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. and 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, pp. 686–697. doi: 10.3278/HSL2552W.
- Chardonnens, P. and Wallmeier, M. (2024) 'Kinked accounting? Small loss avoidance in Europe and (not) the US', Accounting in Europe, 21(3), pp. 299–319. doi: 10.1080/17449480.2024.2317757.
- Dürr, S. and Chardonnens, P. (2023) 'Auswirkung steigender Zinsen auf die Gewinne Schweizer Unternehmen', Expert Focus, 2023(12), pp. 645–651.
- Chardonnens, P., Fiechter, P. and Wallmeier, M. (2022) 'The disappearance of the zero-earnings discontinuity : SOX, dotcom boom or gradual decline?', Finance Research Letters, 49(103033). doi: 10.1016/j.frl.2022.103033.
Other publications
- Chardonnens, P. et al. (2025) KMU ZH Monitor 2025. Zürcher Kantonalbank. Available at: https://www.zkb.ch/media/zkb/dokumente/publikationen/kmu-zh-monitor-2025.pdf.
- Chardonnens, P. et al. (2024) KMU ZH Monitor 2024. Zürcher Kantonalbank. Available at: https://www.zkb.ch/media/zkb/dokumente/publikationen/kmu-zh-monitor-2024.pdf.
- Chardonnens, P. et al. (2023) KMU ZH Monitor 2023. Zürcher Kantonalbank. Available at: https://www.zkb.ch/media/zkb/dokumente/publikationen/kmu-zh-monitor-2023.pdf.
- Chardonnens, P. (2023) Predicting accruals. SSRN. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.4309693.