ProfessorBA (Colgate), MBA (Duke), PhD (Albany), CPA (AICPA), CA (NZICA)
Tel +64 3 479 8453
Office OBS 5.10
Email ralph.adler@otago.ac.nz
Professor Ralph Adler is the Director of the Otago Centre for Organisational Performance Measurement and Management (COPMM) and is the Convenor of the Performance Measurement Association of Australasia (PMAA).
Professor Adler joined the Department in 1991. He has over 35 years of teaching experience, teaching at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Prior to arriving at Otago, he worked in the USA for 10 years as a CPA and then a business consultant before completing his PhD at Albany State. He holds a BA from Colgate University and an MBA from Duke University's Fuqua School of Business.
His research focuses on strategic management accounting, organisational effectiveness, and business education. He has authored over 100 publications, including academic papers, practitioner articles, business case studies, and two books Management Accounting: Making it World Class and Strategic Performance Management: Accounting for Organisational Control. His work is internationally recognised and has earned him multiple best paper awards. A study by Delande et al. (2014) ranked him as the top publisher of accounting education in New Zealand and the fifth most published in the world.
Professor Adler recently retired as a Senior Associate Editor of Accounting Education. He continues to serve on the editorial boards of Australian Accounting Review, Asia Pacific Management Accounting Journal, International Review of Banking and Financial Studies, Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Pacific Accounting Review, and Regional Formation and Development Studies. He is a past holder of the Coopers and Lybrand Peter Barr Fellowship and the American Chamber of Commerce Business Education Fellowship.
Teaching
- ACCT 302
- ACCT 409
- ACCT 410
Research interests
- Performance management
- Strategic management accounting
- Organisational effectiveness
- Active student learning
Publications
Adler, R., Mansi, M., & Pandey, R. (2022). Accounting for waste management: A study of the reporting practices of the top listed Indian companies. Accounting & Finance, 62, 2401-2437. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12869
Journal - Research Article
Kuang, T. M., Adler, R. W., & Pandey, R. (2021). Creating a modified Monopoly game for promoting students’ higher-order thinking skills and knowledge retention. Issues in Accounting Education, 36(3), 49-74. doi: 10.2308/ISSUES-2020-097
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R., Mansi, M., & Pandey, R. (2021). Strategic performance measurement and management: Reflections on its current state and future research opportunities. Pacific Accounting Review, 33(1), 1-5. doi: 10.1108/par-02-2021-199
Journal - Research Other
Adler, R., Roberts, H., Crombie, N., & Dixon, K. (2021). Determinants of accounting students’ undergraduate learning satisfaction. Accounting & Finance, 61, 5231-5254. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12756
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R., Mansi, M., & Pandey, R. (2021). The houbara bustard: A thematic analysis of a bird's threatened extinction and a government's accountability failure. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 34(5), 1190-1219. doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-07-2019-4113
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R. W. (2018). Strategic performance management: Accounting for organizational control. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 228p. doi: 10.4324/9781351204033
Authored Book - Research
Adler, R. W. (1999). Management Accounting: Making it World Class. Oxford, England: Butterworth-Heinemann, 196p.
Authored Book - Research
Van Peursem, K. A., Monk, E. A., Wilson, R. M. S., & Adler, R. W. (Eds.). (2012). Audit education. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 168p.
Edited Book - Other
Wilson, R. M. S., & Adler, R. W. (Eds.). (2012). Teaching IFRS. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 174p.
Edited Book - Other
Adler, R. W. (2018). Kyocera's use of amoeba management as a performance management system: Why it works? In E. Harris (Ed.), The Routledge companion to performance management and control. (pp. 39-53). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315691374
Chapter in Book - Research
Adler, R., Stringer, C., Shantapriyan, P., & Birch, G. (2018). AirAsia: Towards a 'new world' carrier strategy and implications for performance management system design. In E. Harris (Ed.), Routledge companion to performance management and control. (pp. 319-333). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315691374
Chapter in Book - Research
Adler, R. W. (2014). The impact of financial crises on accounting education. In R. M. S. Wilson (Ed.), The Routledge companion to accounting education. (pp. 515-532). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Chapter in Book - Research
Adler, R. W., & Song, J. (2013). Otago Museum. In W. G. Rowe & M. C. Dato-On (Eds.), Introduction to nonprofit management: Text and cases. (pp. 152-160). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE. [Case Study].
Chapter in Book - Research
Adler, R. W. (2003). Mangement accounting. In F. Sligo (Ed.), New Zealand General Management Accounting. (pp. 197-214). Auckland: CCH New Zealand Limited.
Chapter in Book - Other
Adler, R., Mansi, M., & Pandey, R. (2022). Accounting for waste management: A study of the reporting practices of the top listed Indian companies. Accounting & Finance, 62, 2401-2437. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12869
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R., Mansi, M., & Pandey, R. (2021). The houbara bustard: A thematic analysis of a bird's threatened extinction and a government's accountability failure. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 34(5), 1190-1219. doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-07-2019-4113
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R., Roberts, H., Crombie, N., & Dixon, K. (2021). Determinants of accounting students’ undergraduate learning satisfaction. Accounting & Finance, 61, 5231-5254. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12756
Journal - Research Article
Kuang, T. M., Adler, R. W., & Pandey, R. (2021). Creating a modified Monopoly game for promoting students’ higher-order thinking skills and knowledge retention. Issues in Accounting Education, 36(3), 49-74. doi: 10.2308/ISSUES-2020-097
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R., & Liyanarachchi, G. (2020). Towards measuring professionalism in accounting. Accounting & Finance, 60, 1907-1941. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12461
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R., Hiromoto, T., & Suzuki, H. (2020). Amoeba management and organizational ambidexterity: Similarities, differences, and implications for organizational fit and success. International Journal of Productivity & Performance Management, 69(2), 405-427. doi: 10.1108/IJPPM-07-2018-0254
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R., & Stringer, C. (2018). Practitioner mentoring of undergraduate accounting students: Helping prepare students to become accounting professionals. Accounting & Finance, 58(4), 939-963. doi: 10.1111/acfi.12249
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R., Mansi, M., & Pandey, R. (2018). Biodiversity and threatened species reporting by the top Fortune Global companies. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 31(3), 787-825. doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-03-2016-2490
Journal - Research Article
Islam, S., Adler, R., & Northcott, D. (2018). Managerial attitudes towards the incompleteness of performance measurement systems. Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, 15(1), 84-103. doi: 10.1108/QRAM-10-2017-0106
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R., Mansi, M., Pandey, R., & Stringer, C. (2017). United Nations decade on biodiversity: A study of the reporting practices of the Australian mining industry. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 30(8), 1711-1745. doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-04-2015-2028
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R., & Stringer, C. (2016). The valuation and pricing of information assets. Pacific Accounting Review, 28(4), 419-430. doi: 10.1108/PAR-02-2016-0023
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R. W., & Liyanarachchi, G. (2015). Successful authors' views on the editorial review processes of accounting journals. Pacific Accounting Review, 27(4), 411-437. doi: 10.1108/PAR-03-2014-0015
Journal - Research Article
Alaudin, A., Shantapriyan, P., & Adler, R. (2015). Beliefs and accountability in an Islamic bank. Corporate Ownership & Control, 12(4), 80-90. doi: 10.22495/cocv12i4p6
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R. (2012). The state of accounting education scholarship in New Zealand. Accounting Education, 21(6), 545-563. doi: 10.1080/09639284.2012.725635
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R. W. (2011). Performance management and organizational strategy: How to design systems that meet the needs of confrontation strategy firms. British Accounting Review, 43(4), 251-263. doi: 10.1016/j.bar.2011.08.004
Journal - Research Article
Adler, R., & Liyanarachchi, G. (2011). An empirical examination of the editorial review processes of accounting journals. Accounting & Finance, 51(4), 837-867. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-629X.2010.00378.x
Journal - Research Article