Gunnar Rimmel

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Gunnar Rimmel (born May 31, 1971 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck ) is a German - Swedish economist and professor of business administration . He's since 2017 Professor of Accounting at the Faculty of Economics computer science , systems and accounting at the Henley Business School in the United Kingdom .

Life

From 1977 to 1990 Gunnar Rimmel attended various schools in northern Germany. In 1990 he began to study at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU). After an exchange semester in Gothenburg in 1994, he moved to Sweden. He completed his business studies and doctorate under Professor Olov Olson at Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet . From 1999 to 2002 he worked at the Viktoriainstitutet at the University of Gothenburg. From 2004 to 2006 he was deputy head of the competence group for external accounting and business analysis at Handelshögskolan vid Göteborgs universitet and from 2006 to 2011 head of this competence group.

From 2012 to 2017 he was a professor of accounting at Jönköping International Business School in Sweden . Gunnar Rimmel has held the Chair of Accounting at Henley Business School in Great Britain since 2017.

In 2018 Gunnar Rimmel founded the research center "Henley Center for Accounting Research and Practice" (HARP), which he heads as director. He took on guest research assignments as a visiting scholar at the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research (SCANCOR), Stanford University in the USA, Kobe University (Japan), Sheffield School of Management (UK) and the Gothenburg Research Institute (Sweden).

Gunnar Rimmel's main research areas are sustainability reporting (especially integrated reporting ), components of non-financial information in external accounting and international accounting, especially International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).

Fonts (selection)

  • together with Kristina Jonäll: Accounting Scandals - A Long Tradition in Sweden. In: Michael John Jones. (Ed.): Creative Accounting, Fraud and International Accounting Scandals . John Wiley & Sons, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-05765-0 , pp. 359-378.
  • together with Kristina Jonäll: Chapter 14 - Corporate Bee Accountability among Swedish Companies . In: Jill Atkins, Barry Atkins (Eds.): The Business of Bees. An Integrated Approach to Bee Decline and Corporate Responsibility . Greenleaf Publishing, Sheffield 2016, ISBN 978-1-78353-435-7 , pp. 260-277.
  • as ed. together with Kristina Jonäll (ed.): Redovisningsteorier. (Accounting theories) . Sanomautbildning, Sweden 2016, ISBN 978-91-523-1826-3 .
  • together with Diogenis Baboukardos, Kristina Jonäll: Chapter 22 - Revival of the fittest? Intellectual Capital in Swedish companies . In: James Guthrie, John Dumay, Federica Ricceri, Christian Nielsen (Eds.): The Routledge Companion to Intellectual Capital . Oxon, Routledge 2017, ISBN 978-1-138228-214 , doi: 10.4324 / 9781315393100.ch22 .
  • as publisher: Redovisning för hållbarhet. (Accounting for Sustainability). Sanomautbildning, Sweden 2018.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Profile of Gunnar Rimmel on the website of the Henley Business School. Professor Gunnar Rimmel. In: henley.ac.uk. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
  2. ↑ SCANCOR - Previous scholars - Stanford. In: scanor.org. Retrieved January 7, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rimmel, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish economist and professor of business administration
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterholz-Scharmbeck