Lana Sabelfeld

Senior Lecturer

Department of Business Administration

Telephone

+46 31-786 29 58

+46 766-18 29 58

Mail

lana.sabelfeld@handels.gu.se

Visiting address

Vasagatan 1

41124 Göteborg

Postal address

Box 610

40530 Göteborg

About Lana Sabelfeld

Lana is a senior lecturer and tenured associate professor in business administration. Her research interests revolve around topics such as accounting, sustainability, regulation, and communication. She explores industrial companies’ transitions to a climate-neutral economy, the impact of sustainability accounting regulations, and institutionalization of global frameworks for sustainability accounting and finance in different economic, cultural, and regulatory contexts (e.g. in Sweden and Japan).

Lana is currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University through the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR, Winter term 2025). Her research has received the Oscar Sillén Prize (2014), Emerald Literati Award for Highly Commended article (2019), and Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding article (2021). She serves as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal and is engaged in teaching the above topics, and knowledge exchange with policymakers and industries.

Research areas

Accounting for sustainability
Accounting regulation and its implementation
Corporate reporting, communication, framing and discourses
Industries´ transition to climate-neutral economy

Teaching areas

Sustainability reporting and regulation
Financial accounting and corporate valuation
Bachelor-, master- and doctoral thesis supervision

Selected publications

Sabelfeld, L., Dumay, J., Jönsson, S., Corvellec, H., Catasús, B., Solli, R., Eriksson-Zetterquist , U., Raviola, E., Quattrone, P., & Guthrie, J. (2025). Barbara Czarniawska (1948-2024): Reflections in Memory of Her Work and Life. Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-07-2024-7259

Sabelfeld, L., Dumay, J. & Czarniawska, B. (2024), Wrapping: an artistic device used in the integration of corporate reporting, Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal, 37 (9), pp. 160-191. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-05-2023-6439

Sabelfeld, S., Dumay, J., & La Torre, M, (2023). Adapting Integrated Reporting through the Stages of local Rationalisation. Accounting Forum. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2023.2180836

Beusch, P., Jonäll, K., & Sabelfeld, S. (2023) (Eds.) Corporate governance in Nordic Setting: the Case of Sweden, De Gruyter studies in Corporate Governance.

Arvidsson, S., & Sabelfeld, S. (2023) Adaptive framing of sustainability in CEO letters. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Vol. 36 No. 9, pp. 161-199. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-11-2019-4274

Samani, N., Overland, C., & Sabelfeld, S. (2023). The Role of the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive and Employee Representation in Employee-Related Disclosures. Accounting Forum, Vol 47 No 2, pp. 278-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/01559982.2022.2158773

La Torre, M., Sabelfeld, S., Blomkvist, M., & Dumay, J. (2020). Rebuilding trust: Sustainability and non-financial reporting and the European Union regulation. Meditari Accountancy Research.

Sabelfeld, S. (2020). 10 Accounting communication for sustainability. Chapter in Rimmel.G(ed) Accounting for Sustainability, Routledge

La Torre, M., Sabelfeld, S., Blomkvist, M., Tarquinio, L., & Dumay, J. (2018). Harmonising non-financial reporting regulation in Europe: Practical forces and projections for future research. Meditari Accountancy Research.