Institute of Management, Accounting & Finance

Organisational unit: Institute

Organisation profile

The Institute of Management, Accounting & Finance (IMAF) concentrates on sustainable management & control, (non) financial reporting, corporate finance and corporate taxation in research, teaching and practice.

Main research areas

The main research topics of the institute represent:

  • Professorship of Business Administration, esp. Accounting, Auditing & Corporate Governance (Prof. Dr. Patrick Velte): Financial, Sustainability & Integrated Reporting, Financial Audit, Sustainability Assurance and Sustainable Corporate Governance
  • Professorship of Business Administration, esp. Managerial Accounting (Prof. Dr. Rainer Lueg): Sustainability Management & Control, Strategy Implementation and Strategic Performance Measurement Systems, Diffusion and adoption of management innovations, role of top management teams and external consultants, customer profitability analyis
  1. Promotion Doctoral Scholarship

    Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.2031.01.24

    Project: Research

  2. Value-Based Management: New Pathways Toward Sustainable Governance Using Natural Language Processing

    Wobst, J. (Project manager, academic) & Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic)

    01.12.2030.11.24

    Project: Dissertation project

  3. Assessing the relationship between value-based management, underlying contingencies, and firm performance

    Trautberg, M. (Project manager, academic) & Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic)

    01.02.2131.01.24

    Project: Dissertation project

  4. Promotion of Young Academics in Accounting and Finance

    Velte, P. (Project manager, academic)

    01.04.2130.09.22

    Project: Research

  5. Sustainable Board Governance

    Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) & Wellmann, G. (Project staff)

    01.04.2130.09.22

    Project: Research

  6. Heterogeneity in Family Firm Finance and Accounting: The Role of Family Influence for Financial Decisions in Family Firms

    Bergmann, N. (Project manager, academic), Velte, P. (Project staff) & Prigge, S. (Project staff)

    01.04.2231.03.25

    Project: Dissertation project

  7. Monitoring of Internal Corporate Governance Systems by Audit Committees, Internal Auditors and External Auditors

    Wehrhahn, C. (Project manager, academic) & Velte, P. (Project staff)

    01.05.2230.04.26

    Project: Dissertation project

  8. Förderung wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs Audit

    Velte, P. (Project manager, academic)

    01.06.2231.05.26

    Project: Research

  9. Transparency on tax avoidance by the (integrated) EU Corporate Sustainability and Country-by-Country-Report

    Münch, M. (Project manager, academic) & Velte, P. (Partner)

    01.07.2230.06.26

    Project: Dissertation project

  10. Förderung wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs Wirtschaftsprüfung & Steuerwesen

    Velte, P. (Project manager, academic)

    01.09.2231.08.26

    Project: Research