Max Baker

Professor Max Baker is affiliated with the University of Sydney Business School, where he is part of the Discipline of Accounting, Regulation and Governance. His research interests include Accounting, auditing and accountability not elsewhere classified, Organisational behaviour, and Data and information privacy. He has published extensively in top-tier academic journals and serves on the editorial board of several journals, including Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and Accounting and Business Research. In 2022, he received an ARC discovery grant to study data breach disclosure rules and practices in Australian companies.

Max Baker is a researcher at The University of Sydney with a focus on corporate social responsibility, privatisation, and big data. His work explores the intersections of these areas, particularly through the lens of social and environmental accountability, neoliberalism, and surveillance capitalism. Baker's research includes the impact of data regulation, the role of big data in accounting, and the implications of corporate reporting on sustainability and inequality. His publications often engage with critical realism, Marxist critiques, and the ethical dimensions of corporate responsibility. He also examines the political economy of public budgeting and the role of leaks in exposing corporate misconduct.