Rice Professor Anderson chosen as 2009 CIMA visiting professor

Shannon W. Anderson, associate professor of Management at the Jesse H Jones Graduate School of Business, has been selected as the 2009 visiting professor of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK (CIMA), the largest worldwide professional body of management accountants. As part of the appointment, Dr. Anderson will provide public lectures to a mixed audience of scholars and practicing management accountants on “Management Accounting in Supply Chains and Alliance Partnerships” at Cardiff University on September 30, 2009 and for CIMA’s London offices on October 5, 2009.
 
"My CIMA appointment will be an excellent opportunity for the exchange of ideas and I expect it to advance my research. Cardiff University is an especially appropriate venue for the academic portion of this appointment as senior faculty members are working in the area of interorganizational management accounting.”
 
Dr.Anderson is currently a professorial fellow at the University of Melbourne. Her research focused on the design and implementation of performance measurement and cost control systems and spans the fields of management accounting and operations research has been published in top academic journals.
 
The lectures will focus on how firms are managing strategic alliances and supply chain partnerships drawn from Dr. Anderson’s recently published July and September 2009 series in the American Accounting Association journal, Accounting Horizons. She will present evidence on how management accounting data and control systems have been adapted to the environment of alliances and partnerships drawing on prior published work as well as two ongoing research projects.
 
She serves as an editor of The Accounting Review and on the editorial boards of the Accounting Organizations and Society, Production and Operations Management, and Management Accounting Research. She has served on numerous committees for the American Accounting Association and the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association. She previously taught at the University of Michigan and worked as an engineer at General Motors Corporation. She received a doctorate and master’s degree in business economics at Harvard University and a B.S.E. in civil engineering with a concentration in operations research at Princeton University.
 
CIMA offers outreach and research grant programs to support academic research. An audiocast of her lecture will be available to both CIMA and The Society of Management Accountants Canada (CMA Canada) 5 p.m. (GMT) on October 6, 2009. Click here to register for the free audiocast.