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
- Promotion Doctoral Scholarship- Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.20 → 31.01.24 - Project: Research 
- Promotion of Young Academics in Accounting and Finance- Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.04.21 → 30.09.22 - Project: Research 
- Qualität plus_Responsible Management Education in der Betriebswirtschaftslehre- Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - Ministry of Science and Culture of the State of Lower Saxony - 01.01.19 → 31.12.22 - Project: Teaching 
- Regulatory delevopment in Accounting, Auditing & Corporate Governance- Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.14 → … - Project: Research 
- 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 
- Social trading and the wisdom of crowds- Pelster, M. (Project manager, academic) & Kapraun, J. (Project manager, academic) - 16.03.16 → 31.12.17 - Project: Research 
- Strategic Corporate Hedging- Pelster, M. (Project manager, academic), Karam, A. (Partner) & Cox, C. (Partner) - 01.10.15 → 30.09.16 - Project: Research 
- Sustainable Board Governance- Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) & Wellmann, G. (Project staff) - 01.04.21 → 30.09.22 - Project: Research 
