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Overview

Sven Modell is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily resides in the broad field of Business, Management, and Accounting, with a focus on various specialized subfields. The subfields in which they have contributed include Management Information Systems, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Strategy and Management, Accounting, and Public Administration.

Their scholarly work frequently addresses several main topics, covering areas such as Accounting and Organizational Management, Management and Organizational Studies, Auditing, Earnings Management, and Governance. They have also contributed to Public Policy and Administration Research, as well as research on Space Exploration and Regulation, Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting, and Big Data and Business Intelligence.

Sven Modell has published extensively in a variety of academic journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Accounting Auditing & Accountability Journal
  • European Accounting Review
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Accounting and Business Research
  • Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial Management

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Sven Modell include:

  • "New developments in institutional research on performance measurement and management in the public sector" (2021, Journal of Public Budgeting Accounting & Financial Management)
  • "Accounting for Institutional Work: A Critical Review" (2020, European Accounting Review)
  • "Is Institutional Research on Management Accounting Degenerating or Progressing? A Lakatosian Analysis*" (2022, Contemporary Accounting Research)

They have collaborated with several researchers, frequently co-authoring with:

  • Anna Eitrem
  • Anita Meidell
  • Pablo Casas-Arce
  • Mandy M. Cheng
  • Isabella Grabner

Best Publications

  • An institutional perspective on performance measurement and management in the `new public sector'

    Stan Brignall;Sven Modell

  • Validation in interpretive management accounting research

    Kari Lukka;Sven Modell

  • Performance measurement and institutional processes: a study of managerial responses to public sector reform

    Sven Modell

  • Triangulation between case study and survey methods in management accounting research: An assessment of validity implications

    Sven Modell

  • Performance Measurement Myths in the Public Sector: A Research Note

    Sven Modell

  • In defence of triangulation: A critical realist approach to mixed methods research in management accounting

    Sven Modell

  • Goals versus institutions: the development of performance measurement in the Swedish university sector

    Sven Modell

  • INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH ON PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR ACCOUNTING LITERATURE: A REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT

    Sven Modell

  • Performance measurement and management in public health services: a comparison of U.K. and Swedish practice

    Joan Ballantine;Stan Brignall;Sven Modell

  • A process (re)turn?: Path dependencies, institutions and performance management in Swedish central government

    Sven Modell;Kerry Jacobs;Fredrika Wiesel

  • Bridging the paradigm divide in management accounting research: The role of mixed methods approaches

    Sven Modell

  • From New Public Management to New Public Governance? Hybridization and Implications for Public Sector Consumerism

    Fredrika Wiesel;Sven Modell

  • Bundling management control innovations: A field study of organisational experimenting with total quality management and the balanced scorecard

    Sven Modell

  • Students as consumers? An institutional field‐level analysis of the construction of performance measurement practices

    Sven Modell

  • Institutional perspectives on cost allocations: integration and extension

    Sven Modell

  • On the virtues and vices of combining theories: the case of institutional and actor-network theories in accounting research

    Sven Modell;Eija Vinnari;Kari Lukka

  • Strategy, political regulation and management control in the public sector: Institutional and critical perspectives

    Sven Modell

  • The societal relevance of management accounting innovations: Economic Value Added and institutional work in the fields of Chinese and Thai state-owned enterprises

    Pimsiri Chiwamit;Sven Modell;Chun Lei Yang

  • Management accounting and control in services: structural and behavioural perspectives

    Sven Modell

  • Making institutional accounting research critical: dead end or new beginning?

    Sven Modell

Frequent Co-Authors

Kerry Jacobs
Kerry Jacobs University of New South Wales
Christopher Humphrey
Christopher Humphrey University of Manchester
Robert W. Scapens
Robert W. Scapens University of Birmingham

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