Dr Patricia Martyn
Lecturer in Accountancy & Finance
J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, University of Galway
Patricia completed her PhD at the University of Galway in 2018. Her thesis focused on the convergence of management control systems and middle-manager actions in multinational organisations. She is interested in how different modes of control work in combination to shape middle-management behaviours.
Patricia teaches in the area of management accounting and performance measurement and her teaching is informed by her professional accounting qualification. Patricia’s recent work explores the challenges of managing competing performance priorities. For example, she has explored the importance of embedding values alongside traditional results controls to encourage goal-congruent behaviours, and how informal controls can complement formal control systems.
Patricia's work contributes to these SDGs
Key Target: 8.4 Improve resource efficiency in consumption and production
Teaching
Accounting and Management Control for Sustainable Organisations The objectives of this module are to facilitate students in developing an ability to critically evaluate the conceptual and practical issues in the design of managerial control systems for sustainable organisations, including: triple bottom line, distinctive budgetary and non-budgetary mechanisms, divisional performance evaluation, and strategic performance management systems.
Supporting Targets: 4.7 Education for sustainable development and global citizenship; 9.2 promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
Management Accounting I
The objectives of this module are to facilitate students in developing a sound comprehension of relevant management accounting techniques and how those techniques integrate within continually evolving organisational and environmental settings. Management accounting information assists managers in their decision-making and the collation, presentation and use of such information is critical to sustainable organisation practice.
Supporting Targets: 4.7 Education for sustainable development and global citizenship; 9.2 promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
Direct impact SDG Targets
4.4 - Increase the number of people with relevant skills for financial success
4.7 - Education for sustainable development and global citizenship
Indirect
8.1 - Sustainable economic growth
8.2 - Diversify, innovate and upgrade for economic productivity
8.4 - Improve resource efficiency in consumption and production
Research
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Martyn, P., Sweeney, B., Curtis, E. (2016). Strategy and control: 25 years of empirical use of Simons' Levers of Control framework. Journal of Accounting and Organizational Change, 12(3), 281-324. |
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