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Working Papers

Below is a list of available Working Papers from Essex Business School.

For a list of Working Papers on Finance, please go to the Finance Group Discussion Papers page.

2010 TITLES
WP 2010/3 - Dmitri Vinogradov Destructive Effects of Constructive Ambiguity in Difficult Times
WP 2010/2 - Stevphen Shukaitis & Erika Biddle Reshaping Resisitance: Art Strikes & Cultural Labour Today
WP 2010/1 - Prem Sikka & Hugh Willmott The Dark Side of Transfer Pricing: It's Role in Tax Avoidance and Wealth Retentiveness

2009

TITLES

WP 09/11:Dmitri Vinogradov Banks, Credibility & Macroeconomic Evolution after a Production Shock
WP 09/10:Kat Riach

The Need for Fresh Blood: Exploring Older Worker Discrimination through a Vampiric Lens

WP 09/09:Steffen Böhm In Times of Crisis: Act!
WP 09/08:Vinicius Brei & Steffen Böhm ‘1L=10L for Africa’
The postcolonial marketing of bottled water
WP 09/07:
Georgios Chortareas, Boonlert Jitmaneeroj & Andrew Wood
Forecast Rationality and Monetary Policy Frameworks: Evidence from UK Interest Rate Forecasts.
WP 09/06:
Chris Land &
Steffen Böhm

The New ‘Hidden Abode’: Reflections on Value and Labour in the New Economy

WP 09/05:
Prem Sikka &
Hugh Willmott
All Offshore - The sprat, the mackeral, accounting firms and the state in globilisation
WP 09/04:
Prem Sikka
Financial Crisis and the silence of the auditors
WP 09/03:
Steffen Böhm
Reading Benjamin
WP 09/02:
Steffen Böhm
From neo-liberalism to greeen capitalism and back: Crisis, management and the business school of tomorrow.
WP 09/01:
Prem Sikka,
Steven Filling &
Pik Liew

The Audit Crunch: Reforming Auditing
2008 TITLES
WP 08/13:
Steffen Böhm,
Ana C. Dinerstein &
André Spicer
(Im)possibilities of Autonomy
Social Movements In and Beyond Capital, the State and Development
WP 08/12:
Vinícius Brei &
Steffen Böhm
Lacking Capitalism: Desiring marketing in times of capitalist crisis
WP 08/11:
Steffen Böhm &
Aanka Batta
Just Doing It.
The Imaginary, the Symbolic and the Real in Nike’s Commodity Fetish
WP 08/10:
Pik Liew
The (Perceived) Roles of Corporate Governance Reforms in Malaysia: The Views of Corporate Practitioners
WP 08/09:
Kelum Jayasinghe &
Dennis Thomas
The preservation of indigenous accounting systems in a subaltern community
WP 08/08:
Shahzad Uddin &
Jamal A Choudhury
Rationality, traditionalism and the state of corporate governance mechanisms: illustrations from a less developed country
WP 08/07:
Ahmed Kholief
CEO Duality and Accounting-Based Performance in Egyptian Listed Companies: A Re-examination of Agency Theory Predictions
WP 08/06:
Mahmoud Al-sayed,
Magdy Abdel-Kader &
Ahmed Kholief
ABC Diffusion in the Age of Digital Economy: the UK Experience
WP 08/05:
Wen Xu &
Shahzad Uddin
Public Sector Reforms, Privatisation and Regimes of Control in a Chinese Enterprise
WP 08/04:
Shahzad Uddin
Rationalities, Domination and Accounting Control: A Case Study from a Traditional Society
 
WP 08/03:
Steffen Böhm
Upsetting the Offset The Political Economy of Carbon Markets
WP 08/02:
Ahmed Kholeif
A New Institutional Analysis of IFRS Adoption in Egypt:
A Case Study of Loosely Coupled Rules and Routines

 
WP 08/01:
Prem Sikka
Enterprise Culture and Accountancy Firms:
New Masters of The Universe

 
2007 TITLES
WP 07/08:
Steffen Böhm &
Chris Land
No Accounting for Culture? Value in the New Economy
WP 07/07:
Martin Harris
Digital technology and governance in transition:
The case of the British Library

 
WP 07/06:
André Spicer &
Steffen Bohm
Moving Management:
Theorizing Struggles against the Hegemony of Management
WP 07/05:
Shahzad Uddin,
Mathew Tsamenyi &
Irvan Noormansyah
Management controls in family-owned businesses (fobs): A case study of an Indonesian family-owned university.
WP 07/04:
John Stittle & Carmen A. Li
Privatisation and Franchising of British Train Operations:
the decline and derailment of the Great North Eastern Railway

 
WP 07/03:
Owolabi Bakre
 
Money Laundering, Financial Crime and Accounting in Nigeria!
WP 07/02:
Prem Sikka
Corporate Governance: What about the workers?
 
WP 07/01:
Lisa Jack & Ahmed Kholeif
Introducing Strong Stucturation Theory for case studies in Organisation, Management and Accounting Research
 
2006 TITLES
WP 06/07: David Collins Has Tom Peters Lost the Plot? A timely review of a celebrated management guru
 
WP 06/06: Bob Wearing Are Short Sellers Stakeholders?
 
WP 06/05: Sean McCartney, John Stittle ‘Taken for a ride’: The privatisation of the UK railway rolling stock industry
 
WP 06/04: Lisa Jack, Sean McCartney The Feeding (back) of the Multitude - Practical issues arising when teaching writing skills to large groups
 
WP 06/03: Sean McCartney, Tony Arnold The transition to finance capitalism and its implications for financial reporting: evidence from the English canal companies
 
WP 06/02: Pik Liew The (Perceived) Roles of Corporate Governance in Developing Countries: Evidence from Malaysia at the Corporate Level
 
WP 06/01: Lisa Jack Accounting, post-productivism and corporate power in UK food and agricultural.

Last modified on 11 March 2010