Kari Lukka
Professor Emeritus
karluk@utu.fi +358 29 450 4998 +358 50 490 3340 Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0365-8417 |
Kari’s research interests as well as his international publication record cover a wide range of management accounting as well as accounting theory and methodology topics. Kari’s teaching focuses on management accounting, but he also gives a course on the philosophy of science and research methodology for doctoral students. He is an Associate Editor of QRAM as well as a member of the Editorial Boards of AAAJ, ABR, AOS, BAR, BRIA, CPA and MAR. In 2015-2019 he served as the International Director of the Management Accounting Section of the AAA. He is a member of the Faculty of the EIASM, too. In that context, he organized and chaired, jointly with Prof. Michael Shields, the biannual conference on “New directions in management accounting” in 1998-2016, and was the coordinating faculty member of the EDEN doctoral course on “Case-based research in management accounting”, organized biannually in 2003-2015. For several decades, Kari has been actively involved in the executive education of the Turku School of Economics. In addition to being a member of the Council of Turku School of Economics, from 2014 until 2021 he was the Chair of the University Collegiate Council of the University of Turku. In 2022 Kari received the Anthony G. Hopwood Award for Academic Leadership from the EAA.
Management accounting and its change
The paradox of digitalisation and validation of information
Tasks and roles of financial managers
Management control in internationally operating firms
Methodology of business studies and philosophy of science
Accounting theory
Management accounting
Methodology of business studies and philosophy of science
- Instrumentalism and the publish-or-perish regime (2023)
- Critical Perspectives On Accounting
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Safeguarding the unknown: performance measurement, academic agency and the meaning of research quality in practice (2023)
- Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The future of critical interdisciplinary accounting research: Performative ontology and critical interventionist research (2023)
- Critical Perspectives On Accounting
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Exploring the "theory is king" thesis in accounting research: the case of actor-network theory (2022)
- Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Sisältölähtöinen versus julkaisuorientoitunut tutkimuksen peruslogiikka: erot ja seuraukset (2022) Avoin, säilyttävä, uudistuva: Turun yliopiston kirjasto 1921–2021 Lukka Kari
(Article in a professional research book (D2)) - Towards interventionist research with theoretical ambition (2022)
- Management Accounting Research
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Memories from Pärnu (2020)
- Baltic Rim Economies
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Muistoja Pärnusta (2020)
- Pulloposti
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Dreaming on a healthier future of scholarly journal publishing (2019)
- Just ODD it!
(Popularised article or blog post (E1)) - Interrelation of controls for autonomous motivation: A field study of productivity gains through pressure-induced process innovation (2019)
- Accounting Review
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Controllers’ use of informational tactics (2018)
- Accounting and Business Research
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Mihin menet, tiede? (2018) Miten menee, markkinointitiede? : professori Rami Olkkosen juhlakirja Kari Lukka
(Book chapter (B2)) - A Dean, a Scholar, a Friend: Texts in appreciation of Markus Granlund (2017) Kari Lukka
(Editorship of a scientific special issue, book or conference proceedings (C2)) - Combining actor-network theory with interventionist research: present state and future potential (2017)
- Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Interpretive Research In Accounting: Past, Present and Future (2017) The Routledge Companion to Qualitative Accounting Research Methods Lukka Kari, Modell Sven
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Investigating highly established research paradigms: Reviving contextuality in contingency theory based management accounting research (2017)
- Critical Perspectives On Accounting
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - On the virtues and vices of combining theories: The case of institutional and actor-network theories in accounting research (2017)
- Accounting, Organizations and Society
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The dynamics of the academic discourse on the role change of management accountants: a Finnish perspective (2017) The Role of the Management Accountant: Local Variations and Global Influences Kari Lukka, Marko Järvenpää
(Refereed article in compilation book (A3)) - Domain theory and method theory revisited: a reply to Lowe, De Loo and Nama (2016)
- Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - The construction of persuasiveness of selfassessment- based post-completion auditing reports (2016)
- Accounting and Business Research
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))