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
- Eine Simulationsstudie zur Krankenhausplanung in Deutschland- Pelster, M. (Project manager, academic), Hagemann, V. (Project manager, academic), Wolf, S. (Partner) & Laporte Uribe, F. (Partner) - 01.10.15 → 31.03.16 - Project: Research 
- Determinants and Consequences of Integrated Reporting Adoption, Quality and its Assurance: Empirical Evidence and Critical Voices From an International and German Perspective- Gerwanski, J. (Project staff) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 15.06.16 → 15.06.20 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Determinants and consequences of goodwill impairments - Literature review and empirical evidence from Germany- Lazar, L. (Partner) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.15 → 30.09.19 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Determinants and consequences of climate risk disclosure - Empirical evidence from Europe- Stock, P. (Project manager, academic) & Velte, P. (Partner) - 01.01.23 → 31.12.26 - Project: Dissertation project 
- Deloitte-Stiftung Stipendienprogramm- Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.24 → 30.09.25 - Project: Individual grant 
- Corporate governance and CSR/IR reporting- Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.14 → … - Project: Research 
- Capital Structure and Tax Policies in German Family Firms: Empirical Focus on Bank Debt and Tax Avoidance- Wendt, M. (Partner), Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) & Prigge, S. (Project manager, academic) - 01.01.16 → 31.01.19 - 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 
- Audit reforms and accruals quality- Treptow, I. (Partner) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) - 01.10.14 → 30.09.22 - 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 
