Accounting

Below is a selection of our most notable publications:

• Negotiating gender constraints in international audit firms in Saudi Arabia: Exploring the interaction of gender and religion co-authored by Dr Dila Agrizzi in Accounting,Organisations and Society
• Private management and governance styles in a Japanese public hospital: A story of west meets east co-authored by Professor Shahzad Uddin in Social Science & Medicine
• Precariousness, gender, resistance and consent in the face of global production network’s ‘reforms’ of Pakistan’s garment manufacturing industry co-authored by Dr. Junaid Ashraf in Work, Employment and Society
• The effect of mergers and acquisitions on employees: Wealth transfer, gain-sharing or pain-sharing? co-authored by Dr Azimjon Kuvandikov in The British Journal of Management 
• Governmental financial resilience under austerity in Austria, England and Italy: How do local governments cope with financial shocks? co-authored by Professor Ileana Steccolini in Public Administration

Our members are frequently invited to speak and attend high profile academic events. Below is a selection of some of our notable appearances:

Accounting and Accountability in Emerging Economies Conference (the biannual international conference and a doctoral colloquium), 2018.

Workshop for the Management Control Association on Strong Structuration Theory. 2017.

Workshop on critical realism and accounting, from which a special issue of Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 2016.

Paper develop ment workshop organised in association with British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA).2016.

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Our academic staff frequently feature within the wider press and media. Below are some examples of their latest appearances:

• Professor Ileana Steccolini is part of the international team who co-edited the special issue of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal titled The pervasive role of accounting and accountability during the COVID-19 emergency, outlining the key role of accounting in targeting resources to battle the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Dr Silvia Gaia led the Essex Business School research project with the Financial Reporting Council which has conducted the first in-depth assessment of large private companies' compliance with the Miscellaneous Reporting Regulation (2018) and of the quality of reporting from those companies who follow the Wates Principles. This report was featured in specialist media.
• Read the article in the East Anglian Daily Times on University boffins aim to increase firm’s turnover by a fifth. This article focuses on work by Dr Chaminda Wijethilake who helped develop better management practices and innovation for a top laser cutting company in the UK.
• Read the article in the Daily Gazette on University of Essex researchers launch innovative VR theatre study. This article features work by Dr Rebecca Warren and discusses the social impact of virtual reality theatre.

The Accounting group contributed heavily to the rapid growth of academic research on accounting in emerging economies, and it has become recognized as a significant field within much of accounting academia. This is marked by the founding in 2010 of specialist research journal, the Journal of Accounting in Emerging Economies (JAEE) of which Professor Shahzad Uddin is founding editor, special editions of leading journals on topics in this area, and generally growing contributions from a wide variety of countries. Professor Shahzad Uddin is also the founding president of BAFA Special Interest Group on Emerging Economies.

Professor Teerooven is currently the President of the British Accounting and Finance Association (2020-2022) and President of the African Accounting and Finance Association (2019-2021). He is also a Vice President At-Large (2020-2022) of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER).

Ileana Steccolini is the editor of Financial Accountability and Management and of the book series of Accounting and Accountability in Public Services. She is the founder and chair of the Public Service Accounting and Accountability Special Interest Group, where group members are actively involved to contribute to the Special Interest Group mission to explore publicness in accounting research, and the role of accountability and accounting in the public sector.

The members of the group are also involved in editorial boards, as well as in editing special issues, of relevant public sector and accounting journals.