Prof. Dr. Burkhard Pedell

Prof. Dr. Burkhard Pedell has held the Chair of Management Accounting at the University of Stuttgart since 2005. His research focuses on the four areas of Performance Management, Corporate Resilience, Behavioral and Neuro-Accounting and Regulatory Management. Burkhard Pedell is co-author of several textbooks in the field of cost accounting and management accounting and author of over 100 specialist articles. He is co-founder of the Corporate Resilience Academy and co-editor of the journal Controlling.

Together with Gunther Friedl and Christian Hofmann, he wrote the book Kostenrechnung: Eine entscheidungsorientierte Einführung, which was awarded the textbook prize of the Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft. His habilitation thesis Regulatory Risk and the Cost of Capital: Determinants and Implications for Rate Regulation (Springer, 2006) was awarded the Austrian Controller Prize. His research has been funded by the German Research Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the Federal Ministry of Economics, the Ministry of Economics, Labor and Tourism Baden-Württemberg and the University of Sydney, among others. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, at the University of Sydney and at Nihon University Tokyo.

Burkhard Pedell studied economics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and received his doctorate from the Faculty of Business Administration there in 1999. He also habilitated there in 2004. Prior to his studies, he completed an apprenticeship as a bank clerk and gained work experience in France, the USA and Canada during his studies.