Per Åhblom
About
Per Ahblom's current research projects revolve around various topics on financial reporting and social studies of accounting and finance, with empirical foci such as the role of preparers in crafting communicative messages to capital market audiences, the role of face-to-face interactions in capital market settings, as well as coordination of complex services in public sector settings.
He defended his PhD, titled "The Financial Performance: A study of how financial numbers become meaningful" in 2017 at Stockholm School of Economics. He was awarded the Peter Högfeldt Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Business Administration.
Per Ahblom joined NTNU Business School in 2025 as associate professor of accounting, and he is part of the Center for Management, Innovation and Public Sector. He is an affiliated researcher at Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (MISUM) and the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR). He previously held an assistant professor position at the Department of Accounting at London School of Economics and Political Science.
He acts as ad hoc reviewer for Accounting, Organizations and Society; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; European Accounting Review; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; and Valuation Studies.
Publications
Academic publications
Vollmer, H., Ahblom, P., and Cederberg, E. (2024). "Where the value is: accounting and the spatialisation of worth" in Krüger, Anne K.; Peetz, Thorsten; Schäfer, Hilmar (Eds.) (2024): Routledge International Handbook of Valuation and Society; London, New York: Routledge Taylor and Francis Group.
Åhblom, P. 2017. ”The Financial Performance: A study of how financial numbers become meaningful”. Stockholm: Stockholm School of Economics. (Published PhD thesis)
Sjögren, E. and P. Åhblom. 2012. “Verktyg för att realisera samverkan: En vetenskaplig undersökning av TioHundraprojektet”, In: Krohwinkel Karlsson, A. and H. Winberg (eds). På väg mot en värdefull styrning: Ersättningssystem för en sammanhållen vård & omsorg om äldre. Stockholm: Stiftelsen Leading Health Care.
Working papers
“Delivering” performance: The capital market framing of financial numbers from a preparer perspective (with Ebba Sjögren)
Behind closed doors: Exploring the conduct of private meetings between investor and company representatives (with Carl Henning Christner)
Meeting the market: The staging of corporate performance (with Carl Henning Christner)
Shifting organisational boundaries: The role of accounting in coordination work
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2025
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Conference lectureÅhblom, Sven Per Erik. (2025) Governing Quality in a Field of Ambiguity: Evaluating the Performing Arts. 20th Biennal CIGAR Conference
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Conference lectureÅhblom, Sven Per Erik. (2025) Governing Quality in a Field of Ambiguity: Evaluating the Performing Arts. 20th Biennial CIGAR Conference
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Conference lectureÅhblom, Sven Per Erik. (2025) Governing Quality in a Field of Ambiguity: Evaluating the Performing Arts Field. European Network for Research in Organisational & Accounting Change (ENROAC) - 14th Conference