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Department of Accounting
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Andrea Mennicken
Dr
Andrea Mennicken
Associate Professor of Accounting, Co-Director of CARR
Department of Accounting
Telephone
+44 (0)20 7849 4641
Email
a.m.mennicken@lse.ac.uk
Room No
MAR 3.24
0000-0002-5658-7678
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Languages
English, German
Key Expertise
Global Accounting, Audit Regulation, Standardisation
About me
Teaching
AC424 Accountability, Organisations and Institutions
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AC470 Accounting in the Global Economy
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AC500 Accounting, Organisations and Institutions
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AC502 Foundations of Accounting, Organizations and Institutions
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Research interests
Global accounting and audit regulation and standardisation
Processes of social, political and economic transition in post-Soviet Russia
Accounting reforms in the public sector
Accounting in prisons
Social studies of valuation
The sociology of calculative practices
Publications
Mennicken, A. (with Salais, R.) (2022) (Eds.): The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Mennicken, A. (with Salais, R.) (2022): ‘The New Politics of Numbers: An Introduction’, in Mennicken, A. and Salais, R. (Eds.) The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-41.
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Mennicken, A. (with Guter-Sandu, A.) (2022): ‘Quantification = Economization? Numbers, Ratings and Rankings in the Prison Service of England and Wales’, in Mennicken, A. and Salais, R. (Eds.) The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 307-336.
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Mennicken, A. (with Kornberger, M.) (2021): ‘Von Performativität zu Generativität. Bewertung und ihre Folgen im Kontext der Digitalisierung‘ [From Performativity to Generativity: Valuation and its consequences in the context of digitization] Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZfSS), 73, 451–478.
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Mennicken, A. (with Lodge, M.) (2019) ‘Reflecting on Public Service Regulation by Algorithm’, in Yeung, K. and Lodge, M. (eds.), Algorithmic Regulation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 178-200.
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Mennicken, A. (with Espeland, W.) (2019): ‘What’s New with Numbers? Sociological Approaches to the Study of Quantification.’
Annual Review of Sociology
, 45 (1), 223-245.
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Mennicken, A. (with Alon, A. and Samsonova-Taddei, A.) (2019): ‘Dynamics and Limits of Regulatory Privatization: Re-organizing audit oversight in Russia.’
Organization Studies
, 40 (8), 1217-1239.
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Mennicken, A. (with Raffnsøe, S., and Miller, P.) (2019): ‘The Foucault Effect in Organization Studies.’
Organization Studies
, 40 (2), 155-182.
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Mennicken, A. (with Kornberger, M., Bowker, G., Elyachar, J., Miller, P., Pollock, N., Randa Nucho, J.) (2019) (Eds.):
Thinking Infrastructures
, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 62, Emerald.
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Mennicken, A. (with Kurunmäki, L. and Miller, P.) (2019): ‘Assembling Calculative Infrastructures.’
Research in the Sociology of Organizations
(Volume 62: Thinking Infrastructures), 17-42.
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Mennicken, A. (with Kurunmäki, L. and Miller, P.) (2018): ‘Économicisation et démocratisation de la faillite: Inventer une procédure de défaillance pour les hôpitaux britanniques [Economising Failure, Democratising Failure: Designing a failure regime for NHS hospitals].’
Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales
, 221-222: 80-99.
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Mennicken, A. (with L. Kurunmäki and P. Miller) (2016): ‘Quantifying, Economising, and Marketising: Democratising the social sphere?’
Sociologie du Travail
58 (4): 390-402 Downloadable free of charge from the following link until December 28, 2016
here
.
Mennicken, A. (with Sjogren, E.) (2015): ‘Valuation and Calculation at the Margins.’
Valuation Studies
3 (1), 1‑7.
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Mennicken, A. (with Doganova et al.) (2014): ‘Valuation Studies and the Critique of Valuation’.
Valuation
Studies
2 (2), 87-96.
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Mennicken, A. (with Power, M.) (2015): ‘Accounting and the Plasticity of Valuation’, in A. Berthoin Antal; Hutter, M. and Stark D. (eds.),
Moments of Valuation: Exploring Sites of Dissonance
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 208-228.
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Mennicken, A. (with Miller, P.) (2014): ‘Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives’, in P. S. Adler, P. du Gay, G. Morgan and M. Reed (eds.),
The Oxford Handbook of Sociology, Social Theory, and Organization Studies: Contemporary Currents
. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 11-38.
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Mennicken, A. (2014): ‘Accounting for Values in Prison Privatization’, in S. Alexius and K. Tamm Hallström (eds.),
Configuring Value Conflicts in Markets.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 22-42.
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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
29 (2): 206-226.
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Mennicken, A. (with Power, M.) (2013): 'Auditing and Corporate Governance', in M. Wright, D. S. Siegel, K. Keasey and I. Filatotchev (eds.),
The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 308-327.
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Mennicken, A. (with Miller, P.) (2012): ‘Accounting, Territorialization and Power’.
Foucault Studies
, No. 13 (May 2012), 4-24.
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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.
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Mennicken, A. (2010): ‘From Inspection to Auditing: Audit and Markets as Linked Ecologies’.
Accounting, Organizations and Society
35 (3): 334-359.
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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.
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Mennicken, A. (with Kurunmäki, L.) (2008): ‘Accounting for Failure’.
Risk and Regulation
(Financial Crisis Special), December 2008, p. 17
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Mennicken, A. (with Miller, P., and Samiolo, R.) (2008): ‘Accounting for Economic Sociology’.
Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter
10 (1): 3-7
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Mennicken, A., (2008): ‘Connecting Worlds: The Translation of International Auditing Standards into Post-Soviet Audit Practice’.
Accounting, Organizations and Society
, 33 (4/5): 384-414.
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Mennicken, A. (with Ahrens, T., et al.) (2008): ‘The Future of Interpretive Accounting Research’.
Critical Perspectives in Accounting
19 (6): 840-866.
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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.
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Mennicken, A. and Vollmer, H. (eds.) (2007): Zahlenwerk: Kalkulation, Organisation und Gesellschaft [Number-Work: Calculation, Organisation and Society] Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
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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.
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Mennicken, A. (2006): Translation and Standardisation: Audit World-Building in Post-Soviet Russia, CARR Discussion Paper No. 36.
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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
3 (3): 17-27.
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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.
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Additional information
Visiting Scholar Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne (April – July 2016)
Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Study Berlin) (2013/14)
Associate editor:
Valuation Studies
Associate editor (2012-2015):
European Accounting Review
Editor (2008-2009):
Economic Sociology, The European Electronic Newsletter
Editorial board member (2010-2019):
Accounting, Organizations and Society
Editor: Accounting, Organizations and Society
Editorial Board Member: European Accounting Review
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