Jan Pfister
Adjunct Professor (JSBE); Dr. oec. publ. (UZH)
jan.pfister@utu.fi Rehtorinpellonkatu 3 Turku ORCID-tunniste: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3967-9869 |
Performance measurement and management; Management control systems; Accounting practice in its social and organizational context; Creativity and innovation; Digitalization; Methodology
Jan Pfister is Associate Professor of Management Accounting at the Department of Accounting and Finance at Turku School of Economics. He is also an Affiliated Researcher at the House of Innovation (HOI) and the Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (Misum) at Stockholm School of Economics.
Drawing on interpretive and critical methodologies, his research focuses on a range of topics related to performance measurement and management. He is the Principal Investigator of the research project “Performance management for a sustainable future”, which received funding of half a million Euro from the Academy of Finland for the years 2022-2026; and the Lead Investigator of an ethnographic study investigating poverty elevation in rural India in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley. Jan serves on the editorial board of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal; is a member of the International Committee of the Management Accounting Section (MAS) of the American Accounting Association (AAA); organizer of the Seminar in Interdisciplinary Accounting Research (SIAR), featuring scholars interested in accounting within its social and organizational context (link to seminar); and co-organizer of the Qualitative Management Accounting Research Group (QMARG), a forum for advanced management accounting researchers in the Nordics. He has been teaching at the bachelor, master, PhD, and executive levels, and supervising several PhD students.
Before joining the University of Turku, he had a permanent position at Lancaster University Management School and spent two years as a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a Docentship from the University of Jyväskylä and a Doctorate from the University of Zurich. His dissertation was published as a book by Springer, entailed a paper that won a Best Paper Award at the Research Ethics Symposium of the American Accounting Association, and received recognition by Financial Executives International, that disseminated a summary as Issue Alert to its members (link to book).
He is involved in several international research collaborations, focusing on theoretical, empirical, and methodological topics related to performance measurement and management. He is also interested in broader societal changes based on the emergence of innovative technologies, including digital platforms and ecosystems.
- A methodological framework for theoretical explanation in performance management and management control systems research (2023)
- Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Productivity Measures in Performance Evaluations (2023)
- Strategic Finance
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1)) - The productive accountant as (un-)wanted self: Realizing the ambivalent role of productivity measures in accountants' identity work (2022)
- Critical Perspectives On Accounting
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Management accounting change as an amplifier of a leadership dispute: an ethnography of convergent and divergent leader-follower relations (2021)
- Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - The pitfalls of achieving cost-efficiency in the creative organization (case study and teaching notes on extrinsic and intrinsic motivation) (2020) Hartmann Frank, Kraus Kalle, Nilsson, Göran, Anthony Robert & Govindarajan Vijay: Management control systems, McGraw-Hill Education, second edition, 387-392 Pfister Jan
(Artikkeli ammatillisessa kokoomateoksessa (D2)) - Interrelation of controls for autonomous motivation: A field study of productivity gains through pressure-induced process innovation (2019)
- Accounting Review
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Strategizing open innovation: How middle managers work with performance indicators (2017)
- Scandinavian Journal of Management
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1)) - Controlling creativity and innovation: Paradox or necessity? (2014) Management control and uncertainty (Palgrave McMillan, eds. David Otley, Kim Soin, p. 134-148) Pfister Jan
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3)) - Issue Alert: Managing organizational culture for effective internal control (2012)
- Financial Executives Research Foundation
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1)) - Managing organizational culture for effective internal control (2011)
- Accounting Review
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2)) - Managing organizational culture for effective internal control – From practice to theory (2009) Pfister Jan A.
(Vertaisarvioitu tieteellinen erillisteos tai raportti (C1)) - The application of XBRL in investor relations [in German] (2009) Praxishandbuch Investor Relations: Das Standardwerk der Finanzkommunikation Pfister Jan, Venetz Sandro
(Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa (B2)) - Effective internal control: Why do organizational values matter? (2007) Pfister Jan
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4)) - Recording costs of corporate communication [in German] (2007) Handbuch Unternehmenskommunikation Ruud T. Flemming, Pfister Jan
(Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa (B2)) - An adequate means for financial reporting? Best practice – The Sarbanes-Oxley Act in action [in German] (2006)
- IO New Management
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1)) - The Sarbanes-Oxley Act in action – The NYSE-listed Swiss companies example [in German] (2006)
- Zeitschrift für Interne Revision
(Artikkeli ammattilehdessä tai kirjoitus ammatillisessa blogissa (D1)) - XBRL as standardized language for (electronic) financial reporting – Excitement grows: Will the new, more flexible system succeed? [in German] (2006)
- Finanz und Wirtschaft
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1)) - Current developments in accounting and auditing [in German] (2005) Entwicklungen im Gesellschaftsrecht Ruud T. Flemming, Pfister Jan, Hess Nicole
(Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa (B2)) - Enterprise risk management: A control instrument for management and an input for auditing [in German] (2005) Finanz- und Rechnungswesen: Jahrbuch 2005 Ruud T. Flemming, Pfister Jan
(Kirjan tai muun kokoomateoksen osa (B2)) - Internal control should be taken seriously: Pleading for a detailed audit by external auditors [in German] (2005)
- Neue Zürcher Zeitung
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))