12th Annual Workshop on the Politics of Accounting
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12th Annual Workshop on the Politics of Accounting
Hosted by: HEC Paris and SKEMA
October 1-2, 2026
HEC Alumni Office
9 Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt, 75008 Paris, France
Thursday, October 1st, 2026
Welcome Lunch: 12:00/12:15 (HEC Alumni Office)
Opening 13:00
Session 1: 13:10-14:50 (2 papers ~50 min ea)
Paper 1: 13:10 – 14:00
Conceptualizing (De)regulatory Burden: Political Narratives and Experiences of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
Author(s): Lisa Baudot, Matthias-Xaver Huber, and Emile Rogier, HEC Paris
Discussant: Christoph Pelger, University of Passau
Paper 2: 15:20 – 16:10
In the “Public Interest”: On the Genesis of the Dutch Audit Profession’s 2014 Reform Plan
Author(s): Dominic Detzen, Vrije University and Marlies de Vries, Nyenrode Business University
Discussant: Kirstin Becker, Copenhagen Business School
Coffee Break: 14:50-15:20
Session 2: 15:20-17:00 (2 papers ~50 min ea)
Paper 3: 14:00 – 14:50
Making Global Standards Work – Implementing IFRS in Multinational Organisations
Author(s): Leonie Daum, University of Innsbruck
Discussant: Matthias Huber, HEC Paris
Paper 4: 16:10 – 17:00
Farm Teams in Accounting Standard Setting: Talent Pooling and Succession Planning
Author(s): Jan Friedrich and Tessa Kunkel, ESCP Paris
Open discussion
Dinner: 18:30 (La Carre Elysee, 49 Avenue Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 75008)
Friday, October 2nd, 2026
Welcome Breakfast: 8:30 (HEC Alumni Office)
Session 3: 9:00-12:00 (3 papers~50 min ea)
Paper 5: 9:00 – 9:50
Accounting for democracy: the role of aid agencies in setting the grounds for accounting reforms
Author(s): Raluca Sandu, SKEMA Business School
Discussant: Margit Munzer, IAE Aix-Marseille
Paper 6: 9:50 – 10:40
Transforming Ambiguous Accounting Information into Narratives for Decision-making: An Ethnographic Study of Financial Due Diligence
Author(s): Hanna Heeg and Christoph Pelger, University of Passau
Discussant: Omiros Georgiou, University of Birmingham
Coffee Break: 10:40-11:10
Paper 7: 11:10 – 12:00
From Words to Action: Using Linguistic Theory and NLP to Analyse Corporate Sustainability Claims
Author(s): Renata Stenka, Henley Business School/University of Reading
Open discussion
Closing: 12:00
Lunch 12:45 (Café Jacques at the Musee Quai Branly, 27 Quai Jacques Chirac, 75007)