Professor Crawford Spence
Professor of Accounting
- Co-Director of the FinWork Futures Research Centre
Research interests
- Accounting & Financial Management
Biography
Crawford Spence is Professor of Accounting with broader interests in economic sociology. He has published extensively across a range of accounting, organisational and sociology journals. He sits on the editorial boards of Accounting, Organizations and Society, the Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal and Contemporary Accounting Research.
His research has explored corporate accountability, corporate tax, professional elites and expertise in financial markets. He joined King's in 2017 and has held visiting or permanent appointments in Canada, Japan, Norway, France and Spain.
Along with Rita Samiolo, Crawford co-directs the FinWork Futures Research Centre at King's, which explores how technological innovation is disrupting financial professions and financial expertise.
Are you accepting PhD students?
No
Research
FinWork Futures
Investigating the future of financial work and new technologies for the financial professions
News
King's Business School partners with ACC to offer Mini MBA for lawyers
Research by the Association of Corporate Counsel highlights the need for broad business knowledge
Technology and the brave new world of audit
How have practitioners and regulators responded to the arrival of the age of machine learning?
Professor Crawford Spence awarded Leverhulme Fellowship
Audit in the Age of Machines: creating room for more human judgement?
Events
The Future of Corporate Counsel: Trends and Insights
Join Prof. Crawford Spence & Giuseppe Marletta (Managing Director, Europe at Association of Corporate Counsel) as they discuss the changing role of corporate...
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Adam Hayes: Bitcoin Was Never Meant to Be Money… So What Is It and Why Should Sociologists Care?
Please join us for this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Adam Hayes from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Please note: this event has passed.
A Panel Debate: Whatever Happened with FTX?
FinWork Blockchain Seminar presents a panel debate with Ian Taylor, Lodewijk Van Setten and Gayle Rogers.
Please note: this event has passed.
Koray Caliskan: The Collapse of Trust in a Trust Machine. A Blockchain and Its Community Politics
FinWork Futures Research Centre presents Koray Caliskan from Parsons, The New School in this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series.
Please note: this event has passed.
Lodewijk van Setten: Tokenisation of Off-Chain Assets and Legal Risk Management
Please join us for this instalment of the Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Lodewijk van Stetten from TriliTech, Tezos Foundation.
Please note: this event has passed.
David C. Parkes: Credible Decentralized Exchange Design via Verifiable Sequencing Rules
Please join us for this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with David Parkes from Harvard University.
Please note: this event has passed.
Lawyers to Leaders: Earning your seat at the table
The role of the legal function is expanding.
Please note: this event has passed.
Tim Roughgarden : The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case Study in Blockchains/Web3
Please join us for the instalment of the Finwork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Tim Roughgarden: The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case...
Please note: this event has passed.
Vili Lehdonvirta: Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology
Vili Lehdonvirta: Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology
Please note: this event has passed.
Peter McBurney: Distributed Ledgers as the Second Great Revolution in IT: How shared data platforms are transforming business
Distributed Ledgers as the Second Great Revolution in IT: How shared data platforms are transforming business
Please note: this event has passed.
Research
FinWork Futures
Investigating the future of financial work and new technologies for the financial professions
News
King's Business School partners with ACC to offer Mini MBA for lawyers
Research by the Association of Corporate Counsel highlights the need for broad business knowledge
Technology and the brave new world of audit
How have practitioners and regulators responded to the arrival of the age of machine learning?
Professor Crawford Spence awarded Leverhulme Fellowship
Audit in the Age of Machines: creating room for more human judgement?
Events
The Future of Corporate Counsel: Trends and Insights
Join Prof. Crawford Spence & Giuseppe Marletta (Managing Director, Europe at Association of Corporate Counsel) as they discuss the changing role of corporate...
Please note: this event has passed.
Adam Hayes: Bitcoin Was Never Meant to Be Money… So What Is It and Why Should Sociologists Care?
Please join us for this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Adam Hayes from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Please note: this event has passed.
A Panel Debate: Whatever Happened with FTX?
FinWork Blockchain Seminar presents a panel debate with Ian Taylor, Lodewijk Van Setten and Gayle Rogers.
Please note: this event has passed.
Koray Caliskan: The Collapse of Trust in a Trust Machine. A Blockchain and Its Community Politics
FinWork Futures Research Centre presents Koray Caliskan from Parsons, The New School in this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series.
Please note: this event has passed.
Lodewijk van Setten: Tokenisation of Off-Chain Assets and Legal Risk Management
Please join us for this instalment of the Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Lodewijk van Stetten from TriliTech, Tezos Foundation.
Please note: this event has passed.
David C. Parkes: Credible Decentralized Exchange Design via Verifiable Sequencing Rules
Please join us for this instalment of the FinWork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with David Parkes from Harvard University.
Please note: this event has passed.
Lawyers to Leaders: Earning your seat at the table
The role of the legal function is expanding.
Please note: this event has passed.
Tim Roughgarden : The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case Study in Blockchains/Web3
Please join us for the instalment of the Finwork Blockchain Online Seminar Series with Tim Roughgarden: The Long Arm of Theoretical Computer Science: A Case...
Please note: this event has passed.
Vili Lehdonvirta: Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology
Vili Lehdonvirta: Cryptocracy: The Quest to Replace Politics with Technology
Please note: this event has passed.
Peter McBurney: Distributed Ledgers as the Second Great Revolution in IT: How shared data platforms are transforming business
Distributed Ledgers as the Second Great Revolution in IT: How shared data platforms are transforming business
Please note: this event has passed.