Christian Ax

Professor

Department of Business Administration

Telephone

+46 31-786 14 58

Mail

christian.ax@gu.se

Visiting address

Vasagatan 1

411 24 Göteborg

Room number

J716

Postal address

Box 610

40530 Göteborg

About Christian Ax

Christian Ax received his PhD in 1997 and became full professor in 2009. His early research focused mainly on cost management systems, particularly the design and use of product costing and activity-based costing (ABC) systems. He is currently researching the diffusion of management accounting innovations, the design and use of management control systems as a package, and the relation between management accounting and digitalization. He is the author and co-author of several books, including the best-selling textbook Modern Management Accounting (in Swedish). In the early 2000s he was the co-founder of the Nordic PhD Programme in Management Accounting.

Research areas

The design and use of management accounting and control systems
The supply, demand and diffusion of management accounting innovations
Strategic management accounting and digitalization

Teaching areas

Management accounting and control systems
Customer management accounting
Strategic management accounting