Dr Sepideh Parsa
Principal Lecturer
Department: Accounting and finance
Sepideh has recently been put in charge of our PhD students in the Department and is also the Programme Leader for MSc Financial Management. Her research interests are in the field of Social Accounting and Sustainability Human Resource Management. She is currently working on two research projects. Her first research project is funded by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales for a grant of £9,865 and is in collaboration with scholars in China. The project concentrates on examining the motives for the growing social reporting practices among leading Chinese companies. Her second research projects is in collaboration with the Institute of Personnel Management based in Vienna University of Economics and Business and is funded by the British Academy for a grant of £7,445. This project examines the claimed adherence of multinational corporations to employment- and human right-related indicators of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). This project adopts a multidisciplinary approach where the two disciplines of employment relations and social accounting are used to analyse company’s reporting practices.
Contact
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 8411 5582
- E-mail: S.Parsa@mdx.ac.uk
Qualifications
BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, PGCert
Research Interests
Social Reporting, Sustainability in Human Resource Management Practices
Teaching Interests
Corporate Governance, Social Accounting, Financial Reporting, Research Methods
Biography
SELECTED REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Li, P., Parsa, S. Tang, G. and Xiao, J. (2011), “Is there an Expectations Gap in the Roles of Independent Directors? An explorative Study of Listed Chinese Companies”, British Journal of Management, in press
Parsa S. (2010), “Corporate Governance and Human Resource Management”, in Critical Issues in Human Resource Management, CIPD.
Parsa S. and Kouhy R. (2008), “Social Reporting by Companies Listed on the Alternative Investment Market”, Journal of Business Ethics, 79(3), pp. 345-360.
Parsa S. and X. L. Deng (2008), “Capital Markets’ Reactions to Social Information Announcements”, International Journal of Accounting and Finance, 1(1), 107-120.
Parsa S. and Chong G. and Isomoya E. (2007), “Disclosure of Governance Information by Small and Medium-sized Companies”, Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society, 7(5), 635-648.
Parsa S., Kouhy R. and Tavos C. (2007), “Governance and Social Information Disclosure -Evidence from the UK”, International Journal of Business Governance and Ethics (IJBGE), 3(3), 205-222.
RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS
£5,000, November 2011, Vienna University of Economics and Business
“Sustainability Human Resource Management”.
£7,445, July 2011, The British Academy
“Social Audit of Employment Relations Practices of the World's Largest Companies”. (Principal Investigator)
£9,865, January 2011, ICAEW
“Corporate Social Reporting and Corporate Social Disclosure by Chinese Companies”. (Principal Investigator)
WOKING PAPERS
Parsa, S., Branco, M., Delgado, C., and Barros, T, “The prominence of social responsibility disclosure in Portuguese companies' web pages” Roper, I,
Parsa, S., Muller-Camen, M., and Szigetvari, E. “The social audit of multinational corporations’ labour standards: what can it tell us about voluntary codes?”
Parsa, S., Tang, G. and Dai, N., “Managerial Perception of Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Social Disclosure in China”
Parsa, S., Roper, I. and Muller-Camen, M., “The Employment Reporting Practices of the World's Largest Companies: a reputation building exercise?”
Parsa, S. and Hettiarachchi, C., “An analysis of the quality of the assurance statements provided by FTSE350”
DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
Sofia Santos: “The Legitimacy of Portuguese banks and the Environment: Is the Portuguese banking sector facing a potential legitimacy loss due to its lack of concerns with the environment?” – completed in November 2011.
Sulaiman Ailyu: “The role of stakeholder engagement in the preparation of assurance statements” (expected to complete in 2014)
Yazid Ailyu: “Social Reporting Practices in SMEs via Internet” (expected to complete in September 2016).
Sepideh is well experienced in examing PhDs and has acted as PhD external examiner in many other British Universities.
ADMINISTRATION
DOCTORAL STUDENTS IN ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE Sepideh has been recently put in charge of our doctoral students in the Accounting and Finance Department. While we have a well-developed Doctoral programme at the Business School, Sepideh aims to ensure that our doctoral students will be in an integral part of our research community in the Department where they regularly attend and participate in our internal research seminars and can therefore benefit from a more conducive research environment so that they can enhance their learning experience. Sepideh is also in charge of the recruitment of doctoral students, allocation of supervisory team and monitoring students’ progress.
PROGRAMME LEADER FOR MSC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT Sepideh has been leading MSc Financial Management for a number of years and has seen the programme going from strength to strength. The programme now runs in two cohorts in London and another cohort in Hong Kong. The Programme is regarded as one of our most successful postgraduate programmes at the Business School. For more information on MSc Financial Management, please see the following link: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/accounting_and_finance/financial_management_msc.aspx
