Professor John Cullen
Professor of Management Accounting
Room: 527
Phone: 0114 22 23429
Fax: 0114 222 3348
email : john.cullen@shef.ac.uk
John Cullen is Professor of Management Accounting in the Management School, having taken up his post on the 1 January 2005.
John's research interests include supply chain management, supply chain accounting, management control and corporate governance. My research is mainly case study based and it has focused on both small and large organisations in the public and private sectors.
He is currently undertaking a major project on reverse logistics in the UK Retail Sector (in collaboration with the University of Cranfield) funded by the Department for Transport. CIMA have also funded some additional research related to the reverse logistics project which looks at the role of management accounting in the management of reverse logistics.
John's main teaching interests are in the area of management accounting and management control. He is the module leader for Advances in Management Accounting (MGT354) and also teach on the postgraduate unit in Strategic Management Accounting (MGT6221). His field for doctoral supervision is management control and issues around supply chain accounting.
John is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Organisational Change and hasreviewed for journals such as British Accounting Review and Management Accounting Research. He is Vice-Chairman of the Committee of Heads of Accounting and is also a member of the Freight Logistics Research Group at the Department for Transport. He is also on the Steering Group of a Regional Innovative Supply Chain and Networks Group. John has undertaken supply chain consultancy projects in a number of organisations.
Selected Publications
Tsamenyi M, Cullen J. and Gonzalez J.M (2006) "Changes in Accounting and Financial Information System in a Spanish Electricity Company: A New Institutional Theory Analysis", Management Accounting Research, Vol. 17, pp. 409-432
Coad A and Cullen J. (2006) "Inter-organisational cost management: towards an evolutionary perspective", Management Accounting Research, Vol. 17, pp. 342-369
Li X, Ogier J and Cullen J (2006) "An economic modelling approach for public sector construction workload", Construction Management and
Economics, Vol. 24, pp. 1137-1147
Bernon M and Cullen J. (2006) "An integrated approach to managing reverse logistics", International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications, Vol. 10, pp.41-56
Berry A.J, Cullen J. and Seal W (2006) "Supply Chains and Management Accounting" in Rhodes E, Warren J.P and Carter R, Supply Chains and Total Product Systems: A Reader, Ch. 2.6, Blackwell.
Dietz G, Cullen J. and Coad A (2005) "Can there be non-union forms of workplace partnership?" Employee Relations, Vol. 27, pp. 289-306.
Berry A.J, Cullen J. and Seal W (2005) "Control of Supply Chains" in Broadbent J, Berry A.J and Otley D, Management Control Theories, Issues and Performance, Ch. 14, Palgrave Macmillan.
Tsamenyi M, Cullen J. and Chivaka R (2005) "Supply Chain and Management Accounting" in Hoque Z, Handbook of Cost and Management Accounting, Ch.19, Spiramus.
Broadbent M and Cullen J. (2005) "Divisional Control and Performance" in Broadbent J, Berry A.J and Otley D, Management Control Theories, Issues and Performance, Ch. 9, Palgrave Macmillan.
Cullen J and Bernon M (2004) "Many happier returns from supply chain management" , CIMA Insight (September).
Bernon M and Cullen. J., (2004) "The Drivers of Product Returns in UK High Street Retailing" , Supply Chain Practice. Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 44-56.
Bernon M, Cullen. J., and Rowat C (2004), , "The Efficiency of Reverse Logistics", Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. London (Work funded by Department for Transport).
Bernon M, Cullen. J., and Rowat C (2004) , "Not Many Happy Returns". Royal Mail.
Richardson S and Cullen. J., (2004) "Disseminating Research through Teaching" in Humphrey C and Lee B, The Real Life Guide to Accounting Research: A Behind the Scenes View of Using qualitative Research Methods. Ch. 27, pp. 465-478.
Perez B.E, Cullen. J., and Gonzalez J.M. (2004) "Impacts of the implementation of ERP systems on cash management: the redesign of treasury processes" , International Journal of Digital Accounting Research. Vol 4, No 7, pp. 31-55 .
Cullen. J., Richardson S and O´Brien R (2004) "Exploring the teaching potential of empirically-based case studies" , Accounting Education: An International Journal. Vol 13, No 2, pp. 251-266.
Seal W, Berry A.J and Cullen. J., (2004) ) "Disembedding the supply chain: institutionalised reflexivity and inter-firm accounting". , Accounting, Organizations and Society. Vol 29, No 1, pp. 73-92.
Cullen J, Joyce J, Hassall T and Broadbent M (2003) "Quality in Higher Education: From Monitoring to Management" , Quality Assurance in Education. Vol 11 No 1, pp. 5 -14 .
Soin K, Seal W and Cullen. J., (2002) "ABC and Organisational Change: An Institutional Perspective" , Management Accounting Research. Vol 13, No 2, pp. 249-271 .
Berry A.J, Cullen. J., and Seal W (2001) "Supply chains: Issues in management accounting", in edited by Eastham J.F, Sharples L and Ball S, , "Food Supply Management" . Ch 11, pp 204-223 Butterworth Heinemann.
Cullen. J., Berry T and Seal W (2001) "Supply Chain and Management Accounting" in edited by J Innes, "Handbook of Management Accounting" . Supplement 5, Ch 29A, pp. 29A/1- 29A/11 Gee Publishing.
Berry A.J, Cullen. J., Seal W.B, Ahmed M and Dunlop A (2000) , "The consequences of inter-firm supply chains for management accounting". CIMA, London.
Richardson S and Cullen. J., (2000) "Autopsy of change: Contextualising Entrepreneurial and Accounting potential in the NHS", Journal of Financial Accountability and Management. Vol 16 No.4 pp.353-372.
Seal W, Cullen. J., Dunlop A, Berry A.J and Ahmed, M (1999) "Enacting a European Supply Chain: A case study on the role of management accounting" , Management Accounting Research. Vol 10, No 3, p303-322.
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