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Professor

Colin Higgins

Acting Head of Department, Management

Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Business School

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  • Acting Head of Department, Management
    Faculty of Business and Law/Deakin Business School
  • +61 3 924 46103 (Work)
  • Melbourne Burwood Campus, 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Victoria 3125

BIO

Colin Higgins is Professor of Management and the Associate Dean: International
and Partnerships in the Faculty of Business and Law. For six years Colin
managed the Deakin MBA program.

Colin's research focuses on how business organisations use language in their
social/environmental and sustainability reports, and how this shapes but is
also constrained by institutional drivers in the environments where they
operate. Most recently, he has been exploring the role of integrated reporting
in meeting business and sustainability challenges.

He is the Co-Editor of A-ranked 'Business & Society' journal and is the 2021
Program Chair for the Social Issues in Management (SIM) Division of the
Academy of Management (AoM). He is a fellow and former President and
Conference Chair of the International Association for Business & Society
(IABS). His work is published in Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, the
Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Cleaner Production and Accounting
Forum.

Outside of Deakin, Colin is an experienced non-executive Director and a
graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors. He is Chair of the
Board of Knoxbrook Inc a leading Victorian disability support provider.

DEAKIN UNIVERSITY CURRENT APPOINTMENT

  • Acting Head of Department, Management
    Deakin University, Department of Management

DEGREES

  • Doctor of Philosophy
    Deakin University
  • Master of Business Studies
    Massey University
  • Bachelor of Business Studies
    Massey University

FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)

  • Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • Accounting, auditing and accountability

AREA/FACULTY

  • Faculty of Business and Law

DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL/INSTITUTE

  • Deakin Business School