Department of Economics and Business Economics

Associate Professor

Member of section: Accounting and Finance
Research Secretary: Pernille Vorsø Jachobsen

Education: MSc (Econ.), 2002, PhD, 2008
Position: Associate Professor, 2010, Assistant Professor, 2007

Karina Skovvang Christensen is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University. She received her PhD from the Aarhus School of Business, Denmark in 2008, and holds an MSc (econ) from Aarhus University, 2002. She has been a visiting scholar at University of St.Gallen, Switzerland (2003) and Stanford University (2003-2004). 

Teaching Interests

• Management Accounting
• Organisational Behaviour

Research Interests

• Motives and Behavior
• Work and Motivation
• Formula funding
• Performance funding
• Knowledge Management

Selected Articles

• Poulsen, Morten Lund, Per Nikolaj Bukh & Karina Skovvang Christensen. 2023. (Dys)functionality of intentions or outcomes? Performance funding of Danish schools. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal.
• Bukh, Per Nikolaj, Karina Skovvang Christensen & Anne Kirstine Svanholt. 2020. Making sense of cost-consciousness in social work. Qualitative Reesarch in Accounting & Managment. Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 102-126.
• Christensen, K.S. (2006). Losing Innovativeness: The Challenge of being acquired. Management Decision, Vol. 44, No. 9, pp. 1161-1182.
• Christensen, K.S. (2005). Enabling intrapreneurship: The case of a knowledge-intensive industrial company. European Journal of Innovation Management, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 305-322.
• Christensen, K.S. & Bang, H.K. (2003). Knowledge Management in a Project Oriented Organization: Three Perspectives. Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 116-128.

Selected books

• Bukh, Per Nikolaj & Karina Skovvang Christensen. 2018. Strategi og styring med effekt. København: Djøf Forlag.
• Bukh, Per Nikolaj og Karina Skovvang Christensen. 2013. Succes med balanced scorecard. København: Gyldendal Business.
• Bukh, P.N., Christensen, K.S & Mouritsen, J. (eds.). (2005). Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital: Establishing a Field of Practice. Houndsmill: Palgrave Macmillan.