Crawford Spence

Crawford has been at King’s since 2017. Immediately prior to joining King’s, he was Associate Dean at Warwick Business School with responsibility for the School’s academic programmes at its London Shard campus, particularly the Executive MBA. Previously, Crawford has worked at the United Arab Emirates University, UAE; Concordia University, Canada; and, the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has held visiting appointments at Kobe University, Japan; University College Molde, Norway; and, the Universidad Publica de Navarra, Spain.

At King’s, Crawford is a member of the Dean’s Senior Leadership Team and spearheads the development and execution of the School’s Corporate Relations strategy, which includes responsibility for Executive Education, Accreditation, Alumni Engagement and Corporate Partnerships. He is also the School’s London Champion, looking for ways to institutionalise relationships with city-based organizations.

Along with Alex Preda and Rita Samiolo, Crawford co-directs the FinWork Futures Research Centre, which explores how technological innovation is disrupting financial professions and financial expertise. He sits on the editorial boards of Accounting, Organizations and Society, The Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and Contemporary Accounting Research.

Publications

• Auditing and the Development of the Modern State 18 September 2019
• 'Judgement' versus 'metrics' in higher education management 06 August 2018
• Strategic Change, Leadership and Accounting: a triptych of organizational reform 10 September 2018
• Earning the 'write to speak': sell-side analysts and their struggle to be heard 05 December 2018
• Professionals with borders: The relationship between mobility and transnationalism in global firms 01 May 2018
• Professional repositioning during times of institutional change: the case of tax practitioners and changing moral boundaries 26 February 2018
• Resonance tropes in corporate philanthropy discourse 01 October 2009
• Social disclosure, legitimacy theory and the role of the state 01 January 2009
• Social accounting's emancipatory potential : a Gramscian critique 01 March 2009
• The institutionalisation of unaccountability : loading the dice of corporate social responsibility discourse 01 August 2011