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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.

Sabelfeld, L., Dumay, J. & Czarniawska, B. (2024), Wrapping: an artistic device used in the integration of corporate reporting, , 37 (9), pp. 160-191.

Sabelfeld, S., Dumay, J., & La Torre, M, (2023). Adapting Integrated Reporting through the Stages of local Rationalisation. Accounting Forum.

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.

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.

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.