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Overview

Michael Power is affiliated with the London School of Economics and Political Science in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly falls within the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with significant focus on subfields including Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Management Information Systems, Strategy and Management, Sociology and Political Science, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their work engages with a variety of topics such as Management and Organizational Studies, Accounting and Organizational Management, Complex Systems and Decision Making, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, the Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering, and Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management.

Michael Power has published extensively, with recent papers that illustrate both thematic breadth and depth. Notable publications include:

  • "Organizing Risk: Organization and Management Theory for the Risk Society," 2020, Academy of Management Annals
  • "Theorizing the Economy of Traces: From Audit Society to Surveillance Capitalism," 2022, Organization Theory
  • "The financial reporting system - what is it?," 2021, Accounting and Business Research
  • "Memories lost: A history of accounting records as forms of projection," 2023, Accounting Organizations and Society
  • "Afterword: Audit Society 2.0?," 2022, Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management

Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Academy of Management Proceedings
  • Academy of Management Annals
  • Organization Theory
  • Accounting and Business Research
  • Accounting Organizations and Society

Collaborations with other researchers form part of Michael Power's profile. Frequent co-authors include Penelope Tuck, Cynthia Hardy, Steve Maguire, Haridimos Tsoukas, and Nadia Matringe, reflecting interdisciplinary engagement across management, organizational studies, and accounting research.

Best Publications

  • The audit society : rituals of verification

    Michael Power

  • Organized Uncertainty: Designing a World of Risk Management

    Michael Power

  • The risk management of everything

    Michael Power

  • The Risk Management of Everything: Rethinking the Politics of Uncertainty

    Michael Power

  • The audit society

    Michael Power

  • Auditing and the production of legitimacy

    Michael K. Power

  • The risk management of nothing

    Michael Power

  • Counting, Control and Calculation: Reflections on Measuring and Management

    Michael Power

  • Making things auditable

    Michael Power

  • Evaluating the Audit Explosion

    Michael Power

  • Accounting, Organizing, and Economizing: Connecting Accounting Research and Organization Theory

    Peter Miller;Michael Power

  • The Audit Society — Second Thoughts

    Michael Power

  • The invention of operational risk

    Michael Power

  • Fair value accounting, financial economics and the transformation of reliability

    Michael Power

  • Reputational Risk as a Logic of Organizing in Late Modernity

    Michael Power;Tobias Scheytt;Kim Soin;Kerstin Sahlin

  • Expertise and the construction of relevance: Accountants and environmental audit

    Michael Power

  • Qualitative Research in Auditing: A Methodological Roadmap

    Michael K. Power;Yves Gendron

  • Educating accountants: Towards a critical ethnography

    Michael K. Power

  • Auditing and Environmental Expertise: Between Protest and Professionalisation

    Michael Power

  • Organizational encounters with risk

    Bridget Hutter;Michael Power

  • The Audit Explosion

    Michael Power

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher Hood
Christopher Hood University of Oxford
Robert Baldwin
Robert Baldwin London School of Economics and Political Science
Richard Laughlin
Richard Laughlin King's College London
David J. Cooper
David J. Cooper University of Alberta
Yves Gendron
Yves Gendron Université Laval
Haridimos Tsoukas
Haridimos Tsoukas University of Cyprus
Yves Gingras
Yves Gingras University of Quebec at Montreal
Cynthia Hardy
Cynthia Hardy University of Melbourne
Paul S. Brookes
Paul S. Brookes University of Rochester Medical Center
Tim Dalgleish
Tim Dalgleish University of Cambridge

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