Wednesday 11 February 2026 – Main Conference Day 1
Room 1050, Level 1, University of Sydney Business School, H70
| Time | Session | Details | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08.15 – 09.00 | Registration | Tea and Coffee | |
| 09.00 – 09.15 | Opening | Welcome Address | |
| 09.15 – 10.15 | Paper 1 | Traceability infrastructuring and the making of market traces: How the pharmaceutical market is made knowable to organizations | Chiara Bottausci Keith Robson |
| 10.15 – 11.15 | Paper 2 | Constructing and Navigating Credibility in Unregulated Assurance Markets | Conor Clune |
| 11.15 – 11.45 | Morning tea | ||
| 11.45 – 12.45 | Paper 3 | When fairness becomes self-discipline: Identity work and the autonomous academic in ‘corrective’ performance measurement systems | Annemarie Conrath-Hargreaves Alessandro Ghio Darren Baker |
| 12.45 – 13.45 | Lunch | ||
| 13.45 – 14.45 | Paper 4 | The accounting of being: How digital surveillance technologies create authenticity crises | Leona Wiegmann Aldonio Ferreira |
| 14.45 – 15.45 | Paper 5 | Accounting for social control: How naming, counting and costing shapes refugee flows | Annette Quayle Shamima Haque |
| 15.45 – 16.15 | Afternoon tea | ||
| 16.15 – 17.15 | Paper 6 | Losing control: Disciplinary paralysis and the erosion of pastoral power in accounting firms | Oriane Couchoux Laurence Daoust Bertrand Malsch |
| 17.15 – 18.00 | Invited talk | The Death of News: The Past, Present and Future of Public Interest Journalism | Clinton Free |
| 18.00 | Canapes and Dinner | Level 5, Refectory, University of Sydney Business School, H70 |
Thursday 12 February 2026 – Main Conference Day 2
Room 1050, Level 1, University of Sydney Business School, H70
| Time | Session | Details | Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|
| 08.00 – 09.00 | AOS editorial board meeting Level 2 Boardroom Building H69 | ||
| 08.45 – 09.15 | Registration | Tea and Coffee | |
| 09.15 – 10.15 | Plenary | Plenary title to be announced | Andrea Mennicken |
| 10.15 – 10.45 | Morning tea | ||
| 10.45 – 11.45 | Paper 7 | Accounting design as an experimental system and the dynamic emergence of knowledge: A study on the design of calls for tenders to select consultants in the public sector | Eléonore Brouard Keith Robson Chiara Bottausci |
| 11.45 – 12.45 | Paper 8 | Making up preparers and the scripting of accounting standards | Matthew Hall Damien Lambert Richard Pucci Paul Thambar |
| 12.45 – 13.45 | Lunch | ||
| 13.45 – 14.45 | Paper 9 | Lingering accounts: How feedback loops keep fragile sustainability KPIs alive | Vera Linke Lukas Löhlein Johannes Pauleikhoff Utz Schäffer |
| 14.45 – 15.45 | Paper 10 | Constructing global climate-related risk reporting: Organizing dissonance in the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) | Brendan O’Dwyer |
| 15.45 – 16.00 | Closing |