Dominic Santschi
Dominic Santschi

Ph.D. Candidate in Management Accounting

University of St.Gallen

About Me

Hello, thanks for visiting my website!

I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of St.Gallen in Switzerland. My research interests include management accounting, AI applications and ESG risk management.

Besides my academic work, I work in the insurance industry, write code as a citizen developer, and enjoy playing the trumpet in a party band.

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Interests
  • Management Accounting
  • AI Applications
  • ESG Risk Management
Education

  • PhD in Management Accounting

    University of St.Gallen

  • MSc in Climate Change, Management & Finance

    Imperial College London

  • BSc in Business Administration

    FHNW Switzerland

đź“š My Research

For my Ph.D. thesis, I focus on innovative data use cases in management accounting.

I apply a range of qualitative and quantitative methods to mainly investigate the fields of AI in budgeting and ESG risk management.

Feel free to reach out if you would like to explore collaboration opportunities.

Working Papers
ESG Materiality Disclosures and Their Impact on Sell-Side Analysts’ Risk Assessments
How Can Speculative Design Help Firms to Better Anticipate Risks?
Morphological Review of AI Applications for Budgeting
Artificial Intelligence to Improve Public Budgeting
Publications

Spekulatives Design in Risk Workshops (2025, forthcoming), Controlling & Management Review, Dominic Santschi, Patrick Wilhelm & Dennis Fehrenbacher

Enterprise Risk Management at ABB (2025, forthcoming), Controlling - Zeitschrift fĂĽr erfolgsorientierte UnternehmensfĂĽhrung, Dominic Santschi, Mike Devine & Dennis Fehrenbacher

Die ESG-Wesentlichkeitsmatrix: Wie ist die Korrelation der Achsen zu interpretieren (2025), Expert Focus, Dominic Santschi, Judith Ströhle & Dennis Fehrenbacher

Daten- und TechnologiegestĂĽtzte Assistenz fĂĽr das ESG-Controlling (2025), Controller Magazin, Dominic Santschi, Gina Obrecht & Dennis Fehrenbacher

Artificial Intelligence to Improve Public Budgeting (2024), Proceedings of the 45th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Bangkok, Thailand 2024, Dominic Santschi, Marc C. Grau, Dennis Fehrenbacher & Ivo Blohm

Datenpartnerschaften: Ein Weg zur Steigerung des Unternehmenswerts? (2024), Expert Focus, Dominic Santschi, JĂ©rome ZĂĽrcher & Dennis Fehrenbacher

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