Dr Andrea Mennicken

Senior Lecturer in Accounting
Programme Director, PhD in Accounting

Research interests

Global accounting and audit regulation and standardisation
Process of professionalisation
Accounting, economic transition and social transformation in post-Soviet Russia
The sociology of calculative practices

Recent publications

Mennicken, A. (2013): '“Too Big to Fail and Too Big to Succeed”: Accounting and Privatisation in the Prison Service of England and Wales'. Financial Accountability and Management, Vol. 29, No. 2, 206-226. Read article
Mennicken, A. (with Power, M.) (2013): 'Auditing and Corporate Governance', in Wright, M.; Siegel D.S.; Keasey, K. and Filatotchev, I. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 308-327.
Mennicken, A. (with Miller, P.) (2012): ‘Accounting, Territorialization and Power’. Foucault Studies, No. 13 (May 2012), 4-24. Read article.
Mennicken, A. (2012): Book review of Gill, Matthew (2009). Accountants’ Truth. Knowledge and Ethics in the Financial World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), British Journal of Sociology 63 (1): 189-190. Read article.
Mennicken, A. (2010) From Inspection to Auditing: Audit and Markets as Linked Ecologies, Accounting, Organizations and Society 35 (3): 334-359. Read article.
Mennicken, A. (with Vollmer, H., and Preda A.) (2009) Tracking the Numbers: Across Accounting and Finance, Organizations and Markets, Accounting, Organizations and Society 34 (5): 619-637. Read article.
Mennicken, A. (with Kurunmäki, L.) (2008) Accounting for Failure Risk and Regulation (Financial Crisis Special), December 2008, p. 17 Read article
Mennicken, A. (with Miller, P., and Samiolo, R.) (2008) Accounting for Economic Sociology Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter 10 (1): 3-7 Read article.
Mennicken, A., (2008) Connecting Worlds: The Translation of International Auditing Standards into Post-Soviet Audit Practice, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 33, No. 4/5, pp. 384-414. Read article
Mennicken, A., (2008) Mobilizing International Auditing Standards in Arenas of Political and Economic Change in Post-Soviet Russia, in U. Schuerkens (ed.), Globalization and Transformations of Local Socio-Economic Practices. New York: Routledge, pp. 75-98.
Mennicken, A. and Vollmer, H. (eds.) (2007) Zahlenwerk: Kalkulation, Organisation und Gesellschaft [Number-Work: Calculation, Organisation and Society] Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften
Mennicken, A. and Heßling, A. (2007) Welt(en) regulierter Zahlenproduktion zwischen Globalität und Lokalität: Reflexionen zu globalen Standards in Rechnungslegung und Wirtschaftsprüfung, in: Mennicken, A. and Vollmer, H. (eds.) Zahlenwerk: Kalkulation, Organisation und Gesellschaft, Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
Mennicken, A. (2006) Translation and Standardisation: Audit World-Building in Post-Soviet Russia, CARR Discussion Paper No. 36.
Mennicken, A. (2005) Sociology of Accounting, in: Beckert, J. and Zafirovski, M. (eds.) International Encyclopaedia of Economic Sociology, London: Routledge, pp. 1-5.
Mennicken, A. (2002) Bringing Calculation Back In: Studies in the Sociology of Accounting, Economic Sociology: European Electronic Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 17-27.
Mennicken, A. (2000) Figuring Trust: The Social Organisation of Credit Relations in Russia, in: Kalthoff, H. and Rottenburg, R. (eds.) Facts and Figures. Economic Representations and Practices, Marburg: Metropolis.