The accounting, governance and organisations group (AGOG) focuses on the mechanisms of governance in organisations. Research follows the circulation of numbers and discourses through organisational arrangements such as accounting practices, regulatory assemblages and markets. It studies the construction of value in the post-modern world, and the processes of valuation and classification at work. It examines the construction of fact, expertise and managerial agency.
Within a shared intellectual framework, individual group members' research covers a wide range of interests: sustainability, the ethics and governance of management and organisations, markets, marketing and market exchange. It spans empirical sites such as water, waste, incentive systems, corporate accounting and accountability, and financial markets.
AGOG embraces a largely qualitative methodological perspective to construct an anthropology of governance, and is underpinned by a commitment to understanding the ethics of governance and organisation, to responsible and sustainable enterprise. It maintains close links with the Centre for Social and Environmental Accounting Research (CSEAR). This group has much to offer in understanding contemporary crises, whether of truth or politics.
Research staff:
- Julie Brooks: economic development and the provision of business and management education in Russia.
- Dr Anna Brown: processes of learning, embodied ways of knowing, reflexive practice, creativity, craft.
- Professor John Ferguson: accountability and corporate governance, with a particular focus on the social and organisational impact of corporate governance regimes.
- Dr Samuel Mansell: business ethics and political philosophy.
- Dr Francois-Regis Puyou: critical approaches to management accounting practices; social and organisational impacts of accounting tools and practices.
- Dr Philip Roscoe: the role that markets play in contemporary organising; the moral issues that surround markets, and the discourses, valuations and justifications invoked in market settings.
- Dr Shona Russell: governance, accountability and accounting technologies for natural resource management, particularly water; collaborative and interdisciplinary knowledge production in the domain of environmental science and policy; organising sustainability transitions.
- Professor Lorna Stevenson: the social, environmental and economic consequences of accounting, and the implications of these for both wider forms of accountancy and accountants' and managers' education.
- Dr Lucy Wishart: the governance of sustainable development within Scotland; waste and circular economy; policy processes.
