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Dr Andrea Mennicken KSW 3.09 and Prof Michael Power KSW 3.12

This course is compulsory on the MPhil/PhD in Accounting (Track 1). This course is available on the MPhil/PhD in Accounting (Track 2) and MRes/PhD in Management (Organisational Behaviour). This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This is an advanced course for doctoral and postdoctoral students focusing on the institutional and organisational context of accounting practices in their broadest sense. The seminars are generally based on key readings at the interface between accounting, organisation studies, regulation and management. Discussions will be focused on the analysis of accounting and calculative practices in context drawing on a wide range of approaches. The course provides students also with training in qualitative methods in accounting research, including document analysis; interviewing techniques and transcript analysis; ethnographic methods in accounting; and theory building from data.

20 hours of seminars in the MT. 20 hours of seminars in the LT.

There will be a reading week in week 6 of both MT and LT.

There is no single text for this course and the seminars will be based on pre-distributed readings. 

Assessment will be based on written work as agreed with the Course Director.