Garry Carnegie
Garry D. Carnegie is an Emeritus Professor of RMIT University and during 2010 to 2017, he was Professor of Accounting and Head, RMIT School of Accounting. His research interests are in accounting, accountability and governance in both contemporary and historical contexts. His publications appear in books and a wide array of international journals on accounting and in other fields. An Associate Editor of Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, having served as an Editorial Board member since 1993, he was Editor/Joint Editor of Accounting History for a continuous period of 25 years from 1995 to 2019.
He is Joint Editor of the EE Handbook of Accounting, Accountability and Governance, available September 2023.
Recent articles by Garry Carnegie
12 July 2024
Vice-Chancellors’ remuneration, university financial performance, and global rankings
The Sunday Age (The Age) reported on 30 June 2024 on the 2023 salary packages of the Vice-Chancellors of Victoria’s eight public universities in a story entitled “Rich List: University heads on million-dollar salaries” by Daniella White and Sherryn Groch. Such headlines can be attention seeking, especially if not set in a wider context. This commentary concerns the paying of these packages in the context of the published financial performance of these eight public universities for the year earning 31 December 2023.
20 August 2023
The ABC of university governance: an evaluation
What is the ABC of university governance? Public universities are uniquely orientated as research and innovation and teaching and learning institutions and, unmistakably, are fundamentally concerned with academic governance. Therefore, the ABC of university governance comprises three key dimensions: Academic (A) governance; Business (B) governance, and Corporate (C) governance. These dimensions, respectively, focus on scholarship, performance and conformance.
13 March 2023
Australian public universities: for society or for profit?
The Guardian of 3 March 2023 carries a story entitled Australian university sector makes record $5.3bn surplus while cutting costs for Covid. The sub-heading states Department of Education figures reveal all but three universities reporting a surplus, including $1bn for the University of Sydney.
25 September 2022
Global university rankings: what function do they serve?
Under the influence of New Public Management, Australias public universities have increasingly engaged in management by numbers for performance measurement. The accompanying proliferation of metrics has been used to discipline academics, bolster the ranks of senior managers and build tens of billions of dollars in assets. One of the more prominent metrics to which universities now dedicate disproportionate time, energy and resources is global university rankings (GURs).