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 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
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
Sustainable CEO compensation: Conceptual remarks, literature review and empirical analysis with a focus on climaterelated aspects
Winschel, J. (Partner) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.10.15 → 07.02.22
Project: Dissertation project
Tax Avoidance, Corporate Governance and Corporate Finance. Agency-theoretical analysis, literature review and empirical investigation
Velte, P. (Project manager, academic) & Kovermann, J. H. (Project manager, academic)
01.09.16 → 12.12.19
Project: Dissertation project
The Impact of audit committees on corporate governance quality
Weber, L. (Partner) & Velte, P. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.16 → 17.07.20
Project: Dissertation project
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
Transparency on tax avoidance by the (integrated) EU Corporate Sustainability and Country-by-Country-Report
Münch, M. (Project manager, academic) & Velte, P. (Partner)
01.07.22 → 30.06.26
Project: Dissertation project
Value-Based Management: New Pathways Toward Sustainable Governance Using Natural Language Processing
Wobst, J. (Project manager, academic) & Lueg, R. (Project manager, academic)
01.12.20 → 30.11.24
Project: Dissertation project