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
- Go-Chains: Research Consortium ‘Sustainability governance of global value chains’- Newig, J. (Project manager, academic), Lenschow, A. (Project manager, academic), Bülow, F. (Coordination), Ehbauer, B. (Project staff), Makris, J. (Project staff), Bäumler, J. (Project manager, academic), Schüßler, E. (Project manager, academic), Schaltegger, S. (Project manager, academic), Velte, P. (Project manager, academic), Teuteberg, F. (Project manager, academic), Schall, A. (Project manager, academic), Franz, M. (Project manager, academic), Busse, C. (Project manager, academic), Lay, J. (Project manager, academic), Jost, H. (Project staff), Evers, K. (Project staff), Große, N. (Project staff), Bongert, F. J. (Project staff), Pohurskyy, S. (Project staff), Kamphues, F. (Project staff), Verfürth, P. (Project staff), Dahiya, S. (Project staff), Zuo, J. (Project staff), Steglich, F. (Project staff) & Raval, S. S. (Project staff) - 01.08.24 → 31.07.28 - Project: Research 
- Deloitte-Stiftung Stipendienprogramm- Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.24 → 30.09.25 - Project: Individual grant 
- Transparency in Global Supply Chains: Drivers, Outcomes, and Accountability in Capital Markets- Bongert, F. J. (Project manager, academic) & Velte, P. (Coordination) - 01.05.25 → 30.04.28 - Project: Dissertation project 
- The impact of Corporate Governance on CSR Decoupling. Empirical analyses for Europe- Werthschulte, N. (Project manager, academic) - 01.08.25 → 31.10.27 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Förderung wiss. Nachwuchs Managerial Accounting- Wenzel, M. (Project manager, academic), Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic) & von Schnakenburg, S. (Project staff) - 01.10.25 → 30.09.29 - Project: Research 
- Assessing the relationship between CEO narcissism and corporate sustainability outcomes- Zeppenfeld, J. (Project manager, academic) & Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic) - Project: Dissertation project 
