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Professor Norman Macintosh
Critical Perspectives on Accounting 22 (2011) 828
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Orbituary
Professor Norman Macintosh
Professor Norman Macintosh passed away quietly, at home in Kingston Ontario, on May 17, 2011. He was among the world’s most widely known and respected accounting scholars. His visiting appointments in Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia testify to the international reach of his research and teaching. His undergraduate performance at the University of Alberta, combining academic and athletic prowess, is recognized in that university’s Sports Wall of Fame. Nationally, he received both research and teaching awards from the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (“distinguished contribution to thought” and “outstanding educator,” respectively). At Queen’s University, where he served for more than three decades, he was the only professor to garner the School of Business Research Excellence Award twice—a feat that is unlikely to be repeated in any discipline. Several of his books are regarded as seminal and path breaking and are “classics” in the field of critical accounting. His articles, published in the top academic journals in his field, continue to attract worldwide attention and are widely cited by his peers. For these and other noteworthy accomplishments, Professor Macintosh was inducted into the Queen’s School of Business Faculty Hall of Fame in 2009. Norman’s research and ideas were celebrated and discussed in a recent special issue of Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2011, volume 22, 2). The twelve papers by a diverse and international group of scholars points to his enduring legacy and the breadth of his intellectual interests. The recent publication of a new edition of one of his classic texts attests to the currency of his ideas and his approach to research and teaching (Macintosh NB, Quattrone P. Management accounting and control systems—an organizational and sociological approach. 2nd ed. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons; 2011). Those of us who were privileged to hear his last public talk at the plenary of the Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Accounting Conference in 2009 will also fondly recall his wonderful humour, insight and creativity, despite the obvious pain he was suffering from. Professor Macintosh is survived by his wife, Joan, by sons Bruce and Cameron, and by three grandchildren.
1045-2354/$ – see front matter doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2011.10.003
Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect
Critical Perspectives on Accounting journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/cpa
Orbituary
Professor Norman Macintosh
Professor Norman Macintosh passed away quietly, at home in Kingston Ontario, on May 17, 2011. He was among the world’s most widely known and respected accounting scholars. His visiting appointments in Europe, the United States, Australia and Asia testify to the international reach of his research and teaching. His undergraduate performance at the University of Alberta, combining academic and athletic prowess, is recognized in that university’s Sports Wall of Fame. Nationally, he received both research and teaching awards from the Canadian Academic Accounting Association (“distinguished contribution to thought” and “outstanding educator,” respectively). At Queen’s University, where he served for more than three decades, he was the only professor to garner the School of Business Research Excellence Award twice—a feat that is unlikely to be repeated in any discipline. Several of his books are regarded as seminal and path breaking and are “classics” in the field of critical accounting. His articles, published in the top academic journals in his field, continue to attract worldwide attention and are widely cited by his peers. For these and other noteworthy accomplishments, Professor Macintosh was inducted into the Queen’s School of Business Faculty Hall of Fame in 2009. Norman’s research and ideas were celebrated and discussed in a recent special issue of Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2011, volume 22, 2). The twelve papers by a diverse and international group of scholars points to his enduring legacy and the breadth of his intellectual interests. The recent publication of a new edition of one of his classic texts attests to the currency of his ideas and his approach to research and teaching (Macintosh NB, Quattrone P. Management accounting and control systems—an organizational and sociological approach. 2nd ed. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons; 2011). Those of us who were privileged to hear his last public talk at the plenary of the Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Accounting Conference in 2009 will also fondly recall his wonderful humour, insight and creativity, despite the obvious pain he was suffering from. Professor Macintosh is survived by his wife, Joan, by sons Bruce and Cameron, and by three grandchildren.
1045-2354/$ – see front matter doi:10.1016/j.cpa.2011.10.003