Good without a budget
Budget less management systems are effective - they allow employees to remain focused on their work and they enable management to foresee and make changes faster. NHH researchers will help StatoilHydro toss out its budgets.
Professor Katarina Kaarbøe
- katarina.kaarboe@nhh.no
- Telephone
- +47 55 95 96 37
- Department
- Accounting, Auditing and Law
- Centre
- Centre for Digitalisation in Organisations
- Office
- MS-315
- Expertise
- Organisation and Management Corporate Governance Management Control Governance and Accountability systems Beyond Budgeting Social Science research approaches for understanding the practice of accounting.
Katarina Kaarbøe has been in her current position as a professor of management control at NHH since 2010. She holds her PhD (1995) from University of Umeå, Sweden. She is a Research Director for the ACTION (Accounting, Change and Tool implementation in Organizations) since 2016. A project focusing on management control issues in large companies. She has been a visiting scholar at Stanford University several times and she has published in journal such as Financial Accountability and Management, Management Accounting Research, European Accounting Review and British Accounting Review.
Selected publications
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher |
|---|---|---|
| Knudsen, Dan-Richard; Bourmistrov, Anatoli; Kaarbøe, Katarina | Centers of data appropriation: evidence from a Nordic hotel chain | Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal Volume 35 (9); page 81 - 108; 2022 |
| Carlsson-Wall, Martin; Kaarbøe, Katarina; Kraus, Kalle; Meidell, Anita | Risk Management as Passionate Imitation: The Interconnections Among Emotions, Performance Metrics, and Risk in a Global Technology Firm | Abacus. A Journal of Accounting and Business Studies; 2020 |
| Argento, Daniela; Kaarbøe, Katarina; Vakkuri, Jarmo | Constructing certainty through public budgeting: budgeting responses to COVID-19 pandemic in Finland, Norway and Sweden | Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management Volume 32 (5); page 875 - 887; 2020 |
| Iden, Jon; Kaarbøe, Katarina; Nyholt, Enja Henriette; Egenæs, Oda Wågsæther | Hva driver en digital transformasjon og hva leder den til. | NOKOBIT: Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi; 2019 |
Dissemination
Hospital managers afraid of losing their jobs
Department managers in Norwegian hospitals nowadays have to take care of both the financial aspect of running a hospital and the treatment of patients. NHH researcher Katarina Østergren is concerned with the strong emphasis on financial results.