Professor Michael Davern, CPA holds the Chair of Accounting and Business Information Systems in the Faculty of Business and Economics at The University of Melbourne, and is also honorary Professor of Computing and Information Systems in the Melbourne School of Engineering. His research explores decision making in Accounting and Information Systems across a diverse range of contexts including analytics, business intelligence, ethics, risk management, IT Value, performance management and financial reporting.
For over 25 years, both in Australia and overseas (New York University, University of Minnesota), he has conducted industry engaged research funded by both the corporate sector and Australian Research Council grants. Michael’s work appears in leading journals in both information Systems and accounting as well as practitioner outlets.
With teaching experience across both accounting and information systems at all levels (undergraduate, MBA/Masters, PhD and executive), Michael has received numerous grants for his teaching innovation and has been recognised for his industry-linked teaching initiatives with a Vice Chancellor’s Knowledge Transfer Excellence Award.
In addition to industry experience with PwC and Rio Tinto and scholarly work with the likes of National Australia Bank, EY, CPA Australia, PETRONAS, Microsoft and others, Michael serves on the board of several private sector and non-profit entities.
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Michael Davern's highlights
FEATURED Journal article
Explanations as Discourse: Towards Ethical Big Data Analytics Services
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Robotic Process Automation
Research Contracts
Opportunity or threat: Board perspectives on the secondary use of data
Conference Proceedings
Exploring Returns to Tone at the Top: Developing Guidelines for Effective Risk Management ..
Research Grant
Opportunity or threat: Board perspectives on the secondary use of data
Conference Proceedings
Exploring Returns to Tone at the Top: Developing Guidelines for Effective Risk Management ..
Research Grant
Opportunity or threat: Board perspectives on the secondary use of data
Conference Proceedings
Michael Davern's selected work
Projects
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Project Types
7
Research Grant
2
Research Contracts
Additional Information
Strategic Research Initiatives - 21st Century Corporate Governance and Regulation
Centre for Business Analytics - Investigator. The Ethics of Big Data
ARC Linkage Grant - Chief Investigator. Exploring Returns to Tone-at-the-Top: Developing Guidelines for Effective Risk Management in Retail Financial Services Operations
ARC Linkage Grant - Chief Investigator. Securing the Future of Financial Services: Building a Behavioural Model of the Enablers and Impediments to Effective Operational Risk Management.
ARC Linkage Grant - Chief Investigator. Modelling the adoption and use of virtual services technologies for rural and regional healthcare: Economic and quality of care perspectives.
Scholarly Works
Displaying the 47 most recent scholarly works by Michael Davern.
Honours, Awards and Fellowships
Vice Chancellor's Knowledge Transfer Excellence Award
Credentials
Positions
Positions
Chair Of Accounting And B.I.S.
Accounting
Member Of Abo, Is, Set, Ma And Auditing Sections.
American Accounting Association
Cpa
CPA Australia
Member
Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand
Charter Member. Co-Founder Cognitive Research Sig. Sig Member: Asys, Dsa, Hci
Association for Information Systems
Education
Education
Doctor of Philosophy
University of Minnesota
Bachelor of Commerce (Hons)
University of Tasmania
Bachelor of Commerce
University of Tasmania