Rate My Professor Basil Tucker

Dr Basil Tucker serves as Adjunct Associate Professor in the College of Business and Law at Adelaide University and Senior Lecturer in Accounting in UniSA Business School. He holds a PhD from the University of South Australia (2004-2008), an MBA from the University of Adelaide (1985-1988), a Bachelor of Business, and is a qualified CPA and graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors Company Directors Course. Prior to his academic career, Tucker accumulated over twelve years of management consulting experience with an international firm and a South Australian practice, working with more than 120 organizations in Australia, the UK, and the US across not-for-profit, healthcare, media, and manufacturing industries. He has also been a member of the Board of Management for several South Australian organizations.

Tucker's research specializations include the interplay between management control systems and organizational strategy, the research-practice gap in management accounting, informal control through social network theory, organizational resilience, and integrating humanities, arts, and social sciences perspectives into the space sector. His influential publications encompass "Practitioners are from Mars; academics are from Venus?: An investigation of the research-practice gap in management accounting" (2014), cited over 200 times; "In our ivory towers? The research-practice gap in management accounting" (2017); "Management control systems and strategy: what's been happening?" (2009); and recent contributions such as "Like a Phoenix from the Ashes: management control and organizational resilience during NASA's Apollo and space shuttle programs" (2025, Abacus), "Not because it is easy … accounting research enters the space age" (2024, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal), and "Dysfunctional behaviour in university accounting schools: A tale of management control" (2024). Tucker has earned commendations from the UniSA Business School Research Excellence Awards in 2025 and 2019, and an Outstanding Paper award in the 2025 Emerald Literati Awards. He coordinates the MBA course Accounting for Decision Making, teaches management and introductory accounting courses, and supervises postgraduate research students on space policy, innovation, and human rights topics.