Professor Keith Robson

Articles

• Anderson-Gough, F., Edgley, C., Sharma, N. and Robson, K. 2024. Diversity and the evaluation of talent in the accounting profession:the enigma of merit. Accounting Horizons 38(1), pp. 27-37. (10.2308/HORIZONS-2022-103)
• Cooper, D. J., Ezzamel, M. and Robson, K. 2019. The multiplicity of performance management systems: Heterogeneity in multinational corporations and management sense-making. Contemporary Accounting Research 36(1), pp. 451-485. (10.1111/1911-3846.12416)
• Ezzamel, M., Robson, K. and Stapleton, P. 2012. The logics of budgeting: theorization and practice variation in the educational field. Accounting, Organizations and Society 37(5), pp. 281-303. (10.1016/j.aos.2012.03.005)
• Dambrin, C. and Robson, K. 2011. Tracing performance in the pharmaceutical industry: ambivalence, opacity and the performativity of flawed measures. Accounting, Organizations and Society 36(7), pp. 428-455. (10.1016/j.aos.2011.07.006)
• Robson, K., Humphrey, C., Khalifa, R. and Jones, J. 2007. Transforming audit technologies: Business risk audit methodologies and the audit field. Accounting Organizations and Society 32(4-5), pp. 409-438. (10.1016/j.aos.2006.09.002)
• Ezzamel, M., Robson, K., Stapleton, P. and McLean, C. 2007. Discourse and institutional change: 'Giving accounts' and accountability. Management Accounting Research 18(2), pp. 150-171. (10.1016/j.mar.2007.03.001)
• Khalifa, R., Sharma, N., Humphrey, C. and Robson, K. 2007. Discourse and audit change: transformations in methodology in the professional audit field. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 20(6), pp. 825-854. (10.1108/09513570710830263)
• Cooper, D. J. and Robson, K. 2006. Accounting, professions and regulation: Locating the sites of professionalization. Accounting Organizations and Society 31(4-5), pp. 415-444. (10.1016/j.aos.2006.03.003)
• Anderson-Gough, F., Grey, C. and Robson, K. 2006. Professionals, networking and the networked professional. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 24, pp. 231-256. (10.1016/S0733-558X(06)24009-6)
• Anderson-Gough, F., Grey, C. and Robson, K. 2005. "Helping them to forget.": the organizational embedding of gender relations in public audit firms. Accounting, Organizations and Society 30(5), pp. 469-490. (10.1016/j.aos.2004.05.003)
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M. and Robson, K. 2005. Budgetary reforms: Survival strategies and the structuration of organizational fields in education. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 18(6), pp. 733-755. (10.1108/09513570510627694)
• Anderson-Gough, F., Grey, C. and Robson, K. 2002. Accounting professionals and the accounting profession: linking conduct and context. Accounting and Business Research 32(1), pp. 41-56. (10.1080/00014788.2002.9728953)
• Fernández-Revuelta, L., Gómez, D. and Robson, K. 2002. Fuerzas Motrices del Valle de Lecrín, 1936-9: accounting reports and ideological struggles in time of civil war. Accounting Business & Financial History 12(2), pp. 347-368. (10.1080/09585200210134974)
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M., McLean, C. and Robson, K. 2001. Budgeting and strategy in schools: The elusive link. Financial Accountability and Management 16(4), pp. 309-334. (10.1111/1468-0408.00110)
• Robson, K., Anderson-Gough, F. and Grey, C. 2001. Tests of time: organizational time-reckoning and the making of accountants in two multi-national accounting firms. Accounting Organizations and Society 26(2), pp. 99-122. (10.1016/S0361-3682(00)00019-2)
• Anderson-Gough, F., Grey, C. and Robson, K. 2000. In the name of the client: the service ethic in two professional services firms. Human Relations 53(9), pp. 1151-1174. (10.1177/0018726700539003)
• Fernandez-Revuelta Perez, L. and Robson, K. 1999. Ritual legitimation, de-coupling and the budgetary process: Managing organizational hypocrisies in a multinational company. Management Accounting Research 10(4), pp. 383-407. (10.1006/mare.1999.0114)
• Robson, K. 1999. Social analyses of accounting institutions: Economic value, accounting representation and the conceptual framework. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 10(5), pp. 615-629. (10.1006/cpac.1999.0347)
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M. and Robson, K. 1999. Connecting accounting and education in the UK: Discourses and rationalities of education reform. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 10(4), pp. 469-500. (10.1006/cpac.1998.0278)
• Anderson-Gough, F., Grey, C. and Robson, K. 1998. 'Work hard, play hard': An analysis of organizational cliche in two accountancy practices. Organization 5(4), pp. 565-592. (10.1177/135050849854007)
• Cooper, D., Puxty, T., Robson, K. and Willmott, H. 1996. Changes in the international regulation of auditors: (In)stalling the Eighth Directive in the UK.. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 7(6), pp. 589-613. (10.1006/cpac.1996.0063)
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M., Robson, K. and Taylor, M. 1996. Comprehensive and incremental budgeting in education: the construction and management of formula funding in three English local education authorities. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal 9(4), pp. 4-37. (10.1108/09513579610129408)
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M., Robson, K. and Taylor, M. 1995. The development of local management of schools: Budgets, accountability and educational impact. Financial Accountability & Management 11(4), pp. 297-315. (10.1111/j.1468-0408.1995.tb00234.x)
• Ezzamel, M. and Robson, K. 1995. Accounting in time: Organizational time-reckoning and accounting practice. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 6(2), pp. 149-170. (10.1006/cpac.1995.1015)
• Radcliffe, V., Cooper, D. J. and Robson, K. 1994. The management of professional enterprises and regulatory change: British accountancy and the Financial Services Act 1986. Accounting Organizations and Society 19(7), pp. 601-628. (10.1016/0361-3682(94)90026-4)
• Robson, K., Willmott, H., Cooper, D. and Puxty, T. 1994. The ideology of professional regulation and the markets for accounting labour: Three episodes in the recent history of the U.K. accountancy profession. Accounting, Organizations and Society 19(6), pp. 527-553. (10.1016/0361-3682(94)90022-1)
• Robson, K. 1994. Inflation accounting and action at a distance: the sandilands episode. Accounting Organizations and Society 19(1), pp. 45-82. (10.1016/0361-3682(94)90012-4)
• Robson, K. 1994. The discourse of inflation accounting: On the interrelations between economic theory and debates on inflation accounting. European Accounting Review 3(2), pp. 195-214. (10.1080/09638189400000018)
• Robson, K. 1994. Connecting science to the economic: Accounting calculation and the visibility of research and development. Science in Context 7(3), pp. 497-514. (10.1017/S0269889700001794)
• Robson, K. 1993. Accounting policy making and "interests": accounting for research and development. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 4(1), pp. 1-27. (10.1006/cpac.1993.1001)
• Robson, K. 1993. Promoting science and economic growth at a distance: accounting representation and the government of research and development.. Economy and Society 22(4), pp. 461-481.
• Robson, K. 1992. Accounting numbers as "inscription": action at a distance and the development of accounting. Accounting Organizations and Society 17(7), pp. 685-708. (10.1016/0361-3682(92)90019-O)
• Willmott, H., Puxty, A. G., Robson, K., Cooper, D. J. and Lowe, E. A. 1992. Regulation of accountancy and accountants: A comparative analysis of accounting for research and development in four advanced capitalist countries. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal 5(2), pp. 31-54. (10.1108/09513579210011853)
• Robson, K. 1991. On the arenas of accounting change: the process of translation. Accounting Organizations and Society 16(5-6), pp. 547-570. (10.1016/0361-3682(91)90041-C)

Book sections

• Robson, K. and Young, J. 2009. Socio-political studies of financial reporting and standard setting. In: Chapman, C. S., Cooper, D. J. and Miller, P. eds. Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions: Essays in Honour of Anthony Hopwood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 341-366., (10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546350.003.0016)
• Ezzamel, M. and Robson, K. 2009. Accounting. In: Willmott, H., Bridgman, T. and Alvesson, M. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 473-500., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199237715.003.0023)
• Cooper, D. J. and Robson, K. 2009. Practitioners, work and firms. In: Edwards, J. R. and Walker, S. P. eds. The Routledge Companion to Accounting History. Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting London: Routledge, pp. 274-296.

Books

• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M., Robson, K. and McLean, C. 2000. Local management of schools: the creation and implementation of budgets. London: Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
• Anderson-Gough, F., Grey, C. and Robson, K. eds. 1998. Making up accountants: The organizational and professional socialization of trainee chartered accountants. In Association with The Institute of Chartered Accountants. London, UK: Ashgate.
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M., Robson, K. and Taylor, M. 1997. The local management of schools initiative: The implementation of formula funding in three English LEAs. Research Study. London, UK: Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Conferences

• Humphrey, C., Khalifa, R., Robson, K. and Sharma, N. 2008. Making quality auditable: An analysis of the contemporary audit regulatory arena. Presented at: Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference, New York, NY, USA, 25-26 April 2008.
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M. and Robson, K. 2008. A stage model of institutional change. Presented at: Management Accounting as Practice Conference, Paris, France, 2008.
• Humphrey, C., Khalifa, R., Robson, K. and Sharma, N. 2007. Making quality auditable: An analysis of the contemporary audit regulatory arena. Presented at: 17th National Auditing Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 23-24 March 2007.
• Khalifa, R., Humphrey, C., Robson, K. and Sharma, N. 2006. Making audit valuable, making audit auditable: Methodological discourses in the professional audit field. Presented at: 29th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Dublin, Ireland, 22-24 March 2006.

• Ezzamel, M., Robson, K. and Stapleton, P. 2012. The logics of budgeting: theorization and practice variation in the educational field. Accounting, Organizations and Society 37(5), pp. 281-303. (10.1016/j.aos.2012.03.005)
• Dambrin, C. and Robson, K. 2011. Tracing performance in the pharmaceutical industry: ambivalence, opacity and the performativity of flawed measures. Accounting, Organizations and Society 36(7), pp. 428-455. (10.1016/j.aos.2011.07.006)
• Robson, K. and Young, J. 2009. Socio-political studies of financial reporting and standard setting. In: Chapman, C. S., Cooper, D. J. and Miller, P. eds. Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions: Essays in Honour of Anthony Hopwood. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 341-366., (10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546350.003.0016)
• Ezzamel, M. and Robson, K. 2009. Accounting. In: Willmott, H., Bridgman, T. and Alvesson, M. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Critical Management Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 473-500., (10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199237715.003.0023)
• Cooper, D. J. and Robson, K. 2009. Practitioners, work and firms. In: Edwards, J. R. and Walker, S. P. eds. The Routledge Companion to Accounting History. Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting London: Routledge, pp. 274-296.
• Robson, K., Humphrey, C., Khalifa, R. and Jones, J. 2007. Transforming audit technologies: Business risk audit methodologies and the audit field. Accounting Organizations and Society 32(4-5), pp. 409-438. (10.1016/j.aos.2006.09.002)
• Ezzamel, M., Robson, K., Stapleton, P. and McLean, C. 2007. Discourse and institutional change: 'Giving accounts' and accountability. Management Accounting Research 18(2), pp. 150-171. (10.1016/j.mar.2007.03.001)
• Khalifa, R., Sharma, N., Humphrey, C. and Robson, K. 2007. Discourse and audit change: transformations in methodology in the professional audit field. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 20(6), pp. 825-854. (10.1108/09513570710830263)
• Cooper, D. J. and Robson, K. 2006. Accounting, professions and regulation: Locating the sites of professionalization. Accounting Organizations and Society 31(4-5), pp. 415-444. (10.1016/j.aos.2006.03.003)
• Anderson-Gough, F., Grey, C. and Robson, K. 2006. Professionals, networking and the networked professional. Research in the Sociology of Organizations 24, pp. 231-256. (10.1016/S0733-558X(06)24009-6)
• Anderson-Gough, F., Grey, C. and Robson, K. 2005. "Helping them to forget.": the organizational embedding of gender relations in public audit firms. Accounting, Organizations and Society 30(5), pp. 469-490. (10.1016/j.aos.2004.05.003)
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M. and Robson, K. 2005. Budgetary reforms: Survival strategies and the structuration of organizational fields in education. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 18(6), pp. 733-755. (10.1108/09513570510627694)
• Anderson-Gough, F., Grey, C. and Robson, K. 2002. Accounting professionals and the accounting profession: linking conduct and context. Accounting and Business Research 32(1), pp. 41-56. (10.1080/00014788.2002.9728953)
• Fernández-Revuelta, L., Gómez, D. and Robson, K. 2002. Fuerzas Motrices del Valle de Lecrín, 1936-9: accounting reports and ideological struggles in time of civil war. Accounting Business & Financial History 12(2), pp. 347-368. (10.1080/09585200210134974)
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M., McLean, C. and Robson, K. 2001. Budgeting and strategy in schools: The elusive link. Financial Accountability and Management 16(4), pp. 309-334. (10.1111/1468-0408.00110)
• Robson, K., Anderson-Gough, F. and Grey, C. 2001. Tests of time: organizational time-reckoning and the making of accountants in two multi-national accounting firms. Accounting Organizations and Society 26(2), pp. 99-122. (10.1016/S0361-3682(00)00019-2)
• Anderson-Gough, F., Grey, C. and Robson, K. 2000. In the name of the client: the service ethic in two professional services firms. Human Relations 53(9), pp. 1151-1174. (10.1177/0018726700539003)
• Fernandez-Revuelta Perez, L. and Robson, K. 1999. Ritual legitimation, de-coupling and the budgetary process: Managing organizational hypocrisies in a multinational company. Management Accounting Research 10(4), pp. 383-407. (10.1006/mare.1999.0114)
• Robson, K. 1999. Social analyses of accounting institutions: Economic value, accounting representation and the conceptual framework. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 10(5), pp. 615-629. (10.1006/cpac.1999.0347)
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M. and Robson, K. 1999. Connecting accounting and education in the UK: Discourses and rationalities of education reform. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 10(4), pp. 469-500. (10.1006/cpac.1998.0278)
• Anderson-Gough, F., Grey, C. and Robson, K. 1998. 'Work hard, play hard': An analysis of organizational cliche in two accountancy practices. Organization 5(4), pp. 565-592. (10.1177/135050849854007)
• Anderson-Gough, F., Grey, C. and Robson, K. eds. 1998. Making up accountants: The organizational and professional socialization of trainee chartered accountants. In Association with The Institute of Chartered Accountants. London, UK: Ashgate.
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M., Robson, K. and Taylor, M. 1997. The local management of schools initiative: The implementation of formula funding in three English LEAs. Research Study. London, UK: Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.
• Cooper, D., Puxty, T., Robson, K. and Willmott, H. 1996. Changes in the international regulation of auditors: (In)stalling the Eighth Directive in the UK.. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 7(6), pp. 589-613. (10.1006/cpac.1996.0063)
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M., Robson, K. and Taylor, M. 1996. Comprehensive and incremental budgeting in education: the construction and management of formula funding in three English local education authorities. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal 9(4), pp. 4-37. (10.1108/09513579610129408)
• Edwards, P., Ezzamel, M., Robson, K. and Taylor, M. 1995. The development of local management of schools: Budgets, accountability and educational impact. Financial Accountability & Management 11(4), pp. 297-315. (10.1111/j.1468-0408.1995.tb00234.x)
• Ezzamel, M. and Robson, K. 1995. Accounting in time: Organizational time-reckoning and accounting practice. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 6(2), pp. 149-170. (10.1006/cpac.1995.1015)
• Radcliffe, V., Cooper, D. J. and Robson, K. 1994. The management of professional enterprises and regulatory change: British accountancy and the Financial Services Act 1986. Accounting Organizations and Society 19(7), pp. 601-628. (10.1016/0361-3682(94)90026-4)
• Robson, K., Willmott, H., Cooper, D. and Puxty, T. 1994. The ideology of professional regulation and the markets for accounting labour: Three episodes in the recent history of the U.K. accountancy profession. Accounting, Organizations and Society 19(6), pp. 527-553. (10.1016/0361-3682(94)90022-1)
• Robson, K. 1994. Inflation accounting and action at a distance: the sandilands episode. Accounting Organizations and Society 19(1), pp. 45-82. (10.1016/0361-3682(94)90012-4)
• Robson, K. 1994. The discourse of inflation accounting: On the interrelations between economic theory and debates on inflation accounting. European Accounting Review 3(2), pp. 195-214. (10.1080/09638189400000018)
• Robson, K. 1994. Connecting science to the economic: Accounting calculation and the visibility of research and development. Science in Context 7(3), pp. 497-514. (10.1017/S0269889700001794)
• Robson, K. 1993. Accounting policy making and "interests": accounting for research and development. Critical Perspectives On Accounting 4(1), pp. 1-27. (10.1006/cpac.1993.1001)
• Robson, K. 1992. Accounting numbers as "inscription": action at a distance and the development of accounting. Accounting Organizations and Society 17(7), pp. 685-708. (10.1016/0361-3682(92)90019-O)
• Willmott, H., Puxty, A. G., Robson, K., Cooper, D. J. and Lowe, E. A. 1992. Regulation of accountancy and accountants: A comparative analysis of accounting for research and development in four advanced capitalist countries. Accounting Auditing and Accountability Journal 5(2), pp. 31-54. (10.1108/09513579210011853)
• Robson, K. 1991. On the arenas of accounting change: the process of translation. Accounting Organizations and Society 16(5-6), pp. 547-570. (10.1016/0361-3682(91)90041-C)