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Alan J. Richardson CV

Alan J. Richardson, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Accounting

Education 

  • Ph.D.  Queen's University, 1985.
  • M.S.  School of Urban and Regional Planning, Queen's University, 1980.
  • B.A.  Faculty of Arts and Science, Queen's University, 1977.

Professional Certifications 

  • FCPA - Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario, 2014
  • CGA - Certified General Accountants of Ontario, 2001
  • CPA - Chartered Professional Accountant - Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, 1990

Professional Memberships 

  • Canadian Accounting Hall of Fame Task Force - Chair, 2018-Present
  • Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) - Life Member, 2004-Present

Employment Experience 

  • Odette Research Chair and Professor of Accounting, Odette School of Business, University of Windsor (July 2012-June 2019), Windsor, Canada-Ontario.
  • Professor, Schulich School of Business, York University (July 2003-June 2012), Toronto.
  • Associate Professor, Queen's University (July 1987-June 2003), Kingston, Canada.
  • Assistant Professor, University of Alberta (July 1985-July 1987), Edmonton.
  • Lecturer, Queen's University (September 1984-July 1985), Kingston, Canada.

Honours and Awards 

  • 2019:  George Baxter Award for Outstanding Contributions to the CAAA, Canadian Academic Accountants Association (CAAA).
  • 2018:  Literati Award (Highly Commended), Emerald Literati Network, Emerald Publishing.  Highly Commended for Jones, D.G.B. and Richardson, A.J. (2017) "Origins of Sports Car Marketing: Early 20th Century British Cyclecars". Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, 9(4): 329-358, doi 10.1108/JHRM-07-2016-0018.
    2017:  Top 20 Most downloaded papers in Journal, Accounting Perspectives.  Paper title: Merging the profession: A social network analysis of the consolidation of the accounting profession in Canada, Vol. 16(2): 83-104. http://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12139
    2014:  Fellowship, Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario.
  • 2014:  Life Membership, Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario.
  • 2012:  Hourglass Award, Academy of Accounting Historians Lifetime Achievement.  The Hourglass Award of the Academy of Accounting Historians is presented annually to an individual who has made a demonstrable and significant contribution to knowledge through research and publication in accounting history.
  • 2010:  L.S. Rosen Outstanding Accounting Educator Award, CAAA - Canadian Academic Accounting Association.  Given by the Canadian Academic Accounting Association contributions to Canadian accounting education over a sustained period of time through: excellence in teaching, publications (books, educational material, case studies, articles in magazines, etc.), educational innovation, research guidance for graduate students, involvement in professional and academic societies and activities..
  • 1988:  Award for Research Excellence, School of Business, Queen's University.

Intellectual Contributions

Books, Monographs, Compilations, Manuals 

  • Richardson, A. J. (2013).  Effective Case Analysis: Techniques for Success in Case-based Learning and Examinations. Toronto:  Captus Press.  
  • Richardson, A. J. (2008).  Cases and Active Learning Exercises in Management Accounting. Toronto:  Thomson Nelson Publishing.  
  • Richardson, A. J. (2007).  Cases in Financial Accounting: A Principles-based Approach. Toronto:  Thomson Nelson Publishing.  
  • Richardson, A. J. (1996).  Research Methods in Accounting: Issues and Debates. Vancouver:  Canadian Certified General Accountants' Research Foundation Monograph No. 25.  
  • Richardson, A. J. (1996).  Disorder and Harmony: Twentieth Century Perspectives on Accounting History - Selected Papers from the Seventh World Congress of Accounting Historians. Vancouver:  Canadian Certified General Accountants' Research Foundation Monograph No. 23.  
  • Richardson, A., Gibbins, M., & Waterhouse, J. (1992).  The Management of Financial Disclosure. Vancouver:  Canadian Certified General Accountants' Research Foundation Monograph No. 20.  

Chapters 

  • Richardson, A. J. (2019). Regulation (1st Ed.). In Edwards, R. & Walker, S. (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Accounting History. London, UK: Taylor & Francis. 
  • Richardson, A. J., & Kutchler, M. (2017). University Sustainability Reporting: A review of the literature and development of a model. In Arevalo, Jorge A. & Mitchell, Shelley F. (Eds.), Sustainability in Management Education: In search of a multidisciplinary, innovative and integrated approach through University leadership, scholarship and partnerships. Edward Elgar Publishing Inc. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (2017). Accountancy Profession. In Roslender, Robin (Ed.), Routledge Companion to Critical Accounting, 1st Ed., Routledge. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (2017). The relationship between management and financial accounting as professions and technologies of practice. In Lukas Goretzki & Erik Strauss (Eds.), The Role of the Management Accountant: Local Variations and Global Influences, 1st Ed., Routledge: Taylor & Francis. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (2014). Accounting Competence: Canadian Experiences. International Handbook of Accounting Education and Certification (pp. 263). International Association for Accounting Education and Research. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (2010). Canada Between Empires. In Poullaos, C. (Ed.), Accountancy and the Empire: the British Legacy of Professional Organization. London UK: Routledge. 
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E. (2008). Regulation (Chapter 14). In Edwards, R. & Walker, S. (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Accounting History. London UK: Taylor & Francis. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (2001). Origins of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association. In Boritz, E. (Ed.), CAAA: 25 Years of Progress (pp. 9-108). Toronto: CAAA. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1997). V.H. Match Company: An internet-based case. In Horngren, Foster, Datar and Teal (Eds.), Cost Accounting - First Canadian Ed., Scarborough, ON: Prentice Hall. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1995). Canada: History of Accounting and Accounting Thought. In Chatfield, M. and Vangermeersch, R. (Eds.), The History of Accounting: an international encyclopaedia (pp. 89-92). New York: Garland Press.  Winner of the 1997 Hourglass Award of the Academy of Accounting Historians as a significant contribution to the history of accounting. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1995). The Behavioural Foundations of Management - Mgmt 912 1994. In Scwindt, R. (Ed.), Business Administration Reading Lists and Course Outlines No.18 (Organizational Behaviour 1: Organizational Behaviour and Theory. Chapel Hill: Eno River Press. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1995). The Governance of Accounting Institutions - Mgmt 912 1994. In Scwindt, R. (Ed.), Business Administration Reading Lists and Course Outlines No.11 (Business Ethics, Regulation and Law). Chapel Hill: Eno River Press. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1995). The Role of Educational Policy in the Legitimation of Professional Status: a case history of the Ontario Accountancy Profession. In Ricker, Eric W. and Wood, Anne B. (Eds.), Historical Perspectives on Educational Policy in Canada: Issues, debates and case studies. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press. 
  • Richardson, A. J. & McConomy, B. (1995). Three Styles of Rule: How the origins and effects of accounting regulations can help us to evaluate proposals for change. In Thorton, D. (Ed.), Accounting Literature: Research of Users. Montreal: Gaeten Morin. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1993). An Interpretive Chronology of the Development of Accounting Associations in Canada: 1879-1979. In Murphy, G. (Ed.), A History of Canadian Accounting Thought and Practice (pp. 551-628). New York: Garland Press. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1993). Who Audits? The emergency of Hegemony in the Ontario accountancy profession. In Murphy, G. (Ed.), A History of Canadian Accounting Thought and Practice (pp. 209-250). New York: Garland Press. 
  • Richardson, A. J. & Lew, B. (1993). Institutional Responses to Bank Failure: a comparative case study of the Home Bank (1923) and the Canadian Commercial Bank (1985) failures. In Murphy, G. (Ed.), A History of Canadian Accounting Thought and Practice. New York, USA: Garland Press. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1993). Professionalization and Intraprofessional Competition in the Canadian Accounting Profession. In Murphy, G. (Ed.), A History of Canadian Accounting Thought and Practice. New York, Garland Press. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1992). Accounting Competence: Canadian Experiences. In Anyane-Ntow, K. (Ed.), International Handbook of Accounting Education and Certification (pp. 263-278). London: Oxford: Pergamon. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1992). Educational Policy and Professional Status: the case of the Ontario Accountancy Profession. In Ricker, E.; Wood, A., and Berard, R. (Eds.), The Historical Analysis of Educational Policy: Canadian and International Perspectives. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. 
  • Richardson, A. J. & Colledge, M. (1990). ArtPrint Ltd. In Gardner, E. (Ed.), Cases in Managerial Accounting: Advanced (pp. 9-19). Toronto: John Wiley and Sons. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1990). Management Accounting - Comm. 313 1989. In Scwindt, R. (Ed.), Business Administration Reading Lists and Course Outlines (pp. 111-117). Chapel Hill: Eno River Press. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1990). The Confederation Life Case: teaching notes. In Gardner, E. (Ed.), Cases in Financial Accounting: Fundamentals, Parts A, B and C (pp. 1-5). Toronto: John Wiley and Sons. 
  • Richardson, A. J. (1990). Accounting Knowledge and Professional Privilege. In Lee, T.A. (Ed.), The Closure of the Accounting Profession (pp. 225-244). New York, USA: Garland Publishing. 
  • Richardson, A. J.; MacDonald, L. & Stein, M. (1989). Cost Accounting for Advanced Manufacturing: a simulation exercise. In Gardiner, E. (Ed.), Innovative Uses of the Computer in Accounting Education. Alberta, Canada: University of Lethbridge Education Resource Centre. 
  • Richardson, A. J. & Gibbins, M. (1988). Behavioural Research on the Production and Use of Financial Information. In Ferris, K. (Ed.), Behavioural Accounting Research: a critical analysis (pp. 15-45). Columbus, OH: Publishing Horizons. 
  • Richardson, A. J. & Curtis, F. A. (1984). Energy Conservation Opportunities in Ontario Legislation for Residential Project Planning. In Curtis, F.A. (Ed.), Energy Developments: The Canadian Solar Energy Association (pp. 815-818). Toronto, Canada: Pergamon Press. 

Journal Articles 

  • Richardson, A. J. & Antunes, P. L. (2018).  A new direction: Editor's reflections on Accounting Perspectives in 2018.   Accounting Perspectives, 17 (4), 499-505, http://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12189.
  • Jones, D. G. & Richardson, A. J. (2017).  Origins of sports car marketing: Early 20th century British Cycle-cars.   Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, 9 (4), 329-358, http://doi.org/10.1108/JHRM-07-2016-0018.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2017).  The discovery of cumulative knowledge: Strategies for designing and communicating qualitative research.   Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, 31 (2), 563-585, http://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-08-2014-1808.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2017).  Merging the profession: A social network analysis of the consolidation of the accounting profession in Canada.   Accounting Perspectives, 16 (2), 83-104, http://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12139.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E. (2016).  Accounting institutions as truce: The emergence of accounting in the governance of transnational mail flows.   Accounting, Organizations and Society, 55, 32-47, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2016.09.004.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2016).  Managing revenue and costs to implement strategy: The conference organizer's dilemma.   Accounting Perspectives, 15 (4), 331-335, http://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12133.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2015).  Quantitative Research and the Critical Accounting Project.   Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 32 (Nov), 67-77, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2015.04.007.
  • Kilfoyle, E. & Richardson, A. J. (2015).  Governance and control in networks: A case study of the Universal Postal Union.   Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, 28 (4), 551-580, http://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-04-2014-1687.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2015).  The Cost of a Telegram: Accounting and the Evolution of International Regulation of the Telegraph.   Accounting History, 20 (4), 405-429, http://doi.org/10.1177/1032373215599409.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2015).  CVS/Caremark: The costs & strategy of a tobacco-free pharmacy.   Accounting Perspectives, 14 (1), 71-85, http://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12042.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2014).  Paradigm Art.   Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 25 (6), 844-845.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E. (2014).  To tip or not to tip, that is the question: Rewarding customer service encounters.   Accounting Perspectives, 13 (4), 301-308, http://doi.org/10.1111/1911-3838.12037.
  • Kilfoyle, E.; Richardson, A. J. & MacDonald, L. (2013).  Vernacular Accountings: Bridging the cognitive and the social in the analysis of employee-generated accounting systems.   Accounting, Organizations and Society, 38 (5), 382-396, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2013.08.001.
  • Brock, D. M. & Richardson, A. J. (2013).  The Development of the Accounting Profession in the Holy Land since 1920: Cultural memory and accounting institutions.   Accounting History Review, 23 (3), 227-252, http://doi.org/10.1080/21552851.2013.850926.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2012).  What do I have to do to get noticed around here?: A comment on Brown and Hackley (2012): 'The greatest showman on earth: is Simon Cowell PT Barnum reborn?'.   Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, 4 (2), 309-315, http://doi.org/10.1108/17557501211224476.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2012).  Paradigms, Theory and Management Accounting Practice: a comment on Parker (2011) 'Qualitative management accounting research: assessing deliverables and relevance'.   Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 23 (1), 83-88, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2011.05.003.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E. (2012).  Merging the Profession: a historical perspective on accounting association managers in Canada.   Accounting Perspectives, 11 (2), 77-109, http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1911-3838.2012.00033.x.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Eberlein, B. (2011).  Legitimating Transnational Standard-setting: the case of the International Accounting Standards Board.   Journal of Business Ethics, 98 (2), 217-245, http://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-010-0543-9.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2011).  Myth, Paradigms and Academic Accounting Research: a comment on ’Reading and Understanding Academic Research in Accounting' (Gordon and Porter, 2009).   Global Perspectives on Accounting Education, 8, 67-77.
  • Annisette, M. & Richardson, A. J. (2011).  Justification and Accounting: Applying sociology of worth to accounting research.   Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, 24 (2), 229-249, http://doi.org/10.1108/09513571111100690.
  • Kilfoyle, E. & Richardson, A. J. (2011).  Agency and Structure in Budgeting: Thesis, antithesis and synthesis.   Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 22 (2), 183-199, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2010.06.013.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2011).  Regulatory Competition in Accounting: a history of the Accounting Standards Authority of Canada.   Accounting History Review, 21 (1), 95-114, http://doi.org/10.1080/21552851.2011.548570.
  • MacDonald, L. D. & Richardson, A. J. (2011).  Does Academic Management Accounting Lag Practice: A cliometric study.   Accounting History, 16 (4), 363-386, http://doi.org/10.1177/1032373211417989.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Young, J. J. (2011).  Histories of Accounting Research: an introduction (Editorial).   Accounting History, 16 (2), 133-137, http://doi.org/10.1177/1032373210397318.
  • Cook, W. D., Raviv, T., & Richardson, A. J. (2010).  Aggregating Incomplete Lists of Journal Rankings: an application to academic accounting journals.   Accounting Perspectives, 9 (3), 217-235.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2010).  Review of Financial Reporting and Global Capital Markets: A History of the International Accounting Standards Committee, 1973-2000.   Accounting Perspectives, 7 (2), http://doi.org/10.1506/ap.7.2.8.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E. (2009).  Accounting in markets, hierarchies and networks: The role of accounting in transnational governance of postal transactions.   Accounting, Organizations and Society, 34 (8), 939-956, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2009.04.002.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2009).  Regulatory Networks for Accounting and Auditing Standards: a social network analysis of Canadian and International standard-setting.   Accounting, Organizations and Society, 34 (5), 571-588, http://doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2008.11.005.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2008).  Organizational Founding, Strategic Renewal and the Role of Accounting: Management accounting concepts in the formation of the 'Penny Post'.   Journal of Management Accounting Research, 20 (s1), 107-127.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2008).  Strategies in the Development of Accounting History as an Academic Discipline.   Accounting History, 13 (3), 247-280, http://doi.org/10.1177/1032373208091528.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2007).  Due Process and Standard-setting: an analysis of due process in three Canadian accounting and auditing standard-setting bodies.   Journal of Business Ethics, 81 (3), 679-696, http://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-007-9540-z.
  • Jones, D. G. & Richardson, A. J. (2007).  The Myth of the Marketing Revolution.   Journal of Macromarketing, 27 (1), 15-24, http://doi.org/10.1177/0276146706296708.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Jones, D. G. (2007).  Professional 'Brand', Personal Identity and Resistance to Change in the Canadian accounting profession: a comparative history of two accounting association merger negotiations.   Accounting History, 12 (2), 135-164, http://doi.org/1177/1032373207076035.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Chotruangprasert, K. (2006).  Cost, Quality and the Management of Transnational Services: a case study of the Universal Postal Union.   Journal of Accounting Case Research, 9 (1), 99-109.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2006).  Auditor Switching and the Great Depression.   Accounting Historians Journal, The, 33 (2), 39-62.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2004).  Applied Research in Accounting: A Commentary.   Accounting Perspectives, 3 (2), 149-168.
  • MacDonald, L. D. & Richardson, A. J. (2004).  Identity, Appropriateness and the Construction of Regulatory Space: the formation of the Public Accountants Council of Ontario.   Accounting, Organizations and Society, 29 (5-6), 489-524, http://doi.org/10.1016/S0361-3682(03)00048-5.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Macdonald, L. D. (2002).  Linking International Business Theory to Accounting History: Implications of the international evolution of the state and the firm for accounting history research.   Accounting and Business Research, 32 (2), 67-78, http://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.2002.9728957.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2002).  Professional Dominance: the relationship between financial accounting and managerial accounting - 1926-1986.   Accounting Historians Journal, The, 29 (2), 91-122.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Macdonald, L. D. (2002).  Alternative Perspectives on the Development of American Management Accounting: Relevance lost induces a renaissance.   Journal of Accounting Literature, 21, 120-156.
  • Richardson, A.J.; Welker, M. & Hutchinson, I. R. (2002).  Managing Capital Market Reactions to Corporate Social Responsibility.   International Journal of Management Reviews, 1 (1), 17-30, http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2370.00003.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2001).  The Canadian audit market in the first half of the twentieth century.   Accounting Historians Journal, The, 28 (2), 109-139.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Welker, M. (2001).  Social disclosure, financial disclosure and the cost of equity capital.   Accounting, Organizations and Society, 26 (7-8), 597-616.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2000).  Building the Canadian Chartered Accountancy Profession: a biography of George Edwards, FCA CBE LLD1861-1947.   Accounting Historians Journal, The, 27 (2), 87-116.
  • Jones, D. G.; Richardson, A. J. & Shearer, T. (2000).  Truth and the Evolution of the Professions: a comparative study of 'Truth in Advertising' and 'True-and-Fair' financial statements in North America during the Progressive Era.   Journal of Macromarketing, 20 (1), 23-35, http://doi.org/10.1177/0276146700201003.
  • McKeen, C. A., & Richardson, A. J. (1998).  Education, employment and certification: an oral history of the entry of women into the Canadian accounting profession.   Business and Economic History (see also Enterprise & Society 1467-2227), 27 (2), 500-532.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1997).  Social Closure in Dynamic Markets: The Incomplete Professional Project in Accountancy.   Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 8 (6), 635-653.
  • Bujaki, M. L. & Richardson, A. J. (1997).  A Citation Trail Review of the Uses of Firm Size in Accounting Research.   Journal of Accounting Literature, 16, 1-27.
  • Baylin, G.; MacDonald, L. & Richardson, A. J. (1996).  Accounting Standard-setting in Canada 1864-1992: A theoretical analysis of structural evolution.   Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation, 5 (1), 113-132.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Darling, C. (1995).  Misconduct in the Marketplace: the interation of the State and Professional bodies in the regulation of professional conduct.   Journal of Accounting Case Research, 2 (3), 27-35.
  • Etherington, L. D. & Richardson, A. J. (1994).  Institutional Pressures on Accounting Education in Canada.   Contemporary Accounting Research, 10 (S1), 161-187.
  • Etherington, L. D. & Richardson, A. J. (1994).  The University Context of Accounting Education in Canada.   Contemporary Accounting Research, 10 (S1), 3-17.
  • Waterhouse, J., Gibbins, M., & Richardson, A. J. (1993).  Strategic Financial Disclosure: Evidence from labor negotiations.   Contemporary Accounting Research, 9 (2), 526-550, http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1911-3846.1993.tb00896.x.
  • Richardson, A.J. (1992).  Civil Rights and Public Accounting: Constitutional challenges to accounting regulation in Canada.   Advances in Public Interest Accounting, 5, 179-199.
  • Lew, B. & Richardson, A. J. (1992).  Institutional Responses to Bank Failure: a comparative case study of the Home Bank (1923) and the Canadian Commercial Bank (1985) failures.   Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 3 (2), 163-183.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1992).  Educational Policy and Professional Status: A case history of the Ontario accountancy profession.   Journal of Canadian Studies, 27 (1), 44-57.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Williams, J. J. (1990).  Canadian Academic Accountants' Productivity: a survey of 10 refereed publications: 1978-1989*.   Contemporary Accounting Research, 7 (1), 278-294.
  • Gibbins, M.; Richardson, A. J. & Waterhouse, J. (1990).  The Management of Corporate Financial Disclosure: Opportunism, ritualism, policies and processes.   Journal of Accounting Research, 28 (1), 121-143.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1990).  Accounting Knowledge and Professional Privilege: a replication and extension.   Accounting, Organizations and Society, 15 (5), 499-501.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1989).  Canada's Accounting Elite: 1880-1930.   Accounting Historians Journal, The, 16 (1), 1-21.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1989).  Corporatism and Intraprofessional Hegemony: a study of regulation and internal social order.   Accounting, Organizations and Society, 14 (5-6), 415-431.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1987).  Professionalization and Intreprofessional Competition in the Canadian Accounting Profession.   Work & Occupations, 14 (4), 591-615.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1987).  Accounting as a Legitimating Institution.   Accounting, Organizations and Society, 12 (4), 341-355.
  • Cooper, W. H. & Richardson, A. J. (1986).  Unfair Comparisons.   Journal of Applied Psychology, 71 (2), 179-184.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Dowling, J. B. (1986).  An Integrative Theory of Organizational Legitimation.   Scandinavian Journal of Management Studies (in 1988: Scandinavian Journal of Management 0956-5221), 3 (2), 91-109.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1986).  The Production of Institutional Behaviour: a constructive comment on the use of institutionalized theory in organizational analysis.   Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences, 3 (2), 304-316.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Harper, S. (1986).  Group Work and Student Culture.   Journal of Management Education, 10 (3), 81-86.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1985).  Symbolic and Substantive Legitimation in Professional Practice.   Canadian Journal of Sociology, 10 (2), 193-152.

Conference Proceedings 

  • Richardson, A. J. & Joshi, A. (1997).  Exploring the Empirical Relationship between Legitimacy and Efficiency: Models and methods.   Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting, Manchester, UK.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1992).  Social Change and Canada’s Accounting Elite.   Collected Papers of the Sixth World Congress of Accounting Historians, Osaka [Tsuji, A., Editor(s)], II, Accounting History Association, 857-884.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Williams, J. J. (1988).  The Evolution of Management Accounting in Canada.  In Craswell, A.T. (Ed.)   Collected Papers of the Fifth World Congress of Accounting Historians, Sydney, Australia [Craswell, A.T., Editor(s)], Accounting History Association.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1986).  Homage to Santa Rosila OR Why are there so many kinds of Accounting Associations?   Canadian Academic Association conference, Winnipeg Canada, Canadian Academic Association.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1985).  The Professionalization of Accountancy in Canada.   Administrative Sciences Association of Canada 1985 Annual Conference, Montreal, 228-240.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1985).  The Production of Institutional Behaviour.   Administrative Sciences Association of Canada 1985 Annual Conference, Montreal, 101-110.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1984).  Professionalization and Intraprofessional Competition: The Canadian Accounting Profession 1889-1940.   Administrative Sciences Association of Canada conference, Guelph, Canada, 139-148.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Curtis, F. A. (1983).  Energy Conservation through Land Use Planning in Eastern Ontario.   Progress in Passive Solar Systems; Proceedings of the American Solar Energy Society, Santa Fe, NM [Hayes, J. and Andrejko, D.A., Editors], 8, American Solar Energy Society, 583-589.

Presentations 

  • Richardson, A. J. & Jones, D. G. (2019, June). Biographical research in accounting: A methodological primer.  Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) annual conference, Ottawa.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Jones, D. G. (2019, April). Biographical research in accounting: A methodological primer.  Meditari/Accounting Forum Joint Conference, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Jones, D. G. (2018, November). Biographical research in accounting: A methodological primer.  Qualitative Research in Accounting, 3rd conference, University of Guelph, Canada.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2018, November). Theoretical challenges in qualitative accounting research: What is theory and what is NOT. Qualitative Research in Accounting, 3rd conference, University of Guelph, Canada.
  • Richardson, A., Eberlein, B., Cho, C. H., & Laine, M. (2018, August). Claiming global legitimacy: Comparing the legitimation strategies of the GRI and IASB.  International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, 30th, St. Andrews, Scotland.
  • Kerr, G.; Richardson, A. J. & Eberlein, B. (2018, May). The dialect of stakeholder engagement and strategy development at the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).  Canadian Academic Accounting Association Annual Conference, Calgary.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Kilfoyle, E. & Hall, M. (2018, February). Vernacular accountings and the information gap in organizations.  Accounting as a Social and Organizational Practice conference, Sydney, Australia.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Kerr, G. & Eberlein, B. (2017, November). The dialect of stakeholder engagement and strategy development at the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). Public Interest Accounting Group workshop, York University, Toronto.
  • Richardson, A.  J. (2017, November). Institutional change in a voluntary organization: Community and market logics in the CAAA. University of Guelph Qualitative Accounting Research Symposium, Guelph, Canada.
  • Kerr, G.; Richardson, A. J. & Eberlein, B. (2017, October). The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI): Social-movement entrepreneurship at the Institutional-Organizational Interface.  Strategic Management Society (SMS) annual international conference, Houston, Texas.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Sandu, A. (2017, June). Institutional change in a voluntary organization: Community and market logistics in the CAAA. Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) 2017 conference, Montreal.
  • Kerr, G.; Richardson, A. J. & Eberlein, B. (2017, May). Entrepreneurial action and strategic change: An historical analysis of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI).  Canadian Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE) annual conference, Quebec City.
  • Richardson, A.J.; Jones, D. G. & Tadajewski, M. (2017, May). The mouse that roared: Cyclecars versus the Ford Model T.  Conference on Historical Analysis and Research in Marketing, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  • Kilfoyle, E. & Richardson, A. J. (2017, April). Localization of global accounting practices: A comparative analysis of practice variation in response to institutional complexity.  Management Accounting as an Organizational and Social Practice (MASOP) conference, Windsor.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Kilfoyle, E. & Hall, M. (2016, December). Negotiating categories and criteria: how users manage the interface between local and central information systems.  Monforma Conference, Clayton, Australia.
  • Kerr, G.; Richardson, A. J. & Eberlein, B. (2016, June). The search for sustainability amidst a movement: Strategic change at the Global Reporting Initiative.  Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Annual conference, Edmonton.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2016, May). Merging the Profession: A social network analysis of the consolidation of the accounting profession in Canada.  Canadian Academic Accountants Association (CAAA) Annual Conference, St. John's, Newfoundland.
  • Jones, D. G. & Richardson, A. J. (2016, April). A Reinterpretation of the Rise and Demise (and Rise) of Cyclecars Business.  The Business History Conference, Portland, Oregon.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2016, January). 'As if': Institutional work and economic outcomes. Invited presentation at University of Guelph Qualitative Accounting Research Symposium, Guelph, Canada.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2015, November). Governance and Control in Networks. MMPA Annual Conference, University of Toronto.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kachler, M. (2015, October). University Sustainability Reporting: A review of the literature and development of a model. Odette Sustainability Symposium, University of Windsor.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2015, October). Integrated Reporting for Sustainability: What to integrate and how? Odette Sustainability Symposium, University of Windsor.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E. (2015, October). Accounting Routines as Truce: The emergence of accounting in the governance of transnational mail flows. Ontario Universities Accounting and Finance Symposium, Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada.
  • Kilfoyle, E.; Richardson, A. J. & Hall, M. (2015, July). ERP Systems and Vernacular Accountings: Reconciling Ontologies and Epistemologies.  Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting conference, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Kilfoyle, E.; Richardson, A. J. & Hall, M. (2015, June). ERP Systems and Vernacular Accountings: Reconciling Ontologies and Epistemologies.  GLOBAL Management Accounting Research Symposium, Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Kilfoyle, E.; Richardson, A. J. & Hall, M. (2015, April). ERP Systems and Vernacular Accountings: Reconciling Ontologies and Epistemologies. Management Accounting as Social and Organizational Practice (MASOP) conference, London, United Kingdom.
  • Brock, D. & Richardson, A. J. (2013). Waves of influence on the Accounting profession in a developing economy: The case of the Holy Land, 1920-2010.  Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA) annual conference.
  • Hutchinson, I.; Richardson, A. J. & Eberlein, B. (2013). (De) Legitimation rhetoric and global governance: The case of International Accounting Standards.  Atlantic Schools of Business Conference, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2013, November). Integrated Reporting for Sustainability: What to Integrate and How? Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, Toronto.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2012, December). Management Accounting and Global Communications.  7th Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting, EIASM, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E. (2012, June). Bringing accounting back in: the emergence of accounting in the governance of transnational mail flows.  International Symposium on Accounting and Control in the Age of Globalization, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E. (2011, August). Bringing Accounting Back in: The emergency of accounting in the governance of transnational mail flows.  American Accounting Association (AAA), Denver, Colorado.
  • Eberlein, B. & Richardson, A. J. (2011, March). Accounting for Implementation: a multi-level analysis of international standard-setting in accounting.  International Studies Association (Panel WA62), Montreal.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Eberlein, B. (2010, September). Legitimating Transnational Private Standard-setting: The International Accounting Standards Board.  American Political Science Association, Washington DC.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Eberlein, B. (2010, June). Legitimating Transnational Private Standard-setting: The International Accounting Standards Board.  Hiil Conference on Private Transnational Regulation: Constitutional Foundations and Governance Design, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E. (2010, May). Analytic Narratives in Accounting History.  European Accounting Association 33rd Annual Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Eberlein, B. (2010, May). Accounting for Implementation: a multi-level analysis of international standard-setting in accounting.  Hiil Conference on Private Transnational Regulation: Constitutional Foundations and Governance Design, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E. (2010, May). Institutionalizing Accounting in the International Postal System: The Universal Postal Union as a network enterprise and institutional entrepreneur.  European Accounting Association 33rd Annual Congress, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E. (2010, April). Institutionalizing Accounting in the International Postal System.  12th Annual Alternative Accountants Conference and Workshop, York University, Toronto.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2009). Diplomatic Resolution of International Cost Allocation Disputes: the co-evolution of accounting institutions in the Eastern Mail Service Arbitrations, 1866-1905.  Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting conference, Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E., & Macdonald, L. (2009, July). Emergent, Local, Innovative and Informal Accounting Systems: a nomological analysis.  Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting conference, Innsbruck, Austria.
  • Kilfoyle, E.; Richardson, A. J. & MacDonald, L. (2008, December). Emergent Local Innovative Informal Accounting Systems: A Nomological Analysis.  Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Kilfoyle, E. & Annisette, M. (2008, July). Accounting Problems and the Formation of the Universal Postal Union.  12th World Congress of Accounting Historians conference, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2008, January). Management Accounting Concepts in the Formation of the 'Penny Post': a present-minded analysis of Rowland Hill's 'Post Office Reform'.  American Accounting Association, Long Beach, CA.
  • Annisette, M.; Richardson, A. J. & Kilfoyle, E. (2007, September). Accounting the Morphing of Costs in a Global Institution: Accounting for Terminal Dues at the Universal Postal Union.  University of Alberta Management Accounting and Globalization Conference, Edmonton.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2007, September). Management Accounting Concepts in the Formation of the 'Penny Post': a present-minded analysis of Rowland Hill's 'Post Office Reform'.  19th Accounting, Business and Financial History Conference, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2007, September). A History of Accounting History: Strategies in the development of an academic discipline.  20th Accounting, Business and Financial History Conference, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2007, August). Standards Wars versus Regulatory Competition: the case of the Accounting Standards Authority of Canada.  Accounting History International Conference, Banff.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2007, May). A History of Accounting History: Strategies in the Development of Academic Discipline. Conference on Historical Research and Analysis in Marketing, Durham, North Carolina.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2006, July). Accounting as a Reflection and Technology of Globalization: the use of accounting at the Universal Postal Station.  8th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting conference, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2006, July). Regulatory Networks for Accounting and Auditing Standards.  8th Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting conference, Cardiff, United Kingdom.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2005, September). Professional 'Brand' Personal Identity and Resistance to Change in the Canadian Accounting Profession.  4th Accounting History International Conference, Braga, Portugal.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Trivedi, S. & Umashanker, V. (2004, December). Restoring Trust in Auditing: the production of trust under risk, uncertainty and ambivalence.  British Accounting Association Special Interest Group for Corporate Governance conference, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Macdonald, L. & Neu, D. (2003, November). Auditor Independence and Family-owned Audit Firms: the Clarkson and Ross Brothers as directors of audit clients.  Academy of Accounting Historians Fall Research Conference, University of North Texas, Denton.
  • Richardson, A. J.& Jones, D. (2003, August). Trust in Marketers during the Progressive Era.  2003 Macromarketing Conference, Mashantucket, CT.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Macdonald, L. (2003, January). Management Accounting Innovation: Dual core theory and evidence.  AAA, San Diego, CA.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Macdonald, L. (2002, December). Management Accounting Innovation: Dual core theory and evidence.  EIASM 3rd Conference on New Directions in Management Accounting, Brussels, Belgium.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2002, August). International Capital Flows and the Global Distribution of the International Accounting Firms.  Professional Service Firm Management workshop, Centre for Professional Service Firm Management, Edmonton.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2002, August). Auditor Switching and the Great Depression in Canada.  9th World Congress of Accounting Historians, Melbourne, Australia.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2001, June). The Origins of the Canadian Academic Accounting Association: the search for a disciplinary and national identity.  Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) annual conference, Halifax.
  • Richardson, A. J (2001, April). The Evolution of the Governance Structures of International Accounting Firms.  Business History Conference, Miami, Florida.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2000, August). Internationalization of Accounting Practice, Education and Research: Future opportunities from an historical perspective. Drexel University International Accounting History Research conference, Philadelphia.
  • Richardson, A. J. & MacDonald, L. (2000, August). Does Academic Management Accounting Lag Practice?  8th World Congress of Accounting Historians, Madrid.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2000, August). The Canadian Audit Market in the First Half of the 20th Century.  8th World Congress of Accounting Historians, Madrid.
  • Richardson, A. J. (2000, January). Why the IASC Gave Up on International Accounting Standard-setting and what it Means to Canada. CGAM Accounting Research conference, Winnipeg.
  • Richardson, A. J. & MacDonald, L. (1999, November). Testing the Relevance Lost Paradigm: Does academic management accounting lag practice?  Academy of Accounting Historians Research Conference, Toronto.
  • Richardson, A. J. & MacDonald, L. (1999, November). On the Relationship between Financial Accounting and Management Accounting in Canada: Sixty years of commentary in cost and management 1926-1986.  Academy of Accounting Historians Research Conference, Toronto.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Baird, C. & Hutchinson, I. (1999, June). IASC or FASB as the Source for Canadian Accounting Standards: a theoretical analysis of the TFOSS recommendations.  Canadian Academic Accounting Association Annual Conference, Toronto.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1999, March). Truth and the Evolution of the Professions: a comparative study of 'Truth in Advertising' and 'True-and-Fair' Financial statements during the Progressive Era in North America.  Business History Conference, North Carolina.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1999, January). How International are the International Accounting Firms? Conceptual and empirical issues in exploring international trade in professional services.  Accounting Organizations and Society conference on 'Internationalizing International Accounting Research', Hong Kong.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1998, June). Towards a Valid Measure of the Degree of Internationalization of the Firm: a constructive comment on Sullivan (1994).  Administrative Sciences Association of Canada Annual conference, Saskatoon.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1998, June). The Evolution of the Structure and Governance of International Accounting Firms: Insights from national histories.  Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Annual Meeting, Saskatoon.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Hutchinson, I. & Zheng, S. (1998, May). Moved: That the Internationalization of Accounting has Made/Will Make National Regulatory Structures Irrelevant.  Canadian Academic Accounting Association Annual Conference, Saskatoon.
  • Richardson, A. J. & McKeen, C. (1998, March). Education, Employment and Certification: An oral history of the entry of women into the Canadian Accounting profession.  Business and Economic History conference, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1997, December). The Anatomy of Disclosure Management.  Academy of Business Administration Global Trends conference, Aruba.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1997, April). A Citation Trail Review of the uses of Firm Size in Accounting Research.  European Accounting Association, Graz, Austria.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1997, February). Technology in Business Education at Queen's University. Invited presentation at Centre for Educational Technology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Bujaki, M. (1995, April). Firm Size in Accounting Research: An analysis of discriminant validity.  American Accounting Association Northeast Regional meeting, Washington, DC.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Joshi, A. (1993, August). Legitimacy and Efficiency: Conceptual models and empirical methods.  American Sociological Association, Organizations and Occupations section, Miami, Florida.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1993, June). Biographical Research in Business History.  Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Annual Meeting, Banff.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Bujaki, M. & McKeen, C. (1993, April). Locating the Glass Ceiling for Women Management Accountants: Towards the development of a measurement instrument.  Critical Perspectives in Accounting conference, New York City, New York.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Sterling, M., Seaman, A. & McConomy, B. (1993, April). Lobbying Behaviour at the Ontario Securities Commission: the case of management discussion and analysis requirements (Policy 5.10).  Critical Perspectives in Accounting conference, New York City, New York.
  • Richardson, A. J. & McKeen, C. A. (1992, June). Gender and the Accountancy Profession: an oral history of women pioneers in the Canadian Accounting profession.  Canadian Academic Accounting Association, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1992, May). Social Closure in Dynamic Markets: The incomplete professionalization project in accounting.  Symposium on the Management of Professional Firms in Changing Environments, Edmonton.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1991, March). Civil Rights and Public Accounting: Constitutional challenges to accounting regulations in Canada.  Critical Perspectives in Accounting conference, New York City, New York.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Williams, J. J. (1989, June). Canadian Academic Accountants' Productivity: A survey of 10 refereed journals 1978-1988.  Canadian Academic Accounting Association, Montreal.
  • Richardson, A. J. & McKeen, C. A. (1988, November). Women, Accounting Education and the Profession in Canada: an historical survey.  Canadian Academic Accounting Association, Montreal.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1986, October). The Role of Educational Policy in the Legitimation of Professional Status: a case history of the Ontario accountancy profession.  Canadian History of Education Association, Halifax.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Dowling, J. B. (1985, June). Organizational Legitimation as a Semiotic Process.  European Group for Organizational Studies - 7th Colloquium, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1983, June). Symbolic and Substantive Legitimation in Professional Practice.  Canadian Student Pugwash Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1983, June). The Economics of Dual Loyalty: A perspective on the structure of professional employment relations.  Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) annual conference, Vancouver.

Other Publications 

Book Reviews

  • Richardson, A. J. (2011), Accounting in Networks [Hakansson, Kraus & Lind]. International Journal of Accounting, 46(3), Routledge London.  Routledge London
  • Richardson, A. J. (2008), Financial reporting and Globe Capital Markets: a history of the International Accounting Standards Committee 1973-2000 [Camfferman & Zeff]. Accounting Perspectives, 7(2): 173-180, Oxford University Press, UK.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1995), Policing accounting knowledge: The market for excuses affair [Tinker & Puxty]. The Accounting Historians Journal, 22(2): 160-162, Macus Weiner: Princeton.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1992), Making corporate reports valuable: A survey of corporate reporting practices by major U.K. companies [Gray, Roberts & Gordon]. Accounting Review (0001-4826), 67(2): 449-450, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1991), Managing the non-profit organization [Drucker]. The Philanthropist (0316-3849), 10(1): 46-49, Harper Collins New York.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1990), Accounting regulation and elite structures: Driving forces in the development of accounting policy [Jonnson]. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 3(2): 74-76, John Wiley & Sons UK.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1990), Cost management for today's advanced manufacturing: the CAM-I conceptual design [Berliner & Brimson]. Contemporary Accounting Research, 6(2): 593-596, Harvard Business School Press, Boston.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1990), Ethics and Professionalism [Kultgen]. Journal of Business Ethics, 9: 29-30, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1986), The merchant in German literature of the Enlightenment [Van Cleve]. Queen's Quarterly: a Canadian Review (0033-6041), 93(4): 947-949, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, NC.

Non-refereed Publications

  • Richardson, A. J.; Gibbins, M. & Waterhouse, J. (2002), Major League Decision: Designing a Product Costing System, Magazine, March/April, 30-3.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1999), Mind Your Appearance, CGA Magazine, October, 16-23. Also published in French as Gare aux apparences in CGA Magazine, and reproduced for use in GCA Cours AU2 from 2000-2004.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1996), Transnational Professional Service Firms.  CGA Ontario International Business Research Centre at Queen's University
  • Richardson, A. J.; Gibbins, M. & Waterhouse, J. (1992), Managing Financial Disclosure. CGA Magazine, October, 45-75.
  • Richardson, A. J. & McKeen, C.A. (1992), Still Bumping Up Against the Glass Ceiling. CMA Magazine, May, 22-26. Also published in French, pp. 18-23.  
  • Richardson, A. J. & McKeen, C.A. (1992), Letters to the Editor, CMA Magazine, September, 5-6.
  • Richardson, A. J. & McConomy, B. (1992), Three Styles of Rule: How the origins and effects of accounting regulations can help us to evaluate proposals for change. CMA Magazine, May 1992, 40-44. Also published in French, 35-40, Mai 1992.  Reprinted in Thornton, D. [Ed.] "Accounting Literature: Research of Users", Prentice Hall Toronto (1995) and in Thornton, D. [Ed.] Gaeten Morin: Montreal 1995.
  • 1989: Richardson, A., Gibbins, M., & Waterhouse, J., If Numbers Could Speak. CA Magazine, October 1989,  33-39.
  • 1987: Richardson, A., Maturing in hard times: Canada's Department of Finance through the Great Depression [Bryce]. Queen's Quarterly: a Canadian Review (0033-6041), 94(2): 455-457, McGill/Queen's Press, Kingston, Canada.
  • 1985: Richardson, A., MacDonald, V.N., & Martin, M.A., Physical and Verbal Excesses in Policing. Canadian Police College Journal, 9(3): 295-341. Also in French, pp. 324-373.

Grants (Competitive; Funded only) 

  • Richardson, A. J. (2010-2013). Management Accounting and Global Communications ($69,498), SSHRC.  
  • Richardson, A. J. & Eberlein, B. (2010-2012).  International Standard-setting for Corporate Reporting: the legitimacy of private global governance and congruence with domestic standard-setting processes ($19,432), SSHRC.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Eberlein, B. (2010). Private Transnational Regulation: Constitutional foundations and governance design ($200,000), The Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law (HiiL).
  • Richardson, A. J.  & Annisette, M. (2007-2010), The Relationship Between Accounting and Globalization: examining the changing use of accounting by the Universal Postal Union ($39,000), SSHRC.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Macdonald, L. (2004-2006), Informal Accounting Systems as Sources of Management Accounting Innovation ($30,500), SSHRC.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Macdonald, L. & Neu, D. (2001). Auditors as Company Directors: the case of family audit firms in Canada ($3,663), Canadian Academic Accounting Association.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1995-2001) CGA-Ontario International Business Research Centre at Queen's University ($263,694), CGA Ontario.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1994-1996). Order and Disorder: Selected papers from the 7th World Congress of Accounting Historians 1996 ($68,470), CGA Research Foundation, SSHRC, Academy of Accounting Historians, Queen's University (Canada), Society of Management Accountants of Ontario, and CGA Ontario.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1993-1995). Research Methods in Accounting: Issues and Debates ($35,000), Canadian Certified Accountants Research Foundation.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Amernic, J., Bedard, J., Dodds, C., Fortin, A., Scott, W., Teissen, P. & Gibbins, M. (1992), CAAA Research Project on Canadian University Accounting Education ($3,110), Canadian Academic Accounting Association (CAAA).
  • Richardson, A. J.; Waterhouse, J. & Armitage, H. (1992-1994), Understanding organizational change: Factors contributing to the successful implementation of advanced management control systems ($11,668), Society of Management Accountants of Canada.
  • Richardson, A.J.; Waterhouse, J. & Armitage, H. (1992), Understanding organizational change: Factors contributing to the successful implementation of advanced management control systems ($7,834), SSHRC.  
  • Richardson, A. J. (1988). A Reference Chronology of Significant Events in the History of the Accounting Profession in Canada ($6,200), Queen's University.
  • Richardson, A. J. & Williams, J. J. (1988-1989), The Evolution of Management Accounting in Canada ($2,600), Queen's University.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1988-1991). Canada's Accounting Elite: 1880-1980 ($4,356), Advisory Research Committee, Queen's University.
  • Richardson, A. J.; Waterhouse, J. & Gibbins, M. (1986-1991), The Management of Financial Disclosure ($35,545), SSHRC, CGA Canada Research Foundation, University of Alberta and CAAA.
  • Richardson, A. J. (1986). Accounting Knowledge and Professional Privilege ($1,800.00), Employment and Immigration Canada SEED Grant.

Research Reports 

  • Richardson, A. J. (1999), The Case for International Accounting Standards in Canada - a detailed report., submitted to CGA Canada.