Ken McPhail

1.8k total citations
52 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Ken McPhail is a scholar working on Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science and Accounting. According to data from OpenAlex, Ken McPhail has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, 16 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 16 papers in Accounting. Recurrent topics in Ken McPhail's work include Management and Organizational Studies (12 papers), Ethics in Business and Education (11 papers) and Accounting and Organizational Management (10 papers). Ken McPhail is often cited by papers focused on Management and Organizational Studies (12 papers), Ethics in Business and Education (11 papers) and Accounting and Organizational Management (10 papers). Ken McPhail collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and Norway. Ken McPhail's co-authors include Rob Gray, Jan Bebbington, Muhammad Azizul Islam, Niklas Kreander, John Francis McKernan, John Ferguson, Carol A. Adams, David Campbell, Richard Slack and Diane Walters and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Business Ethics, The Accounting Review and Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal.

In The Last Decade

Ken McPhail

50 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ken McPhail United Kingdom 21 483 388 304 297 261 52 1.3k
Steven Dellaportas Australia 19 559 1.2× 270 0.7× 169 0.6× 413 1.4× 139 0.5× 66 1.2k
William E. Shafer United States 22 501 1.0× 511 1.3× 136 0.4× 676 2.3× 366 1.4× 39 1.6k
Philomena Leung Australia 23 737 1.5× 513 1.3× 233 0.8× 358 1.2× 96 0.4× 51 1.5k
Philip O’Regan Ireland 18 280 0.6× 562 1.4× 190 0.6× 59 0.2× 322 1.2× 43 1.1k
Nada Korac‐Kakabadse United Kingdom 20 211 0.4× 296 0.8× 238 0.8× 66 0.2× 326 1.2× 43 1.2k
Antonio Argandoña Spain 20 298 0.6× 657 1.7× 63 0.2× 390 1.3× 377 1.4× 83 1.5k
Cheryl R. Lehman United States 14 498 1.0× 236 0.6× 583 1.9× 72 0.2× 244 0.9× 28 1.2k
Olivier Herrbach France 21 211 0.4× 449 1.2× 115 0.4× 114 0.4× 985 3.8× 46 1.6k
Marie Kavanagh Australia 16 857 1.8× 335 0.9× 249 0.8× 70 0.2× 228 0.9× 61 1.7k
Nancy Brown Johnson United States 19 205 0.4× 412 1.1× 124 0.4× 150 0.5× 561 2.1× 33 1.3k

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All Works

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Kreander, Niklas, Ken McPhail, & Frank W. Geels. (2025). Institutional investors and low-carbon transitions: A multi-level analysis of lead firm reorientation in northern Europe. Energy Research & Social Science. 123. 104031–104031. 1 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken, Mario Kafouros, Peter McKiernan, & Nelarine Cornelius. (2024). Reimagining Business and Management as a Force for Good. British Journal of Management. 35(3). 1099–1112. 8 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken. (2022). From Stakeholder to Rightsholder Perspectives The UNGPs, SDGs and New Paradigms for Corporate Accountability. Research Explorer (The University of Manchester). 26(1). 2 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken, et al.. (2016). Escaping accountability: a case of Australia’s asylum seeker policy. Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal. 29(6). 947–984. 21 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken & John Ferguson. (2016). The past, the present and the future of accounting for human rights. Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal. 29(4). 526–541. 45 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken, et al.. (2014). The United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Putting Accounting for Human Rights into Practice. QUT ePrints (Queensland University of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken. (2013). Accounting Ethics. 2 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken, et al.. (2012). Regulating for rights and sustainability: biofuel in Malaysia. Sustainability Accounting Management and Policy Journal. 3(2). 252–261. 3 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken & John Francis McKernan. (2011). Accounting for human rights: An overview and introduction. Critical Perspectives on Accounting. 22(8). 733–737. 18 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken. (2010). Board diversity, the logic of difference & the logic of equivalence: a critical study of the emergence of corporate democracy. Revista de Contabilidad. 13(1). 125–143. 3 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken, et al.. (2010). Accounting at school: the impact of policy, teachers and class on the ethical construction of accounting and business in Scottish secondary schools. International Journal of Critical Accounting. 2(3). 289–289. 3 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken. (2006). Going public: a brief note on civilising accounting ethics education. Business Ethics A European Review. 15(3). 306–309. 3 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken. (2005). Care in the community: Professional Ethics and the paradox of pro bono. Accounting Education. 14(2). 213–227. 19 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken, et al.. (2005). Crossing the great divide: critiquing the sacred secular dichotomy in accounting research. Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal. 18(2). 185–188. 26 indexed citations
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Kreander, Niklas, Ken McPhail, & David Molyneaux. (2004). God's fund managers. Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal. 17(3). 408–441. 51 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken, et al.. (2004). Accounting and theology, an introduction. Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal. 17(3). 320–326. 32 indexed citations
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McPhail, Ken. (2001). The ethical challenges of globalisation: Critical reflections on the ISBEE 2nd World Congress in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Business Ethics A European Review. 10(1). 78–82. 3 indexed citations
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Gray, Rob, Jan Bebbington, & Ken McPhail. (1994). Teaching ethics in accounting and the ethics of accounting teaching: educating for immorality and a possible case for social and environmental accounting education. Accounting Education. 3(1). 51–75. 171 indexed citations

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