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. Sustainable Board Governance

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

    01.04.2130.09.22

    Project: Research

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Institutional investors and corporate sustainability

    Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) & Brake, S. (Project staff)

    01.10.2015.02.22

    Project: Research

  5. Promotion Doctoral Scholarship

    Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic)

    01.10.2031.01.24

    Project: Research

  6. Assessing the association between joint audits, audit quality and corporate governance

    Velte, P. (Project staff) & Gruchow, N. (Project manager, academic)

    01.06.2030.04.22

    Project: Dissertation project

  7. Förderung wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs Audit

    Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) & Gruchow, N. (Project manager, academic)

    01.06.2030.04.22

    Project: Research

  8. Förderung wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs Accounting and Finance

    Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) & Thesing, J. (Project staff)

    01.09.1931.08.22

    Project: Research