5th Biennial Accounting and Accountability in Emerging Economies (AAEE) Conference 2027

Theme: Accounting and Accountability in the Majority World
Essex Business School, University of Essex (Colchester Campus), UK
Emerging Scholars Colloquium: 28 June 2027 | Main conference: 29–30 June 2027

Essex Business School is pleased to invite submissions to the 5th Biennial AAEE Conference. The organisers keep the AAEE name in recognition of the conference’s history while questioning the term “emerging economies”.

Indicative themes (submissions on other topics related to the conference theme are welcome):

• Accounting, reporting and assurance: AI and data analytics, financial reporting, sustainability and ESG reporting, integrated reporting, auditing.
• Political economy, ecology and development: development and the SDGs, climate and nature accounting, extractivism, sovereign debt, aid and humanitarian finance.
• Governance, control and public accountability: corporate governance, corruption and transparency, management control, digitalisation.
• Inequality, injustice and precarity: poverty and labour, human rights, gender, race and caste, migration, nationalism, state violence and surveillance, historical perspectives on empire.
• Special panel: accounting and accountability in conflict, violence, war and occupation. Work by scholars writing from within the settings they study is especially welcome.

Emerging Scholars Colloquium (28 June 2027): open to doctoral researchers and early-career scholars, who present work in progress to a small group and receive extended written and oral feedback from experienced faculty. Sessions also cover publishing, reviewing and building a research programme. Places are limited and allocated on the basis of the submitted paper. Participants may also present a separate paper at the main conference.

Submission: full papers (no separate abstract stage) for both the main conference and the colloquium must be submitted via the Microsoft CMT portal by 1 March 2027. Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2027. Selected papers will be considered for conference-linked special issues; the journals will be announced in the full call for papers.

Registration: full rate £275; reduced rate £150 (retired, unemployed or doctoral students); Emerging Scholars Colloquium £60. Presenters must register and pay by 1 May 2027; all other participants by 2 June 2027. Register here.

Call for papers: AAEE 2027 early call for papers (PDF). More information: conference webpage. Contact: AAEE@essex.ac.uk (main conference) or ESC.AAEE@essex.ac.uk (Emerging Scholars Colloquium).