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41
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1520
National Ranking
91

Overview

Craig Deegan is affiliated with the University of Tasmania in Australia and focuses their academic research on Business, Management, and Accounting, with a particular emphasis on subfields including Strategy and Management, Accounting, Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Marketing.

Their research topics prominently cover Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, Auditing, Earnings Management and Governance, Accounting and Organizational Management, Global Trade, Sustainability, and Social Impact, Environmental Sustainability in Business, Corporate Law and Human Rights, and Human Rights and Development.

Deegan has contributed to several recent publications, including:

  • Corporate human rights performance and moral power: A study of retail MNCs' supply chains in Bangladesh (2020), published in Critical Perspectives on Accounting
  • Analysis of corporate social disclosures of the apparel industry following crisis: an institutional approach (2020), appearing in Accounting and Finance
  • Teaching the concept of decision-usefulness, and accounting as a technical, social and moral practice: the case of COVID-19 "case number" reporting (2022), in Meditari Accountancy Research
  • The development and application of a decision-useful measure of environmental best practice for the mining industry (2021), featured in Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
  • Insights into the application of AI-augmented research methods for informing accounting practice: the development - through AI - of accountability-related prescriptions pertaining to seasonal work (2024), also in Meditari Accountancy Research

Their work has been published multiple times in the venues Accounting and Finance, Meditari Accountancy Research, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, and Sustainable Development.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Deegan include Muhammad Azizul Islam, Shamima Haque, Suraiyah Akbar, Shannon Sidaway, and Daniella Juric.

Best Publications

  • Introduction: The legitimising effect of social and environmental disclosures – a theoretical foundation

    Craig Deegan

  • Financial Accounting Theory

    Craig Deegan

  • A Study of the Environmental Disclosure Practices of Australian Corporations

    Craig Deegan;Ben Gordon

  • An examination of the corporate social and environmental disclosures of BHP from 1983‐1997: A test of legitimacy theory

    Craig Deegan;Michaela Rankin;John Tobin

  • The public disclosure of environmental performance information—a dual test of media agenda setting theory and legitimacy theory

    Noel Brown;Craig Deegan

  • Do Australian companies report environmental news objectively? An analysis of environmental disclosures by firms prosecuted successfully by the Environmental Protection Authority

    Craig Deegan;Michaela Rankin

  • The materiality of environmental information to users of annual reports

    Craig Deegan;Michaela Rankin

  • Firms' Disclosure Reactions to Major Social Incidents: Australian Evidence

    Craig Deegan;Michaela Rankin;Peter Voght

  • Motivations for an organisation within a developing country to report social responsibility information: evidence from Bangladesh

    Muhammad Azizul Islam;Craig Deegan

  • Stakeholder influence on corporate reporting: An exploration of the interaction between WWF-Australia and the Australian minerals industry

    Craig Deegan;Christopher Blomquist

  • Media pressures and corporate disclosure of social responsibility performance information: A study of two global clothing and sports retail companies

    Muhammad Azizul Islam;Craig Deegan

  • Global expectations and their association with corporate social disclosure practices in Australia, Singapore, and South Korea

    Marc Newson;Craig Deegan

  • An investigation of TBL report assurance statements: UK and European evidence

    Craig Deegan;Barry J. Cooper;Marita Shelly

  • THE ENVIRONMENTAL REPORTING EXPECTATIONS GAP: AUSTRALIAN EVIDENCE

    Craig Deegan;Michaela Rankin

  • Australian Financial Accounting

    Craig Deegan

  • Twenty five years of social and environmental accounting research within Critical Perspectives of Accounting: Hits, misses and ways forward

    Craig Deegan

  • New Zealand Financial Accounting

    Craig Deegan

  • Corporate climate change‐related governance practices and related disclosures: evidence from Australia

    Shamima Haque;Craig Deegan

  • An overview of legitimacy theory as applied within the social and environmental accounting literature

    Craig Deegan

  • Legitimacy theory: Despite its enduring popularity and contribution, time is right for a necessary makeover

    Craig Michael Deegan

  • Firms' Disclosure Reactions to Major Social Incidents: Australian Evidence

    Craig Deegan

Frequent Co-Authors

Rob Gray
Rob Gray University of East Anglia
Jeffrey Unerman
Jeffrey Unerman Royal Holloway University of London

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