Rita Samiolo

Rita is Lecturer in Accounting and Financial Management. She holds a PhD in Accounting from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rita’s research is in the area of social and institutional studies of accounting. She has a broad interest in the changing roles and rationales of accounting in different governance settings – the pitfalls and possibilities of governing by numbers. She is particularly interested in examining economic calculation from the perspective of the history and sociology of science, unpacking the epistemic assumptions underlying costing and performance measurement approaches. She has worked on empirical topics such as the appraisal of large public sector projects and the rise of rankings in transnational governance.

Since November 2015 she has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Accounting Association Annual Congress. She is member of the Editorial Board of Accounting, Organization and Society.

Publications

• Indexal thinking: Reconfiguring global topologies for market-based intervention 07 August 2019
• Numbers in regulatory intermediation: Exploring the role of performance measurement between legitimacy and compliance 01 June 2019
• Accounting for Economic Sociology 01 November 2008
• Regulating by ranking?: The access to medicine index and the 'will to perform' 01 January 2015
• Getting the Appraisal Right? 01 January 2011
• Accountants' Truth: Knowledge and Ethics in the Financial World by Matthew Gill 01 January 2011
• Commensuration and styles of reasoning: Venice, cost-benefit, and the defence of place 01 August 2012
• The institutional drama of conservation 01 July 2012
• Performance measurement in global governance: Ranking and the politics of variability 01 November 2016
• Accounting, actorhood and actors: A comment on: Casting call: The expanding nature of actorhood in U.S. Firms, 1960-2010 by Patricia Bromley and Amanda Sharkey 01 January 2017