Patrick Chardonnens
Patrick Chardonnens
ZHAW
School of Management and Law
Center for Corporate Performance and Sustainable Financing
Gertrudstrasse 8
8400 Winterthur
Work at ZHAW
Position
Senior Lecturer for Corporate Performance at the Institute of Financial Management
Focus
- Corporate Performance Management
- Incentive systems and employee incentives
- SMEs and finance
- Gen AI for Finance
- Earnings Management
Teaching
- Corporate Performance Management (6 ECTS), BA Betriebsökonomie Vertiefung Financial Management
- Financial Management (6 ECTS), MA Management and Law
- Lecturer for Controlling and Finance HSW Freiburg
Experience
Research Assistant at the Chair of Finance & Accounting
University of Fribourg
11 / 2019 - 10 / 2022
Network
ORCID digital identifier
Projects
- KMU ZH Monitor 2025: conditions, challenges, and trends among Zurich SMEs / Project leader / ongoing
- Evaluation and Improvement of Financial Controlling for City Governance in Winterthur / Co-project leader / completed
- Modelling Board Performance and Diversity / Deputy project leader / completed
- Empirical Analysis of Board Diversity / Team member / completed
- KMU ZH Monitor 2024: conditions, challenges, and trends among Zurich SMEs / Project leader / completed
- KMU ZH Monitor 2023: conditions, challenges, and trends among Zurich SMEs / Project leader / completed
Publications
Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed
- Höllerich, J., Hecht, A., & Chardonnens, P. (2025). Künstliche Intelligenz trifft Hochschullehre: didaktische Innovationen aus dem Unterrichtsalltag : von Chatbots bis zu Lernvideos: KI-gestützte Werkzeuge im Bildungsalltag. Die Hochschullehre, 11, 686–697. https://doi.org/10.3278/HSL2552W
- Chardonnens, P., & Wallmeier, M. (2024). Kinked accounting? Small loss avoidance in Europe and (not) the US. Accounting in Europe, 21(3), 299–319. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449480.2024.2317757
- Dürr, S., & Chardonnens, P. (2023). Auswirkung steigender Zinsen auf die Gewinne Schweizer Unternehmen. Expert Focus, 2023(12), 645–651.
- Chardonnens, P., Fiechter, P., & Wallmeier, M. (2022). The disappearance of the zero-earnings discontinuity : SOX, dotcom boom or gradual decline? Finance Research Letters, 49(103033). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.103033
Other publications
- Chardonnens, P., Camenish, J., Danko, F., Streichenberg, U., & Schweizer, A. (2025). KMU ZH Monitor 2025. Zürcher Kantonalbank. https://www.zkb.ch/media/zkb/dokumente/publikationen/kmu-zh-monitor-2025.pdf
- Chardonnens, P., Sothilingam, M., Danko, F., Streichenberg, U., & Schweizer, A. (2024). KMU ZH Monitor 2024. Zürcher Kantonalbank. https://www.zkb.ch/media/zkb/dokumente/publikationen/kmu-zh-monitor-2024.pdf
- Chardonnens, P., Danko, F., Streichenberg, U., Camenisch, J., Schweizer, A., & Kaya, O. (2023). KMU ZH Monitor 2023. Zürcher Kantonalbank. https://www.zkb.ch/media/zkb/dokumente/publikationen/kmu-zh-monitor-2023.pdf
- Chardonnens, P. (2023). Predicting accruals. SSRN. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4309693