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Publication
2025
- Norton, S. D. 2025. Financial innovation intra Muslim capital markets and inter global counterparts: implications of differences. Qualitative Research in Financial Markets 17(1), pp. 193-209. (10.1108/QRFM-04-2023-0088)
2024
- Norton, S. D. 2024. Free banking theory: literature review and relevance to the regulation of cryptocurrencies debate. Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 32(2), pp. 250-265. (10.1108/JFRC-10-2023-0176)
- Norton, S. D. 2024. Suspicious activity reporting in the United Kingdom and the United States: statutory obligations of auditors and optimal harvesting of information. Journal of Money Laundering Control 27(3), pp. 432-444. (10.1108/JMLC-08-2023-0131)
- Molla Imeny, V., Norton, S. D., Salehi, M. and Moradi, M. 2024. Suspicious activity reporting in emerging economies: The case of Iran.. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies (10.1108/JAEE-04-2023-0101)
2021
- Imeny, V. M., Norton, S. D., Salehi, M. and Moredi, M. 2021. The anti-money laundering expectations gap in Iran: auditor and judiciary perspectives. Journal of Money Laundering Control 24(4), pp. 681-692. (10.1108/JMLC-09-2020-0105)
- Alkahtani, R. A. and Norton, S. D. 2021. Audit committees in financial institutions in Saudi Arabia: a dichotomy of perceptions of functional independence and the reporting of financial crime. Journal of Financial Crime 28(4), pp. 1065-1077. (10.1108/JFC-03-2021-0053)
- Molla Imeny, V., Norton, S. D., Salehi, M. and Moradi, M. 2021. Taxonomies of money laundering: an Iranian perspective. Journal of Money Laundering Control 24(2), pp. 348-360. (10.1108/JMLC-07-2020-0074)
- Norton, S. D. and Imeny, V. M. 2021. Schumpeter's creative destruction and the credit crunch of 2007-2008: an Islamic banking perspective. Qualitative Research in Financial Markets 13(2), pp. 199-214. (10.1108/QRFM-07-2020-0126)
- Molla Imeny, V., Norton, S. D., Salehi, M. and Moradi, M. 2021. Perception versus reality: Iranian banks and international anti-money laundering expectations. Journal of Money Laundering Control 24(1), pp. 63-76. (10.1108/JMLC-06-2020-0064)
2019
- Norton, S. D. 2019. The convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES): an appraisal. In: Atkins, J. and Atkins, B. eds. Around the World in 80 Species. Routledge, pp. 151-169.
2018
- Norton, S. D. 2018. The convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES): an appraisal. In: Atkins, J. and Atkins, B. eds. Around the World in 80 Species: Exploring the Business of Extinction. Routledge, pp. 151-169.
- Norton, S. D. 2018. Suspicion of money laundering reporting obligations: auditor compliance, or sceptical failure to engage?. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 50, pp. 56-66. (10.1016/j.cpa.2017.09.003)
2016
- Norton, S. D. and Chiste, C. 2016. Legal aspects of ship mortgages. In: Kavussanos, M. G. and Visvikis, I. D. eds. The International Handbook of Shipping Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 231-252.
2015
- Atkins, J. F., Solomon, A., Norton, S. and Joseph, N. L. 2015. The emergence of integrated private reporting. Meditari Accountancy Research 23(1), pp. 28-61. (10.1108/MEDAR-01-2014-0002)
2013
- Solomon, J. F., Solomon, A., Joseph, N. L. and Norton, S. D. 2013. Impression management, myth creation and fabrication in private social and environmental reporting: insights from Erving Goffman. Accounting, Organizations and Society 38(3), pp. 195-213. (10.1016/j.aos.2013.01.001)
2012
- Norton, S. D. 2012. Judicial interpretation of the will of the state: a Hegelian perspective in the context of taxation. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 23(2), pp. 117-133. (10.1016/j.cpa.2011.11.012)
2011
- Solomon, J. F., Solomon, A., Norton, S. D. and Joseph, N. L. 2011. Private climate change reporting: an emerging discourse of risk and opportunity?. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 24(8), pp. 1119-1148. (10.1108/09513571111184788)
- Nurunnabi, M., Karim, W. and Norton, S. 2011. The perceived need for and impediments to achieving accounting transparency in developing countries: a field investigation on Bangladesh. International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting 3(1), pp. 32-54. (10.1504/IJMFA.2011.038363)
2010
- Norton, S. D. 2010. A comparative analysis of US policy initiatives and their implications in a credit crisis: The Depression Era of the 1920s in a twenty-first century context. Journal of Financial Services Marketing 14(4), pp. 328-345. (10.1057/fsm.2009.29)
- Norton, S. D. 2010. Bank failures and accounting during the financial crisis of 2008–2009. In: Jones, M. ed. Creative Accounting, Fraud and International Accounting Scandals. Chichester: Wiley
2009
- Norton, S. D. 2009. Bank failures and accounting during the financial crisis of 2008-2009. In: Jones, M. ed. Creative Accounting, Fraud and International Accounting Scandals. Wiley-Blackwell
- Norton, S. D. and Blanco, L. 2009. Public-private partnerships: a comparative study of new public management and stakeholder participation in the UK and Spain. International Journal of Public Policy 4(3/4), pp. 214-231. (10.1504/IJPP.2009.023489)
2008
- Norton, S. D. and Smith, L. M. 2008. Contrast and foundation of the public oversight roles of the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.K. National Audit Office. Public Administration Review 68(5), pp. 921-931. (10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.00932.x)
- Abu Sadah, M. and Norton, S. D. 2008. The application of uncitral model law principles in the Middle East region. Arab Law Quarterly 22(3), pp. 219-269. (10.1163/157302508X336601)
2007
- Norton, S. D. 2007. Securitisation in the Extractive Industries: Stakeholder Sensitivities, Environmental Protection and the Cost of Capital. Greener Management International 53, pp. 69-83.
- Norton, S. D. 2007. Lost in Translation: the inappropriateness of occidental New Public Management to reform of the public sector bureaucracy in Japan. International Journal of Public Sector Management 20(7), pp. 674-693. (10.1108/09513550710823551)
- Norton, S. D. 2007. The natural environment as a salient stakeholder: non-anthropocentrism, ecosystem stability and the financial markets. Business Ethics A European Review 16(4), pp. 387-402. (10.1111/j.1467-8608.2007.00511.x)
2003
- Norton, S. D., Lin, S., Solomon, A. and Solomon, J. F. 2003. Corporate Governance in Taiwan: empirical evidence from Taiwanese company directors. Corporate Governance An International Review 11(3), pp. 235-248. (10.1111/1467-8683.00321)
2002
- Norton, S. D., Solomon, A. and Solomon, J. 2002. Socially responsible investment in the UK: Drivers and current issues. Journal of General Management 27(3), pp. 1-13.
- Joseph, N. L., Norton, S. D., Solomon, J. F. and Solomon, A. 2002. Who would be a trustee? The growth of SRI in UK pension funds. New Academy Review 1(4), pp. 98-104.
2000
- Norton, S. and Solomon, J. 2000. Future policy directions for doi moi in Vietnam. Global Economic Review 29(2), pp. 117-133. (10.1080/12265080008449791)
- Solomon, J. F., Solomon, A., Norton, S. D. and Joseph, N. L. 2000. A conceptual framework for corporate risk disclosure emerging from the agenda for corporate governance reform. The British Accounting Review 32(4), pp. 447-478. (10.1006/bare.2000.0145)
- Solomon, J., Solomon, A., Joseph, N. and Norton, S. 2000. Institutional investors' views on corporate governance reform: policy recommendations for the 21st century. Corporate Governance 8(3), pp. 217-226. (10.1111/1467-8683.00200)
- Norton, S. 2000. Auditor liability since Caparo: legal formalism versus economic realism. The Commercial Liability Law Review
Articles
- Norton, S. D. 2025. Financial innovation intra Muslim capital markets and inter global counterparts: implications of differences. Qualitative Research in Financial Markets 17(1), pp. 193-209. (10.1108/QRFM-04-2023-0088)
- Norton, S. D. 2024. Free banking theory: literature review and relevance to the regulation of cryptocurrencies debate. Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance 32(2), pp. 250-265. (10.1108/JFRC-10-2023-0176)
- Norton, S. D. 2024. Suspicious activity reporting in the United Kingdom and the United States: statutory obligations of auditors and optimal harvesting of information. Journal of Money Laundering Control 27(3), pp. 432-444. (10.1108/JMLC-08-2023-0131)
- Molla Imeny, V., Norton, S. D., Salehi, M. and Moradi, M. 2024. Suspicious activity reporting in emerging economies: The case of Iran.. Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies (10.1108/JAEE-04-2023-0101)
- Imeny, V. M., Norton, S. D., Salehi, M. and Moredi, M. 2021. The anti-money laundering expectations gap in Iran: auditor and judiciary perspectives. Journal of Money Laundering Control 24(4), pp. 681-692. (10.1108/JMLC-09-2020-0105)
- Alkahtani, R. A. and Norton, S. D. 2021. Audit committees in financial institutions in Saudi Arabia: a dichotomy of perceptions of functional independence and the reporting of financial crime. Journal of Financial Crime 28(4), pp. 1065-1077. (10.1108/JFC-03-2021-0053)
- Molla Imeny, V., Norton, S. D., Salehi, M. and Moradi, M. 2021. Taxonomies of money laundering: an Iranian perspective. Journal of Money Laundering Control 24(2), pp. 348-360. (10.1108/JMLC-07-2020-0074)
- Norton, S. D. and Imeny, V. M. 2021. Schumpeter's creative destruction and the credit crunch of 2007-2008: an Islamic banking perspective. Qualitative Research in Financial Markets 13(2), pp. 199-214. (10.1108/QRFM-07-2020-0126)
- Molla Imeny, V., Norton, S. D., Salehi, M. and Moradi, M. 2021. Perception versus reality: Iranian banks and international anti-money laundering expectations. Journal of Money Laundering Control 24(1), pp. 63-76. (10.1108/JMLC-06-2020-0064)
- Norton, S. D. 2018. Suspicion of money laundering reporting obligations: auditor compliance, or sceptical failure to engage?. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 50, pp. 56-66. (10.1016/j.cpa.2017.09.003)
- Atkins, J. F., Solomon, A., Norton, S. and Joseph, N. L. 2015. The emergence of integrated private reporting. Meditari Accountancy Research 23(1), pp. 28-61. (10.1108/MEDAR-01-2014-0002)
- Solomon, J. F., Solomon, A., Joseph, N. L. and Norton, S. D. 2013. Impression management, myth creation and fabrication in private social and environmental reporting: insights from Erving Goffman. Accounting, Organizations and Society 38(3), pp. 195-213. (10.1016/j.aos.2013.01.001)
- Norton, S. D. 2012. Judicial interpretation of the will of the state: a Hegelian perspective in the context of taxation. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 23(2), pp. 117-133. (10.1016/j.cpa.2011.11.012)
- Solomon, J. F., Solomon, A., Norton, S. D. and Joseph, N. L. 2011. Private climate change reporting: an emerging discourse of risk and opportunity?. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 24(8), pp. 1119-1148. (10.1108/09513571111184788)
- Nurunnabi, M., Karim, W. and Norton, S. 2011. The perceived need for and impediments to achieving accounting transparency in developing countries: a field investigation on Bangladesh. International Journal of Managerial and Financial Accounting 3(1), pp. 32-54. (10.1504/IJMFA.2011.038363)
- Norton, S. D. 2010. A comparative analysis of US policy initiatives and their implications in a credit crisis: The Depression Era of the 1920s in a twenty-first century context. Journal of Financial Services Marketing 14(4), pp. 328-345. (10.1057/fsm.2009.29)
- Norton, S. D. and Blanco, L. 2009. Public-private partnerships: a comparative study of new public management and stakeholder participation in the UK and Spain. International Journal of Public Policy 4(3/4), pp. 214-231. (10.1504/IJPP.2009.023489)
- Norton, S. D. and Smith, L. M. 2008. Contrast and foundation of the public oversight roles of the U.S. Government Accountability Office and the U.K. National Audit Office. Public Administration Review 68(5), pp. 921-931. (10.1111/j.1540-6210.2008.00932.x)
- Abu Sadah, M. and Norton, S. D. 2008. The application of uncitral model law principles in the Middle East region. Arab Law Quarterly 22(3), pp. 219-269. (10.1163/157302508X336601)
- Norton, S. D. 2007. Securitisation in the Extractive Industries: Stakeholder Sensitivities, Environmental Protection and the Cost of Capital. Greener Management International 53, pp. 69-83.
- Norton, S. D. 2007. Lost in Translation: the inappropriateness of occidental New Public Management to reform of the public sector bureaucracy in Japan. International Journal of Public Sector Management 20(7), pp. 674-693. (10.1108/09513550710823551)
- Norton, S. D. 2007. The natural environment as a salient stakeholder: non-anthropocentrism, ecosystem stability and the financial markets. Business Ethics A European Review 16(4), pp. 387-402. (10.1111/j.1467-8608.2007.00511.x)
- Norton, S. D., Lin, S., Solomon, A. and Solomon, J. F. 2003. Corporate Governance in Taiwan: empirical evidence from Taiwanese company directors. Corporate Governance An International Review 11(3), pp. 235-248. (10.1111/1467-8683.00321)
- Norton, S. D., Solomon, A. and Solomon, J. 2002. Socially responsible investment in the UK: Drivers and current issues. Journal of General Management 27(3), pp. 1-13.
- Joseph, N. L., Norton, S. D., Solomon, J. F. and Solomon, A. 2002. Who would be a trustee? The growth of SRI in UK pension funds. New Academy Review 1(4), pp. 98-104.
- Norton, S. and Solomon, J. 2000. Future policy directions for doi moi in Vietnam. Global Economic Review 29(2), pp. 117-133. (10.1080/12265080008449791)
- Solomon, J. F., Solomon, A., Norton, S. D. and Joseph, N. L. 2000. A conceptual framework for corporate risk disclosure emerging from the agenda for corporate governance reform. The British Accounting Review 32(4), pp. 447-478. (10.1006/bare.2000.0145)
- Solomon, J., Solomon, A., Joseph, N. and Norton, S. 2000. Institutional investors' views on corporate governance reform: policy recommendations for the 21st century. Corporate Governance 8(3), pp. 217-226. (10.1111/1467-8683.00200)
- Norton, S. 2000. Auditor liability since Caparo: legal formalism versus economic realism. The Commercial Liability Law Review
Book sections
- Norton, S. D. 2019. The convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES): an appraisal. In: Atkins, J. and Atkins, B. eds. Around the World in 80 Species. Routledge, pp. 151-169.
- Norton, S. D. 2018. The convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES): an appraisal. In: Atkins, J. and Atkins, B. eds. Around the World in 80 Species: Exploring the Business of Extinction. Routledge, pp. 151-169.
- Norton, S. D. and Chiste, C. 2016. Legal aspects of ship mortgages. In: Kavussanos, M. G. and Visvikis, I. D. eds. The International Handbook of Shipping Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 231-252.
- Norton, S. D. 2010. Bank failures and accounting during the financial crisis of 2008–2009. In: Jones, M. ed. Creative Accounting, Fraud and International Accounting Scandals. Chichester: Wiley
- Norton, S. D. 2009. Bank failures and accounting during the financial crisis of 2008-2009. In: Jones, M. ed. Creative Accounting, Fraud and International Accounting Scandals. Wiley-Blackwell
- Imeny, V. M., Norton, S. D., Salehi, M. and Moredi, M. 2021. The anti-money laundering expectations gap in Iran: auditor and judiciary perspectives. Journal of Money Laundering Control 24(4), pp. 681-692. (10.1108/JMLC-09-2020-0105)
- Molla Imeny, V., Norton, S. D., Salehi, M. and Moradi, M. 2021. Taxonomies of money laundering: an Iranian perspective. Journal of Money Laundering Control 24(2), pp. 348-360. (10.1108/JMLC-07-2020-0074)
- Norton, S. D. and Imeny, V. M. 2021. Schumpeter's creative destruction and the credit crunch of 2007-2008: an Islamic banking perspective. Qualitative Research in Financial Markets 13(2), pp. 199-214. (10.1108/QRFM-07-2020-0126)
- Molla Imeny, V., Norton, S. D., Salehi, M. and Moradi, M. 2021. Perception versus reality: Iranian banks and international anti-money laundering expectations. Journal of Money Laundering Control 24(1), pp. 63-76. (10.1108/JMLC-06-2020-0064)
- Norton, S. D. 2019. The convention on international trade in endangered species of wild fauna and flora (CITES): an appraisal. In: Atkins, J. and Atkins, B. eds. Around the World in 80 Species. Routledge, pp. 151-169.
- Norton, S. D. 2018. Suspicion of money laundering reporting obligations: auditor compliance, or sceptical failure to engage?. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 50, pp. 56-66. (10.1016/j.cpa.2017.09.003)
- Norton, S. D. and Chiste, C. 2016. Legal aspects of ship mortgages. In: Kavussanos, M. G. and Visvikis, I. D. eds. The International Handbook of Shipping Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 231-252.
- Atkins, J. F., Solomon, A., Norton, S. and Joseph, N. L. 2015. The emergence of integrated private reporting. Meditari Accountancy Research 23(1), pp. 28-61. (10.1108/MEDAR-01-2014-0002)
Research
Research interests
- Business ethics: banking activity and its impact upon the natural environment
- Corporate governance in the context of financial institutions Banking regulation and financial fragility
- Innovation in the global capital markets
- Islamic finance and financial instruments
- Public sector administration and reform including public private partnerships, private finance initiatives, supreme audit institutions (SAI's)
Research projects
Research currently in progress for 3 and 4 star journal submissions
- Banking sector corporate governance in a developing economy context
- Organisational theory and application in the courtroom
- Supreme audit institutions: a cross-cultural comparative approach.
PhD supervision research interests
- Corporate governance in banking sectors
- Economic development in developing countries
- Islamic banking and finance
Teaching
Teaching commitments
- PhD supervision
- Course Director for first year course, Legal Studies
- Course Director for second year course, Law of Banking, Commerce, and Investment
Additional teaching activities
- Course Director for Marine Insurance for the training body of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers
- External Examiner for Caribbean-based business school in the subject of bank regulation and security
- Supervisor of numerous dissertations on postgraduate degree schemes
Biography
Qualifications
- LLB (Cardiff Law School, University of Wales)
- LLM (Cardiff Law School, University of Wales)
- PhD (Department of Maritime Studies, University of Wales)
Additional activities
Membership of Professional Bodies:
- American Society of Public Administration
- Association of International Accounting
- British Accounting Association
- European Accounting Association
- European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
- International Political Science Association
Contact Details
NortonSD@cardiff.ac.uk
+44 29208 76675
Aberconway Building, Room E06, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU
+44 29208 76675
Aberconway Building, Room E06, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU