Associate Professor
Andrew West
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Accountancy
Biography
Andrew joined QUT in March 2015. He has over 20 years' experience in teaching and research at different institutions in Australia and South Africa, as well as significant industry experience in the financial services industry in Johannesburg and London, and as an external auditor with KPMG. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa in 1997 and has been a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand since 2009. Andrew completed a PhD in Philosophy in 2012 and conducts research in the areas of business and professional ethics. He has a particular interest in the application of Aristotelian Virtue Ethics in business and accounting, including in accounting education. He has published in leading journals including the Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance: An International Review and Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal.Andrew is the editor of the Business Ethics Learning and Education section of the Journal of Business Ethics.. In 2017 he was deputy chair of the Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN) and Chair of ABEN from 2018-2019.
Personal details
Positions
- Associate Professor
Faculty of Business & Law,
School of Accountancy
Research field
Accounting, Auditing and Accountability
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- PhD (University of Pretoria)
Professional memberships and associations
Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand; Australasian Business Ethics Network
Publications
- West, A., (2018). After virtue and accounting ethics. Journal of Business Ethics, 148(1), 21–36. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/222920
- West, A., (2016). Applying metaethical and normative claims of moral relativism to (shareholder and stakeholder) models of corporate governance. Journal of Business Ethics, 135(2), 199–215. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84070
- West, A., (2014). Ubuntu and business ethics: Problems, perspectives and prospects. Journal of Business Ethics, 121(1), 47–61. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84413
- West, A., (2009). Corporate governance convergence and moral relativism. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 17(1), 107–119. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84414
- West, A., (2009). The ethics of corporate governance: A (South) African perspective. International Journal of Law and Management, 51(1), 10–16. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84415
- West, A., (2008). Sartrean existentialism and ethical decision-making in business. Journal of Business Ethics, 81(1), 15–25. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84417
- West, A., (2006). A commentary on the global position of South African accounting research. Meditari: accountancy research, 14(1), 121–137. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84420
- West, A. & Saunders, S. (2006). A humanistic approach to South African Accounting education. Justice Quarterly, 20(5), 718–732. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84421
- West, A., (2006). Theorising South Africa's corporate governance. Journal of Business Ethics, 68(4), 433–448. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/84419
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