Matthew Haigh
Bio:
Matthew’s academic research spans organizational governance, financial services regulation, social and environmental reporting, and investment product marketing. Matthew has tracked the historical shifts in management styles of global SRI products from screening-based approaches, to management consultation, to the lobbying of institutional linkages. His current work identifies how investor-led pressure groups, in seeking to validate SRI practices across financial services, challenge investor governance arrangements and regulatory initiatives. In the area of financial services reform, he has examined the policy implications of Australian and UK regulations which require institutional investors to report how they take into account social and environmental factors. His marketing work includes an economic analysis of the global market share of SRI products and a global study of retail investors’ purchasing intentions. More widely, in the business and society field, Matthew is working on innovative approaches to corporate governance and corporate citizenship.
Matthew’s professional background is in external and internal auditing in both the private and public sectors. Matthew is at the Groupe ESC Toulouse where he lectures in accounting and business ethics. He has also lectured at universities in England, the Netherlands and Australia. He holds a PhD in marketing from Macquarie University.
Selected publications:
‘Management practices in Australasian ethical investment products: a role for regulation?’. 2008. With J. Guthrie.Business Strategy and the Environment, article in-press.
‘A political economy approach to regulated Australian information disclosures’. 2008. With J. Guthrie. Business Ethics: A European Review, article in-press.
‘A convention theory approach to corporate morality’. 2007. Philosophy for Business: Journal of the International Society for Philosophers, 37.
‘What counts in social managed investments: evidence from an international survey’. 2007. Advances in Public Interest Accounting, 13, pp. 35-62.
‘The transnational corporation and new corporate citizenship theory: a critical analysis’. 2007. With M.T. Jones. Journal of Corporate Citizenship, 27, pp. 1-19.
‘A critical review of relations between corporate responsibility research and practice’. 2007. With M.T. Jones. Electronic Journal of Business Ethics and Organization Studies, 12(1), pp. 16-28.
‘Social investment: subjectivism, sublation and the moral elevation of success’. 2006. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 17(8), pp. 989-1005.
‘Camouflage play: making moral claims in managed investments’. 2006. Accounting Forum, 30(3), pp. 267-283.
‘Managed investments, managed disclosures: financial services reform in practice’. 2006. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 19(2), pp. 186-204.
‘Financial markets: a tool for social responsibility?’. 2004. With J. Hazelton. Journal of Business Ethics, 52(1), pp. 59-71.
‘A question of self-definition: The financial services sector has been left to account for itself as ASIC has failed to spell out or define standards for investment disclosures’. 2004. Charter (Journal of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia), 62, pp. 52-55.
Interests:
e-mail: haighmatthew@yahoo.com.au
