Åhblom, Per

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", on June 8, 2017, at Stockholm School of Economics. He was awarded the Peter Högfeldt Award for Outstanding PhD Thesis in Business Administration.

Since 2016 Per Ahblom is a member of the faculty at the Department of Accounting at London School of Economics and Political Science and affiliated researcher at Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets (MISUM) and the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR).

Academic publications

Vollmer, H., Ahblom, P., and Cederberg, E. (forthcoming). "Where the value is: accounting and the spatialisation of worth" in Krüger, Anne K.; Peetz, Thorsten; Schäfer, Hilmar (Eds.) (2023): 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.