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Matthew Scobie

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Department: Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship

Email: matthew.scobie@canterbury.ac.nz

Phone Number: +64 3 369 3999 ext. null

Office: Meremere 231

Language: English

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Researcher Summary

My research interests are broadly around exploring ways to hold organisations, businesses and governments accountable for their social, environmental, cultural and economic impacts. This is geared towards imagining and creating positive and just futures. This includes a specific focus on Indigenous development and decolonisation, and social environmental accounting/accountability. My doctoral research, for example, explored relationships of accountability within Ngāi Tahu (my iwi) and Indigenous communities through decolonising methodologies.

Currently I am pursuing research projects related to Indigenous development in Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific, community economies in a regenerating Christchurch, democratic accountability in Aotearoa New Zealand and the role of accounting techniques and accountability relations in the dispossession of Indigenous lands, bodies and self-determining authority.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Accounting and Finance: Social & Environmental Accounting
  • Māori Knowledge and Development: Māori Development

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

Journal Articles
  • Fukofuka P., Scobie M. and Finau G. (2023) Indigenous practices of accounting on the ground: a Bourdieusian perspective. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 36(1): 96-119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-11-2021-5529.
  • Finau G. and Scobie M. (2022) Old ways and new means: Indigenous accountings during and beyond the pandemic. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 35(1): 74-84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-08-2020-4753.
  • Vunibola S. and Scobie M. (2022) Islands of Indigenous innovation: reclaiming and reconceptualising innovation within, against and beyond colonial-capitalism. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 52(S1): 4-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2022.2056618.
  • Vunibola S., Steven H. and Scobie M. (2022) Indigenous enterprise on customary lands: Diverse economies of surplus. Asia Pacific Viewpoint 63(1): 40-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/apv.12326.
  • Scobie M., Finau G. and Hallenbeck J. (2021) Land, land banks and land back: Accounting, social reproduction and Indigenous resurgence. Environment and Planning A http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518X211060842.
  • Scobie M., Lee B. and Smyth S. (2021) Braiding together student and supervisor aspirations in a struggle to decolonize. Organization 28(5): 857-875. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13505084211015370.
  • Dombroski K., Diprose G., Sharp E., Graham R., Lee L., Scobie M., Richardson S., Watkins A. and Martin-Neuninger R. (2020) Food for people in place: reimagining resilient food systems for economic recovery. Sustainability (Switzerland) 12(22): 1-17. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12229369.
  • Healy S., Scobie M. and Dombroski K. (2020) Grounded! COVID-19 and Recovering Postcapitalist Possibility in Place. Rethinking Marxism: a journal of economics, culture and society.
  • Scobie M. and Sturman A. (2020) Economies of mana and mahi beyond the crisis. New Zealand Journal of Employment Relations 45(2) http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/nzjer.v45i2.22.
  • Scobie M., Lee B. and Smyth S. (2020) Grounded accountability and Indigenous self-determination. Critical Perspectives on Accounting http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cpa.2020.102198.
  • Scobie MR., Milne MJ. and Love TR. (2020) Dissensus and democratic accountability in a case of conflict. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal 33(5): 939-964. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-11-2016-2780.
  • Scobie M. and Love T. (2019) The Treaty and the Tax Working Group: Tikanga or Tokenistic Gestures? Journal of Australian Taxation New Zealand Special Edition.
Other
  • Scobie M. (2021) Book review: No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal Taylor & Francis (Routledge). http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969160X.2020.1870314.
  • Laine M., Scobie M., Sorola M. and Tregidga H. (2020) Special Issue Editorial: Social and Environmental Account/Ability 2020 and Beyond. Social and Environmental Accountability Journal 40(1): 1-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969160X.2020.1733631.
  • Scobie M. and Love T. (2020) Māori Perspectives in the New Zealand Tax Working Group Report: Tikanga or Tokenistic Gestures? Tax and Transfer Policy Institute. [Blog].
  • Scobie M. (2019) "Hey Bro.". Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu. [Te Karaka].
Chapters
  • Scobie M. (2021) The original instructions of accountability: Pandemic response as old ways and new means. In Ratuva S; Crichton-Hill Y; Ross T; Basu A; Vakaoti P (Ed.), COVID-19, social protection and resilience: A comparative approach Singapore: Springer.Springer.
  • Scobie M., Sorola M. and Finau G. (2021) The Pacific Region. In Bebbington J; Larrinaga C; O'Dwyer B; Thomson I (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Environmental AccountingRoutledge.
Theses / Dissertations
  • Scobie M. (2019) Grounding the concept and practice of accountability: A case study with Ngāi Tahu. Sheffield. University of Sheffield.
  • Scobie MR. (2015) Accountability for Risk in the Deep Sea Petroleum Exploration Arena. Christchurch, New Zealand. University of Canterbury.
Conference Contributions - Other
  • Scobie M. (2019) Cook'n the books: Cook the crook and the introduction of accounting logics. Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Conference, 29 Jun 2019.
  • Scobie M. (2019) Encountering Indigenous thought and practice: Dialogue, inclusion, appropriation? (panel discussion). Oxford Brookes University: Encountering Indigenous thought and politics: Power and ethics in the academy, 7 May 2019.
  • Scobie M. (2019) Grounded accountability in pursuit of self-determination. University of Aberdeen: Accounting, Society and the Environment Workshop, 8 May 2019.
  • Scobie M., Finau G. and Hallenbeck J. (2019) Accounting, accountants, accountability relations and dispossession. University of Auckland: Bringing life’s work to market: A symposium on practices and spaces of marketised social reproduction, 16 Dec 2019.
  • Scobie M. (2018) Renegotiating and reimagining democratic accountability in the process of decolonisation. 30th International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, 27 Aug 2018.
  • Scobie M. (2017) Indigenising the concept and practice of accountability. Royal Geographical Society London: Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, 29 Aug 2017.
Reports
  • Yellowhead Institute. (2021) Cash Back: A Yellowhead Institute Red Paper..

Student Supervision

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  • PhD - Laird L: Diverse perspectives on work: Working towards a resilient urban commons.
  • PhD - Tikao D: An analysis of the Distribution and Management of Indigenous/Maori Wealth in a Post-Settlement Maori Tribe
  • Masters - Paringatai T: Ara Whakamua: succeeding as kaitiaki, towards a sustainble business strategy for Te Ropu Whakahau
  • Completed
  • PhD - Dorji C: Tibetan Peasants in Transition: Farming, Economy and Development in Tibetan Villages in Amdo (2021)

Editorial Work

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  • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal Editorial Board Member ( 2019 - 2023)
  • Social and Environmental Accountability Journal Editor, Special Issue ( 2018 - 2023)

Review and Refereeing

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  • Accounting Forum ( 2020 - 2023)
  • Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal ( 2019 - 2023)
  • Critical Perspectives On Accounting ( 2017 - 2023)
  • New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy ( 2020 - 2023)
  • Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management ( 2017 - 2023)
  • Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal ( 2018 - 2023)
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