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Mahmoud Ezzamel

Mahmoud Ezzamel

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Business and Management
Spain
2026
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Economics and Finance
Spain
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Business and Management

D-Index
60
Citations
11138
World Ranking
561
National Ranking
4

Economics and Finance

D-Index
59
Citations
10845
World Ranking
881
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Business and Management in Spain Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Business and Management in Spain Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Business and Management in Spain Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Business and Management in Spain Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Spain Leader Award

Overview

Mahmoud Ezzamel is affiliated with IE University in Spain and specializes in the field of Business, Management and Accounting. Their research output spans a variety of topics and subfields, particularly focusing on Management Information Systems, Accounting, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, and Strategy and Management.

Their recent research papers include:

  • The cultural fields of accounting practices: Institutionalization and accounting changes beyond the organization, 2022, Accounting Organizations and Society
  • Thinking like the state: Doxa and symbolic power in the accounting field in China, 2021, Accounting Organizations and Society
  • Management Accounting and Strategy - A Review and Reflections on Future Research, 2023, European Accounting Review
  • Penal accountancy and the Spanish Inquisition, 2022, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
  • Management Accounting and Strategy --A Review and Reflections on Further Research, 2023, SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Mahmoud Ezzamel are:

  • Salvador Carmona
  • Keith Robson
  • Jingqi Zhu
  • Crawford Spence
  • Araceli Casasola

The venues where Mahmoud Ezzamel most often publishes include:

  • Accounting Organizations and Society
  • European Accounting Review
  • Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Organization

Their main areas of research topics comprise:

  • Accounting and Organizational Management
  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Management and Organizational Studies
  • Colonialism, slavery, and trade
  • American Constitutional Law and Politics
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
  • Financial Reporting and Valuation Research

The research interests reflected in these publications and collaborations highlight a focus on the institutional, symbolic, and strategic aspects of accounting as a practice within organizations and wider societal structures. The diversity in subfields and topics also shows an interdisciplinary approach that integrates insights from anthropology, law, and governance within the broader Accounting and Business studies.

Best Publications

  • Determinants of audit fees for quoted UK companies

    Philip Chan;Mahmoud Ezzamel;David Gwilliam

  • Accounting for Teamwork: A Critical Study of Group-Based Systems of Organizational Control.

    Mahmoud Ezzamel;Hugh Willmott

  • Power, Control and Resistance in ‘The Factory That Time Forgot’

    Mahmoud Ezzamel;Hugh Willmott;Frank Worthington

  • The logics of budgeting: theorization and practice variation in the educational field

    Mahmoud Ezzamel;Mahmoud Ezzamel;Keith Robson;Pamela Stapleton

  • The impact of environmental uncertainty, managerial autonomy and size on budget characteristics

    Mahmoud Ezzamel

  • Manufacturing shareholder value: The role of accounting in organizational transformation

    Mahmoud Ezzamel;Hugh Willmott;Frank Worthington

  • Control and cost accounting practices in the Spanish Royal Tobacco Factory

    Salvador Carmona;Mahmoud Ezzamel;Fernando Gutiérrez

  • Managerial power theory, tournament theory, and executive pay in China

    Jing Chen;Mahmoud Ezzamel;Mahmoud Ezzamel;Ziming Cai

  • Managing It All By numbers: A Review of Johnson & Kaplan's ‘Relevance Lost’

    Mahmoud Ezzamel;Keith Hoskin;Richard Macve

  • Organizational Change and Accounting: Understanding the Budgeting System in its Organizational Context

    Mahmoud Ezzamel

  • Market Comparison Earnings and the Bidding-up of Executive Cash Compensation: Evidence From The United Kingdom

    Mahmoud Ezzamel;Robert Watson

  • Strategy as Discourse in a Global Retailer: A Supplement to Rationalist and Interpretive Accounts

    Mahmoud Ezzamel;Hugh Willmott

  • Management Accounting Change in the UK

    J. Burns;M. Ezzamel;Robert Scapens

  • Organizational form, ownership structure and corporate performance: a contextual empirical analysis of UK companies

    Mahmoud Ezzamel;Robert Watson

  • Discourse and institutional change: 'Giving accounts' and accountability

    Mahmoud Ezzamel;Keith Robson;Pam Stapleton;Christine McLean

  • The relationship between accounting and spatial practices in the factory

    Salvador Carmona;Mahmoud Ezzamel;Fernando Gutiérrez

  • Some Empirical Evidence from Publicly Quoted UK Companies on the Relationship Between the Pricing of Audit and Non-audit Services

    M. Ezzamel;D. R. Gwilliam;K. M. Holland

  • Popularizing a Management Accounting Idea: The Case of the Balanced Scorecard

    David J. Cooper;Mahmoud Ezzamel;Mahmoud Ezzamel;Sandy Q. Qu

  • Political ideology and accounting regulation in China

    Mahmoud Ezzamel;Jason Zezhong Xiao;Aixiang Pan

  • Accounting and management–labour relations: the politics of production in the ‘factory with a problem’

    Mahmoud Ezzamel;Hugh Willmott;Frank Worthington

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugh Willmott
Hugh Willmott City, University of London
Noel Hyndman
Noel Hyndman Queen's University Belfast
Irvine Lapsley
Irvine Lapsley University of Edinburgh
David J. Cooper
David J. Cooper University of Alberta
Robert W. Scapens
Robert W. Scapens University of Birmingham
Rick Delbridge
Rick Delbridge Cardiff University
Chris Brooks
Chris Brooks University of Reading
Jane Broadbent
Jane Broadbent Royal Holloway University of London
Peter F. Pope
Peter F. Pope Bocconi University
Vivien Beattie
Vivien Beattie Lancaster University

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