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Professor Shahzad Uddin

Position in departmentHead, Accounting Group
Staff positionProfessor of Accounting
E-mailsnuddin (non Essex users should add @essex.ac.uk)
Telephone4150 (non Essex users should add 01206-87 to the beginning of this number)
Fax3429
Room5NW.5.9
Office hoursTuesday: 09:00 - 11:00 Wednesday: 09:00 - 10:00 Any other times, please contact my personal assistant, Lesley Baker (lesleyb@essex.ac.uk) to make an appointment.
Biography

Shahzad Uddin is a Professor of Accounting and Head of the Accounting group. Shahzad is also the Director of Essex Accounting Centre. He is a qualified cost and management accountant and fellow member of the institute of cost and management accountants in Bangladesh. He is also a CIMA advocate. Currently, Shahzad is the co-editor of Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies (JAEE) and Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies (RAEE). Shahzad is the founding chair of British Accounting Association special interest group – Accounting in Emerging Economies (AEE). He is a member of the executive committee of the Conference of Professors of Accounting and Finance (CPAF).

Shahzad began his academic career at Islamic University, Bangladesh in 1991. Shahzad received his MSc in accounting and finance from UMIST, UK. He received his PhD in management accounting from University of Manchester. Piror to Essex, he was at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. Shahzad moved to the University of Essex in 2002 as a lecturer prior to becoming a professor of accounting at Essex Business School in 2010. Shahzad has had a number of visiting academic positions at universities in Denmark, France, Malaysia, Oman, India and Bangladesh.

Qualifications

M.Com (Dhaka); MSc (Manchester); PhD (Manchester); FCMA

Research interests
  • Management accounting and corporate governance
  • Accounting, accountability, management accounting and corporate governance in relation to development agendas especially in emerging and transitional countries
  • Management accounting change in transportation industry in the context of structural reforms in the UK
  • He is always willing to consider the supervision of doctoral students with keen interests in such research areas.
Teaching responsibilities
  • BE151 Management Accounting
  • BE154 International Management Accounting
Publications

Articles in refereed journals since 2008:

2013

A Consulting Giant; a Disgruntled Client: a ‘Failed’ Attempt to Change Management Controls in a Public Sector Organisation (with Ashraf, J), Financial Accountability and Management, Vol. 29, pp. 189-205.
The Role of Structure and Agency in Management Accounting Control Change of a Family Owned Firm: A Greek Case Study (with Konstantinos, S and Ashraf, J), Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 24 (1), pp. 62-73.
2012
Accounting and Development (with Wickramasinghe, D., Hopper, T., & Tsamyeni, M.), T. Hopper, S. Uddin, M. Tsamyeni, & D. Wickramasinghe, ed., in Handbook of Accounting and Development, London: Edward Elgar, pp. 1-15, 2012.
Handbook of Accounting and Development (with D. Wickramasinghe, T. Hopper, M. Tsamyeni, S. Uddin) London: Edward Elgar, pp. 1-311, 2012.
Management Control and Privatisation (with Wickramasinghe, D., Hopper, T., & Tsamyeni, M.), T. Hopper, S. Uddin, M. Tsamyeni, & D. Wickramasinghe, ed., in Handbook of Accounting and Development, London: Edward Elgar, pp. 206-223, 2012.
2011
Trying to Make the Typologies of the Spectacle Operational: a Literature Review and a Case Study (with Gumb, B and Kasumba, S), Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 24, No. 3, pp. 288-314. 2011
Management Accounting Research in Public Sector in Emerging Economies: A Critical Evaluation, in M. Abul-Kader (eds.), (with Ashraf, J), Review of Management Accounting Research, Palgrave Publishers, pp. 415-450, 2011.
2009
Management Accounting in a private manufacturing company: Rational VS Familial/Traditional Control, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 20, pp.782-794. 2009
Management Accounting in Less Developed Countries: What We Know and Need to Know, (with Hopper, T., Wickramasinghe, D. and Tsamenyi, M), Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 469-514, 2009.
2008
Introduction to Corporate Governance in Less Developed and Emerging Economies, (with Tsamenyi, M), Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies, Vol. 8, pp. 2-15, 2008
Rationality, traditionalism and the state of corporate governance mechanisms: illustrations from a less developed country, Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 21, No. 7, pp. 1026-105, 2008
Changing Regimes of Control, Public Sector Reforms and Privatisation: A Case Study from China (with Wen, X), Accounting Forum, Vol. 32, Issue 2, pp. 162-177, 2008
Management Controls in Family-Owned businesses (FOBs): A Case Study of an Indonesian Family-Owned University, (with Mathew Tsamenyi and Irvan Noormansyah), Accounting Forum, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 62-74, 2008.
 
Earlier Publications
A Bangladeshi Soap Opera: Privatisation, Accounting, and Regimes of Control in a Less Developed Country, (with Hopper, T.M), Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 26, No. 7/8, pp. 643-672, 2001.
The State They're In: Management Accounting in Developing Countries, (with Hopper, T.M., Wickramasinghe, D.P. and Tsamenyi, M), Financial Management, June, pp. 14-19, 2003.
Accounting for Privatisation: Testing World Bank Claims, (with Hopper, T.M), Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 14, Issue, 7, pp. 739-774, 2003.
Lending Decisions by Financial Institutions for Small Firms, (with Khan, MHA), Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, Vol.19, Issue 7, pp. 251-257, 2004.
Cronyism in Lending Decisions – Evidence from a Less Developed Country, Journal of International Banking Law and Regulation, (with Khan, MHA), Vol.19, Issue 8, pp. 298-303, 2005.
Privatization in Bangladesh: Emergence of Family Capitalism, Development and Change, January, Vol. 36 (1), pp. 157-182, 2005.
Public Sector Reforms and the Public Interest: A Case Study of Performance Monitoring in a Ghanaian State-Owned Enterprise (SOE), (with Tsamenyi, M), Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal Vol.18, No.5, pp. 648-675, 2005.
The Role of Accounting in Lending Decisions for Small Firms: Evidence from a Less Developed Country, (with Khan, MHA), Research in Accounting in Emerging Economies, Vol. 7, pp. 29-53, 2006.
Management Control, Ownership and Development, in M. Mackintosh & R. Roy (eds.), Economic Decentralization and Public Management Reform, London: Elgar, pp. 231-271, 1999 (with Hopper, T.M).
Some Challenges and Alternatives to Positive Accounting Research in Jones, S., Romano, C. and Ranatunga, J. (eds), Accounting Theory: A Contemporary Review, Australia: Harcourt Brace and Company, pp.517-550, 1996 (with Hopper, T.M., Marcia, A, Dastoor, N. and Wickramasinghe, D).

Additional information

Major Honours and Grants Received:

Grant Received from the British Academy for a research project, £7500, 2007-08

Grant received from the Nuffield Foundation for a research project, £7,240, 2003-2005

Grant received from CIMA, UK for a research project £34,000, 1999–2002

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