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
- Assessing the association between joint audits, audit quality and corporate governance- Velte, P. (Project staff) & Gruchow, N. (Project manager, academic) - 01.06.20 → 30.04.22 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Assessing the association between socially responsible investments, CSR disclosure, and firm performance- Kordsachia, O. (Project staff) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.05.18 → 30.03.20 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Assessing the impact of global warming and the transition to a low-carbon economy on stock performance: An empirical and conceptual inquiry into shareholders’ perception of climate risks- Schuster, M. (Project manager, academic) & Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.22 → 30.09.26 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Assessing the link between ownership structure, management compensation and CSR performance- Focke, M. (Project staff) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.18 → 30.09.22 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Assessing the relationship between CEO narcissism and corporate sustainability outcomes- Zeppenfeld, J. (Project manager, academic) & Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic) - Project: Dissertation project 
- Assessing the relationship between value-based management, underlying contingencies, and firm performance- Trautberg, M. (Project manager, academic) & Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic) - 01.02.21 → 31.01.24 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Assessing the stock performance outcomes, antecedents and preventive measures of organizational misconduct: An empirical and conceptual inquiry into unethical firm practices- Bouzzine, Y. D. (Project manager, academic) & Lueg, R. (Project staff) - 01.04.20 → 31.03.23 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Audit reforms and accruals quality- Treptow, I. (Partner) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.14 → 30.09.22 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Board Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility: Empirical Evidence from a European Perspective- Apel, J. M. (Project manager, academic) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.23 → 31.12.26 - Project: Dissertation project 
