Biography
Dr VG Sridharan joined the University of Melbourne as a lecturer in accounting in June 2006. A chartered accountant and cost accountant from India, VG has over 14 years of teaching and training experience in accounting. Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, VG taught management accounting and control systems in Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA) and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) for 8 years before moving to the University of Auckland (UoA) in New Zealand in 1999. He continued to teach management accounting and simultaneously pursued and completed his doctorate in accounting from UoA in 2005.
VG's research interests are in the economics of the firm and strategy-control systems interface within firms. In his PhD, he examined how firms' manager-worker transactions are managed for different levels of knowledge specificity. The construct, knowledge specificity is proxied by product variety strategy. In publications, VG has about 15 professional articles and five on-going research articles (one of which is under second review in the Journal of Management Accounting Research).
Research Expertise and International Linkages
Research Expertise
| Research Interest |
Key Words |
Country of Expertise |
| Economics of firms' strategies and control systems |
Agency theory and Transaction Cost Economics |
New Zealand, India |
International Linkages
Languages
Languages
| Language |
Proficiency |
| Tamil |
Speak, Read & Write |
| English |
Speak, Read & Write |
| Hindi |
Speak |
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other
Awards
Qualifications
| Title |
Institution |
Date Awarded |
Abbreviation |
| Doctor of Philosophy |
The University of Auckland |
01-Oct-2005 |
|
Memberships
| Membership Type |
Membership Body |
Description |
Start Date |
End Date |
| Associate |
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India |
|
01-Jun-1996 |
|
| Associate |
The Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India |
|
01-Oct-1994 |
|
| Member |
The Institute of Company Secretaries of India (ICSI) |
|
01-Jun-1996 |
|
Other Awards
| Award Type |
Awarding Body |
Comments |
Date Awarded |
| Other (Award) |
Faculty of Economics and Commerce |
Dean's Certificate for Teaching Excellence |
01-Dec-2006 |
| Prize |
Auckland Region Accounting Conference |
|
03-Dec-2004 |
| Scholarship |
New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants |
|
01-Apr-2001 |
| Scholarship |
New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants |
|
01-Jun-2004 |
Government Research Classifications
Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
Socio-Economic Objective Classifications
Publications
Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.
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