Professor John McKernan

Emeritus Professor and Honorary Senior Research Fellow (Adam Smith Business School)

College of Social Sciences, Adam Smith Business School, Glasgow, G11 6EY

Biography

Professor McKernan is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA). He spent more than ten years working in the accounting profession in Scotland, in the provision of audit and business advisory services to local companies, before entering academia and joining Napier Polytechnic in 1987 as a lecturer in the department of accounting and finance. While at Napier he completed a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree at the University of Strathclyde and a Master of Accountancy (MAcc) degree at the University of Glasgow. He moved to the University of Glasgow as a lecturer in 1990, and completed a PhD (Psychology) at the University of Glasgow in 2000. At Glasgow university Professor McKernan has served in various roles within the Adam Smith Business School and the College of Social Sciences, including acting as the head of the Accounting and Finance subject group for more than seven years. He has ongoing research interests in the in critical theory and its application to the role of accounting in society and issues in accounting ethics.

Research interests

Professor McKernan is a member of the Accounting research cluster.

Areas of expertise:

Accountability
Interdisciplinary and critical perspectives on accounting

Publications

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2023

Bradley, Lynn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7314-6022, Favotto, Alvise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149 and McKernan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 (2023) Local authority audit in England, playing the field? Financial Accountability and Management, 39(2), pp. 286-303. (doi: 10.1111/faam.12350)

2022

Favotto, Alvise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7121-7149, McKernan, John Francis ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 and Zou, Yanru ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9672-9581 (2022) Speculative accountability for animal kinship. Critical Perspectives On Accounting, 84, 102360. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2021.102360)

Li, Yingru ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2652-0023, McKernan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 and Chen, Meiyi (2022) Turning around accountability. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 35(1), pp. 48-60. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-08-2020-4889)

2017

Li, Yingru ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2652-0023 and McKernan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 (2017) ‘Achieved not given’: human rights, critique and the need for strong foundations. International Journal of Human Rights, 21(3), pp. 252-269. (doi: 10.1080/13642987.2017.1298731)

2016

Li, Yingru ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2652-0023 and McKernan, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 (2016) Human rights, accounting, and the dialectic of equality and inequality. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 29(4), pp. 568-593. (doi: 10.1108/AAAJ-07-2015-2142)

2015

Joannides, V. and McKernan, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 (2015) Ethics: from negative regulations to fidelity to the event. In: O'Sullivan, P., Esposito, M. and Allington, N.F.B. (eds.) The Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Finance in the 21st Century: From Hubris to Disgrace. Series: Economics as social theory (41). Routledge: London, pp. 267-282. ISBN 9780415859004

2012

McKernan, J.F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 (2012) Accountability as aporia, testimony, and gift. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 23(3), pp. 258-278. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2011.12.009)

McKernan, J.F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 and McPhail, K. (2012) Accountability and accounterability. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 23(3), pp. 177-182. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2011.12.003)

2011

McPhail, K. and McKernan, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 (2011) Accounting for human rights: an overview and introduction. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 22(8), pp. 733-737. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2011.07.007)

Carter, C. and McKernan, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 (2011) Global flows: labour, politics and ethics. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 22(7), pp. 629-631. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2011.06.005)

Kosmala, K. and McKernan, J.F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 (2011) From care of the self to care for the other: neglected aspects of Foucault's late work. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 24(3), pp. 377-402. (doi: 10.1108/09513571111124054)

McKernan, J.F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8911-3973 (2011) Deconstruction and the responsibilities of the accounting academic. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 22(7), pp. 698-713. (doi: 10.1016/j.cpa.2011.01.012)

2007

Mckernan, J (2007) Doing the truth: religion-deconstruction-justice, and accounting. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 20(5), pp. 729-764. (doi: 10.1108/09513570710779027)

McKernan, JF (2007) Objectivity in accounting. Accounting Organizations and Society, 32, pp. 155-180. (doi: 10.1016/j.aos.2006.03.008)

2004

Mckernan, J (2004) Accounting, love and justice. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 17(3), pp. 327-360. (doi: 10.1108/09513570410545777)

2003

Dunn, J., McKernan, J. and O'Donnell, P. (2003) Moral Reasoning and the Accountant: Rules and Principles. Series: Occasional research paper (36). Chartered Association of Certified Accountants: London, UK. ISBN 9781859083994

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Articles

Mckernan, J (2007) Doing the truth: religion-deconstruction-justice, and accounting. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 20(5), pp. 729-764. (doi: 10.1108/09513570710779027)

McKernan, JF (2007) Objectivity in accounting. Accounting Organizations and Society, 32, pp. 155-180. (doi: 10.1016/j.aos.2006.03.008)

Mckernan, J (2004) Accounting, love and justice. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 17(3), pp. 327-360. (doi: 10.1108/09513570410545777)

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