Basil Tucker

Teaching Strengths

Management Accounting
Introductory Accounting
Management Control
Research Methods

Dr Basil Tucker

Senior Lecturer

School of Accounting and Finance

College of Business and Law

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

Available For Media Comment.

Dr Basil Tucker is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting within UniSA Business, course co-ordinator of the MBA course, Accounting for Decision Making and Coordinator of the Humanities, Arts & Social Science Space & Cosmology (HASS) Research Group. Basil was a lecturer in Accounting within the International Graduate School of Business, and, is Discipline Leader for the course, Accounting For Decision Making. Basil has also taught in introductory accounting and management accounting courses Undergraduate as well as in Post-graduate Programs.
Before joining UniSA, Basil had been a Management Consultant – firstly with an international consulting firm, and then with a South Australian based practice. He has over twelve years consulting experience and has undertaken assignments with more than 120 organisations in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Basil’s career experience also includes working in the not-for-profit, healthcare, media and manufacturing industries.
Basil has been a member of the Board of Management of several South Australian organisations, is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, Company Directors Course, and a CPA.
Basil's research interests include bringing Humanities, Arts, & Social Science perspectives in research, education, and consulting to the space sector, the relationship between management control systems and strategy; management control; the management techniques developed by Ricardo Semler; social network theory; the ways in which academic research engages with practice.

UniSA Business School Research Excellence Awards: Research Commendation (2019)

Year Citation
2025 Tucker, B. P., & Alewine, H. C. (2025). Evaluating investment in space programs: a case for theoretical pluralism. Financial Accountability & Management, online, 1-17.
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2025 Tucker, B. P., & Nash, E. (2025). Good for business: towards a management control research agenda relating to the employment of workers with intellectual disability. Journal of Accounting Literature, 47(1), 129-149.
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2025 Tucker, B. P., & Alewine, H. C. (2025). Like a Phoenix from the Ashes: management control and organizational resilience during NASA's Apollo and space shuttle programs. Abacus, 61(1), 23-52.
DOI Scopus2 WoS4
2025 Tucker, B. P. (2025). Emails: When management control works too well …. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal, 38(4), 1322.
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2024 Tucker, B. P., & Alewine, H. C. (2024). Not because it is easy … accounting research enters the space age. Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, 37(5), 1245-1257.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2024 Grossi, G., Laguecir, A., Ferry, L., & Tucker, B. (2024). Accounting and accountability for managing diversity tensions in hybrid organisations. British Accounting Review, 56(5, article no. 101470), 1-12.
DOI Scopus12 WoS12
2024 Tucker, B., Parker, L. D., & Scully, G. (2024). Dysfunctional behaviour in university accounting schools: a tale of management control. Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change, 20(1), 21-57.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2023 Tucker, B. P., & Alewine, H. C. (2023). The roles of management control: lessons from the Apollo Program. Contemporary Accounting Research, 40(2), 1046-1081.
DOI Scopus4 WoS5
2023 Tucker, B. P. (2023). Vanishing down the black hole of reviewing delays. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 36(2), 766-767.
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2023 Tucker, B. P., & Alewine, H. C. (2023). Everybody's business to know about space: cross-disciplinarity and the challenges of the new space age. Space Policy, 66(101573), 1-11.
DOI Scopus14 WoS10
2023 Tucker, B., & Alewine, H. (2023). Solutions looking for problems? How the humanities, arts and social sciences can inform the space sector. Space Policy, 67(101595), 1-13.
DOI Scopus2 WoS2
2022 Tucker, B., & Alewine, H. C. (2022). It's not rocket science: Humanities, arts and social sciences in the space sector. Journal of Behavioural Economics and Social Systems, 4(2), 1-15.
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2022 Tucker, B. P., & Alewine, H. C. (2022). Space for accounting and accountability: realising potential management accounting research contributions to the space sector. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 35(6), 1353-1374.
DOI Scopus14 WoS12
2021 Tucker, B., Halkett, I., & James, A. (2021). Necessity: the mother of invention? The tension between management control and creativity: lessons from Apollo 13. Journal of Management Accounting Research, 33(3), 163-188.
DOI Scopus14 WoS12
2021 Tucker, B. P. (2021). Jumping through hoops: publishing interview-based management accounting research. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 34(1), 223-241.
DOI Scopus24 WoS23
2021 Tucker, B. P., & Alewine, H. (2021). The sunk cost fallacy and throwing the baby out with the bathwater: a little like rocket science. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 34(4), 1016-1017.
DOI Scopus4 WoS4
2020 Martin Sardesai, A., Guthrie, J., & Tucker, B. P. (2020). What you see depends on where you look: performance measurement of Australian accounting academics. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 33(6), 1193-1218.
DOI Scopus36 WoS30
2020 Tucker, B. P., & Parker, L. D. (2020). The question of research relevance: a university management perspective. Accounting, auditing & accountability journal, 33(6), 1247-1275.
DOI Scopus14 WoS10
2020 Tucker, B., Ferry, L., Steccolini, I., & Saliterer, I. (2020). Debate: The practical relevance of public sector accounting research; time to take a stand-A response to van Helden. Public money and management, 40(1), 5-7.
DOI Scopus9 WoS7
2020 Tucker, B. P., & Lawson, R. (2020). EMBAs perceived usefulness of academic research for student learning and use in practice. The British Accounting Review, 52(5, article no. 100877), 1-17.
DOI Scopus9 WoS7
2020 Tucker, B. P., & Scully, G. (2020). Fun while it lasted: executive MBA student perceptions of the value of academic research. Accounting Education, 29(3), 263-290.
DOI Scopus5 WoS4
2019 Tucker, B. P., & Tilt, C. A. (2019). 'You know it when you see it': in search of 'the ideal' research culture in university accounting faculties. Critical perspectives on accounting, 64(102069), 1-21.
DOI Scopus13 WoS10
2019 Tucker, B., & Parker, L. (2019). Researcher perceptions and choices of interview media: the case of accounting research. Accounting and finance, 59(3), 1489-1517.
DOI Scopus16 WoS14
2019 Tucker, B. P., Waye, V., & Freeman, S. (2019). The use and usefulness of academic research: an EMBA perspective. International journal of management education, 17(3), 1-18.
DOI Scopus12 WoS8
2019 Tucker, B. (2019). Heard it through the grapevine: conceptualizing informal control through the lens of social network theory. Journal of management accounting research, 31(1), 219-245.
DOI Scopus31 WoS25
2018 Tucker, B. (2018). How to deal with rejections: use of the middle finger. Accounting, auditing & accountability journal, 31(6), 1830.
DOI Scopus1 WoS1
2018 Leach, M. J., & Tucker, B. (2018). Current understandings of the research-practice gap in nursing: a mixed-methods study. Collegian, 25(2), 171-179.
DOI Scopus41 WoS32
2017 Leach, M. J., & Tucker, B. (2017). Current understandings of the research-practice gap from the viewpoint of complementary medicine academics: a mixed-method investigation. Explore: the journal of science and healing, 13(1), 53-61.
DOI Scopus20 WoS18 Europe PMC14
2017 Tucker, B., & Lawson, R. (2017). Moving academic management accounting research closer to practice: a view from US and Australian professional accounting bodies. Advances in management accounting, 27, 167-206.
DOI Scopus9
2017 Tucker, B. P. (2017). Figuratively speaking: analogies in the accounting classroom. Accounting education, 26(2), 166-190.
DOI Scopus16 WoS12
2016 Tucker, B. P., Parker, L. D., & Merchant, K. A. (2016). With a little help from our friends: an empirical investigation of co-authoring in accounting research. British accounting review, 48(2), 185-205.
DOI Scopus23 WoS22
2016 Tucker, B. P., & Schaltegger, S. (2016). Comparing the research-practice gap in management accounting: a view from professional accounting bodies in Australia and Germany. Accounting auditing and accountability, 29(3), 362-400.
DOI Scopus34 WoS33
2015 Tucker, B. P., & Parker, L. D. (2015). Business as usual? An institutional view of the relationship between management control systems and strategy. Financial accountability and management, 31(2), 113-149.
DOI Scopus21 WoS18
2015 Evans, M., & Tucker, B. P. (2015). Unpacking the package: management control in an environment of organisational change. Qualitative research in accounting and management, 12(4), 346-376.
DOI Scopus15 WoS18
2014 Tucker, B. P., & Lowe, A. D. (2014). Practitioners are from Mars; academics are from Venus? An investigation of the research-practice gap in management accounting. Accounting auditing and accountability, 27(3), 394-425.
DOI Scopus98 WoS78
2014 Tucker, B., & Parker, L. (2014). In our ivory towers? The research-practice gap in management accounting. Accounting and business research, 44(2), 104-143.
DOI Scopus66 WoS54
2014 Tucker, B., & Parker, L. (2014). In our ivory towers? The research-practice gap in management accounting (vol 44, pg 104, 2014). ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS RESEARCH, 44(2), 222.
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2013 Tucker, B. P., & Parker, L. D. (2013). Out of control? Strategy in the NFP sector : the implications for management. Accounting, auditing and accountability journal, 26(2), 234-266.
DOI Scopus38 WoS36
2013 Tucker, B. (2013). Environmental disturbances, organizational transitions and transformations : a view from the dark side. Critical perspectives on accounting, 24(3), 242-259.
DOI Scopus13 WoS10
2013 Tucker, B., & Thorne, H. (2013). Performance on the right hand side : organizational performance as an antecedent to management control. Qualitative research in accounting and management, 10(3-4), 316-346.
DOI Scopus10 WoS10
2013 Tucker, B. P., & Parker, L. D. (2013). Managerial control and strategy in nonprofit organizations : doing the right things for the wrong reasons?. Nonprofit management and leadership, 24(1), 87-107.
DOI Scopus15 WoS13
2013 Tucker, B. P., Thorne, H., & Gurd, B. W. (2013). Uncharted waters: exploring the relationship between strategy processes and management control systems in the nonprofit sector. Nonprofit management and leadership, 24(1), 109-133.
DOI Scopus13 WoS14
2010 Tucker, B. (2010). Through which lens? Contingency and institutional approaches to conceptualising organisational performance in the not-for-profit sector. Journal of applied management accounting research, 8(1), 17-33.
2009 Tucker, B. P., Thorne, H., & Gurd, B. W. (2009). Management control systems and strategy : what's been happening?. Journal of accounting literature, 28, 123-163.

Year Citation
2020 Malina, M. A., & Tucker, B. P. (2020). A PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT APPROACH TO DEFINING AND MEASURING RESEARCH RELEVANCE: EVIDENCE FROM UNIVERSITY SENIOR MANAGEMENT. In Advances in Management Accounting (Vol. 32, pp. 117-150). Emerald Publishing Limited.
DOI Scopus3
2019 Tucker, B. (2019). 'Where there's a will... the research-practice gap in accounting'. In Source details - Title: The research practice gap on accounting in the public service (pp. 9-31). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan.
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2019 Tucker, B., Ferry, L., Saliterer, I., & Steccolini, I. (2019). We build too many walls and not enough bridges. In Source details - Title: The research-practice gap on accounting in the public services (pp. 115-128). Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave MacMillan.
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2017 Tucker, B., & Hoque, Z. (2017). Mixed methods for understanding accounting issues. In Z. Hoque (Ed.), Source details - Title: The Routledge companion to qualitative accounting research methods (pp. 301-320). UK: Routledge.
DOI Scopus7
2017 Tucker, B. P., & Leach, M. (2017). Learning from the experience of others: lessons on the research-practice gap in management accounting - a nursing perspective. In M. A. Malina (Ed.), Source details - Title: Advances in management accounting (pp. 127-181). UK: Emerald.
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2017 Tucker, B. P., & Leach, M. (2017). Chapter 5: Learning from the experience of others: Lessons on the research-practice gap in management accounting - A nursing perspective. In Advances in Management Accounting (Vol. 29, pp. 127-181).
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2014 Tucker, B. (2014). Conceptualising performance in the not-for-profit sector: a tale of two theories. In Z. Hoque, & L. Parker (Eds.), Source details - Title: Performance management in nonprofit organizations: global perspectives (pp. 313-336). US: Routledge.
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2000 Tucker, B. P., & Kay, A. P. P. (2000). 'It couldn't possibly work': A case study of implementing the team-based approach oto management developed by Ricardo Semler. In R. Park, R. Harris, & E. Collins (Eds.), Source details - Title: Teamworking - Some international perspectives (pp. 24-32). Queensland, Australia: Post Pressed.

  • Disability NOT Inability: The management control implications of workers living with intellectual disability, Accounting And Finance Association of Australia And New Zealand Limited, 28/06/2021 - 01/12/2023

Courses I teach

  • BUSS 5247 Accounting for Decision Making (2025)
  • BUSS 5247 Accounting for Decision Making (2024)
  • BUSS 5338 Special Topics (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Jessica Flood
2019 Co-Supervisor - Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Thomas Horatio John Cadd

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