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Current Role: Professor in Strategy and Organization, University of Edinburgh Business School (2013-present)

• Co-Chair of the Scottish Fabian Society.

• Board Member of the European Institute for the Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM).

• Member of the Scottish Labour Party's Economic Advisory Board.

Life at the Business School

• I lecture, research, and work closely with senior leaders in Scottish politics and business.

• I have extensive experience in executive education and research management.

• In the 2024/25 academic year, I will teach Strategy, Power & Politics: The Art of Government (u/g), Strategy, Power & Politics: Navigating to Net Zero (±è/²µ),Ìý²¹²Ô»å Strategic Leadership (91´óÉñ).

• I co-designed and delivered the John Smith Trust / University of Edinburgh School Ukrainian Women's Programme earlier this year.Ìý

• At Edinburgh, I led the Business School's 2021 REF submission.Ìý

Life before the Business School

• I am from Cornwall and earned my PhD from Aston Business School, where Professor David Wilson supervised me.ÌýI have held full professorships at the Universities of Newcastle (2011-13) & St Andrews (2006-11).ÌýBefore that, I held academic positions at London Metropolitan University (1998-99), Leicester University (1999-2002) and St Andrews (2002-2006).Ìý

Life beyond the Business School

• I work closely with the Scottish Labour Party and serve on the Scottish Labour Party's Economic Advisory Board.

• I am co-chair of the Scottish Fabian Society.

• I am a member of the Advisory Board of FinWorkFutures at King's College London, the International Centre of Public Accountability (Durham University), and the European Institute of Advanced Studies in Management.

• Between 2014 and 2017, I hosted a successful chat show at the Edinburgh Fringe.Ìý

Focus:

• I am an interdisciplinary scholar who combines Organisation & Management Theory and Interdisciplinary Accounting.Ìý
• I am focused on research that has an impact. In the most recent REF exercise, I co-authored four impact case studies.Ìý

Recent Publications:

• J. Millar, F. Mueller, & C. Carter (2024) Mediating ESG: Mapping individual responses to a changing field. Critical Perspectives on Accounting.ÌýÌýÌý
• C. Carter, R. Badham, A. Whittle, & S. Clegg.Ìý(2024) Reconstituting the centrality of power in management and organization studies.ÌýEuropean Management Review,Ìý21(2),Ìý263–276.Ìý
• G. Murray, C. Carter, & C.ÌýSpence. (2024) The importance of being privileged: Digital entrepreneurship as a class project, Journal of Professions and Organization, Volume 11, Issue 1, 91´óÉñ 2024, Pages 1–15, 
• I. Jeacle & C. Carter (2023) Calorie accounting: The introduction of mandatory calorie labelling on menus in the UK food sector. Accounting, Organizations & Society.Ìý
• J. Millar, F. Mueller, & C. Carter (2023) Grassroots accountability: the practical and symbolic aspects of performance. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal.ÌýVol. 37 No. 2, pp. 586-607.Ìý

Collaborators:

• I am proud to work with gifted scholars such as Professor Andrew Brown (), Professor Ingrid Jeacle (Ingrid Jeacle – University of Edinburgh Business School), Dr John Millar (), Professor Frank Mueller (), Dr Grant Murray (), and Professor Crawford Spence (). With my co-authors,  I  study identity work, field theory, social types, and the symbolic dimensions of leadership.Ìý

• My PhD students are studying the Scottish Parliament (Andrew Burns) and Narratives of Decline (Martin McCluskey MP).Ìý

Awards:

±õÌý°ù±ð³¦±ð¾±±¹±ð»åÌý³Ù³ó±ð 2022 AAAJ Hall of Fame Award for contributing to Interdisciplinary Accounting research. I won the Strategic Organization journal's best essay prize (with Professor Stewart Clegg & Professor Martin Kornberger) in 2013.ÌýÌý

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I have published widely, but my favourite 'top six' articles from across my career are:

• C. Carter, C. Spence, & A. McKinlay (2020) Strategic Change, Leadership & Accounting: a triptych of organizational reform. Public Administration 98 (1), 62-91.
• C. Spence, C. Carter, J. Husillos & P. Archel (2017) Taste Matters: Cultural capital and elites in proximate Strategic Action Fields. Human Relations 70 (2), 211-236.
• C. Carter & C. Spence (2014) Being a Successful Professional: An exploration of who makes partner in the Big 4. Contemporary Accounting Research 31 (4), 949-981.
• I. Jeacle & C. Carter (2011) In TripAdvisor we trust: Rankings, calculative regimes and abstract systems.ÌýAccounting, Organizations and Society 36 (4-5), 293-309
• F. Mueller & C. Carter (2007) 'We are all managers now': Managerialism and Professional Engineering in UK Electricity Utilities. Accounting, Organizations and Society 32 (1-2), 181-195.Ìý
• C. Carter & F. Mueller (2002) The 'long march' of the management modernizers: Ritual, rhetoric and rationality. Human Relations 55(11), 1325-1354.