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About Dean Neu
Professor Dean Neu is a faculty member in the Schulich School of Business at York University, Toronto, Canada. Prior to joining the faculty, he was the Director of the Centre for Public Interest Accounting and faculty member at the University of Calgary. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Alberta, the University of Toronto and Universidad de Autonoma del Estado de Morelos in Mexico. He is currently the co-editor of Critical Perspectives on Accounting.
As an accounting scholar and activist Dean is committed to unveiling the presence of accounting where we might not otherwise expect to find it, he has in numerous articles and public appearances revealed how accounting plays a mediative role between governments and population segments. Dean?s research and writing demonstrate how accounting, working hand in hand with bureaucracies, shapes and constructs societal governance. In this work, the disguise of accounting as a boring benign appendage to business and government is stripped away to reveal how accounting number play a crucial role in shaping public policy and the perceptions the public has of those policies.
Honours
2016 Winner of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association Award for Distinguished Contribution to Accounting Thought
2006, 2001 Co-winner of Dean's Award for Research Leadership (2006) and winner (2001) for outstanding research leadership over the preceding five year period in the Faculty of Management, Haskayne School of Business
1997 Winner of the Dean's Award for Research Excellence for outstanding research achievements- Haskayne School of Business
1997 Recipient of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Alberta Distinguished Service Award for recognition of outstanding service to the profession over the preceding three year period.
Recent Publications
“Praxis, Doxa and research methods: Reconsidering critical accounting” (with Jeff Everett, Abu Rahaman, and Gajindra Maharaj) Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2015) 32(1).
“Preventing Corruption within Government Procurement: constructing the disciplined and ethical subject.” (with Jeff Everett and Abu Rahaman) Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2015) 28(1).
“Accounting and Sweatshops: Enabling Coordination and Control in Low-Price Apparel Production Chains.” (with Jeff Everett and Abu Rahaman) Contemporary Accounting Research (2014).
“Accounting and networks of Corruption.” (with Jeff Everett, Abu Rahaman, & Daniel Martinez) Accounting, Organizations and Society (2013).
“Trust, Morality, and the Privatization of Water Services in Developing Countries.” (with Everett, J. and Rahaman, A.S) Business and Society Review (2013) 118(4): 539-575.
“Internal Auditing and Corruption within Government.” (with Jeff Everett & Abu Rahaman) Contemporary Accounting Research (2013).
“Les Vérificateurs Internes ‘Sur la Crête’: Idéologie, Politique, Éthique et Lutte Contre la Fraude et la Corruption.” (with Everett, J., D. Neu et A. S. Rahaman) Télescop (2012) 18(3): 131-156.
“Accounting and Undocumented Work.” Contemporary Accounting Research (2012) 29 (1): 13-37.
“Accounting for Social Purpose Alliances: confronting the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa” (with Abu Rahaman & Jeff Everett) Contemporary Accounting Research (2010) 27 (4): 1093-1129.
“The Sign Value of Accounting: IMF structural adjustment programs and African Banking Reform” (with Abu Rahaman, Jeff Everett & Akin Akindayomi) Critical Perspectives on 3 Accounting (2010) 21 (5): 402-419.
Grants
Project Title Role Award Amount Year Awarded Granting Agency Project TitleAccounting and Healthcare in Four Settings RoleCo-Investigator Award Amount$90,000.00 Year Awarded2007-2010 Granting AgencySocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Standard Research Grant Project TitleGoverning Maquila Work: The Role of Monitoring Assemblages RolePrincipal Investigator Award Amount$91,000.00 Year Awarded2007-2010 Granting AgencySocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council - Standard Research Grant
Dean Neu
Professor of Accounting; Area Coordinator, Accounting
PhD (Queen's)CA (Ontario)
MBA (York)
BBA (Wilfred Laurier)