DCUBS

Biographical Details:

A Chartered Management Accountant since 1994, I also have a BA(Hons) in Business Studies and an MSc in Management and Applications of IT in Accounting. I completed my PhD at the University of Dundee in 2010. I have worked in manufacturing firms in Ireland (finance and IT roles) for 11 years.Three years were spent in a small indigenous manufacturing company and eight years with a global paper company. I acquired intimate knowledge of the paper and packaging industry in both finance and information technology fields. My final two years in the paper industry entailed a high level of involvement in an ERP implementation in Europe.
I joined DCU Business School in 2004.I obtained my PhD at the University of Dundee, Scotland, under the supervision of Prof John Burns. The thesis is titled "Continuity and change in management accounting - evidence from the corrugated container sector".

Research Interests:

ERP systems and management accounting, Management accounting in small and medium sized enterprises, processual change in management accounting, organisational routines, institutional theory, cloud accounting.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Prof. John Burns, Dr. Martin Quinn,. 2011. The routinisation of management controls on software. Journal Of Management Control, 22, 1, pp5-24.
• Dr Martin Quinn. 2011. Routines in management accounting research: some further exploration. Journal Of Accounting & Organizational Change, 7, 4, pp337-357.

Selected Books

• Dr Martin Quinn, Prof John Burns, Dr Joao Oliveira, Liz Warren. Management Accounting, McGraw-Hill, 2013.
• Martin Quinn. Brilliant Accounting, Prentice Hall, 2010.
• Mr Martin Quinn. Brilliant Book-Keeping: What the Best Book-Keepers Know, Do and Say, Prentice Hall, 2010.
• Mr Martin Quinn. Book-keeping and Accounts for entrepreneurs, Pearson Business, 2009.

Selected Chapters

• Dr Martin Quinn. 2013. Entries on 1. Collective Bargaining/Trade Unions 2. Forest Stewardship Council 3. Locally Grown/Locally Raised 4. Minimum Wage 5. Trade Union Recognition.
• Dr Martin Quinn. 2012. Contributed real world views ¿ approx. 65 half-page examples to support chapter material. Management and Cost Accounting
• Seal, W. 2011. Provided series of Focus on Business Practice excerpts for text.
• Drury, C. 2009. Provided 14 real world views throughout text. Management accounnting for Business - 4th edition
• Quinn, M. 2008. Helping the management accountant evolve - a case study of a change project in the corrugated container sector. Rachunkowosc w otoczeniu nowuch technologii (Accounting in a New Technology Environment), pp139-156.
• Drury, C. 2007. Provided Real World Views throughout text. Management & Cost Accounting - 7th edition

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• Quinn,M. Crean, A. 2012. Helping Small Firms. Accountancy Ireland, 44, pp35-37.

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• Quinn, M; Oliveira, J, RE-THINKING AND RE-BALANCING RULES AND ROUINES: A FRAMEWORK ON INSTITUIONALISATION PROCESSESS IN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting, 11-JUL-12 - 13-JUL-12, Cardiff, UK
• Kristandl, G., Quinn, M., Relevance re-focused - a preliminary exploration of management accounting in `new¿ business models, Irish Accounting & Finance Assoc, Annual Conference, 24-MAY-12 - 25-MAY-12, Galway, Ireland
• Quinn, M., A brief historical analysis of financial statements ¿ Guinness plc. 1886 to 1960, Irish Accounting & Finance Association, Annual Conference,, 24-MAY-12 - 25-MAY-12, Galway, Ireland
• Quinn, M., Stability and change in management accounting practices over time ¿ a century or so of evidence from Guinness., European Accounting Associatiom, 09-MAY-12 - 11-MAY-12, University of Ljubljana
• Kristandl, G., Quinn,M., Old wine in new bottles? A preliminary exploration of management accounting in cloud business models, European Accounting Association, 09-MAY-12 - 11-MAY-12, Ljubljana
• Griffin. J; Quinn, M, Exploring management accounting change in a rules-based environment, Annual Conference of Management Accounting Reseacrh, 08-MAR-12 - 09-MAR-12, Vallendar, Germany
• Kristandl, G;Quinn, M, Relevance re-focused - a preliminary exploration of management accounting in `new¿ business models, Annual Conference of Management Accounting Research, 08-MAR-12 - 09-MAR-12, Vallendar, Germany
• Griffin, J., Quinn, M., Internalising "external" management accounting rules, Irish Accounting & Finance Association Annual Conference, 28-APR-11 - 29-APR-11, Cork, Ireland
• Quinn, M., Rules and routines in management accounting - a research note on inter-relatedness, European Accounting Association Annual Conference, 20-APR-11 - 22-APR-11, Rome, Italy
• Quinn, M., Burns, J., Rules and routines in management accounting research: further exploration , Management Control Association Conference, 07-SEP-10 - 09-SEP-10, Greenwich, London
• Quinn, M., Rules of routines in management accounting: some clarity?, Irish Accounting & Finance Association Annual Conference, 06-MAY-10 - 07-MAY-10, University of Ulster, Belfast Campus
• Quinn,M.; Flood, B.; Lynch,B., THE CONTINUED USED OF STANDARD COSTING IN MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting, 08-JUL-09 - 11-JUL-09, Innsbruck, Austria
• Quinn,M.; Flood, B.; Lynch,B., MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING CHANGE AND THE CONTINUED USE OF STANDARD COSTING, Irish Accounting & Finance Association, Annual Conference, 07-MAY-09 - 08-MAY-09, Dublin
• Quinn, M., Helping the management accountant evolve? A case study of a change project in the corrugated container sector., Accounting in the new Technology Environment, 15-SEP-08 - , Krakow, Poland
• Quinn, M., How is the management accountant evolving? Evidence from a change project in the corrugated container sector, BAA Scottsh Region, 11-SEP-08 - , University of Glasgow
• Quinn, M, Processual Change in the corrugated industry, Management Control Association, Doctoral Colloquium, 11-SEP-07 - 14-SEP-07, Paris, France
• Quinn, M, ERP and management accounting change in the corrugated container industry, ENROAC Doctoral Summer School, 09-JUL-06 - 11-JUL-06, Sienna, Italy