Torkel Strömsten - Associate Professor

Torkel Strömsten's research interests are within management accounting and control, the interface between corporate governance, and innovation and the role of accounting's impact on sustainability, change and transformation. He is currently involved in studies related to climate risk accounting and social sustainability in global supply chains. 

Torkel is since 2020 Research Director for the MISUM Accounting Frameworks Platform. His research deals with (among others projects) climate risk accounting and sustainability control in global supply chains.

Torkel Strömsten is since 2016 the Program Director for the Business Performance Diploma (BPD) Program, at SSE Executive Education. The BPD Program is consortia program for senior business controllers and finance mangers within seven Swedish/Nordic companies (Atlas Copco, Ericsson, NCC, Sandvik, Scania, SEB and UPM). 

Between 2015 and 2022 Torkel was the Director of FIRE (Forskningsskolan i redovisning/The Research School in Accounting). 

Torkel is a Professor (part time) at Halmstad University. Between 2015 and 2021 he had a similar position at KTH Indek. 

He is the co-founder of Hallandia V, a company with a mission to create a sustainable health care system and provide users with actionable data and insights through the Shaarpec platform. 

He has published his research in books and journals like the Management Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Business Research, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Industrial Marketing Management.

Torkel teaches at the elective course Accounting for Grand Challenges at the master in Accounting, Valuation & Financial Management. At the Executive MBA Program he teaches the course, CSR & Sustainability Management. He currently supervises three PhD students and regularly supervises master theses