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Business and Management
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2024

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  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in United States Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Australia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Australia Leader Award

Overview

James Guthrie is affiliated with the University of Kansas in the United States and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research output spans 43 publications, with notable focus areas in Accounting, Strategy and Management, and Management Information Systems, among other subfields.

Their main subfields of study include:

  • Accounting
  • Strategy and Management
  • Management Information Systems
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Guthrie's research topics concentrate on:

  • Accounting and Organizational Management
  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Intellectual Capital and Performance Analysis
  • Higher Education Governance and Development
  • Accounting Education and Careers
  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Management and Organizational Studies

The scholar has published multiple papers, some of the recent ones include:

  • "Australia's COVID-19 public budgeting response: the straitjacket of neoliberalism" (2020), Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial Management
  • "Exploring past, present and future trends in public sector auditing research: a literature review" (2021), Meditari Accountancy Research
  • "Being critical about intellectual capital accounting in 2020: An overview" (2020), Critical Perspectives on Accounting
  • "Public universities and impacts of COVID-19 in Australia: risk disclosures and organisational change" (2021), Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
  • "The commercialized Australian public university: An accountingized transition" (2021), Financial Accountability and Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Guthrie include:

  • John Dumay
  • Ann Martin-Sardesai
  • Lee D. Parker
  • Giuseppe Grossi
  • Francesca Manes Rossi

The researcher publishes regularly in several academic journals, including:

  • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
  • Journal of Behavioural Economics and Social Systems
  • Meditari Accountancy Research
  • Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial Management
  • Accounting and Finance

James Guthrie also has contributions to academic books, with at least one publication titled "Research Handbook on Intellectual Capital and Business" (2021) published by Edward Elgar Publishing.

Best Publications

  • High-Involvement Work Practices, Turnover, and Productivity: Evidence from New Zealand

    James P. Guthrie

  • INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL LITERATURE REVIEW: MEASUREMENT, REPORTING AND MANAGEMENT

    Richard Petty;James Guthrie

  • Corporate Social Reporting: A Rebuttal of Legitimacy Theory

    James Guthrie;Lee D. Parker

  • HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND LABOR PRODUCTIVITY: DOES INDUSTRY MATTER?

    Deepak K. Datta;James P. Guthrie;Patrick M. Wright

  • Using content analysis as a research method to inquire into intellectual capital reporting

    J. Guthrie;R. Petty;K. Yongvanich;Federica Ricceri

  • Corporate social disclosure practice: a comparative international analysis

    James Guthrie;Lee Parker

  • Intellectual capital: Australian annual reporting practices

    James Guthrie;Richard Petty

  • On the shoulders of giants: undertaking a structured literature review in accounting

    Maurizio Massaro;John Dumay;James Guthrie

  • Reflections and projections: A decade of Intellectual Capital Accounting Research

    James Guthrie;Federica Ricceri;John Dumay

  • The management, measurement and the reporting of intellectual capital

    James Guthrie

  • Integrated reporting: A structured literature review

    John Dumay;Cristiana Bernardi;James Guthrie;Paola Demartini

  • An empirical investigation of annual reporting trends of intellectual capital in Sri Lanka

    Indra Abeysekera;James Guthrie

  • Public sector to public services: 20 years of “contextual” accounting research

    Jane Broadbent;James Guthrie

  • Content analysis of social, environmental reporting: what is new?

    James Guthrie;Indra Abeysekera

  • Application of accrual accounting in the Australian public sector - rhetoric or reality?

    James Guthrie

  • Causes and Effects of Employee Downsizing: A Review and Synthesis

    Deepak K. Datta;James P. Guthrie;Dynah Basuil;Alankrita Pandey

  • Changes in the Public Sector: A Review of Recent“Alternative” Accounting Research

    Jane Broadbent;James Guthrie

  • The voluntary reporting of intellectual capital

    James Guthrie;Richard Petty;Federica Ricceri

  • Debating Developments in New Public Financial Management: The Limits of Global Theorising and Some New Ways Forward

    James Guthrie;Olov Olson;Christopher Humphrey

  • Sustainability reporting by Australian public sector organisations: Why they report

    Federica Farneti;James Guthrie;James Guthrie

Frequent Co-Authors

Lee D. Parker
Lee D. Parker University of Glasgow
John Dumay
John Dumay Macquarie University
Christopher Humphrey
Christopher Humphrey University of Manchester
Roger Burritt
Roger Burritt Australian National University
Indra Abeysekera
Indra Abeysekera S P Jain School of Global Management
Patrick C. Flood
Patrick C. Flood Dublin City University
Deepak K. Datta
Deepak K. Datta The University of Texas at Arlington
Jeffrey Unerman
Jeffrey Unerman Royal Holloway University of London
Rob Gray
Rob Gray University of East Anglia
Jane Broadbent
Jane Broadbent Royal Holloway University of London

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