The Accounting, Organisations and Institutions group in LSE’s Department of Accounting is one of the leading groups in the world in this field.
Research in this strand is largely qualitative in approach, grounded in the social sciences, and with a strong focus on interdisciplinary practice. It addresses how accounting practices are shaped by their institutional contexts, have behavioural consequences and can be vehicles for different values. Efforts to design internal and external accounting practices are both a function of specific economic and political interests, but are also shaped by social and political aspirations.
Faculty members in this group focus on a wide variety of accounting areas, such as studies in management accounting and organisational control processes; analysis of the impact of new accounting systems in the private and public sector; event-based work on transformations of auditing and risk regulation regimes; historical studies of accounting, as well as broader contributions to social theory.
The research group has also developed a number of high-profile projects in the area of institutional risk cultures and risk management, in conjunction with the Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (carr), which is affiliated to the department.
The Accounting, Organisations and Institutions publishes extensively in top-tier academic journals and faculty members serve on the editorial boards of these journals. It also actively engages with professional bodies, standard setters and policy makers and other stakeholders.
To find out more about the group’s recent work, read the research spotlights, and publication list below.
Research in focus
Recent publications