Professor Clinton Free
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Professor Clinton Free

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Professor Clinton Free

Clinton Free is a Professor in the Discipline of Accounting, Governance and Regulation at the University of Sydney Business School.

He researches and teaches in the areas of white-collar crime, corporate governance and leadership, and management accounting and auditing. He has been awarded a large number of competitive research grants including an Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellowship, an ARC Linkage Grant and a major grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in Canada.

Professor Free has published very widely in leading international academic journals and presented at, as well as organized, a variety of international conferences. He sits on eight editorial boards of several leading journals includingAccounting, Organizations & Society, Contemporary Accounting ResearchandManagement Accounting Research.

Professor Free has consulted to a variety of organisations in both the private and public sectors and has been involved with executive education for almost two decades. He has also won several teaching awards for teaching both undergraduate and post-graduate courses. He holds Commerce and Law degrees from UNSW and a doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and has served on faculties and taught MBA courses at Oxford University (UK), Queen's School of Business (Canada), Cornell University (USA) as well as UNSW Sydney. Clinton was formerly the Deputy Dean and Head of School of the University of Sydney Business School, Academic Director and Director of the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Law, Markets and Regulation.

  • EMBA6001 EMBA Report
  • EMBA6002 Reframing Leadership
  • EMBA6003 Managing Connected Enterprises
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Nature Positive: investigating institutional investor response to the biodiversity crisis through a paradox perspective.Darya BOUKATA

Publications

Journals

  • Free, C., Jones, S., Tremblay, M. (2024). Greenwashing and sustainability assurance: a review and call for future research. Journal of Accounting Literature, Published online: 20 March 2024. [More Information]
  • McDaid, E., Andon, P., Free, C. (2023). Algorithmic management and the politics of demand: Control and resistance at Uber. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 109, 101465. [More Information]
  • Free, C., Overland, J., Guerit, C. (2023). From the Ashes of the Anti-Phoenix: A Critique of Australia’s Illegal Phoenixing 2020 Reforms. Company and Securities Law Journal, 40(2), 101-115.

2024

  • Free, C., Jones, S., Tremblay, M. (2024). Greenwashing and sustainability assurance: a review and call for future research. Journal of Accounting Literature, Published online: 20 March 2024. [More Information]

2023

  • McDaid, E., Andon, P., Free, C. (2023). Algorithmic management and the politics of demand: Control and resistance at Uber. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 109, 101465. [More Information]
  • Free, C., Overland, J., Guerit, C. (2023). From the Ashes of the Anti-Phoenix: A Critique of Australia’s Illegal Phoenixing 2020 Reforms. Company and Securities Law Journal, 40(2), 101-115.

2022

  • Andon, P., Free, C., Radcliffe, V., Stein, M. (2022). Boundary work at the margins of politics and auditing: rationalising advertising probity in Ontario. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 35(8), 1830-1861. [More Information]

2021

  • Cuganesan, S., Free, C. (2021). Employees' identification and management control systems: a case study of modern policing. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(1), 31-53. [More Information]
  • Free, C., Hecimovic, A. (2021). Global supply chains after COVID-19: the end of the road for neoliberal globalisation? Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(1), 58-84. [More Information]
  • Free, C., Trotman, A., Trotman, K. (2021). How Audit Committee Chairs Address Information-Processing Barriers. The Accounting Review, 96(1), 147-169. [More Information]

2020

  • Free, C., Radcliffe, V., Spence, C., Stein, M. (2020). Auditing and the Development of the Modern State. Contemporary Accounting Research, 37(1), 485-513. [More Information]
  • Andon, P., Free, C. (2020). Strain, coping and sustained fraud offending. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice, 596, 1-14. [More Information]

2019

  • Andon, P., Free, C. (2019). Accounting and the business of sport: past, present and future. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 32(7), 1861-1875. [More Information]
  • McDaid, E., Boedker, C., Free, C. (2019). Close encounters and the illusion of accountability in the sharing economy. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 32(5), 1437-1466. [More Information]
  • Dai, N., Free, C., Gendron, Y. (2019). Interview-based research in accounting 2000-2014: Informal norms, translation and vibrancy. Management Accounting Research, 42, 26-38. [More Information]

2018

  • Kenno, S., Free, C. (2018). Fostering and forcing uses of accounting: Labour-management negotiations in the automotive crisis in Canada 2008-2009. Management Accounting Research, 39, 17-34. [More Information]
  • Andon, P., Free, C., Jidin, R., Monroe, G., Turner, M. (2018). The Impact of Financial Incentives and Perceptions of Seriousness on Whistleblowing Intention. Journal of Business Ethics, 151(1), 165-178. [More Information]

2016

  • Murphy, P., Free, C. (2016). Broadening the fraud triangle: Instrumental climate and fraud. Behavioral Research in Accounting, 28(1), 41-56. [More Information]

2015

  • Andon, P., Free, C., O'Dwyer, B. (2015). Annexing new audit spaces: challenges and adaptations. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 28(8), 1400-1430. [More Information]
  • Free, C. (2015). Looking through the fraud triangle: A review and call for new directions. Meditari Accountancy Research, 23(2), 175-196. [More Information]
  • Andon, P., Free, C., Scard, B. (2015). Pathways to accountant fraud: Australian evidence and analysis. Accounting Research Journal, 28(1), 10-44. [More Information]

2014

  • Hayne, C., Free, C. (2014). Hybridized professional groups and institutional work: COSO and the rise of enterprise risk management. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 39(5), 309-330. [More Information]
  • Andon, P., Free, C. (2014). Media coverage of accounting: The NRL salary cap crisis. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 27(1), 15-47. [More Information]
  • Andon, P., Free, C., Sivabalan, P. (2014). The legitimacy of new assurance providers: Making the cap fit. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 39(2), 75-96. [More Information]

2013

  • Free, C., Radcliffe, V., White, B. (2013). Crisis, Committees and Consultants: The Rise of Value-For-Money Auditing in the Federal Public Sector in Canada. Journal of Business Ethics, 113(3), 441-459. [More Information]

2012

  • Andon, P., Free, C. (2012). Auditing and crisis management: The 2010 Melbourne Storm salary cap scandal. Accounting, Organizations and Society, 37(3), 131-154. [More Information]

Selected Grants

2017

  • Serious Workplace Fraud: How it is Sustained and how Organisations Respond, Free C, Andon P, Newlan D, Australian Research Council (ARC)/Linkage Projects (LP)