Lukas Goretzki is a full professor of management accounting & control. He holds a doctorate from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and has been a faculty member at the University of Innsbruck before joining SSE. Lukas has been a visiting professor at WHU, the University of Sydney, the University of Innsbruck and the University of Luxembourg. He is currently a visiting professor at the Turku School of Economics. Lukas' main research interests are the roles/identities of controllers, budgeting, forecasting, performance measurement and the effects of digitalization on the finance function. His research draws on qualitative methodologies and was published in journals such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Accounting Research, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, European Accounting Review, or Accounting and Business Research.

Lukas is an editor of the journal Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management, Associate Editor of The British Accounting Review as well as European Accounting Review, and an editorial board member of Management Accounting Research, Accounting and Business Research and Journal of Management Accounting Research. He is also a member of the International Committee of the Management Accounting Section (MAS) of the American Accounting Association (AAA), the director for the research area management accounting & control at the department of accounting, and the SSE PRME director.

Selected publications:

Wiegmann, L., Petrikowski, L., & Goretzki, L. (2024). Business unit controllers' credibility and the hardening of local forecasts. Contemporary Accounting Research, 41(1), 324-354.

Goretzki, L., Messner, M. & Wurm, M. (2023): Magicians, unicorns or data cleaners? Exploring the identity narratives and work experiences of data scientists, in: Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 36(9), 253-280.

Goretzki, L. & Pfister, J. (2023): The productive accountant as (un-)wanted self: Realizing the ambivalent role of productivity measures in accountants’ identity work; in: Critical Perspectives on Accounting

Carlsson-Wall, M.; Goretzki, L.; Hofstedt, J.; Kraus, K. & Nilsson, C.-J. (2022): Exploring the implications of cloud-based enterprise resource planning systems for public sector management accountants; in: Financial Accountability & Management, 38(2), 177-201

Goretzki, L.; Reuter, M.; Sandberg, J. & Thulin, G. (2022): Making sense of employee satisfaction measurement – A technological frames of reference perspective; in: The British Accounting Review, 54(1), 101032

Goretzki, L.; Löhlein, L.; Schäffer, U.; Schmidt, A. & Strauss, E. (2022): Exploring the role of metaphors in the construction of a social-identity: The case of the German controller, in: European Accounting Review, 31(4), 877-903.

Carlsson-Wall, M., Goretzki, L., Kraus, K., Lind, J. (2021): Exploring the role of management control anchor practices in new product development, in: European Accounting Review, 30(20), 251-276

Goretzki, L. & Messner, M. (2019): Backstage and frontstage interactions in management accountants’ identity work, in: Accounting, Organizations and Society, 74,1-20

Goretzki, L., Strauss, E. & Wiegmann, L. (2018): Exploring the roles of vernacular accounting systems in the development of “enabling” global accounting and control systems, in: Contemporary Accounting Research, 35(4), 1888-1916.

Goretzki, L.; Lukka, K. & Messner, M. (2018): Controllers' use of informational tactics, in: Accounting and Business Research, 48(6), 700-726.

Goretzki, L., Mack, S., Messner, M. & Weber, J. (2018): Exploring the persuasiveness of accounting numbers in the framing of ‘performance’ – a micro-level analysis of performance review meetings, in: European Accounting Review, 27(3), 495-525.

Mack, S. & Goretzki, L. (2017): How management accountants exert influence on managers – A micro-level analysis of management accountants’ influence tactics in budgetary control meetings, in: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, 14(3), 328-362. [Outstanding paper award]

Goretzki, L. & Messner, M. (2016): Coordination under uncertainty: A sensemaking perspective on cross-functional planning meetings, in: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management, 13(1), 92-126. [Highly commended paper award]

Goretzki, L., Strauss, E. & Weber, J. (2013): An institutional perspective on the changes in management accountants' professional role, in: Management Accounting Research, 24(1), 41-63.

Goretzki, L. (2013): Management accounting and the construction of the legitimate manager, in: Journal of Management Control, 23(4), 319-344.

Teaching:

3350 Thesis in Accounting and Financial Management (Course Director)

3302 Strategic Management Control (Course Director)

1326 Management Accounting & Control (Course Director)

PhD309 Fundamentals of Qualitative Research (Course Director)

BE351 Degree Project in Accounting & Financial Management (Teacher)