Keith ROBSON

Professor

Accounting and Management Control

Biography

Keith Robson holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Social Studies majoring in Econometrics (Victoria University of Manchester), a Master’s Degree in Accounting and Finance (Victoria University of Manchester) and a PhD in Financial Reporting (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology).

He has authored and co-authored three books, seven chapters in edited collections and over 35 articles in academic accounting, management and organization studies journals (Accounting, Auditing and Accountability; Accounting and Business Research, Accounting Business and Financial History; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Contemporary Accounting Research; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Economy and Society; European Accounting Review; Human Relations, Organization; Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Science in Context).

He is an Editor (and former Editor-in-Chief) of Accounting, Organizations and Society, former associate editor of British Accounting Review, and serves on the boards of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, International Journal of Auditing, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Organizational Change, and the British Accounting Review.

His research interests include performance measures and diffusion; socio-political studies of accounting regulation; the profession, professional firms and professionalization; management control in schools; auditing methodologies. He is a member of the American Accounting Association, British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), European Accounting Association (EAA), and is Doctoral Alumnus of the American Accounting Association (AAA) Doctoral Consortium (as the BAA nominee), and of the European Accounting Association Doctoral Colloquium. He has held a Research Fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Keith was a co-organizer of the Doctoral Colloquium of the European Accounting Association.

Keith has held posts at Aberystwyth University, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), University of Manchester and Cardiff University. taught management accounting at various levels at Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Manchester. He is an Honorary Professor at Cardiff Business School. At HEC he is currently teaching cost accounting (HEC Master of Science in Management - Grande École), and theories of management control and Empirical Topics in Management Accounting (HEC doctoral program). He supervises one PhD student at HEC Paris and two at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.

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Scientific articles

Technological mediation, mediating morality and moral imaginaries of design: Performance measurement systems in the pharmaceutical industry

Accounting, Organizations and Society, June 2024, vol. 112, n° 101535, (in coll. with C. Bottausci, C. Dambrin)

Cultural Circularities that Limit Diversity: Emancipating Voices (discussion)

Social and Environmental Accountability Journal, 2024, vol. 44, n° 2, pp 159-168, (in coll. with F. Anderson-Gough, C. Edgley, N. Sharma)

Diversity and the Evaluation of Talent in the Accounting Profession: The Enigma of Merit

Accounting Horizons, Mars 2024, vol. 38, n° 1, pp 27-37, (in coll. with F. Anderson-Gough, C. Edgley, N. Sharma)

“He Hears”: An essay celebrating the 25 year anniversary of The Audit Society

Critical Perspectives on Accounting, December 2023, vol. 97, n° 102581, (in coll. with C. Bottausci)

The cultural fields of accounting practices: Institutionalization and accounting changes beyond the organization

Accounting, Organizations and Society, January 2023, vol. 104, n° 101379, (in coll. with M. Ezzamel)

Organizational responses to multiple logics: Diversity, identity and the professional service firm

Accounting, Organizations and Society, November 2022, vol. 103, n° 101336, (in coll. with F. Anderson-Gough, C. Edgley, N. Sharma)

Editorial: Themed section on accounting and valuation studies

Accounting, Organizations and Society, 2021, vol. 91, n° 101223, (in coll. with Y. Millo, M. Power, H. Vollmer)

Editorial: Accounting research and practice in the time of pandemic (v5) (Editorial)

Accounting, Organizations and Society, April 2021, n° 101243, (in coll. with M. Annisette, M. E. Peecher)

Problematizing profit and profitability: discussions

Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2020, vol. 33, n° 4, pp 753-793, (in coll. with A. LOWE, Y. NAMA, A. BRYER, N. CHABRAK, C. DAMBRIN, I. JEACLE, J. LIND, P. LORINO, C. BOTTAUSCI, C. SPENCE, C. CARTER, E. SVETLOVA)

The multiplicity of performance management systems: heterogeneity in multinational corporations and management sense-making

Contemporary Accounting Research, Spring 2019, vol. 36, n° 1, pp 451-485, (in coll. with M. EZZAMEL, D. COOPER)

Books

Local Management of Schools: the Creation and Implementation of Budgets

CIMA 2000 (in coll. with P. EDWARDS, M. EZZAMEL, C. MCLEAN )

Making Up Accountants: the Professional and Organizational Socialization of Chartered Accountants

Ashgate 1998 (in coll. with F. ANDERSON, C. GREY )

The Local Management of Schools Initiative

CIMA 1997 (in coll. with P. EDWARDS, M. TAYLOR, M. EZZAMEL )

Chapters in edited books

Accounting practitioners, work and organisations

The Routledge Companion To Accounting History, 2Nd Edition, John Richard Edwards, Stephen P. Walker (Eds), Routledge, London, 39

Regulation

The Routledge Companion To Critical Accounting, Robin Roslender, Routledge, London, 184-204

The Corporation in Accounting

The Corporation: A Critical, Multi-Disciplinary Handbook, Grietje Baars, and Andre Spicer, Cambridge University Press, 1 , 180-196

Critical Accounting

The Oxford Handbook Of Critical Management Studies, M. Alvesson, T. Bridgman, H. Willmott (Eds), Oxford University Press

Socio-political studies of financial accounting and standard setting

Accounting, Organizations And Institutions, C. Chapman, D.J. Cooper and P. Miller (Eds), Oxford University Press, 1-29

Firm Histories

Companion To Accounting History, S. Walker, J.R. Edwards (Eds), Routledge, London

Connecting Science to the Economic

Science And Economic Calculation, M. Power (Ed.), Cambridge University Press

Regulating the UK Accountancy Profession: A Changing Relationship between the State and the Profession

Accounting As Social And Institutional Practice, A.G. Hopwood , P.B. Miller (Eds), Cambridge University Press

On Understanding the Development of the Accountancy Profession in the UK

Critical Accounts, D. J. Cooper, T. M. Hopper (Eds), Macmillan

Power and Management Control

Critical Perspectives In Management Control, W.F. Chua, E.A. Lowe, A.G. Puxty (Eds), Macmillan

Proceedings

Hybrid Logics and Mediating Devices: Accounting Calculations in the Organisation of Pharma R&D

2024 , 2024 , Chicago , 2024 Academy of Management Annual Meeting , 1 (V. CASARIN)

Working papers

Moral Imaginaries of Performance Measurement Systems in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Struggles and Negotiations to Define What is an Agent and What is Not

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2018

Multiple measures, inscription instability and action at a distance: performance measurement practices in the pharmaceutical industry

Cahier de Recherche du Groupe HEC , 2010