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Professor Kerry Humphreys

Professor of Accounting, UNSW Business School.

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Monash University launched Monforma in 2009, aiming to enrich the discussion amongst academics, as well as promote and initiate research opportunities within the Management Accounting discipline. Monforma is hosted by the Department of Accounting at Monash University. The next Monforma conference will be held in Melbourne on 27–29 November 2024.

Monforma seeks to offer well-established and early-career researchers the opportunity to present and receive feedback on their work in a constructive environment. It also strives to create conditions to foster the development of networking opportunities among peers. Conference attendees are academics from Australian and overseas universities.

Monforma has featured many prominent management accounting speakers including:
- Isabella Grabner - WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Austria
- Lukas Goretzki - Department of Accounting, Stockholm School of Economics (SEE), Sweden
- Margaret Abernethy - The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Chris Chapman - The Imperial College, London, UK
- Mandy Cheng - University of New South Wales, Australia
- Robert Chenhall - Monash University, Australia
- Henri Dekker - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Clinton Free - University of New South Wales, Australia
- Sue Haka - Michigan State University, USA
- Kim Langfield-Smith - Monash University, Australia
- Stewart Lawrence - University of Waikato, New Zealand
- Theresa Libby - University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- Sue Llewellyn - University of Manchester, UK
- Kari Lukka - Turku School of Economics, Finland
- Jan Mouritsen - Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Deryl Northcott - Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
- Paolo Quattrone - University of Manchester, UK
- Karen Sedotale - Goizueta Business School, Emory University
- Mike Shields - Michigan State University, USA
- Kirsty Towry - Emory University, USA
- Jeffrey Unerman - School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Sally Widener - Rice University, USA
- Michael Williamson - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

TIME (AEDT)	SESSION
9.00 – 9.50am	REGISTRATION
9.50 – 10.00am	WELCOME By: Prof Michaela Rankin (Head of Department) JOINT WELCOME A/Prof Carly Moulang, A/Prof Christo Karuna (on behalf of Monforma organising committee)
10 – 11am	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Redefining the performance frontier: How can performance management research enhance managers’ strategic and sustainability decision-making? By: Prof Kerry Humphreys (UNSW Business School)
11.00 – 11.30am	MORNING TEA
11.30am – 12.30pm	SESSION 1 Chair: A/Prof Carly Moulang, Monash Business School Presentations *Care as a response to paradoxical experiences of empowerment and control: a case study in residential aged care.* By: Rachael Lewis (UNSW) *Accounting and clinical information technology balance and complementarities in US hospitals* By: Fiona Roeslim (University of Western Australia)
12.30 – 1.30pm	LUNCH
1.30 – 3.00pm	SESSION 2 Chair: A/Prof Paul Thambar, Monash Business School Presentations *Efficiency, technology and productivity change in Australian universities: A two-decade analysis.* By: Amir Moradi (Swinburne University of Technology) *Qualitative research analysis in the digital era: Showcasing Leximancer in accounting journals across 2008-2023* By: Angela Liew (University of Auckland) *Multimodality and Counter Accounts on Social Media* By: Yuki Guo (University of Auckland)
3.00 – 3.30pm	AFTERNOON TEA
3.30 – 5.00pm	SESSION 3 Chair: Prof Matt Hall, Monash Business School Presentations *Does Group Identity Hinder Employee Learning?* By: Ajanee Ranasinghe (Tilburg University) Incentive contracts and the timing to introduce overriding on employee learning By: Stijn Masschelein (University of Western Australia) *Accounting as a First Responder: Sensemaking in times of crisis* By: Prabhu Sivabalan (University of Technology Sydney)
5.30 – 9.00pm	NETWORKING DRINKS FOLLOWED BY DINNER Venue: The Glasshouse, Caulfield

TIME (AEDT)	SESSION
9.30 – 10.30am	KEYNOTE PRESENTATION Relevance lost – how to bridge the gap between academia and practice By: Prof Utz Schäffer (WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management)
10.30 – 11.00am	MORNING TEA
11.00am– 12.30pm	SESSION 4 Chair: Prof Ralph Kober, Monash Business School Presentations *The Roles of Boundary Objects in Healthcare Management Control System Creation* By: Isabella Li Victoria (University Wellington) *Managerial Performance Evaluation using Financial and ESG Measures* By: Caitlin Brines (UNSW) *The benevolent dictatorship: navigating digital surveillance in a purported realm of flexibility and autonomy* By: A/Prof Aldonio Ferriera (Monash Business School)
12.30 – 1.30pm	LUNCH
1.30 - 3.00pm	SESSION 5 Chair: A/Prof Christo Karuna, Monash Business School Presentations *Knowledge-sharing when a task has a social objective: the effect of relative performance and rankings* By: Mandy Cheng (UNSW) Cybersecurity and internal resource allocation By: Swetha Agarwal (Indian School of Business) Internal Information Quality after a Merger or Acquisition, and its external consequences By: Tiange Zheng (University of Western Australia)
3.00 – 3.15pm	CLOSURE OF CONFERENCE
3.15 - 4.00pm	AFTERNOON TEA AND NETWORKING

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