CV—Thomas Ahrens [email protected], +971 50 5772927, PO Box 68224, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates Appointments Professor of Accounting and Director of the UAEU Corporate Governance Centre, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), from September 2010 Professor of Accounting, Warwick Business School (WBS), University of Warwick, January 2005-August 2010 Associate Dean (MBA), WBS, August 2006-July 2009 Senior Lecturer in Accounting, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), October 2002-December 2004 Lecturer in Accounting, LSE, September 1996-September 2002 Lecturer in Accounting, University of Southampton, July 1995-August 1996 Assistant Auditor, Arthur Andersen, Stuttgart, Germany, December 1991-May 1992 Education PhD Accounting and Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), 1996, Contrasting Involvements: An Ethnographic Study of Management Accounting Practices in Britain and Germany MSc Accounting and Finance, LSE, 1991 BA (Hons) European Business Administration and Dipl-Betriebswirt (FH), Middlesex Polytechnic/London and FH Reutlingen/Germany (joint degree programme), 1990 Editorial Boards Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research since 2012 (current term runs until 2017), Associate Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research 2010-2011 Co-editor of the Journal of Management and Governance since 2006 Member of the Editorial Boards of Accounting, Organizations and Society since 2005, the European Accounting Review 2003-2011, Management Accounting Research since 2007, and Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management since 2014 Research My research has focused on the uses of financial information for organisational control and corporate governance. Through field research in various private and public sector organisations I have studied specific ways of integrating financial control into management and governance practices. My publications have addressed issues of The links between financial control and accountability, organisational culture, and strategy Governance
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CV—Thomas Ahrens
[email protected], +971 50 5772927, PO Box 68224, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
Appointments
Professor of Accounting and Director of the UAEU Corporate Governance Centre,
United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), from September 2010
Professor of Accounting, Warwick Business School (WBS), University of Warwick,
January 2005-August 2010
Associate Dean (MBA), WBS, August 2006-July 2009
Senior Lecturer in Accounting, London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE), October 2002-December 2004
Lecturer in Accounting, LSE, September 1996-September 2002
Lecturer in Accounting, University of Southampton, July 1995-August 1996
Assistant Auditor, Arthur Andersen, Stuttgart, Germany, December 1991-May 1992
Education
PhD Accounting and Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE), 1996, Contrasting Involvements: An Ethnographic Study of Management
Accounting Practices in Britain and Germany
MSc Accounting and Finance, LSE, 1991
BA (Hons) European Business Administration and Dipl-Betriebswirt (FH), Middlesex
Polytechnic/London and FH Reutlingen/Germany (joint degree programme), 1990
Editorial Boards
Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research since 2012 (current term runs until 2017),
Associate Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research 2010-2011
Co-editor of the Journal of Management and Governance since 2006
Member of the Editorial Boards of Accounting, Organizations and Society since 2005,
the European Accounting Review 2003-2011, Management Accounting Research
since 2007, and Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management since 2014
Research
My research has focused on the uses of financial information for organisational
control and corporate governance. Through field research in various private and
public sector organisations I have studied specific ways of integrating financial
control into management and governance practices. My publications have addressed
issues of
The links between financial control and accountability, organisational culture,
and strategy
Governance
CV—Thomas Ahrens
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Anglo-German comparisons of management accounting and control
Interpretive and qualitative field research methodologies in accounting and
governance
Practice theory
See http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=r4ZKlM0AAAAJ for citations of
my work.
UAEU Corporate Governance Centre
I founded this centre when I came to the UAE in 2010 and have been directing it
since. The centre is dedicated to the study of governance practices that are relevant to
the UAE. Among its research projects have been governance-related research into the
Abu Dhabi health system, and the UAE higher education system, the roles of directors
of UAE companies, innovation in UAE start-up companies, and organisational
excellence awards in government. In 2011 Memoranda of Understanding with the
Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the UAE Securities and
Commodities Authority were signed as frameworks for agreeing joint research.
Working Papers
T. Ahrens, Strategies of action that underpin organisational institutions: A field study
of influential management control and quality management practices
T. Ahrens and L. Ferry, Using management control theory to understand recent public
sector corporate governance changes: localism, the public interest, and enabling
control in an English local authority
T. Ahrens, B. Catasus and G. Johed, Interactional and contributory accounting
expertise on the board of directors
T. Ahrens, C. S. Chapman and R. Khalifa, A conceptual framework for researching
corporate governance practices
T. Ahrens and L. Ferry, NCC and the grassroots: Accountability and accounting under
austerity
T. Ahrens and L. Ferry, Endogenous institutional change through practice memories
of accounting: Medium term austerity budgeting in an English local authority
T. Ahrens, F. Fabel and R. Khalifa, Legitimacy, legality, and accountability in cross-
border audits of development NGOs
T. Ahrens and G. Johed, Board work as organized hypocrisy: decoupling the audit
committee and IFRS from the board
T. Ahrens and O. Alnuaimi, Are university students making rational choices that can
strengthen the knowledge economy? A field study of the UAE
T. Ahrens and L. Ferry, Political arenas in public sector performance management: A
hermeneutics of benchmarking in an English local authority in the wake of the 2011
T. Ahrens, Everyday accounting practices and intentionality, in C. S. Chapman, D. J.
Cooper and P. B. Miller (eds.) Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions, Oxford:
Oxford University Press (2009), chapter 2, pp. 30-47
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Loosely coupled performance measurement systems
[revised version], in A. D. Neely (ed.), Business Performance Measurement— Unifying Theory and Integrating Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
(2nd ed., 2007), pp. 477-491
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Doing qualitative field studies, in C. S. Chapman, A.
G. Hopwood and M. D. Shields (eds.), Handbook of management accounting
research, Oxford: Elsevier Publishing (2007), volume 1, chapter 3, pp. 99-112 (The
Handbook won the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting
Association 2008 Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature
Award.)
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Theorizing practice in management accounting
research, in C. S. Chapman, A. G. Hopwood and M. D. Shields (eds.), Handbook of