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Professor
Accounting and Management Control
Member of CNRS-GREGHEC Research Group
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 I statute 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; 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 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 is now 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 (HEC doctoral program). He supervises one PhD student at HEC Paris and two at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.
"The Logics of Budgeting: Accounting, Theorization And Diffusion In The Educational Field", Accounting Organizations and Society, July 2012, vol. 37, n° 5, pp. 281-303 (in coll. with M. EZZAMEL, P. STAPLETON).
"Tracing performance in the pharmaceutical industry: ambivalence, opacity and the performativity of flawed measures", Accounting Organizations and Society, October 2011, vol. 36, n° 7, pp. 428-455 (in coll. with C. DAMBRIN).
"Discourse and audit change: transformations in methodology in the professional audit field", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2008, vol. 20, n° 6, pp. 825-854 (in coll. with R. KHALIFA, R. SHARMA, N. HUMPHREY).
"Discourse and institutional change: ‘giving accounts’ and accountability", Management Accounting Research, June 2007, vol. 18, n° 2, pp. 150-171 (in coll. with M. EZZAMEL, P. STAPLETON).
"Transforming Audit Technologies: Business Risk Audit Methodologies and the Audit Field ", Accounting Organizations and Society, 2007, vol. 32, n° 4-5, pp. 409-438 (in coll. with C. HUMPHREY, C. KHALIFA, J. JONES).
"Auditing firms and auditing professionals", Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 2006, vol. 24, pp. 231-256 (in coll. with C. GREY, F. ANDERSON-GOUGH).
"Locating the sites of professionalization", Accounting Organizations and Society, July-August 2006, vol. 31, n° 4/5, pp. 415-444 (in coll. with D. J. COOPER).
"Budgetary Reform and the Structuration of Organizational Fields in Education", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 2005, vol. 18, n° 6, pp. 733-755 (in coll. with P. EDWARDS, M. EZZAMEL).
"Helping them to Forget..: the Organizational embedding of Gender Relations in two large audit firms", Accounting Organizations and Society, 2005 (in coll. with F. ANDERSON-GOUGH, C. GREY).
"Accounting Professionals and the Accounting Profession: Linking Conduct and Context", Accounting and Business Research, 2002, vol. 32, n° 1, pp. 41-56 (in coll. with F. ANDERSON-GOUGH, C. GREY).
"Spanish Utilities during the Civil War", Accounting History Review (ex Accounting Business and Financial History), 2002, vol. 12, n° 2, pp. 347-368 (in coll. with L. FERNANDEZ-REVUELTA, D. GOMEZ).
"Budgetary Control and Institutional Reform: Constructing the Accountable School", Financial Accountability & Management, 2001, vol. 16, n° 4, pp. 309-325 (in coll. with P. EDWARDS, M. EZZAMEL).
"Tests of Time: Organizational Time-Reckoning and the Making of Accountants in Audit Practices", Accounting Organizations and Society, 2001, vol. 26, n° 2, pp. 99-122 (in coll. with F. ANDERSON, C. GREY).
"In the Name of the Client: the Service Ethic in Professional Service Firms", Human Relations, 2000, vol. 53, n° 9, pp. 1151-1174 (in coll. with F. ANDERSON-GOUGH, C. GREY).
"Connecting Accounting and Education in the UK: Discourses and Rationalities of Education Reform", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 1999, vol. 10, pp. 469-500 (in coll. with M. EZZAMEL, P. EDWARDS).
"Ritual Legitimation and the Budgetary Process: Managing Organizational Hypocrisies in a Multi-national Company", Management Accounting Research, 1999 (in coll. with L. FERNANDEZ-REVUELTA).
"Social Analyses of Accounting Institutions: A Commentary on Bryer", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 1999, vol. 9.
"Work Hard, Play Hard: An Analysis of Organizational Cliche in Two Accountancy Firms", Organization, November 1998 (in coll. with F. ANDERSON, C. GREY).
"(In)stalling the Eighth Directive in the UK", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 1996, vol. 7, pp. 587-614 (in coll. with D. J. COOPER, A. G. PUXTY, H. C. WILLMOTT).
"Budgeting and Resource Allocation in Education: The Construction of Formula Funding in Three English LEAs", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 1996, vol. 7 (in coll. with P. EDWARDS, M. EZZAMEL, M. TAYLOR).
"Accounting in Time: Organizational Time-Reckoning and Accounting Research", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 1995, vol. 6, pp. 149-170 (in coll. with M. EZZAMEL).
"The Development of the Local Management in Schools Initiative: Budgets and Organizational Change", Financial Accountability & Management, November 1995 (in coll. with P. EDWARDS, M. EZZAMEL, M. TAYLOR).
"Connecting Science to the Economic: Accounting Calculation and the Visibility of Research and Development", Science in Context, 1994, vol. 7, n° 3, pp. 497-514.
"Ideology and Regulation: Three Episodes in the Recent History of the UK Accountancy Profession", Accounting Organizations and Society, 1994, vol. 19, n° 6, pp. 527-553 (in coll. with H. C. WILLMOTT, D. J. COOPER, A. G. PUXTY).
"Inflation Accounting and Action at a Distance: The Sandilands Episode", Accounting Organizations and Society, 1994, vol. 19, n° 7, pp. 45-82.
"The Discourse of Inflation Accounting: On the Interrelations Between Economic Theory and Inflation Accounting History", European Accounting Review, 1994, vol. 3, n° 3, pp. 195-214.
"The Management of Professional Enterprises and Regulatory Change: British Accountancy and the Financial Services Act 1986", Accounting Organizations and Society, 1994, vol. 19, n° 7, pp. 601-628 (in coll. with V. RADCLIFFE, D. J. COOPER).
"Promoting Science and Economic Growth at a Distance: Accounting Representation and the Government of Research and Development", Economy and Society, 1993, vol. 22, n° 4, pp. 461-481.
"Accounting Numbers as ‘Inscription’: Action at a Distance and the Development of Accounting", Accounting Organizations and Society, 1992, vol. 17, n° 7, pp. 685-708.
"Accounting Policy Making and ‘Interests’: Accounting for Research and Development", Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 1992, vol. 4, n° 1, pp. 1-27.
"The Regulation of Accountancy and Accountants: Accounting for Research and Development in Four Advanced Capitalist Countries", Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 1992, vol. 5, n° 2, pp. 31-54 (in coll. with H. WILLMOTT, A. G. PUXTY, D. J. COOPER).
"On the Arenas of Accounting Change: The Process of Translation", Accounting Organizations and Society, 1991, vol. 16, pp. 547-572.
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).
"Critical Accounting", in The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies , M. Alvesson, T. Bridgman, H. Willmott (Eds), Oxford University Press, 2010 (in coll. with M. EZZAMEL).
"Socio-political studies of financial accounting and standard setting", in Accounting, Organizations and Institutions, C. Chapman, D.J. Cooper and P. Miller (Eds) , Oxford University Press, 2009, 1-29.
"Firm Histories", in Companion to Accounting History , S. Walker, J.R. Edwards (Eds), Routledge, London, 2008 (in coll. with D. J. COOPER).
"Connecting Science to the Economic", in Science and Economic Calculation, M. Power (Ed.), Cambridge University Press, 1996.
"Regulating the UK Accountancy Profession: A Changing Relationship between the State and the Profession", in Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice, A.G. Hopwood , P.B. Miller (Eds), Cambridge University Press, 1994 (in coll. with D. J. COOPER, A. G. PUXTY, H. C. WILLMOTT).
"On Understanding the Development of the Accountancy Profession in the UK", in Critical Accounts, D. J. Cooper, T. M. Hopper (Eds), Macmillan, 1990 (in coll. with D. J. COOPER).
"Power and Management Control", in Critical Perspectives in Management Control , W.F. Chua, E.A. Lowe, A.G. Puxty (Eds), Macmillan, 1989 (in coll. with D. J. COOPER).
Employment Date: 2014
1988 Ph.D., The University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
1983 M.A., The University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
1982 Bachelor of Arts in Econometrics, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
English
2016- Department Head, Accounting and Management Control.
2014- Professor, Accounting and Management Control.
2014- Member, GREGHEC (CNRS).
2005-2014 Professor, Accounting, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.
2004-2005 Professor, Accounting, Manchester Business School.
1998-2004 Professor, Accounting, Manchester School of Management.
1995-1998 Senior lecturer, Accounting and Management Control, Manchester School of Management.
1988-1995 Senior lecturer, Accounting and Management Control, Manchester School of Management.
1986-1988 Senior lecturer, Accounting, University College Wales.
1984-1986 Research Assistant, Department of Management Sciences, Manchester School of Management.
Member, European Accounting Association; Management Control Association.
Management Committee, Board and Doctoral Committee of the European Accounting Association.
Associate Editor, British Accounting Review.
Reviewer, Accounting and Business Research; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Accounting, Management and Information Technologies; American Journal of Sociology; Accounting, Organizations and Society; British Accounting Review; British Journal of Sociology; Contemporary Accounting Research; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; European Accounting Review; Gender, Work and Organization; Human Relations; Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Organizational Change; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Journal of Management Studies; Management Accounting Research; Organization; Organization Studies; Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management; Scandinavian Journal of Management.
Member of the Editorial Board of Critical Studies in Finance, Accounting and Behavioural Research, Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Organizational Change, International Journal of Auditing, Critical Perspectives on Accounting.
juillet 2013- Co-Editor, Accounting, Organizations and Society.
1991-1995 Member of the Editorial Board, European Accounting Review .
Co-organizer of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Tenth Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Accounting Conference (IPA), Manchester July 1994, 1997, 2000 and Cardiff 2006, 2012.
Co-organizer of the first Financial Reporting as Social and Organizational Practice Workshop (with Professor Michael Power, LSE, & Professor Joni Young, University of New Mexico).
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