Celebrating Richard Macve

Birmingham Business School is delighted to host a special Festschrift in honour of Professor Richard Macve, recognising his extraordinary contributions to accounting history, theory, and practice. As a recipient of BAFA’s Distinguished Academic of the Year award for 2009, and a chartered accountant whose scholarship has influenced generations, Richard’s work continues to shape how we understand the evolution and roles of accounting in society. 

Professor Macve joined the London School of Economics and Political Science over fifty years ago and became Emeritus Professor in 2011. His work spans intellectual traditions and international contexts, including significant collaborations in China. His honours reflect the breadth of his impact, from being named an Honorary Research Fellow at UIBE Beijing and an Honorary Professor at Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, to being made a Life Member of the US Academy of Accounting Historians.

There is no charge to attend the conference, but we do require your pre-registration to attend. To register, please email Dr Ann‑Christine Frandsen at a.frandsen@bham.ac.uk. 

Programme

9.30-10.00: Welcome

With Elena Giovanonni, Head of the Department of Accounting, Birmingham Business School Cheryl S. McWatters, Editor, Accounting History Review.

10.00-11.00: Session One

Chair: Elisavet Mantzari

Presenters:  Martin Quinn, Queen’s Business School, Queen’s University Belfast (with Xinwu He, Lancaster University): Tracing Intellectual Trajectory: A Linguistic Analysis of Published Papers of Richard Macve

Ann-Christine Frandsen and Keith Hoskin: A Walk in the Park: or, First Steps to a History of Accounting Previously Unthought

11.00-11.15: Break

11.15-12.45 - Session Two

Chair: Jing Liu

Presenters: Charles Richard Baker, Adelphi University (with Bruno Cohanier, ESSCA Business School): ‘Perspicacious Accounts’: Hybrid Costing and Corporate Governance in New England Textile Mills,1813–1848

Carien van Mourik, Open University (with Debin Ma, Fudan University): Fact and Fiction around the Introduction of Double-Entry Bookkeeping in China

Richard Macve, London School of Economics and Political Science (with Weipeng Yuan, Shanghai Jiaotong University): Hanyeping Coal-Iron and Mining Company (1890–1919): A Contextualisation and Evaluation of the Transformation and Practice of Cost Accounting in a Modern Chinese Enterprise 

12.45-14:00: Lunch

14.00-15.00: Sesion Three

Chair: Li (Alex) Lin

Presenters: Christopher Napier, Royal Holloway University of London (with Garry Carnegie, RMIT): Writing Biographies of Eminent Accountants: The Case of Sir William Barclay Peat

Yannick Lemarchand, Université de Nantes: Comptabilité et gestion publique en France à la fin duXIXe siècle : un débat oublié (Accounting and Public Management in France at the End of theNineteenth Century: A Forgotten Debate)

15.00-15.15: Break

15.15-16.15: Session Four

Chair: Giulia Achilli

Presenters: Roberto Rossi, Università degli Studi di Palermo: Body, Labour, and Economy: The Subsumption of Labour in the Spanish Colonial Obrajes (eighteenth century)

Martin Persson, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Deprival Value and the Problem of Earnings: A Hicksian Reconstruction

16.15-16.30: Closing Remarks

Richard Macve, London School of Economics and Political Science

Keith Hoskin, University of Birmingham