Qualifications Bachelor of Commerce - University of Otago Master of Commerce - University of Otago Doctor of Philosophy - Bond University Certified Accountant Dr Keith Duncan is a professionally qualified Chartered Accountant and a Director of Founders Forum and has also served on the Advisory Board for the John Heine Entrepreneurial Challenge, the Gold Coast Innovation Working Party and Founders Forum Ltd. In addition to his extensive teaching and research experience at leading institutions in the USA, New Zealand, South Africa and throughout East Asia, he has consulted to and conducted executive development for commercial and government organisations including SEQEB, Sheraton, Stock Exchange, Barclays Bank and the New Zealand Securities Commission. Dr Duncan's work was awarded two Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Awards by the American Accounting Association and Accounting Behaviour and Organisations, and International Accounting sections.
Articles
Empires of the mind: Cross cultural cooperative business education (with Simone Kelly and Ray McNamara), World journal of social sciences (2011)
This paper explores current trends in knowledge growth and decay, globalization, technology and education. Business...
Family ownership and the value-relevance of earnings and book value (with Tim Hasso), Family Business Australia (FBA): Family business research & education symposium (2011)
This study investigates the relation between family ownership and the value-relevance of two primary accounting...
Firm performance and macro-economic variables (with Ray Mcnamara), School of Business Discussion Papers (1995)
The purpose of this research is to predict the fundamental performance of a firm as...
Attributes of dominant control: theoretical model and empirical tests, School of Business Discussion Papers (1994)
This paper develops and empirically tests a predictive model of the attributes that give one...
Fundamental factors for assessing controls: a semantic analysis (with Ray McNamara), School of Business Discussion Papers (1992)
This paper reports a study designed to develop a measure of control effectiveness to evaluate...
Conference Papers
Micro and macro determinants of financial distress (with Ray McNamara and Simone Kelly), 15th International Business Research Conference (2011)
One criticism of failure prediction models is the bias resulting from pooling failure data over...
Performance of family firms during the global financial crisis: Does governance matter? (with Husam Aldamen, Simone Kelly, and Ray McNamara), Family Business Australia (FBA): Family business research & education symposium (2011)
We investigate whether better corporate governance impacts the performance of family versus non-family firms during...
Equity valuation in the coal seam gas industry (with Simone Kelly and Ray McNamara), The 22nd Australasian finance and banking conference 2009 (2009)
The coal seam gas industry is an important and rapidly developing sector of the Australian...
Gas reserves and equity valuation: Implications for accounting standards (with Simone Kelly and Ray McNamara), IAAER-ANPCONT 3rd international accounting congress: Accounting internationalization: Current and future trends (2009)
The coal seam gas industry is an important and rapidly developing sector of the Australian...
Exploration of firm strategic control in Australia and the United States and implications for global governance structures (with Timothy Kiessling and Michael Harvey), 46th annual meeting of the eastern academy of management: Facing the future with heart and mind (2009)
Our empirical study of 246 Directors, financial executives, accountants and credit/security analysts explore the concept...