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Prof Brendan McSweeney, B Comm (NUI), PhD (LSE), FRSA

Born in Dublin, Ireland. Undergraduate degree at University College Dublin. PhD from the London School of Economics

Current position: University of London Professor Management, Royal Holloway, University of London and Visiting Professor at the School of Business, Stockholm University. Previously Professor of Accounting at University of Essex; Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Finance at Warwick Business School) Non-executive director of the European, Middle East & African division of a globally located Japanese company Expert Advisor to the European Commission. Publications in wide range of academic and practitioner journals Formerly trade union official; director of a venture capital company, retail banker, head of research at ACCA

Executive producer of a TriBecka award winning movie. Investment 'angel' of a number of fringe plays.

Representative Publications

‘Dynamic Diversity: Variety and Variation Within Countries’, Organization Studies, 30.9, 933-957. 2009.

‘The Roles of Financial Asset Market Failure Denial in the Economic Crisis: Reflections on Accounting and Financial Theories and Practices’, Accounting, Organizations & Society, 43, 835-848. 2009.

‘Incoherent Culture’, European Journal of Cross-Cultural Competence and Management, 1.1, 22-25. 2009.

* Remaking Management: Between Global and Local, B. McSweeney with C. Smith and R. Fitzgerald (eds.), Cambridge University Press (2008)

* 'Are we living in a post-bureaucratic epoch?' Journal of Organizational Change Management, 19.1, 2006

'Hofstede's Model of National Cultural Differences and Their Consequences: A Triumph of Faith; A Failure of Analysis', Human Relations, Vol. 55. No. 1, 2002. [Top downloaded paper from Human Relations in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011.

* 'Looking Forward to the Past', Accounting, Organizations & Society, 25, 2000, pp. 767–786.

* 'Agency or Structure, Discourse or Meta-Narrative: The Case of the Financial Management Initiative' with S. Duncan, Accounting, Auditing, and Accountability Journal, Vol 11, No. 3, Summer 1998, pp. 332–361.

* 'The Unbearable Ambiguity of Accounting', Accounting, Organizations & Society, October 1997, pp. 691–712.

* 'Accounting and Organizational Action: A Subsuming Explanation or Situated Explanations?', Accounting, Management & Information Technologies, Vol.5, No.3/4 1995, pp. 245–282.