Peter Beusch
Senior Lecturer
Department of BusinessAbout Peter Beusch
Peter Beusch is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Gothenburg where he has been a faculty member since 2008 and today also a member of the department council. Peter completed his Ph.D. (2007), Licentiate (2004), Master (2002) and Bachelor (2001) studies at the University of Gothenburg. His research interests are in the area of management accounting and control in general and the connection of this discipline to sustainability issues, integrated reporting, and educational issues in particular. In recent years, he has focused on meta-theoretical issues concerning pragmatic constructivism and the earlier mentioned research fields. He is collaborating actively with researchers from the USA and Denmark and within diverse academic areas. Peter has published in several per-reviewed international journals and books, presented papers at over 20 conferences and has served on several conference and workshop program committees. Peter is a course director for several undergraduate and post-graduate courses at the university within the field of management accounting/management control and has an extensive network with external university partners and private companies.
Peter, a born Swiss citizen, lives today in Sweden with a double citizenship. He is the proud father of three girls, born February 2005, August 2006 and February 2008 and married to their mum, a lovely Swedish lady.
Research areas
- Management Accounting
- Integrated reporting
- Accounting and sustainable development
- Pragmatic constructivism and accountants
- Accounting Education
Teaching areas
- Management Accounting
- Management Control
- Pragmatic constructivism and accountants
- Management Accounting and Sustainable Development
- Integrated reporting
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Holism or reductionism, this is the main question in
reality
Peter Beusch
Journal of Pragmatic Constructivism - 2022 -
Accounting for sustainable development and when an organizational success story is the story of societal
failure
Peter Beusch
Working paper prepared for The Actor-Reality-Construction Conference in Berlin, Germany, on 29 and 30 September, 2022 - 2022 -
Accounting for sustainable development and when an organizational success story is the story of societal
failure
Peter Beusch
32 International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research in St.Andrews, Scotland from 22-25 August 2022 - 2022 -
Management control for sustainability: Towards integrated
systems
Peter Beusch, Elisabeth Frisk, Magnus Rosén, W. Dilla
Management Accounting Research - 2022 -
Management accounting and control for
sustainability
Peter Beusch
Accounting for sustainability/ edited by Gunnar Rimmel - 2020 -
Integrating management accounting and control for
sustainability
Peter Beusch
Accounting for sustainability/ edited by Gunnar Rimmel - 2020 -
Critical reflections and future
developments
Peter Beusch, Gunnar Rimmel, Susanne Arvidsson, Berit Hartmann, Kristina Jonäll, Svetlana Sabelfeld, Matti Skoog
Accounting for sustainability/ edited by Gunnar Rimmel - 2020 -
Management Control, Sustainability and Crossing Boundaries or
not!?
Peter Beusch
Nordisk workshop i ekonomistyrning, NWES XXIV, Stockholm Business School, January 16-17, 2020 - 2020 -
Enabling levers of control (LOC) practices for
sustainability
Peter Beusch, Magnus Rosén, William Dilla, Elisabeth Frisk
42 EAA Annual Congress, Paphos, Cyprus, May 29th to May 31st, 2019. - 2019 -
Exploring the nature of integration of management control for
sustainability
Peter Beusch
30th International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, 28th – 30th August, 2018, St. Andrews, Scotland. - 2018 -
Kritisk reflektion och framtida
utveckling
Gunnar Rimmel, Svetlana Sabelfeld, Matti Skoog, Peter Beusch, Berit Hartmann, Kristina Jonäll, Susanne Arvidsson
Redovisning för hållbarhet / Susanne Arvidsson, Peter Beusch, Berit Hartmann, Kristina Jonäll, Svetlana Sabelfeld, Matti Skoog ; Gunnar Rimmel, red. Kapitel 14 - 2018 -
Integrera styr- och kontrollverktyg för
hållbarhet
Peter Beusch
Redovisning för hållbarhet / Susanne Arvidsson, Peter Beusch, Berit Hartmann, Kristina Jonäll, Svetlana Sabelfeld, Matti Skoog ; Gunnar Rimmel, red. Kapitel 4 - 2018 -
Ekonomistyrning för
hållbarhet
Peter Beusch
Redovisning för hållbarhet / Susanne Arvidsson, Peter Beusch, Berit Hartmann, Kristina Jonäll, Svetlana Sabelfeld, Matti Skoog ; Gunnar Rimmel, red. Kapitel 3 - 2018 -
Communication of Business Model Reporting i Corporate Reports - a Study of Reporting Patterns in
Sweden
Peter Beusch, Kristina Jonäll, Svetlana Sabelfeld, Gunnar Rimmel, Susanne Arvidsson
41st Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, May 2018, Milan, Italy - 2018 -
Capital Reporting in Sweden: Insights about Inclusiveness and
Integrativeness
Peter Beusch, Axel Nilsson
in Guthrie J., Dumay J., Ricceri F., and Nielsen C. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital, (forthcoming), Routledge Publishing - 2018 -
Business Model Disclosures in Corporate
Reports
Michalak Jan, Gunnar Rimmel, Peter Beusch, Kristina Jonäll
Journal of Business Models - 2017 -
Monetization, standardization & materialization – A pragmatic view on sustainable development
accounts
Peter Beusch, Svetlana Sabelfeld
29th International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, 29th – 31st August, 2017, St. Andrews, Scotland - 2017 -
Accounts matter, but does it matter what counts? The case of sustainable
development.
Peter Beusch
Conference webpage and database - 2017 -
Accounts matter, but does it matter what counts? The case of sustainable
development.
Peter Beusch
40th European Accounting Association Annual Congress, Valencia, Spain, May 10th to 12th, 2017. - 2017 -
Towards an Integrated Reporting Standard? Crafting the appearance of rationality and
objectivity
Peter Beusch
10st Workshop in Management Accounting and Control, 19-21 October, 2016, Trondheim Business School, NTNU; Norway. - 2016 -
Integrated Reporting - Semantic, semiotic and symbolic differences in the crafting of meaning and calculative rationalization
mechanisms
Peter Beusch, Berit Hartmann
28th International Congress on Social and Environmental Accounting Research, 23rd – 25th August, 2016, St. Andrews, Scotland - 2016 -
Deconstructing the myth of integrated reporting: on the tension between standardization and locality of non-numerical
information
Berit Hartmann, Peter Beusch
Financial Reporting and Business Communication, Twentieth Annual Conference. Bristol: Bristol University. - 2016 -
Management Control for Sustainability: The development of a fully integrated
strategy
Peter Beusch, William N Dilla, Elisabeth Frisk, Magnus Rosén
Management Accounting Section Meeting: Research and Case Conference, January 6-9, 2016, Dallas, Texas, USA. - 2016 -
Pragmatisk konstruktivism och aktör-baserad
ledarskapsteori
Peter Beusch
Redovisningsteorier – viktiga begrepp och teoretiska perspektiv inom redovisning - 2016 -
Recognizable Sustainable Development - An edgy Triangle or a fast spinning
Wheel?
Peter Beusch
23rd Nordic Academy of Management Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 12-14th August, 2015. - 2015 -
Management Control for Sustainability: The development of a fully integrated
strategy
Peter Beusch, William N. Dilla
8th Conference on Performance Measurement and Management Control, Nice, France, Sept. 30th to Oct. 2nd, 2015. - 2015 -
Management Control for Sustainability: The development of a fully integrated
strategy
Peter Beusch, William N. Dilla
6th Workshop in Management Accounting in Practice and Research, Trondheim, Norway, Oct. 14th – 16th, 2015. - 2015 -
Management Control for Sustainability: The development of a fully integrated
strategy
William N. Dilla, Peter Beusch, Elisabeth Frisk
10th ENROAC Conference in Galway, Ireland, June 3rd - 4th, 2015. - 2015 -
Towards sustainable capitalism in the development of higher education business school curricula and
management
Peter Beusch
International Journal of Educational Management - 2014 -
A Critical Perspective on Trust & Management Control
Concepts
Peter Beusch
European Accounting Association 37th Annual Congress, Tallinn, Estonia, 17-20 May, 2014. - 2014 -
Problematizing Concepts - A Critical Perspective on Trust and Management
Control
Peter Beusch
CPA-conference in Toronto, Canada, July 7-9th, 2014. - 2014 -
Towards sustainable capitalism in the development of higher education business school curricula and
management
Peter Beusch
FEKIS 2013, Lund, Sweden, October 23-24th, 2013 - 2013 -
Conceptualizing Concepts – The case of “trust” and “control” seen from a pragmatic constructivist
view
Peter Beusch
Third Conference on the Actor-Reality Perspective, Aarhus, Denmark, October 23-25th, 2013 - 2013 -
Re-modeling the relationship between the concepts of trust and control and bridging (some of) the gap between theory and
practice
Peter Beusch
22nd NFF in Reykjavik, Island, August 21-23 - 2013 -
Towards sustainable capitalism in the development of higher education business school curricula and
management
Peter Beusch
EAA, 36nd Annual Congress, 6-8 May, Paris, France - 2013 -
Complexity within Management Accounting – Examples from the car
industry
Peter Beusch
Research seminar at Sør-Trøndelag University College, Trondheim, Norway, held the 9th of October - 2012 -
When the integration of management control systems is at
stake
Peter Beusch
Mergers and Acquisitions: The Critical Role of Stakeholders, Anderson, H., Havila, V. & Nilsson, F. (Editors) - 2012 -
Highlighting the complex interrelationship between the concepts of trust and
control
Peter Beusch
Second Conference on the Actor-Reality Perspective in a Global Economy, Pisa, Italy, October 25-26th - 2012 -
Interdisciplinary curriculums and crossing institutional boundaries as part of the solution to actually teach sustainable capitalism at business
schools
Peter Beusch
NU 2012 Gothenburg, Sweden, October 17-19th - 2012 -
Colliding and disintegrated topoi as the result of intended
integration
Peter Beusch
An Actor's Approach to Management: conceptual framework and company practice - 2011 -
Acquisitions in the car industry - complexity the reason for integration
difficulties
Peter Beusch
Nordic Academy of Management (NFF) meeting in Stockholm, August 22 - 24, 2011 - 2011 -
Rethinking the business school curriculum and towards teaching sustainable
capitalism
Peter Beusch
Nordic Academy of Management (NFF) meeting in Stockholm, August 22 - 24, 2011 - 2011 -
The Consequences of Colliding Management Control Ideologies and Communication
Inconsistencies
Peter Beusch
EAA, 32nd Annual Congress, 12-15 May, Tampere, Finland - 2009 -
Resource Allocation to Business & Management Students - A Comparison of Sveven European Countries
2008.
Peter Beusch
2008 -
Resource Allocation to Business & Management Students - A Comparison of Seven European Countries
2008
Peter Beusch
Conference FEKIS, Gothenburg, 12-13 November 2008 - 2008 -
Contradicting Management Control Ideologies – A study of integration processes following cross-border acquisitions of large
multinationals
Peter Beusch
2007 -
The Construction of Management Control after the Acquisition of large Multinationals: The complex interaction of human and technology in cross-cultural
contexts.
Peter Beusch
29th Annual Congress of the European Accounting Association, Dublin, Ireland, March 22nd-24th - 2006 -
A tentative model of Management Accounting and Control in the Integration Processes of Mergers &
Acquisitions
Peter Beusch
The inaugural joint workshop by MCA and ENROAC, Antwerp, Belgium - 2005 -
Modeling Management Accounting and Control in the Integration Processes of Mergers &
Acquisitions
Peter Beusch
2004