Professor Peter Miller

Professor of Management Accounting; Head of Department of Accounting

Research interests

Investment appraisal in new manufacturing environments
Accounting in the new European public sector
Accounting as a social and institutional practice

Selected publications

Books

Governing the Present: Administering Economic, Social and Personal Life, P. Miller and N. Rose (Polity Press, 2008).
Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice, with A. Hopwood, 1994 (Cambridge University Press).
The Foucault Effect: Studies In Governmentality, G. Burchill, C. Gordon and P. Miller (eds.) (University of Chicago Press, 1991; Simon & Schuster, 1991).
Domination and Power (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987).
The Power of Psychiatry, P. Miller and N. Rose (eds.) (Basil Blackwell/Polity Press, 1986).

Articles and Book Chapters

"Accounting, Hybrids and Management of Risk", (with L. Kurunmäki and T. O'Leary). Accounting Organizations and Society, Vol. 33, Issue 7-8, October/November 2008, pp. 942-967.
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"Figuring out Organizations", Paper presented at Nobel Symposium on "Foundations of Organization", Saltsjöbaden, Sweden, 28-30 August, 2008. Read Paper
"Counting the Costs: the risks of regulating and accounting for healthcare provision" (with L. Kurunmäki), Health, Risk and Society, Vol. 10, No 1. (February) pp. 9-21. Read article (LSE username and password needed)
"Calculating Economic Life", Journal of Cultural Economy (2008). Read article
"Wie und warum das Rechnungswesen in der Soziologie in Vergessenheitgeriet", in A. Mennicken & H. Vollmer, eds, Zahlenwerke: Kalkulation, Organisation und Gesellschaft (Wiesbaden: VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007)
"Mediating Instruments and Making Markets: Capital Budgeting, Science and the Economy", (with T. O'Leary). Accounting, Organizations and Society. Vol. 32, Nos. 7/8, October/Nov 2007, pp. 701-734. Read article.
"Accounting Hybrids and the Management of Risk", (with L. Kurunmäki and T. O'Leary), CARR Discussion Paper No. 40 (November 2006). Read paper.
"Modernising Government: The Calculating Self, Hybridisation and Performance Measurement", (with L. Kurunmaki), in Financial Accountability and Management, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Feb 2006), pp. 87-106. Read article.
"Capital Budgeting, Co-ordination and Strategy: a field study of inter-firm and intra-firm mechanisms" (with T.O'Leary), in C. Chapman (ed.), Controlling Strategy: Management, Accounting and Performance Measurement (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
"Financial Management in the UK Public Sector: Historical Development, Current Issues and Controversies" (with D.S.L. Chow and C.G. Humphrey), in J. Guthrie, C. Humphrey, L.R. Jones & O. Olson (eds), International Public Financial Management Reform (Greenwich, Connecticut: Information Age Publishing, 2005).
"Managing operational flexibility in investment decisions: the case of Intel" (with T. O'Leary), Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Volume 17, Number 2 (Spring 2005), pp. 18-24. Read article.
"Kalkulierende Subjekte" in A. Drinkuth, L. Eichler, P. Kels, S. Krömmelbein, W. Menz, A. Rau and U. Vormbusch (eds), Ökonomie der Subjektivität - Subjektivität der Ökonomie (Edition Sigma, 2005). ISBN 3-89404-991-X
"Modernisation, Partnerships and the Management of Risk" (with L. Kurunmäki), Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, Discussion Paper No. 31 (November 2004). Read paper.
"Transforming Universities: The Uncertain, Erratic Path", (with I. Lapsley), Financial Accountability and Management, Vol. 20 (2), (May 2004), pp. 103-106. Read article.
Health Act Flexibilities: Partnerships in Health and Social Care, with L. Kurunmaki and J. Keen (ICAEW Monograph, 2003) pp.1-45; ISBN 1 84152 158 2.
"Management and Accounting", TM Porter and D Ross (eds) The Cambridge History of Science, Vol 7: Modern Social Sciences, (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp565-576
"Rethinking the factory: Caterpillar Inc", (with T O'Leary), Cultural Values, (2002), Vol 6(1), pp91-117
"Sociology and Accounting", Handworterbuch Unternehmenschrechnung und Controlling, H-U Kupper and A Wagenhofer (eds), 2002, Schaeffer-Poeschel Verlag.
"Governing by Numbers: Why Calculative Practices Matter", Social Research, Vol. 68, No.2 (Summer 2001), pp. 379-396. Read article.
"Governing by Numbers: Why Calculative Practices Matter", in A. Amin and N. Thrift (eds.), The Blackwell Cultural Economy Reader, (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004). Originally published in Social Research Vol. 68 (2), 2001, pp. 379-96.
"Value Reporting and the Information Ecosystem", PriceWaterhouseCoopers, White Paper, (December 2000).
"Finding Things Out" (with T. O'Leary), Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol 23, 7 (1998), pp. 709-714. Read article.
"The Margins of Accounting", European Accounting Review, Vol. 7 (1998), pp. 605-621. Republished in M. Callon (ed.), The Laws of the Markets (Basil Blackwell, 1998) pp. 174-193. Read article.
"Constructing Health Care Accountants: Melding Calculation and Care", (with N. Brunsson and I. Lapsley), Management Accounting Research, Vol. 9, (1998), pp. 31-35. Read article.
"Capital Budgeting and the Transition to Modern Manufacture", (with T. O'Leary), Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Autumn 1997), pp. 257-271. Read article.
"The Multiplying Machine", Accounting Organizations and Society, Vol. 22, (1997) pp. 355-364. Read article.
"Mobilising the Consumer: Assembling the Subject of Consumption", (with N. Rose), Theory, Culture and Society, Vol. 14 (1997), pp. 1-36.
"Dilemmas of Accountability: The Limits if Accounting", in P. Hirst and S. Khilnani (eds.), Reinventing Democracy, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996), pp. 57-69.
"Political Thought and the Limits of Orthodoxy: Response to Curtis", (with N. Rose). British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 46, no. 4 (December 1995), pp. 590-597. Read article.
"Calculating Corporate Failure", (with M. Power), in Y. Dezalay and D. Sugarman (eds.), Professional Competition and Professional Power: Lawyers, Accountants and the Social Constuction of Markets, (Routledge, 1995), pp. 51-76.
"Production, Identity and Democracy", (with N. Rose), Theory and Society, (USA), Vol. 24, No. 3 (June 1995), pp. 427-467. Read article.
"The Factory as Laboratory", (with T. O'Leary), Science in Context, Vol. 7, 3, (December 1994), pp. 469-496. Republished in M. Power (eds.), Accounting and Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) pp. 120-150.
"Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice", ion A. G. Hopwood and P. Miller (eds.), Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) pp. 1-39.
"Governing the Calculable Person", (with T. O'Leary), in A. G. Hopwood and P. Miller (eds.), Accounting as Social and Institutional Practice, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 98-115. A condensed and revised version of Miller and O'Leary (1987).
"Accounting, 'Economic Citizenship', and the Spatial Reordering of Manufacture", (with T. O'Leary), Accounting Organizations and Society, Vol. 19, No. 1, (1994), pp. 15-43. Read article.
"On Therapeutic Authority", (with N. Rose), History of the Human Sciences, Vol.7, No. 3, (August 1994), pp. 29-64.
"Accountability, 'Accountable Management', and the UK Public Sector", (with C. Humphrey and R. Scapens), Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 6, No. 3, (1993), pp.7-29.
"Genealogies of Calculation", (with C. Napier), Accounting Organizations and Society, Vol. 8, Nos. 7/8, (1993), pp. 631-647. Read article.
"Accounting Expertise and the Politics of the Product: Economic Citizenship and modes of Corporate Governance", (with T. O'Leary), Accounting Organizations and Society, (1993), pp.187-206. Read article.
"Political Power Beyond the State: Problematics of Government", (with N. Rose), British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 43, No. 2, (June, 1992), pp. 173-205. Read article.
"Accounting, Law and Economic Calculation", (with M. Power), in M. Bromwich and A. G. Hopwood, Accounting and the Law, (Prentice Hall, 1992), pp. 230-253.
"Accounting and Objectivity: The Invention of Calculating Selves and Calculable Spaces", In Annals of Scholarship, Vol. 9, nos. 1/2, (1992), pp. 61-85. Republished in A. Megill (ed.), Rethinking Objectivity, (Durham, US: Duke University Press, 1994), pp. 239-264.
"Accounting Innovation Beyond the Enterprise: Problematizing Investment Decisions and Programming Economic Growth in the United Kingdom in the 1960's", Accounting Organizations and Society, (1991), pp.733-762. Read article.
"The New Accounting History: An Introduction", (with T. Hopper and R. Laughlin), Accounting Organizations and Society, (1991), pp. 395-403. Read article.
"Governing Economic Life", (with N. Rose), Economy and Society, (February 1990), pp. 1-31. Translated and republished in "Das ökonomische Leben regieren" in J. Donzelot, D. Meuret, P. Miller and N. Rose, Zur Genealogie der Regulation (Decaton Verlag, Mainz, Germany, 1994), pp. 54-108.
"On the Interrelations Between Accounting and the State", Accounting, Organizations and Society (1990), pp. 315-338. Read article.
"Making Accountancy Practical" (with T. O'Leary), Accounting, Organizations and Society, (1990), pp. 479-498. Read article.
"Hierarchies and American Ideals, 1900-1940" (with T. O'Leary), The Academy of Management Review (April 1989) pp. 250-265. Read article.
"The Tavistock Programme: The Government of Subjectivity and Social Life" (with N. Rose), Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 2 (May 1988) pp. 171-192.
"Accounting and the Construction of the Governable Person" (with T. O'Leary), Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 12, No. 3 (1987) pp.235-265. Read article.
"Accounting for Progress: National Planning and Budgeting in France", Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 11, no.1 (1986) pp.83-104. Read article.
"Psychotherapy of Work and Unemployment", in P. Miller and N. Rose (eds.), The Power of Psychiatry (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1986).
"Critiques of Psychiatry and Critical Sociologies of Madness", in P. Miller and N. Rose (eds.), The Power of Psychiatry (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1986).
"Psychiatry - The Renegotiation of a Territory", Ideology and Consciousness, No.8 (1981) pp. 97-121.
"The Territory of the Psychiatrist", Ideology and Consciousness, No.7 (1980) pp. 63-105.