Dr EVANGELINE ELIJIDO-TEN
Senior Lecturer, Accounting
PhD (Swinburne), MBA (Uni Sto.Tomas), Chartered Accountant (NZ), BCom ( Union College ), GradCertHigherEd (LaTrobe)
Ph +61 3 9214 4471
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eelijidoten@swin.edu.au
Evangeline Elijido-Ten (Eva) teaches in the field of management accounting as well as social and environmental accounting. She worked for a number of non-profit organisations including the Seventh Day Adventist Mission and Sunny Hill College in Malaysia for more than five years. She later joined INTI College (Malaysia) to teach accounting courses in their twinning programme with Deakin University and Otago University (NZ) before she moved to New Zealand where she worked as a Curriculum Development Consultant and later as an Academic Staff Member for Northland Polytechnic.
Eva moved to Melbourne in 2000 when she joined La Trobe University as a Lecturer and CPA Liaison Officer in the Shepparton Campus. Two years later, she accepted a Lectureship position at the University of Queensland (UQ) and commenced her PhD study in the same university. Eva had the opportunity to return to Melbourne in 2004 when she joined the Accounting, Economics, Finance and Law (AEFL) Group at Swinburne University and in the same year, she transferred her PhD enrolment to Swinburne. In 2006, Eva completed her PhD in the area of corporate environmental accountability utilising stakeholder theory as the general framework to examine how corporate entities manage their stakeholders through the provision of environmental disclosures.
Professional Memberships
- Chartered Accountant - active member of the College of Chartered Accountants, Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand (ICANZ) since 1998.
- Member - Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) since 1998.
Research Profile
Research Interests
- Corporate social and environmental responsibility
- Carbon management and climate change
- Stakeholder theory
- Sustainability and balanced scorecard
- Learning styles and approaches to learning
- Accounting education
- Curriculum development
Recent Publications & Conference Papers:
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2010) "Public Disclosure of Strategic Performance Measurement System: An Australian Investigation", International Handbook of Academic Research and Teaching: Proceedings of Intellectbase International Consortium, Volume 13, pp. 38-48.
Elijido-Ten, E. O., L. Kloot and P. Clarkson (2010) "Extending the Application of Stakeholder Influence Strategies to Environmental Disclosures: An Exploratory Study from a Developing Country," Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Volume 23, Number 8, pp. 1032-1059.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. & Kloot. L. (2010) "Exploring the Role of Small to Medium Enterprise (SMEs) as a Training Ground for Accountants," a paper presented to the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Annual Conference in Christchurch, New Zealand, July.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2010) "Sustainability and Balanced Scorecard Reporting: What Determines Public Disclosure Decision?" A paper presented to the Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting (APIRA) Conference, Sydney, Australia.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2009) "Can stakeholder theory add to our understanding of Malaysian environmental reporting attitudes?", Malaysian Accounting Review, Volume 8, No. 2, pp. 85-110.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2009) "Exploring the Impact of Media Publicity on Annual Report Environmental Disclosures," Paper presented to the 8th Australasian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR), Christchurch, New Zealand, December 6-8 (Best Paper Award overall).
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2009) "Voluntary Environmental Disclosures of Malaysian Listed Companies: An Application of Stakeholder Theory," Paper presented to the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Annual Conference in Adelaide, Australia.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2008) "The Case for Reporting Pro-Active Environmental Initiatives: A Malaysian Experiment on Stakeholder Influence Strategies", Issues in Social and Environmental Accounting, Volume 2, No. 1, pp. 36-60.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2008) "An Application of Stakeholder Influence Strategies on Environmental Disclosures: Exploring the Impact of Positive Environmental Event in a Developing Country", Paper presented at the 3rd GECAMB Conference on Environmental Management and Accounting (Portuguese CSEAR Conference), Leiria, Portugal.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2007) "Applying Stakeholder Theory to Analyze Corporate Environmental Performance: Evidence from Australian Listed Companies," Asian Review of Accounting, Volume 15, No. 2, pp.164-184.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2007) "Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Environmental Accounting Research," Proceedings of the 6th Australasian Conference on Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR), Sydney, Australia.
Elijido-Ten, E. O., L. Kloot and P. Clarkson (2007) "Stakeholder Influence Strategies on Environmental Reporting: Exploring the Malaysian Context," paper presented to the Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting (APIRA) Triennial Conference, Auckland, New Zealand.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2007) "Malaysian Corporate Environmental Reporting Attitudes: A Stakeholder Perspective", Proceedings of the National Conference on Environment and Community Development (NCECD), Penang, Malaysia.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2006) "Extending the Application of Stakeholder Theory to Malaysian Corporate Environmental Disclosures," Unpublished PhD Thesis, Faculty of Business and Enterprise, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2005) "Applying Stakeholder Theory to Analyze Corporate Environmental Performance: Evidence from Australia's Top 100 Companies," Paper presented to the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Annual Conference in Melbourne, Australia.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2005) "Understanding Accounting Students' Learning & Its Relation To Academic Achievement: Exploratory Case Study," Proceedings of the Western Decision Science Institute (WDSI), Canada.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2004). "Determinants of Environmental Disclosure in a Developing Country: An Application of the Stakeholder Approach," Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Interdisciplinary Research in Accounting (APIRA) Triennial Conference, Singapore.
Elijido-Ten, E. O., M. Nanere and A. Nsubuga-Kyobe (2002) "Accounting and Business Students' Approaches to Learning: A Case Study from Northern Victoria," Paper presented to the Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Annual Conference, Perth, Australia.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (2000). "The Tao of accounting education: finding harmony in the tension between opposites," Paper presented to the "Accounting Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ) Annual Conference", Hamilton Island, Australia.
Elijido-Ten, E. O. (1999) "A dialectical view of accounting education: tracing the tensions between 'technical' and 'liberal' orientation," Paper presented to the First Accounting History International Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Elijido-Ten, E. (1999). "Professionalism in accounting: a continuing struggle," Chartered Accountants Journal. Volume 78, Number 1, February, pp. 26-31.
Elijido-Ten, E. (1991). "Computerization in selected public accounting firms in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia," Unpublished thesis submitted in partial fulfilment for the degree of Master in Business Administration, University of Santo Tomas.