Dr Sundström leads the research project "AI in management practice: Synergies and tensions between new tools for analysis and new approaches to control" funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2022-2025). 

A selection from Stockholm University publication database

• Modes of strategic control: Shifting dynamics between planning and control toolsin strategy implementation

  Andreas Sundström, Fredrik Svärdsten Nymans. Public Management Review

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• AI in management control: Emergent forms, practices, and infrastructures

  2024. Andreas Sundström. Critical Perspectives on Accounting

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  This paper discusses the significance of Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly Machine Learning (ML) and Large Language Processing (LLP), in the context of management control. The key concern is the epistemological shift from traditional deductive approaches to an inductive approach brought about by AI technologies. The paper elaborates on shifts related to the forms, practices, and infrastructures of management control, discussing new avenues for research in social studies of accounting. The discussion outlines how the integration of AI in accounting not only changes accounting practice but also fuels the relevance of some of the prior insights about social aspects of calculative practices. On a final note, the paper also suggests that, given the speed and scope at which new calculative technology is being introduced in virtually all parts of society, accounting scholars may draw upon prior insights and contribute to wider debates about the social impact of AI in society.

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• The value of research activities“other than” publishing articles: reflections on an experimentalworkshop series

  2024. Yasmine Chahed (et al.). Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal

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• Let the right one in: ‘Accounting proxemics’ in the design of performance indicators

  2023. Andreas Sundström, Bino Catasús. Critical Perspectives on Accounting 96, 102538-102538

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  The study introduces the notion of accounting proxemics to analyse the relationships between accounts, action, and distance. Earlier literature has emphasized that distance is a problem in accounting, relating not least to the issues of representational distance as well as the relationship between distance and control. While earlier research has convincingly shown that accounting and distance are interlinked, the ways in which various concerns with distance are addressed in practice have received less attention. In response, this paper develops the notion of accounting proxemics to analytically approach questions about how various concerns with distance are addressed in practice.

  Empirically, the paper recounts a narrative of how a board approached distance as a concern in its work with the design, communication, and consumption of accounts. The paper finds that the board mobilized accounting to process three concerns with distance: the long-distance, immediacy, and constitutive problems. The paper details the ways in which the board continuously ‘made up’ multiple users to simulate the ways in which the accounts may invoke possible problems of the long-distance, immediacy, or constitutive aspects of accounting representation. In effect, the design of reports is influenced by how ‘the other reader’ is imagined. This imagined ‘other’ reader is a central character who is invited into the discussion of how to achieve a comfortable distance, i.e., a distance that offers the possibility of (in)action.

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