Thomas Carrington/publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Carrington, T. and Eklöv Alander, G. (2022), The politics of profit production, Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print.
• Reichborn-Kjennerud, K., González-Díaz, B., Bracci. E., Carrington, T., Hathaway, J., Klarskov Jeppesen, K., Steccolini, I. (2019). Sais work against corruption in Scandinavian, South-European and African countries: An institutional analysis. The British Accounting Review. Vol. 51, No. 5.
• Johnsen, Å., Reichborn-Kjennerud, K., Carrington, T., Jeppesen, K. K., Taro, K. and Vakkuri, J. (2019). Supreme audit institutions in a high-impact context: A comparative analysis of performance audit in four Nordic countries. Financial Accountability & Management. Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 158-181.
• Carrington, T., Johansson, T., Johed, G., and Öhman, P. (2019). The client as a source of institutional conformity for commitments to core values in the auditing profession. Contemporary Accounting Research. Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 1077-1097.
• Carrington, T. (2017). “Consulting or holding to account? The Swedish National Audit Office as an agent of change in public administration” Statsvetenskaplig Tidskrift. No. 1., pp. 91-109.
• Jeppesen, K.K., Carrington, T., Catasús, B., Johnsen, Å., Reichborn-Kjennerud, K. and Vakkuri, J. (2017). “The Strategic Options of Supreme Audit Institutions: The Case of Four Nordic Countries” Financial Accountability & Management., Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 146-170.
• Carrington, T., Johansson, T., Johed, G. and Öhman, P. (2013). “An empirical test of the hierarchical construct of professionalism and managerialism in the accounting profession” Behavioral Research in Accounting, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 1-20.
• Carrington, T. (2010). “An analysis of the demands on a sufficient audit: Professional appearance is what counts!” Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Vol. 21, No. 8, pp. 669-682.
• Carrington, T. and Johed, G. (2007). “The construction of top management as a good steward: a study of Swedish annual general meetings.” Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, Vol. 20, No. 5, pp. 702-728.
• Carrington, T. and Catasús, B. (2007). “Auditing stories about discomfort: Becoming comfortable with comfort theory.” European Accounting Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 35-58.

Chapters in books

• Carrington, T. (2019). A Critical Perspective on Sustainability Assurance, in Arvidsson, S. (ed) Challenges in Managing Sustainable Business, pp. 155-176, Palgrave Macmillan.
• Reichborn-Kjennerud, K., Carrington, T., and Jeppesen, K.K. (2018). A new organization of public administration – from internal to external control. in Byrkjeflot, H. and Engelstad, F. (eds) Comparative Social Research, vol. 33 Bureaucracy and society in transition – Comparative perspectives, pp. 225-243, Emerald Publishing.
• Johnsen, Å., Reichborn-Kjennerud, K., Carrington, T., and Jeppesen, K.K. (2017). Audit in a trusting climate, in Lapsley, I. and Knutsson, H. (eds) Modernizing the Public Sector: Scandinavian Perspectives, pp. 119-134, Routledge (Routlege Crititcal Studies in Public Management).
• Johnsen, Å., Carrington, T., Jeppesen, K. K., Reichborn-Kjennerud, K. and Vakkuri, J. (2017). Forvaltningsrevisjonens virkninger: En sammenligning av fire nordiske land, in Bringselius, L. (ed) Den statliga revisionen i Norden, pp. 209-222, Studentlitteratur.
• Carrington, T. and Johed, G. (2014). How the Business Press Stabilizes and Destabilizes Notions of Audit Failure: The Case of Intrum Justitia, in Pallas, J., Strannegård, L. and Jonsson, S. (eds) Organizations and the Media: Organizing in a Mediatized World, pp. 116-131, Routledge.

Books

• Carrington, T., Catasús, B., Eklöv Alander, G., Johed, G., Lundqvist, P., Marton, J. and Runesson, E. (2015). IFRS – Dilemman och utmaningar, Studentlitteratur.
• Carrington, T. (2014/2010). Revision, Liber.
• Arvidsson, P., Carrington, T., and Johed, G. (2021/2018/2016/2013/2010). Den Nya Affärsredovisningen. Vol. 22/21/20/19/18, Liber.

Dissertation

• Carrington, T. (2007). Framing Audit Failure: Four studies on audit quality discomforts. Stockholm University School of Business.

Professional and other publications

• Öhman, P., Carrington, T., Johansson, T. and Johed, G. (2020). ”Revisionsklienter som en institutionell utgångspunkt för revisionens kärnvärden” Rapport 2020:3 Centrum för forskning om ekonomiska relationer, Mittuniversitetet.
• Carrington, T., Johed, G. and Marton, J. (2016). “IFRS 10 år – dilemman och utmaningar” Organisation & Samhälle, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 50-54.
• Carrington, T. (2015). Recension av Fientliga bud – teorierna, maktspelet, kortsiktigheten, Sophie Nachemson-Ekwall, SNS Förlag, 2014. i Organisation & Samhälle, Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 34.
• Carrington, T. (2012). “The Mirror Cracked” Mercury, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Autumn), pp. 60-63.
• Carrington, T. (2012). “Redovisningen kan bli fel trots att revisorer gör rätt” Balans, Vol. 38, No. 4, pp. 40-41.
• Carrington, T., Johed, G. and Öhman, P. (2012). “Svenska revisorer i undersökning om profession och kommersialism” Balans, Vol. 38, No. 1, pp. 40-41.
• Carrington, T. (2011). “Ansvarsfullhet är viktigare än att följa regler” Balans, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 42-43.
• Carrington, T. (2009). “Vad är revision?” Balans, Vol. 35, No. 11, pp. 37-39.

Conference papers

• Carrington, T. and Eklöv Alander, G. (2018). "Making market values: a commensuration of promises" Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting conference in Edinburgh, UK, 10-13 July 2018.
• Carrington, T. and Eklöv Alander, G. (2018, 2017, 2016). "Justifications of accounting reliability". Paper presented at the Financial Reporting and Auditing as Social and Organizational Practice 3 workshop in London, UK, 16–17 December 2016, at the EAA Annual Congress in Valencia, Spain, 10-12 May 2017, at the Critical Perspectives on Accounting Conference in Quebec City, Canada, 3-5 July 2017, and at the EAA Annual Congress in Milan, Italy, 30 May-1 June 2018.
• Johnsen, Å., Reichborn-Kjennerud, K., Carrington, T., Jeppesen, K.K., Taro, K. and Vakkuri, J. (2016). "Impacts of Supreme Audit Institutions’ Performance Audits on Public Administration: A Comparative Analysis of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Norway and Sweden" Paper presented at 9th International EIASM Public Sector Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, 6-8 September.
• Carrington, T., Johansson, T., Johed, G. and Öhman, P. (2015). "Exploring Compliance and Convergence of Auditor Commitments to Professional Values: A Contextual Analysis" Paper presented at the European Accounting Association conference in Glasgow, Scotland, 28-30 April.
• Carrington, T., Eklöv Alander, G. and Tirmén, M. (2014). "Fair values and the organizing of markets in organizations" Paper presented at the SCORE International Conference on Organizing Markets in Stockholm, Sweden, 16-17 oktober 2014.
• Carrington, T. and Tirmén, M. (2014). "The Fair Value Hierarchy and the reconfiguration of prudence in accounting practice" Paper presented at the ARCA Workshop on the Politics of Accounting Standard Setting and Regulation in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 8 September 2014.
• Carrington, T. and Tirmén, M. (2014). "Jurisdictional change in financial institutions: The Fair Value Hierarchy and the reconfiguration of prudence in accounting practice" Paper presented at the Critical Perspectives on Accounting conference in Toronto, Canada, 7-9 July 2014.
• Carrington, T. and Tirmén, M. (2013). "Facing financial instruments in financial institutions: The Fair Value Hierarchy as coding practice" Paper presented at the Financial Reporting and Auditing as Social and Organizational Practice 2 workshop in London, UK, 16–17 December 2013.
• Carrington, T. (2012). "Making People Auditable" Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting conference in Cardiff, Wales, 11-13 July.
• Carrington, T. (2011). "Styles of auditability" Paper presented at the 21st NFF conference in Stockholm, Sweden, 22-24 August.
• Carrington, T., Johansson, T., Johed, G. and Öhman, P. (2011). "Professional and commercial tension in the accounting profession: A research note." Paper presented at the 21st NFF conference in Stockholm, Sweden, 22-24 August.
• Carrington, T., Johed, G. and Öhman, P. (2011). "The organisational context of professionalism in auditing" Paper presented at the Critical Perspectives on Accounting conference in Clearwater, Florida, USA, 10-12 July.
• Jeppesen, K., Carrington, T., Catasús, B., Johnsen, Å., Reichborn-Kjennerud, K. and Vakkuri, J. (2010). "Nordic state auditing: Professional competition or hybridisation of knowledge?" Paper presented at the 6th international conference on accounting, auditing and management in public sector reforms in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1-3 September.
• Carrington, T. (2009). “Accountability, auditability and the audit society - the case of auditor oversight in Sweden.” Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting conference in Innsbruck, Austria, 9-11 July.
• Carrington, T. (2008). “Audit Consumer Discomforts: Voice In Disciplinary Cases.” Paper presented at the European Accounting Association conference in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 23-25 April.
• Carrington, T. (2007). “Audit quality at the low end of the audit quality continuum: An analysis of the disciplinary cases of the Swedish supervisory board of public accountants.” Paper presented at the European Accounting Association conference in Lisbon, Portugal, 24-27 April.
• Carrington, T. (2006). “Managing the market: audit client acceptance and retention policies and the construction of 'bad apples'.” Paper presented at the 1st conference on Rhetoric and Narratives in Management Research in Barcelona, Spain, 11-13 May.
• Carrington, T. (2006). “Audit client acceptance and retention policies and the market for 'bad apples'.” Paper presented at the European Accounting Association conference in Dublin, Ireland, 21-24 March.
• Carrington, T. (2005). “Framing failure in the Swedish Supervisory Board of Public Accountants’ disciplinary cases.” Paper presented at the Ph.D. Workshop at the third EARNet symposium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 27-29 October.
• Carrington, T. (2005). “Auditing in the public interest? Client acceptance policies and the market for 'bad apples'.” Paper presented at the CARR doctoral student conference in London, UK, 15-16 September.
• Carrington, T. and Catasús, B. (2004). “Stories about discomfort: Becoming comfortable with comfort theory.” Paper presented at the EIASM Workshop on Audit in Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-11 September.
• Carrington, T. and Catasús, B. (2004). “Feeling discomfort: Studying audit failure at the micro level.” Paper presented at the 27th annual congress of the European Accounting Association, Prague, Czech Republic, 1-3 April.