B.Bus. (QUT) B.Econ. (QUT) M.Soc.Sc.(U of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK) Ph.D (U of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK) Dr. Moores is currently Professor in Management (Family Business) and Director of the Australian Centre for Family Business that he founded in 1994. However, as a founding academic member of Bond University, Ken Moores initially undertook the responsibilities of Professor of Accounting and sometimes Dean and Associate Dean of the School of Business. Prior to resuming Directorship of the Centre in 2004, Professor Moores served as Vice-Chancellor and President of Bond University from 1997 to 2003. Dr. Moores pioneered research and recognition of family business in Australia and has achieved international recognition for his work. His 2003 book based on involvement with Australia’s entrepreneurial family business community, co-authored with Mary Barrett, "Learning Family Business: Paradoxes and Pathways", has been widely acclaimed for its insightful observations about family businesses. Professor Moores’ research interests have included management accounting, finance, strategic planning, corporate governance, and leadership development in family businesses. He has published widely in these fields in academic journals ranging from Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Management Accounting Research, British Accounting Review, Accounting and Business Research, to Human Relations and Family Business Review. Professor Moores was Foundation editor of Pacific Accounting Review. As a highly regarded Professor of Accounting, Dr. Moores served both the academic and professional communities of his discipline in various capacities. He served as Australian President of the Accounting Association of Australian and New Zealand (now AFAANZ) in 1994-95 and has served on committees of both CPA Australia and ICAA. In 2002 he was a joint runner-up in the ICAA/Zurich Business Leader of the Year Award. He currently serves as an External Member of the Audit and Risk Management Committee, Queensland Audit Office. In 2003 he was honoured by Gold Coast City as one of its “unsung heroes” and in 2005 was he made a Member in the Order of Australia for his service to academia and the accounting profession.
Articles
Firm ownership and productivity: A study of family and non-family SMEs (with Francesco Barbera), Small business economics (2011)
Motivated by a lack of consensus in the current literature, the objective of this paper...
Clarifying the strategic advantage of familiness: Unbundling its dimensions and highlighting its paradoxes (with Wayne J. Irava), Journal of family business strategy (2010)
Using a resource-based theoretical lens we clarify familiness by identifying the dimensions of this unique...
Resources supporting entrepreneurial orientation in multigenerational family firms (with Wayne Irava), International journal of entrepreneurial venturing (2010)
We examine entrepreneurship in multigenerational family firms. Specifically, we employ theoretical lenses drawn from both...
Fostering women’s entrepreneurial leadership in family firms: Ten lessons (with Mary Barrett), Management online review (2009)
Women’s potential to lead a firm – whether one started by a family member or...
Spotlights and shadows: Preliminary findings about the experiences of women in family business leadership roles (with Mary Barrett), Journal of management & organization: Family business: Theory and practice (2009)
In an earlier study (Moores & Barrett 2002) we found successful CEOs had learned leadership...
Books
Understanding family enterprise: A book of readings (with Justin B. Craig), Justin B. Craig (2011)
This collection of papers, written over a span of about 16 years by researchers associated...
Women in family business leadership roles: Daughters on the stage (with Mary Barrett), Women in family business leadership roles: Daughters on the stage (2009)
‘Barrett and Moores delve into the real essence of women in leadership roles, specifically but...
Learning Family Business: Paradoxes and Pathways (with Mary Barrett), Ken Moores (2003)
Based upon original research, this book examines how family-owned businesses differ from other businesses.
The...
Book Chapters
Australia: The challenge of father-daughter succession in family business: A case study from the land Down Under (with Mary Barrett), Father-daughter succession in family business: A cross-cultural perspective (2011)
This chapter examines the case of an Australian woman, Roz, who succeeded her father as...
Research beginnings: Researching family business in Australia, Understanding family enterprise- A book of readings (2011)
Despite their widely acknowledged economic significance family owned business have largely been ignored by the...
The Belcher family gain legitimacy in a new industry: Sailing into the unknown (with Justin B. Craig and Wayne Irava), Family enterprise in the Asia Pacific: Exploring transgererational entreneurship in family firms (2011)
Extract
This chapter documents the challenges that entrepreneurial family businesses
face in gaining legitimacy in a new...
The Deague family: Learning entrepreneurship through osmosis (with Justin B. Craig and Wayne Irava), Family enterprise in the Asia Pacific: Exploring transgenerational entrepreneurship in family firms (2011)
Extract
In this chapter, we introduce the idea of learning entrepreneurship by
osmosis. Drawing from the experiential...
Twin brothers in arms learn the family business (with Justin B. Craig and Wayne Irava), Family enterprise in the Asia Pacific: Exploring transgenerational entrepreneurship in family firms (2011)
Extract
In this case, Moores and Barrett’s (2002) family business learning and life cycle framework has...
Conference Papers
Gender diversity and family firm governance: Towards a research agenda (with Mary Barrett), Family Business Australia (FBA): Family business research & education symposium (2011)
Diversity has recently become an important topic in the context of corporate governance, particularly in...
Impact of family involvement on productivity (with Frank Barbera), Family Business Australia (FBA): Family business research & education symposium (2011)
Motivated by a lack of consensus in the current literature, this paper aims to shed...
Paradoxes and pathways to learning family business leadership (with Mary Barrett), 11th Annual IFERA World Family Business Research conference. Intelligence and courage for the development of family business: Theory, practice, policy (2011)
The paper reports on a qualitative analysis of case studies and learning narratives of CEOs...
Championing family business issues to influence public policy: Evidence from Australia (with Justin B. Craig), 9th International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) world family business research conference: Global perspectives on family business developments: Theory - practice - policy (2009)
This paper proposes a strategy for the family firm sector to gain the attention of...
Overcoming liability of newness through legitimacy: A stakeholder salience perspective (with Clay Dibrell, Aaron Johnson, and Justin B. Craig), Paper presented at the 21st ANZAM (2007) conference: Managing our intellectual and social capital (2007)
Findings are presented on how start-up ventures in search of legitimacy are affected by internal...