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Overview

Kerry Jacobs was affiliated with the University of New South Wales in Australia. Their research contributions spanned several fields primarily within social sciences and business management, with a focus on subjects related to accounting and organizational management, nonprofit sector and volunteering, and public policy and administration research.

Their documented research work included two notable recent papers. The first was titled Auditor and auditee engagement with public sector performance audit: An institutional logics perspective, published in 2020 in the journal Financial Accountability and Management. The second paper, Balancing the public interest and self-interest: The face of peer review in Australia, also appeared in 2020 in Accounting History.

Kerry Jacobs frequently collaborated with several co-authors throughout their research career. These included:

  • Lee D. Parker
  • Jana Schmitz
  • Wendy Shelton

The main fields of study in which Kerry Jacobs contributed were:

  • Social Sciences
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Their work also covered various subfields such as:

  • Management Information Systems
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Public Administration
  • Accounting

The primary topics addressed in their research included:

  • Accounting and Organizational Management
  • Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
  • Public Policy and Administration Research
  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance

Kerry Jacobs published mainly in journals connected to the following venues:

  • Financial Accountability and Management
  • Accounting History

Best Publications

  • Organisational resistance strategies to unwanted accounting and finance changes: the case of general medical practice in the UK

    Jane Broadbent;Kerry Jacobs;Richard Laughlin

  • Accounting and accountability in the Iona Community

    Kerry Jacobs;Stephen Paul Walker

  • A process (re)turn?: Path dependencies, institutions and performance management in Swedish central government

    Sven Modell;Kerry Jacobs;Fredrika Wiesel

  • Making sense of social practice: theoretical pluralism in public sector accounting research

    Kerry Jacobs

  • Driving Public Sector Environmental Reporting: The Disclosure Practices of Australian Commonwealth Departments

    Sumit Lodhia;Kerry Jacobs;Yoon Jin Park

  • The sacred and the secular : examining the role of accounting in the religious context.

    Kerry Jacobs

  • Career Progression Among Female Academics: A Comparative Study of Australia and Mauritius

    P. Rani Thanacoody;Timothy Bartram;Michelle Carmel Barker;Kerry Jacobs

  • CLASS REPRODUCTION IN PROFESSIONAL RECRUITMENT: EXAMINING THE ACCOUNTING PROFESSION

    Kerry Jacobs

  • VALUE FOR MONEY AUDITING IN NEW ZEALAND: COMPETING FOR CONTROL IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR

    Kerry Jacobs

  • Cost and performance information for doctors: an international comparison

    Kerry Jacobs;Giuseppe Marcon;Dieter Witt

  • Care pathways: the road to better health services?

    Laura Bragato;Kerry Jacobs

  • The practice turn in environmental reporting: A study into current practices in two Australian commonwealth departments

    Sumit Lodhia;Kerry Jacobs

  • Budgets: a medium of organizational transformation

    Kerry Jacobs

  • Costing health care: a study of the introduction of cost and budget reports into a GP association

    Kerry Jacobs

  • Making Sense of Social Practice: Theoretical Pluralism in Public Sector Accounting Research: A Reply: MAKING SENSE OF SOCIAL PRACTICE: A REPLY

    Kerry Jacobs

  • "Breaking up the sky" The characterisation of accounting and accountants in popular music

    David Smith;Kerry Jacobs

  • Comparing schools in the U.K. and New Zealand: individualizing and socializing accountabilities and some implications for management control☆

    Jane Broadbent;Kerry Jacobs;Richard Laughlin

  • Exploring accounting presence and absence: case studies from Bangladesh

    Kerry Jacobs;Jeff Kemp

  • Evaluating accountability: finding a place for the Treaty of Waitangi in the New Zealand public sector

    Kerry Jacobs

  • Policy Transfer and Policy Learning: A Study of the 1991 NewZealand Health Services Taskforce

    Kerry Jacobs;Pauline Barnett

  • Interdisciplinary accounting research in the Public Sector : Dissolving boundaries to tackle wicked problems

    Kerry Jacobs;Suresh Cuganesan

  • Public Value in Politics: A Legislative Budget Office Approach

    Usman W. Chohan;Kerry Jacobs

  • Public Value as Rhetoric: A Budgeting Approach

    Usman W. Chohan;Kerry Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard Laughlin
Richard Laughlin King's College London
Jane Broadbent
Jane Broadbent Royal Holloway University of London
Lee D. Parker
Lee D. Parker University of Glasgow
Zahirul Hoque
Zahirul Hoque RMIT University

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