Growing up: life on the fringe: rebutting groupthink -- Chambers the man -- Historian: past, present, future -- Archivist: classifying, searching for order -- Management educator -- Theoretician: new system of accounting: cocoa -- Practitioner: theoretician-cum-practitioner -- Reformer of...

This article examines the challenges faced by an Australian accounting academic, R. J. Chambers, in the 1950s, in breaking into the accounting research community; at that time almost entirely located in the United States and the United Kingdom. For academics outside the networks of accounting...