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 relationship between CEO narcissism and corporate sustainability outcomes
Zeppenfeld, J. (Project manager, academic) & Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Dissertation project
Förderung wiss. Nachwuchs Managerial Accounting
Wenzel, M. (Project manager, academic) & Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.25 → 30.09.29
Project: Research
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
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
Deloitte-Stiftung Stipendienprogramm
Velte, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.24 → 30.09.25
Project: Individual grant
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
Förderung wiss. Nachwuchs Accounting
Velte, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.24 → 31.12.27
Project: Research
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