Uliana Gottlieb

Presentation
Uliana Gottlieb is employed as a Postdoc at the Decision-Making and Managerial Behaviour Group of the Department of Economics. Uliana is interested in behavioural aspects of sustainability accounting and reporting, their implications for decision-making and outcomes. Her current focus is on carbon management accounting and reporting across the supply chain as well as applying experimental methods to carbon accounting research. Her previous research experience is in management accounting in the SME and agricultural context using both qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Teaching
2021 – 2023 FÖ0460 Sustainability and financial reporting, graduate course. Course leader, lecturer, and examiner.
2023 FÖ0475 Accounting and management accounting. Undergraduate course. Lecturer in some modules, examiner
2023 FÖ0484 Management accounting II. Undergraduate course. Examiner.
2021 – 2022 FÖ0426 Financial and managerial accounting II, undergraduate course. Course leader and lecturer in some modules.
2019 – 2021 FÖ0373 Farm Management and Medium-Run Planning. TA in modules on operations planning and optimization.
Research
Uliana leads a Formas-funded research project "Aligning GHG emission reduction with economic resilience - the case of Science-Based Targets in the dairy sector" and a Stiftelsen Lantbruksforskning project "Enabling management control under farm-level carbon targets: action research and advisors’ role". She was also involved in the Interdisciplinary Academy of SLU, collaborating on the theme of multifunctional landscapes.
Background
Uliana obtained her PhD in Business Economics at SLU researching about the use of management accounting in small businesses and its linkages to financial outcomes, institutional norms, managerial financial literacy and accountability. She has a M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics within the double-degree Erasmus Mundus master programme "Agriculture Food and Environmental Policy Analysis" from SLU in Sweden and Bonn University in Germany. Her B.Sc. degree is in Agribusiness Management from National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. Prior to her PhD training she has worked with agricultural policy issues in Kyiv and Brussels as well as with research network development for dairy farm and sector analysis.
Supervision
Gottlieb supervises doctoral, master and bachelor level theses.
Selected publications
Gottlieb U. & Edenbrandt A.K. Difficult, science-based and on track carbon targets and impact investment preferences: a discrete choice experiment. Presented at the 3rd Annual Conference of The Academy of Sustainable Finance, Accounting, Accountability and Governance (ASFAAG) in Valencia, July 2023.
Du Rietz S. & Gottlieb U. Management control for science based targets - A study of control of the corporate carbon footprint in the dairy supply chain. Presented at the 13th Conference of the European Network for Research on Organizational & Accounting change (ENROAC) in Västerås, June 2023
Gottlieb U. & Hansson H. Farmers' Financial Literacy – Scale Development And Linkages To Accounting Practices And Financial Outcomes. Presented at XVII Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE) in Rennes, August 2023
Gottlieb U., Johed G. & Hansson H. (2022). Accounting and accountability for farm animals: conceptual limits and the possibilities of caring. Critical Perspectives on Accounting, 84, 102409.
Gottlieb U., Hansson H. & Johed G. (2021) Institutionalised management accounting and control in farm businesses. Scandinavian Journal of Management, 37(2), 1-14.
Gottlieb, U. (2021). Management accounting in farm businesses. Diss. (summary) Sveriges lantbruksuniv., Acta Universitatis Agriculturae Sueciae, 1652-6880. eISBN 978-91-7760-763-2 [Doctoral thesis]