Dr Liisa Kurunmäki

Reader in Accounting

Research interests

• Accounting in the new public sector, with special reference to healthcare

Recent publications

• 2008 (with P. Miller and T. O'Leary) Accounting, Hybrids and Management of Risk, Accounting, Organizations and Society, 33 (7-8) October-November, pp. 942-967 
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• 2008, Management Accounting, Economic Reasoning and the New Public Management Reforms' in Handbook of Management Accounting Research, Volume 3, (Elsevier), edited by Anthony G. Hopwood, Christopher S. Chapman, and Michael D. Shields
• 2008 (with P. Miller) Counting the Costs: The Risks of Regulating and Accounting for Healthcare Provision,  Health, Risk and Society, Vol. 10, No 1. (February) pp. 9-21. Read article (LSE username and password needed)
• 2006 (with P. Miller) Modernising Government: The Calculating Self, Hybridisation and Performance Measurement, Financial Accountability and Management 22 (1), pp. 65-84. Published in revised form in A. Bhimani (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting, Oxford University Press, 2006.
• 2006 (with I. Lapsley and K. Melia) Costs, Care and Rationing: A Comparative Study of Intensive Care in the UK and Finland, CIMA Research Report.
• 2004 (with P. Miller) Modernisation, Partnerships and the Management of Risk, Centre for the Analysis and Regulation of Risk (CARR) Discussion Paper No 31.
• 2004, A Hybrid Profession: The Acquisition of Management Accounting Expertise by Medical Professionals, Accounting, Organizations and Society 29 (3-4), 327-348.
• 2003 (with I. Lapsley and K. Melia) Accountingization vs. Legitimation: A Comparative Study of the Use of Accounting Information in Intensive Care, Management Accounting Research 14 (2), 112-139.
• 2003 (with P. Miller and J. Keen) Health Act Flexibilities: Partnerships in Health and Social Care, ICAEW research monograph.
• 2001 (with P. Miller and J. Keen) Health Act Flexibilities: First Steps, Health Care UK, 88-93.
• 1999, Making an Accounting Entity: The Case of the Hospital in Finnish Health Care Reforms, The European Accounting Review 8 (2), 219-237.
• 1999, Professional vs. Financial Capital in the Field of Health Care: Struggles for the Redistribution of Power and Control, Accounting, Organizations and Society 24 (2), 95-124.
• 1999, The Irish Health Care System: Cost Containment Measures during the 1980s and 1990s, LSE Health, Discussion Papers in Health Policy, No 11.

Teaching

• Office hours

Lectures / classes

• AC310 Management Accounting, Financial Management and Organisational Control
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• AC340 Auditing, Governance and Risk Management
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Other web pages

• Dr Liisa Kurunmäki's Experts page
• Dr Liisa Kurunmäki's LSE Health page.

Contact information

Department of Accounting
Room A503
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE

Phone: +44 (0)20 7955 6394
Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7420

Email: l.kurunmaki@lse.ac.uk

Administrative contact

Kerstin Huwig, k.huwig@lse.ac.uk

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