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Peter Skærbæk
Researcher at Copenhagen Business School
Publications - 35
Citations - 1352
Peter Skærbæk is an academic researcher from Copenhagen Business School. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public sector & Accounting information system. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 33 publications receiving 1193 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter Skærbæk include Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
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The role of accounting devices in performing corporate strategy
Peter Skærbæk,Kjell Tryggestad +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the role of accounting in shaping corporate strategy and reveal how accounting devices reject, defend, and change corporate strategy by mobilizing lay people and concerned groups.
The role of accounting devices in performing corporate strategy
Peter Skærbæk,Kjell Tryggestad +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of accounting in shaping corporate strategy and reveal how accounting devices reject, defend, and change corporate strategy by mobilizing lay people and concerned groups.
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Framing and overflowing of public sector accountability innovations: A comparative study of reporting practices
Mark Christensen,Peter Skærbæk +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explain why public sector performance reporting that emphasises external accountability may turn out differently from the official stated aims, using a comparative case method, two different accountability innovations are examined using framing and overflowing ideas.
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Public sector auditor identities in making efficiency auditable: The National Audit Office of Denmark as independent auditor and modernizer
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how the National Audit Office of Denmark (NAOD) manoeuvred in making the Danish military receptive to a performance-accountability project in the period 1990-2007.
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Consultancy Outputs and the Purification of Accounting Technologies
Mark Christensen,Peter Skærbæk +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide detailed processual descriptions and characterizations of how consultancy outputs participate in the co-production of larger accounting systems in the public sector and demonstrate how consultancy companies become hired by change proponents to purify, i.e., how consultants can work to provide faith to accounting systems and to settle controversies with sceptical and resisting groups that threaten to destabilize the innovations.