Barry Spicer
Professor
Department:
Address: Owen G Glenn Building
12 Grafton Road
Auckland
Faculty: Business & Economics
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 Ext. 87629
Email: b.spicer@auckland.ac.nz
Qualifications:
1976 Doctor of Philosophy University of Washington
1970 Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) University of Queensland, Australia
Teaching:
2012 Acctg 702 Governance Issues in Accounting
2012 Finance 702 Governance Issues in Finance
Research Interests:

The study of factors that drive management choices of strategy, organizational structures, management accounting systems, and other control processes in firms. Of particular interest are (1) transfer pricing and management control processes in diversified and/or decentralized firms, (2) linkages between the formulation and implementation of strategy and management accounting and control systems, (3) management change processes in state-owned enterprises, (4) the effects of changes in ownership structure and governance on public management, and (5) enterprise restructuring and the management of change in transition economies.


INVITED LECTURES AND PLENARY ADDRESSES

Transaction Cost Economics: A Positive Theory Framework for Management Control System Research”, Conference on the Economics of Management Accounting and Control, Erasmus University, The Netherlands, October 2000

"Experiments in Corporatisation: Insights from the Transitions of New Zealand State-Owned Enterprises". Fifty-fifth Annual Research Lecture of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants and the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, October 18th 1994

"Management Accounting and Strategy: Emerging Trends". Inaugural Public Lecture as Professor of Management Accounting, The University of Auckland, September 6, 1990.

"The Resurgence of Interest in Cost and Management Accounting: Practice, Theories and Case Research Methods". Plenary Address to the 1990 annual meeting of the Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand, Perth, July 13, 1990.
Selected Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles
1998 COLBERT, G.,  SPICER, B.,  ‘The Interaction of Strategy, Organization Design, Transfer Pricing, Costing and Transfer Pricing Systems: A Case Study of Organizational Change‘, Journal of Cost Management, Vol 12, No 3
1995 COLBERT, G.,  SPICER, B.,  ‘A Multi-Case Investigation of a Theory of the Transfer Pricing Process‘, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol 20, No 6, 423-456.
1992 SPICER, B.,  ‘The Resurgence of Cost and Management Accounting: A Review of Some Recent Developments in Practice, Theories and Research Methods‘, Management Accounting Research, Vol 3, 1-37.
1988 SPICER, B.,  ‘Towards an Organizational Theory of the Transfer Pricing Process‘, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol 13, No 3
1985 UNGSON, G.,  JAMES, C.,  SPICER, B.,  ‘Assessing the Effects of Regulatory Agencies on Organizations in Wood Products and High Technology Industries‘, Academy of Management Journal, June
1983 SHANE, P.,  SPICER, B.,  ‘Market Response to Environmental Information Produced Outside the Firm‘, The Accounting Review, July
Books
1996 SPICER, B.,  EMANUEL, D.,  ‘The Remaking of Television New Zealand 1988-1992‘, Auckland University Press, 181.
1996 SPICER, B.,  EMANUEL, D.,  ‘Transforming Government Enterprises: Managing Radical Organizational Change in Deregulated Environments‘, Sydney: Centre for Independent Studies, 187.
1991 SPICER, B.,  BOWMAN, R.,  EMANUEL, D.,  HUNT, A.,  ‘The Power to Manage: Restructuring the New Zealand Electricity Department as a State-Owned Enterprise - The Electricorp Experience‘, Oxford University Press, 181p.



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