Habib Mahama PhD, CA Associate Professor Department of Accounting College of Business and Economics United Arab Emirates University P. O. Box 155551, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates Phone: Office (+971) 3 713 5234; Mobile (+971) 508 392641 E-mail habib.mahama@uaeu.ac.ae EDUCATION Degree Institution Year Graduated PhD University of New South Wales, Australia 2001 MSc. (Distinction) University of Southampton, UK 1997 BCom. (First Class Hons) University of Cape Coast, Ghana 1994 DipEd University of Cape Coast, Ghana 1994 PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION Chartered Accountant (CA) - Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP CA - Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia (ICAA) Member - Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Member European Accounting Association (EAA) TEACHING AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Position Institution Year Associate Professor United Arab Emirates University 2013 to date Associate Professor Australian National University, Australia 2009-2013 Senior Lecturer University of New South Wales, Australia 2006-2009 Lecturer University of New South Wales, Australia 2001-2006 Lecturer University of Southampton, United Kingdom 2000-2001 Tutor University of New South Wales, Australia 1997-2000 Teaching Assistant University of Cape Coast, Ghana 1993-1995 1
VISITING FELLOWSHIPS Visiting Fellow, Said Business School, University of Oxford, UK,2007 Visiting Academic, School of Accounting, University of Waikato, New Zealand, 2011 Visiting Academic, Dixon School of Accounting, University of Central Florida, USA, 2011 Visiting Academic, Department of Accounting, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, 2012 SIGNIFICANT ADMINISTRATION Role Institution Year Deputy Head of School (Research) Research School of Accounting and BIS, ANU College of Business and Economics 2010-2013 Chair - School Research Committee Research School of Accounting and BIS, ANU College of Business and Economics 2010-2013 Member College Research Committee Member Local Promotions Committee ANU College of Business and Economics 2010-2013 ANU College of Business and Economics 2009 & 2011 Seminar Convenor Coordinator - Honours (Accounting) programme Member - Head of School Advisory Board Chairperson - Teaching Efficiency Committee Research School of Accounting and BIS, ANU College of Business and Economics School of Accounting, University of New South Wales School of Accounting, University of New South Wales School of Accounting, University of New South Wales 2009 2007-2008 2007-2008 2006 EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIP 1. Member - Editorial Board of the Behavioral Research in Accounting 2. Member - Editorial Board of the Journal of Accounting and Organisational Change 2
RESEARCH INTEREST Managerial accounting in inter-organisational networks Management Control of work teams The relationship between trust and accounting information Public sector accountability and accountability Behavioural implications of using diverse measures of performance The implications of business intelligence (BI) system for management control SCHOLARSHIPS, AWARDS AND RECOGNITION Nominee for ANU College of Business and Economics Award for Teaching Excellence 2011, Australian National University Nominee for ANU Vice Chancellor Award for Teaching Excellence 2011, Australian National University ANU Top Supervisor Award 2011, Australian National University AFAANZ 2011 Best Conference Paper Award in the Management Accounting Stream, Paper Title: The effect of accounting control choices and practices in the emergence and enactment of supply alliances, (with Chua, W. F.), AFAANZ Conference, Darwin 2011 Non-professorial Research Achievement Award for the year 2007, Australian School of Business (UNSW). Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholarship (OPRS), 1997-2000, University of New South Wales, Australia Faculty Postgraduate Research Scholarship (FPRS), 1997 2000, University of New South Wales, Australia British Commonwealth Academic Scholar Award, 1995 1996 New Zealand Overseas Development Assistance (NZODA), 1995 Unilever Award for The Overall Best Graduating Student 1993, University of Cape Coast, Ghana Dean s Honour Certificate for Academic Excellence 1992, University of Cape Coast, Ghana SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES Assessor, Australian Research Council (ARC) Grants Member, Technical Committee of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ ) Conference 2013 Member, Technical Committee of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ ) Conference 2012 3
Member, Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association (EAA) Annual Conference (2013) Member, Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association (EAA) Annual Conference (2012) Member, Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association (EAA) Annual Conference (2011) Ad hoc Reviewer for international accounting journals including Accounting, Organizations and Society (AOS), Management Accounting Research (MAR), European Accounting Review (AAR), Accounting, Auditing and accountability Journal (AAAJ), Australian Journal of Management (AJM), Critical Perspectives on Accounting, International Journal of Accounting and Information Systems (IJAIS), and Australian Accounting Review (AAR) Member of the UNSW Scientific Committee of the Global Management Accounting Research Symposium (GMARS) 2006-2008. Co-organiser of the 2008 inaugural GMARS Emerging Scholars Forum Served on the school of Accounting (UNSW) PhD review panel, 2004-2008 Discussant at international Accounting Conferences including GMARS and AFAANZ COMPETITIVE RESEARCH GRANTS ACCA and IMA Research Foundation, 2013, Use of Business Intelligence Systems to Enhance Management Control Systems & Strengthen Enterprise Risk Management (with Arnold, V., Elbashir, M. Z. and Sutton, S), $24,709 ANU College of Business and Economics Research School Grants (RSG) 2011, Project Title: Business Intelligence-Enabled Managerial Control Systems Organizational Performance: A field study in public sector, (with Elbashir, M.), $6,000 Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) Grant 2011-2013, Project Title: Making Hawala more visible A management focused analysis of Invisible Funds Transfer Networks in the GCC region, (with Nauman, F., and Sharif, K.), QNRF National Priorities Research Program (NPRP), US$115,991.31 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Research Grant 2011, Project Title: Controlling collaborative interfirm relationships: The impact of efficiency and flexibility requirements on control design decisions, (with Phua, Y. S and Lillis, A.), $7348 ARC Linkage Grant 2010-2013, Project title: The Practice of Accountability in Australian Indigenous Corporations, (with Jacobs, K., Sanders, W., and Curchin, K.), $321,666 ANU Linkage Pilot Project Scheme 2009 (with Jacobs, K., Sanders, W., and Curchin, K.), $3,000 Australian School of Business Special Research Grant (SRG) 2008 (with Chong, K. M.), $9,000 UNSW Faculty of Commerce and Economics Research Grant (FRG) 2004, $10,000 4
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS Published Papers Chong, K. M., and Mahama, H., The Impact of Interactive Uses of Budgets on Team Effectiveness, Management Accounting Research (Forthcoming) ABDC Ranking: A*; ERA Ranking: A Lee, J., Elbashir, M. Z., Mahama, H., and Sutton, S., Enablers of Top Management Team Support for Integrated Management Control Systems Innovations. International Journal of Accounting Information Systems. (Forthcoming) ABDC/ERA Ranking: A Mahama, H. and Cheng, M., (2013) The Impact of User-managers Perception of Costing Systems on Systems Use and Task Performance. Behavioral Research in Accounting, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 89-114. ABDC/ERA Ranking: A Chua, W. F., and Mahama, H., (2012), On theory as a deliverable and its relevance in policy arenas, Critical Perspectives in Accounting, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 78-82 ABDC/ERA Ranking: A Cheng, M., and Mahama, H., (forthcoming), The impact of capital proposal guidelines and perceived preparer biases on reviewers investment evaluation decisions, Australian Journal of Management, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 349-370 ABDC/ERA Ranking: A Grafton, J., Lillis, A., and Mahama, H., (2011), Mixed methods research in accounting, Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 5-21 ABDC/ERA Ranking: B Mouritsen, J., Mahama H., and Chua, W F., (2010). Actor-Network Theory and the Study of Interorganisational Network-Relations, In Accounting in Networks, ed. Håkansson, H., Kraus, K., and Lind, J. Chapter 12.. Routledge, pp. 292-313 Mahama, H., and Ming, C. Y., (2009) Currency options trading practices and the construction and governance of operational risk: A case study, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 626-660. ABDC Ranking: A; ERA Ranking: A* Chua, W. F., and Mahama, H.., (2007), The Effects of Network Ties on Accounting Controls in a Supply Alliance: A Filed Study, Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp 47-86. ABDC/ERA Ranking: A* Abernethy, M, Chua, W. F., Grafton, J., and Mahama, H., (2007), Accounting and Control in Health Care: Behavioral, Sociological and Critical Perspectives, In Chapman, C. S., Hopwood, A. G. and Shields, M. D., Handbooks of Management Accounting Research, Elsevier, Vol. 2, pp. 805-829. The book in which this chapter appeared was awarded the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association 2008 Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature Award. 5
Cheng, M., Luckett, P., and Mahama, H., (2007), The effect of goal difficulty and conflict among multiple performance goals on task performance, Accounting and Finance, Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 221-242. ABDC Ranking: A; ERA Ranking: B Mahama, H., (2006), Management Control Systems, Cooperation and Performance in Strategic Supply Relationships: A Survey in the Mines, Management Accounting Research, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp 315-339. ABDC/ERA Ranking: A Andon, P., Baxter, J. and Mahama, H., (2005), The Balanced Scorecard: Slogans, Seductions, and the State of Play, The Australian Accounting Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp 29 38. ABDC/ERA Ranking: B Papers in Journal Review Process Mahama, H. and Chua, W.F., The effect of accounting control choices and practices in the emergence and enactment of supply alliances, Accounting, Organizations and Society, (second round review) Mahama, H., Elbashir, M.Z, Sutton, S, and Arnold, V., Understanding the agency of accounting information systems, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems. (first round review) Elbashir, M.Z, Sutton, S, Mahama, H., and Arnold, V., Unraveling the ERP and Management Control Paradox: The Complementarity between Business Intelligence and ERP, To be submitted to Accounting, Organizations and Society (first round review) Working Papers Mahama, H., and Wang, Z., The effects of interactive and diagnostic uses of performance measurement systems on procedural fairness perception, cooperation and performance in supply alliances, To be submitted to the Accounting, Organizations and Society Mahama, H., and Wong, A., The Impact of Diverse Performance Measures on Role Stress, Job Satisfaction and Task Performance, To be submitted to Management Accounting Research Work in Progress Accounting and the practice of accountability in Australian Indigenous Corporations Management control of Hawala networks The application of actor-network research in qualitative management accounting research The impact of BI-enabled management control systems on enterprise risk management (ERM) Fairness in incentive compensation 6
RESEARCH SUPERVISION PhD Supervision Peni Fukofuka (2010-2013), The Practice of Accounting and Accountability in Australian Indigenous Corporations Catherine Pelligrino (2011 -) The Effects of Management Accounting Controls Choices and Practices on Coopetitive Interfirm Alliances Zhichao Wang (2011 -), The Role of Management Control Systems in the Structuring and Performance Management of International Joint Ventures BCom (Honours) Supervision Waiyip Choo (2012), The Interactive Use of Budgets, Personal Innovativeness and Innovation Outcomes Emmi Hokiana (2012), The Behavioural Effects of Fairness Perception of Academic Staff Market Loading Paul Grandori (2011), The Effects of Interactive and Diagnostic Uses of Performance Measurement Systems on Social Loafing and Team Performance Catherine Pelligrino (2010), The Antecedents of Budget Goal Difficulty Zhichao Wang (2010), The Impact of Interactive Uses of Performance Measurement Systems on Procedural Fairness Perception, Cooperation and Alliance Performance Deirdre Tshien, (2008), The Effect of Managerial Accounting on Team Dynamics and Team Performance Tony Chen, (2006), The Discursive Construction of Corporate Governance Failure: The Case of National Australia Bank, Alison Wong, (2005), Performance measurement diversity: effects on role stress, job satisfaction and performance Cindy Mo, (2003), Corporate Social Responsibility Practices in Australia: An Institutional Theory Perspective SCHOLARLY PRESENTATION 2012 2011 Department of Accounting, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, Paper Title: Positioning accounting research to contribute to theory and practice Department of Accounting, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, Paper Title: The Impact of User-managers Perception of Costing Systems on Systems Use and Task Performance AFANZ Conference, Paper Title: The effect of accounting control choices and practices in the emergence and enactment of supply alliances 7
2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 UTS Business School, Paper Title: The effect of accounting control choices and practices in the emergence and enactment of supply alliances School of Management, University of Waikato, Paper Title: The effect of accounting control choices and practices in the emergence and enactment of supply alliances The University of Auckland Business School, Paper Title: The effect of accounting control choices and practices in the emergence and enactment of supply alliances, School of Commerce, University of South Australia, Paper Title: The effect of accounting control choices and practices in the emergence and enactment of supply alliances, The Third New Zealand Management Accounting Conference, University of Christchurch, New Zealand, Paper Title: The Impact of Interactive Uses of Budgets on Team Effectiveness School of Accounting, La Trobe University, Paper Title: The Impact of Interactive Uses of Budgets on Team Effectiveness Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Conference, Perth, Australia., Paper Title: The Impact of User-managers Perception of Costing Systems on Systems Use and Task Performance School of Accounting and Finance, Macquarie University, Paper Title: The Impact of User-managers Perception of Costing Systems on Systems Use and Task Performance Global Management Accounting Research (GMARS) Conference, Sydney, Australia. Paper Title: Formal control and action nets in inter-firm transactional relationships: field study evidence, (Discussant). Second New Zealand Management Accounting Research Conference, Auckland, New Zealand. Paper Title: The Impact of User-managers Perception of Costing Systems on Systems Use and Task Performance University of Oxford, Said Business School seminar series. Paper Title: The Discursive Construction of Corporate Accounting Scandals: A Case Study University of Melbourne, Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems seminar series: Paper Title: The Impact of the Use of Diverse Performance Measures on Task Performance: Role Stress and Job Satisfaction as Mediating Variables Global Management Accounting Research (GMARS) Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark. Paper Title: Beyond Firm Boundaries - Interfirm Accounting and The Production of Organization, (Discussant). 8
20 th Contemporary Accounting Research Conference, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada. Paper Title: The Effects of Network Ties on Accounting Controls in a Supply Alliance: A Field Study. 2004 Handbook of Management Accounting Research Conference, Oxford, UK. Paper Title: Accounting and Control in Health Care: Behavioral, Sociological and Critical Perspectives. School of Accounting, UTS, Paper Title: The Effects of Network Ties on Accounting Controls in a Supply Alliance: A Field Study School of Business & Government, University of Canberra, Paper Title: Management Control Systems, Cooperation and Performance in Strategic Supply Relationships: A Survey in the Mines Global Management Accounting Research (GMARS) Conference, Sydney. Paper Title: The Role of Management Consultants in Diffusing Popular Management Accounting Concepts, (Discussant). 4 th Conference on New Direction in Management Accounting, Brussels. Paper Title: Making Strategic Supply Relationships Work: Struggling with Accounting, Numbers. 2003 London School of Economics (LSE), Paper Title: Making Strategic Supply Relationships Work: Struggling with Accounting, Numbers. 7 th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Madrid. Paper Title: Accounting Inscriptions as Leaking Devices: An Empirical Examination of the Struggles to Stabilize Collaborative Supply Relationships 8 th biannual management accounting Conference, Sydney, Australia: Paper Title: Accounting Inscriptions as Weak Devices: An Empirical Examination of the Struggles to Stabilize Collaborative Supply Relationships. School of Accounting and Finance, Macquarie University, Paper Title: Accounting Inscriptions as Framing Devices: A Field Study of the Placing and Timing of Financial and Non-Financial Information in the Framing of Collaborative Supply Relationships. 7 th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, Madrid. Paper Title: Customer, accountability and management accounting (Discussant). 2002 2001 Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Conference, Perth, Australia. Paper Title: Accounting Inscriptions as Framing Devices: A Field Study of the Placing and Timing of Financial and Non-Financial Measures in the Framing of Collaborative Supply Relationships. 26 th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association) EAA, Copenhagen, Denmark. Paper Title: Accounting Inscriptions as Framing Devices: A Field Study of the placing and Timing of Financial and Non-Financial Measures in the Framing of Collaborative Supply Relationships. 9
International Conference on Spacing and Timing, Palermo, Italy. Paper Title: An Investigation of the Placing and Timing of Financial and Non-Financial Measures in the Constitution and Stabilization of Collaborative Supply Relationships - A Field Study of Two Organizations and Eight Contractual Relationships. 25 th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association) EAA, Athens, Greece. Paper Title: The Role of Financial and Non-financial Information in the Constitution of Collaborative Supply Relationship. British Accounting Association (BAA) Annual Conference. Paper Title: The Role of Financial and Non-financial Information in the Constitution of Collaborative Supply Relationship. PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 2010 Participated in the ANU Leadership Program 2009 Participated in the Academic Productivity at the School and Faculty Level training programme, organised by the LH Institute for Higher education Leadership and Management, University of Melbourne 2005 Participated in OHS training organised by the then Faculty or Commerce and Economics (UNSW) 2002 Participated in the Foundations of University Learning and Teaching (FULT) program, organised by office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor, UNSW 2001 Participated in educational development programs at the University of Southampton including a course on preparing effective unit outlines. REFEREES Professor Abu Shiraz Rahaman Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary 215 Campus Place N.W., 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 1N4 Tel: +1 403 220 8538; Email: abu-shiraz.rahaman@haskayne.uclgary.ca Professor Monir Mir Faculty of Business, Government and Law; University of Canberra, Canberra, ACT2601 Tel: +61 2 62015841; Email: Monir.Mir@canberra.edu.au Dr Mohamed-Elmutasim Zainelabdin Elbashir Department of Accounting and Information Systems College of Business and Economics Qatar University, P.O. Box: 2713, Doha, Qatar Telephone: +974 44036487; Email: Mohamed.elbashir@qu.edu.qa 10