Seminar Open Kitchen and open plan office: Theatres of frontstage performance accountability

The seminar is reserved for the Department of Management’s community. Other interested colleagues can contact Paolo Ferri (p.ferri@unibo.it).

This study investigates how formerly backstage activities are translated into frontstage performance accountability in open plan offices and restaurant and hotel dining open kitchens. It examines group and individual operational and financial performance accountability in the management of open plan/Activity Based Working offices and hospitality industry open kitchen restaurants.  Interpersonal performance accountabilities in these organizational spaces are revealed as proactive contributors to performance delivery and its longer term consequences.

Lee Parker is Research Professor of Accounting at Glasgow University Scotland (also based in Adelaide, South Australia). His over 250 accounting and management publications exceed 25,000 citations. He is listed in the Standford top 2% of scientists as the highest career-total cited accounting scholar. Joint founding editor of Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal, he is member of the Australian Accounting Hall of Fame and the Australian Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research Hall of Fame, holder of CPA Australia’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the University of Dundee’s Doctorate of Laws honoris causae. His qualitative, interdisciplinary research areas include strategic management, corporate governance, accounting and management history, social and environmental accountability, public and non-profit sector, university commercialisation, the office, and qualitative research methodology.