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PROF ANNE LILLIS



Contact Details

Organization: Accounting and Business Information Systems
Position: CHAIR OF MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING
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Homepage: http://www.abis.ecom.unimelb.edu.au/who/staff/anne_lillis.html
Work: 61383445351
Fax: 61393492397
Building: The Spot, 198 Berkeley St
Campus: Parkville

Biography

Anne Lillis is a Professor of Management Accounting and Deputy Head of the Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems. Anne is Chair of the ICAA Management Accounting Module Advisory Committee, and is a member of the ICAA Academic Board. She is also actively engaged in academic and governance activities of the American Accounting Association Management Accounting Section.

Anne researches and teaches in Management Accounting. Her research interests focus on field studies of the design and behavioural influence of performance management and control systems.

Prior to joining the University of Melbourne, Anne spent several years in the Australian Taxation Office as well as at La Trobe and Deakin Universities.

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
Management control systems design Strategy and performance management Australia

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
United States Rice University Research

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Commerce University of Melbourne 16-Apr-1980
Master of Commerce University of Melbourne 28-Jul-1990
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 07-Oct-1998

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
An empirical analysis of structural cost management decision making Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2008

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.

Publications in 2009

Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Qualitative management accounting research: Rationale, pitfalls and potential. A comment on Vaivio (2008).


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management
    Volume: 5
    Page numbers: 239-246
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  • Accounting-Induced Performance Anxiety: Consequences and Cures
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Insights: Melbourne Economics and Commerce
    Volume: 4
    Page numbers: 11-17
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  • Performance Measurement System Design in Joint Strategy Settings
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Journal of Management Accounting Research
    Volume: 20
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Publications in 2007

Book Chapters

Journal Articles

  • Profits versus Losses: Does Reporting an Accounting Loss Act as a Heuristic Trigger to Exercise the Abandonment Option and Divest Employees?
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Accounting Review
    Volume: 82
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1031-1053
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Reliability and Validity in Field Study Research


    Year: 2006
    Book: Methodological Issues in Accounting Research: Theories and Methods
    Publisher: Spiramus Press
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • A multi-method approach to building causal performance maps from expert knowledge
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Management Accounting Research
    Volume: 16
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 135-155
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  • Cross-Sectional Field Studies in Management Accounting Research—Closing the Gaps between Surveys and Case Studies
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of Management Accounting Research
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 2005
    Page numbers: 119-141
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  • Health Sector Performance Management
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Accounting Review
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 3
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  • The Role of Performance Management and Control Systems in Public-Sector Reform: Victorian Health Care Networks
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Australian Accounting Review
    Volume: 15
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 25-33
    Publisher: CPA Australia(Melbourne)
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Reports

  • Firm Demand for Labour, Capital Market Incentives and the Discontinuity at Zero Profit and Loss Threshold in Real Investment
    Year: 2005
    Customer: Department seminar series
    Publisher: Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems(Melbourne)
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  • The influence of mixed strategies on performance measurement system design
    Year: 2005
    Customer: Department working paper series
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  • The real investment decisions of loss firms
    Year: 2005
    Customer: Department working paper series
    Publisher: Department of Accounting and Business Information Systems(Melbourne)
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  • The role of performance management and control systems in the implementation of public sector reforms: creating health care networks in Victoria
    Year: 2005
    Customer: Department working paper series
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Publications in 2004

Publications in 2003

Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Managing multiple dimensions of manufacturing performance - an exploratory study
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Accounting Organizations and Society
    Volume: 27
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 497-529
    Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science(Oxford)
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Interdependencies in Organization Design: A Test in Hospitals
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of Management Accounting Research
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 107-129
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  • Product diversity and costing system design choice: field study evidence
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Management Accounting Research
    Volume: 12
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 261-279
    Publisher: Academic Press
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  • Using Diagnostic Controls to Maintain and Direct the Momentum of Strategic Change - A Case Study
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Accounting Accountability and Performance
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 27-48
    Publisher: Griffith University(Brisbane)
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