Trevor Hopper
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Contact information
Professor Trevor Hopper (Management accounting)
B.Sc.(Bus. Admin.)University of Bradford, M.Phil., University of Aston
Email: trevor.hopper@mbs.ac.uk
Tel: 44 (0) 161 275 4014
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Profile
Trevor Hopper, a business administration graduate of Bradford University and an an M.Phil graduate of Aston University, became a Professor of Management Accounting at the University of Manchester in 1989. Previously he worked as a cost accountant in industry and was a lecturer at Wolverhampton Polytechnic (now Wolverhampton University), Sheffield University, and Manchester University. He has held several visiting appointments including the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA; Queens University, Kingston, Canada; Fukuoka University, Japan; the University of Kyushu, Japan; and Griffith University, Gold Coast, Australia. Professor Hopper retired in September 2003 and now works part time in the School, is an adjunct professor in the School of Accounting and Commercial Law at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand; a visiting professor at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; and Managing Director of THEAS - a research and consultancy business.
Professor Hopper remains an active researcher and has published in leading journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society; Accounting and Business Research; the Auditing, Accounting and Accountability Journal; the European Accounting Review; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Journal of Management Studies; and Management Accounting Research. He has co-edited seven books and contributed articles to many other books and professional journals. He is on the editorial boards of ten academic journals, and was associate editor of Critical Perspectives on Accounting and a co-editor of the British Accounting Review. He was a founding organiser of the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference held at the University of Manchester in 1985 and his involvement continues as a member of the scientific committee of the ninth such conference in Innsbruck, 2009. From 1993-1997 he was the Head of the School of Accounting and Finance. Before and after this he was Director of Research and Postgraduate Studies.
Current activities
These involve mainly staff development and PhD supervision at Manchester and abroad, and various research projects in areas detailed below. In addition he is co-editing a Handbook of Accounting and Development due for publication in 2010.
Research interests
These are concentrated on management accounting and management control systems in both private and public corporations. Particular areas of interest currently include the diffusion and enactment of allegedly new management accounting techniques involving ERPs and SAP, ABC/M, World Class Manufacturing, and BSC; accounting in global corporations and less developed countries; developing social theories of accounting through triangulation, and the history of accounting thought. In general there is a desire to explain management accounting change in its full social, economic and political context based on intensive case study research.
Selected publications
Teaching specialisms
Professor Hopper's teaching is now confined mainly to PHD students.