2006). Partnership versus corporation: Implications of

alternative forms of governance for managerial authority and organizational priorities in professional service firms. Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 24, 145-176  Chapman, C. S. (2005). Not because they are new: On developing the significance of ERP

for MCS research, Accounting, Organizations and Society.30(7-8), 685-689

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2004). Accounting for flexibility and efficiency: A field study of management control systems in a restaurant chain. Contemporary accounting research, 21(2), 271-301

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2002). The structuration of legitimate performance measures and management: Day-to-day contests of accountability in a U.K. restaurant chain.

Management Accounting Research, 13(2), 1-21.

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2000). Occupational identity of management accountants in Britain and Germany. European Accounting Review, 9(4), 477-498.

 Chapman, C. S. (1998). Accountants in Organizational Networks. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 23(8), 737-766.

 Chapman, C. S. (1997). Reflections on a contingent view of accounting. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 22(2), 189-205.

Books and Edited books

 Chapman, C. S., Cooper, D. & Miller, P. (Eds.) (2009) Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions: Essays for Anthony G. Hopwood. Oxford: Oxford University Press

 Chapman, C. S., Hopwood, A. G. & Shields, M. D. (Eds.) Handbook of Management Accounting Research, Oxford: Elsevier

 Volumes 1 & 2. (2007)

 Winner of the 2008 AAA Management Accounting Section Noteable Contribution to the Management Accounting Literature Award

 Chinese Translation published 2010  Volume 3 (2009)

 Chapman, C. S. (Ed.). (2005). Controlling Strategy: Management, Accounting, and Performance Measurement. Oxford: Oxford University Press

 Japanese Translation (2008) Senryaku wo Control Suru: Kanrikaikei no Kanousei. Tokyo: Chuo Keizaisha

 Gandy, T., & Chapman, C. S. (1997). Information Technology and Financial Services: The New Partnership: Glenlake Publishing Company. (Reprint of Gandy, T. & Chapman, C. S. 1996)

 Gandy, T., & Chapman, C. S. (1996). The electronic bank: Banks and IT in partnership: Chartered Institute of Bankers.

Book chapters

 Chapman, C. S., Chua, W. F. & H. Mahama (2015 in press) Actor-Network theory and Strategy as Practice in Cambridge Handbook of Strategy as Practice (2nd ed.) Gosorkhi,

Rouleau, Seidl, Vaara eds.

 Chapman, C. S., Cooper, D. J. & Miller, P. B. Linking Accounting, Organisations and Insitutions in Chapman, C. S., Cooper, D. & Miller, P. (Eds.) (2009) Accounting,

Organizations, and Institutions: Essays for Anthony G. Hopwood. Oxford: Oxford University Press

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2007). Doing qualitative field research in management accounting: positioning data to contribute to theory. In C. S. Chapman, A. G. Hopwood, & M. D. Shields (Eds.), Handbook of Management Accounting Research, (pp. 299-318) Vol. 1. Oxford: Elsevier.

 Reprint of AOS 32(1/2) paper

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2007). Theorising practice in Management Accounting Research. In C. S. Chapman, A. G. Hopwood, & M. D. Shields (Eds.), Handbook of Management Accounting Research, (pp. 99-112) Vol. 1. Oxford: Elsevier.

 Chenhall, R. H & Chapman, C. S. (2006). Theorising and Testing Fit in Contingency Research on Management Control Systems. In Z. Hocque (Ed.), Methodological Issues in Accounting Research: Theories and Methods (pp. 35-54). London: Spiramus

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2006). New Measures in Performance Management. In A. Bhimani (Ed.), Contemporary Issues In Management Accounting (pp. 1-19). Oxford: Oxford University Press

 Chapman, C. S. (2005). Controlling Strategy. In C. S. Chapman (Ed.), Controlling Strategy: Management, Accounting and Performance Measurement (pp. 1-9). Oxford: Oxford

University Press.

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2005). Management control systems and the crafting of strategy: a practice-based view. In C. S. Chapman (Ed.), Controlling Strategy: Management, Accounting, and Performance Measurement (pp. 106-124). Oxford: Oxford University Press.  Chapman, C. S., & Chua, W. F. (2003). Technology-driven integration, automation and

standardisation of business processes: implications for accounting. In A. Bhimani (Ed.), Management Accounting in the Digital Economy (pp. 74-94). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2002). Loosely coupled performance measurement systems. In A. Neeley (Ed.), Performance measurement: Theory and practice (pp. 244-258).

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

 Reprint with updates in 2nd edition of book (2007)

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (1998). Sustaining Antagonistic Harmony - Food Margin Control in a UK Restaurant Chain. In A. Neely & D. Waggoner (Eds.), Performance Measurement - Theory and Practice. Cambridge, UK: Centre For Business Performance. Other

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2014). In defence of the double-blind review. European Accounting Association (EAA) Members Newswire, 46(2).

 Chapman, C.S., Kern, A. Laguecir, A., Angelé-Halgand, N., Angert, A., Campenale, C., Cinquini, L., Doyle, G., Garrot, T., Hansen, A., Hartmann, F., Hinz, V., Mateus, C., Perego, P., Sikkut, R., Tenucci, A., Quentin, W (2013) International Approaches to Clinical Costing, Healthcare Financial Management Association

 Chapman, C.S. & Kern, A. (2010) Costing in the NHS: From Reporting to Managing Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

 Chapman, C.S., Cooper, D.J. & Miller, P.B. (2009) Preface Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions: Essays for Anthony G. Hopwood. Oxford: Oxford University Press

 Ahrens, T., Chapman, C.S. & Khaliffa, R. (in press 2009) Making corporate governance practical Critical Eye

Accounting Research, Vol. 3. Oxford: Elsevier.

 Chapman, C.S. (2008) Preface for Senryaku wo Control Suru: Kanrikaikei no Kanousei. Tokyo: Chuo Keizaisha

 Chapman, C.S. (2007) Using Financial Modelling to improve Decision-Making Caribbean Internet Café, European Case Studies Clearing House Newsletter

 Chapman, C.S., Hopwood, A.G. & Shields, M.D. (2007) preface Handbook of Management Accounting Research, Vol. 1. Oxford: Elsevier.

 Chapman, C.S. (2006) Accountability and Autonomy in Research in Accountability in Research: Who’s Accountable? To Whom? Are we Counting the Right Stuff? (pp. 13-14), European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2005). The organisational roles of management accountants. In C. Clubb (Ed.), Blackwell encyclopaedia of accounting (2nd ed., pp. 327-332). Oxford: Blackwell.

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2004). Hereford Steak Houses: A case illustrating flexible budgeting and variance analysis in a chain restaurant (with teaching note). pp. 633-635 In C. T. Horngren, A. Bhimani, S. M. Datar, & G. Foster (Eds.), Management and Cost

Accounting. Harlow: Prentice Hall Europe (3rd edition).

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2004). Thought piece: Management accounting in practice-from business models to modelling the business. European Accounting Association (EAA) Members Newswire, 2(1).

 Chapman, C. S. (2003). Book review (Introduction to Management and Cost Accounting). European Accounting Review, 12(3), 587-588.

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (2002). Repositioning financial control in a UK restaurant Chain. Management Research News, 25(8/9/10), 15-17.

 Ahrens, T., & Chapman, C. S. (1999). The role of management accountants in Britain and Germany. Management Accounting, May, 42-43.

 Chapman, C. S. (1997). Data Warehousing and Data Integrity, CIB Yearbook: Chartered Institute of Bankers.

 Gandy, T., & Chapman, C. S. (1997). Data Warehousing - Unleashing the Power of Customer Information. Chartered Banker, 3(5), 10-42.

8.

Invited lectures and plenary sessions

 Plenary Speaker (July 2014) Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand annual meeting (Aukland, NZ)

 Plenary Speaker (April 2014) British Accounting and Finance Association 50th annual meeting (London, UK)

 Plenary Speaker (July 2013) FARSIG meeting of BAA (Bristol, UK)

 Plenary Speaker (March 2013) Annual Conference of Management Accounting Research, Vallendar (10th), Germany

 Plenary Speaker (February 2013) AAA-International Section Mid-Year Meeting, Savannah, USA

 Plenary Speaker (December 2012) 8th EIASM New Directions in Management Accounting, Brussels

 Plenary Speaker (June 2012) ISMA, Cardiff, UK

 Plenary Speaker (April 2012) Irish Accounting and Finance Association 25th annual meeting, Galway, Ireland

 Plenary Speaker (November 2011) MELCO, Nagoya Japan  Plenary Speaker (June 2011) ISMA, Shanghai, China,

 Plenary Speaker (October 2010) MONFORMA, Monash, Australia  Plenary Speaker (July 2010) APIRA, Sydney, Australia

 Plenary Speaker (June 2010) EIASM Manufacturing Accounting Research Conference, Ghent, Belgium

 Plenary Speaker (April 2010) Japan Cost Association, Tokyo, Japan  Plenary Speaker (October 2009) JMG Conference Venice, Italy

 Plenary Speaker (January 2008) 13th “Workshop on Accounting and Management Control, Memorial Raymond Konopka”. Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Carmona, Seville

 Plenary Speaker (June 2007) “Learning about Management Accounting From the Field” Global Management Accounting Research Symposium, Michigan State University, USA  Plenary Speaker (September 2005) “Doing Qualitative Field Studies” Field Research In

Accounting & Auditing: A North American Focused Workshop, Queens University, Canada  Plenary Speaker (with T. Ahrens) (April 2005) “New Measures in Performance

Management” European Network for Research on Organizational Change and Management Control Association First Joint Conference, Antwerp, Belgium

 Plenary speaker (with W.F. Chua) (December 2002) “IT and Accounting” New Directions in Management Accounting: Innovations in Practice and Research Conference, Brussels, Belgium

 Plenary speaker in symposium on Contingency Theory (April 1998) European Accounting Association Congress, Antwerp, Belgium

Presentations at Departmental Research Seminars given at:

 University of Bath (UK), Cardiff University (UK), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), ESCP Business School (Paris), ESSEC Business School (Paris), HEC (Paris), Ivey School of Business (Canada), London Business School (UK), London School of Economics and

Political Science (UK), Monash University (Australia), Queens’ University (Canada), St Andrews University (UK), University of Amsterdam (NL), University of Bristol (UK), University of Calgary (Canada), University of Edinburgh (UK), University of Exeter (UK), University of Glasgow, University of International Business and Economics (China),

University of Kyoto (Japan), University of Lancaster (UK), University of Manchester (UK), University of New South Wales (Australia), University of Rotterdam (NL), University of Southern Australia (Australia), University of Warwick (UK), York University (Canada)