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James Perry

Assistant professor , PhD
James Perry

Department of Business and Politics

Porcelænshaven 24, st.
DK-2000 Frederiksberg
Tel.: +45 3815 3946
Fax:+45 3815 3555
E-mail: jp.dbp@cbs.dk



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My research interests are located in the field of International Political Economy. I focus on the interplay between finance, politics and technology to explain changes in economic regulation – both via formal rules and constitutive ideas. In this vein, my recent research has used changes in global accounting standards, and the policy debates that surround them, as an empirical basis for investigating today’s shift from a manufacturing-based economy to a financialized, knowledge-based economy. In particular I examine the challenge posed to established economic ideas and regulations trying to maintain a workable definition of accountingassets – these being, in many respects, the basic measurement units of contemporary capitalism.
Prior to academia, I worked in accounting and financial journalism.

Primary research areas

  • International organization and regulation of finance
  • Accounting standards
  • Financialization in advanced OECD economies
  • Knowledge economy


Selected publications

Perry James (2009). Goodwill Hunting: Accounting and the Global Regulation of Economic Ideas, PhD Dissertation, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Digital Academic REpository (DARE) at http://dare.ubvu.vu.nl
Perry, James (2007) ‘Goodwill Hunting: Fair Value Accounting, Financialization and the Knowledge Economy’, International Studies Association’s (ISA) annual Robert Cox Award, presented at ISA 2007 convention in Chicago.
Nölke, Andreas and Perry, James (2007). ‘The Power of Transnational Private Governance: Financialization and the IASB’, Business and Politics, 9(3)
Nölke, Andreas and Perry, James (2007). ‘Coordination Service Firms and the Erosion of Rhenish Capitalism’, in Overbeek, H., van Apeldoorn, B. and Nölke, A (eds.) The Transnational Politics of Corporate Governance Regulation, London: Routledge
Perry, James and Nölke, Andreas (2006). ‘The Political Economy of International Accounting Standards’, Review of International Political Economy, 13(4): 559–586
Perry, James and Nölke, Andreas (2005). ‘International Accounting Standard Setting: A Network Approach’, Business and Politics, 7(3)


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