Dr Tommaso Palermo

Lecturer in Accounting

Current research interests

• Risk and performance management processes
• Risk culture in financial sector organizations
• Risk reporting and analysis in the aviation sector
• Risk regulation and the creation of markets for contested commodities

Academic articles

• Palermo, T. (2014). Accountability and expertise in public sector risk management: A case study, Financial Accountability & Management 30(3), 322-341
• Arnaboldi, M. and Palermo, T. (2011). Translating ambiguous reforms: Doing better next time?, Management Accounting Research 22(1), 6-15
• Azzone, G. and Palermo T. (2011). Adopting performance appraisal and reward systems: A qualitative analysis of public sector organizational change, Journal of Organizational Change Management 24(1), 90-111
• Arnaboldi, M., Azzone, G. and Palermo, T. (2010). Managerial innovations in central government: Not wrong, but hard to explain, The International Journal of Public Sector Management 23(1), 78-93

Other articles, book chapters and reports

• Palermo, T. (2016). Technoculture: Risk reporting and analysis at a large airline, forthcoming, in Michael Power (Ed.), Riskwork - The everyday life of risk management, Oxford University Press
• Palermo, T., Martinez, D. and Pflueger, D. (2016). Out of the shadows: Entrepreneurship, accounting, and the construction of legal markets for cannabis in Colorado, Risk & Regulation 31, 12-13 Read article
• Pflueger, D., Martinez, D. and Palermo, T. (2015). The opportunity of regulation and canna-stigma: A synoptic overview of entrepreneurship and innovation in the cannabis market, CBS discussion paper, 1-7 Read article
• Ashby, S., Palermo, T. and Power, M. (2014). Risk culture: Definitions, change practices and challenges for Chief Risk Officers. In P. Jackson (Ed.), Risk culture and effective risk governance, Risk Books, 25-46
• Power, M., Ashby, S. and Palermo, T. (2013). Risk culture in financial organisations – A research report (November), 1-103 Read report
• Ashby, S., Palermo, T. and Power, M. (2013). Supporting strategic objectives or another compliance exercise? Understanding corporate risk culture in insurance, CII Think piece 95 (May), 1-5
• Ashby, S., Palermo, T. and Power, M. (2013). Use of consultants, drivers and benefits for risk culture programmes, CII - The Journal (April), 20-21      
• Ashby, S., Palermo, T. and Power, M. (2012). Risk culture in financial organisations - An interim report, CARR discussion paper (November), 1-25 Read report
• Palermo, T. (2011). Research on integrated risk and performance management: The time is now, but how?, Risk & Regulation 22, 18-19
• Palermo, T. (2011). Integrating risk and performance in management reporting, CIMA Research Executive summary 8(1), 1-6 Read report
• Van der Stede, W. A. and Palermo, T. (2011). Scenario budgeting: Integrating risk and Performance, Finance & Management 184 (January), 10-13 

Blog Posts

• Why airplanes take off and land safely despite all the risks, LSE Business Review blog post Read blog
• “Best value” rankings in higher education: bang for buck universities? Socializing finance blog post (with Dane Pflueger) Read blog
• The L’Aquila earthquake case is not “science on trial”, LSE EUROPP blog post (with J. Etienne) Read blog
• Time to link risk and performance management: but how?, CIMA blog post Read blog

Teaching

• AC211 Managerial Accounting
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• AC412 Accountability, Organisations and Risk Management
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• AC424 Accounting, Organisations and Institutions
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