Keith Robson

Keith Robson holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Social Studies majoring in Econometrics (Victoria University of Manchester), a Master’s Degree in Accounting and Finance (Victoria University of Manchester) and a PhD in Financial Reporting (University of Manchester I statute of Science and Technology).

He has authored and co-authored three books, seven chapters in edited collections and over 35 articles in academic accounting, management and organization studies journals (Accounting, Auditing and Accountability; Accounting and Business Research, Accounting Business and Financial History; Accounting, Organizations and Society; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Economy and Society; European Accounting Review; Human Relations, Organization; Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Science in Context). He is an Editor of Accounting, Organizations and Society, former associate editor of British Accounting Review, and serves on the boards of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, International Journal of Auditing, Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Organizational Change, and the British Accounting Review.

His research interests include performance measures and diffusion; socio-political studies of accounting regulation; the profession, professional firms and professionalization; management control in schools; auditing methodologies. He is a member of the American Accounting Association, British Accounting and Finance Association (BAFA), European Accounting Association (EAA), and is Doctoral Alumnus of the American Accounting Association (AAA) Doctoral Consortium (as the BAA nominee), and of the European Accounting Association Doctoral Colloquium. He has held a Research Fellowship of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Keith is now a co-organizer of the Doctoral Colloquium of the European Accounting Association.

Keith has held posts at Aberystwyth University, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), University of Manchester and Cardiff University. taught management accounting at various levels at Aberystwyth, Cardiff and Manchester. He is an Honorary Professor at Cardiff Business School. At HEC he is currently teaching cost accounting (HEC Master of Science in Management - Grande École), and theories of management control (HEC doctoral program). He supervises one PhD student at HEC Paris and two at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University.

EDUCATION

• 1988 Ph.D., The University of Manchester - United Kingdom
• 1983 M.A., The University of Manchester - United Kingdom
• 1982 Bachelor of Arts in Econometrics, The University of Manchester - United Kingdom

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Academic responsabilities at HEC

• 2020- Member of GREGHEC, the joint research laboratory CNRS-HEC Paris HEC Paris
• 2016-2020 Department Head, Accounting and Management Control HEC Paris
• 2014- Professor, Accounting and Management Control HEC Paris

External Academic Responsabilities

• 2005-2014 Professor, Accounting Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University
• 2004-2005 Professor, Accounting Manchester Business School
• 1998-2004 Professor, Accounting Manchester School of Management
• 1995-1998 Senior lecturer, Accounting and Management Control Manchester School of Management
• 1988-1995 Senior lecturer, Accounting and Management Control Manchester School of Management
• 1986-1988 Senior lecturer, Accounting University College Wales
• 1984-1986 Research Assistant, Department of Management Sciences Manchester School of Management

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES

Membership in Academic or Professional Organisation

• Management Committee, Board and Doctoral Committee of the European Accounting Association
• Member, European Accounting Association; Management Control Association

Editorial activities

• September 2015- Editor-in-Chief, Accounting, Organizations and Society
• July 2013- Co-Editor, Accounting, Organizations and Society
• July 2013- Editor, British Accounting Review
• 1991-1995 Member of the Editorial Board, European Accounting Review
• Member of the Editorial Board of Critical Studies in Finance, Accounting and Behavioural Research, Journal of Contemporary Accounting Organizational Change, International Journal of Auditing, Critical Perspectives on Accounting
• Former Associate Editor, British Accounting Review
• Reviewer, Accounting and Business Research; Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; Accounting, Management and Information Technologies; American Journal of Sociology; Accounting, Organizations and Society; British Accounting Review; British Journal of Sociology; Contemporary Accounting Research; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; European Accounting Review; Gender, Work and Organization; Human Relations; Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Organizational Change; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Journal of Management Studies; Management Accounting Research; Organization; Organization Studies; Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management; Scandinavian Journal of Management

Conference organisation

• 2011-2011 Co-organizer of the first Financial Reporting as Social and Organizational Practice Workshop (with Professor Michael Power, LSE, & Professor Joni Young, University of New Mexico)
• Co-organizer of the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth and Tenth Interdisciplinary Perspectives On Accounting Conference (IPA), Manchester July 1994, 1997, 2000 and Cardiff 2006, 2012