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. Published

    Family businesses and non-family equity: literature review and avenues for future research

    Thiele, F., 01.02.2017, In: Management Review Quarterly. 67, 1, p. 31-63 33 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. Published

    Family firm identity and capital structure decisions

    Thiele, F. & Wendt, M., 10.07.2017, In: Journal of Family Business Management. 7, 2, p. 221-239 19 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    Female Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) and Environmental Decoupling. The moderating impact of Sustainability Board Committees

    Velte, P., 01.2025, In: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management. 32, 1, p. 1147–1160 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  4. E-pub ahead of print

    Female directors, family firms, climate talk and climate walk: European evidence

    Bergmann, N., Velte, P. & Requejo, I., 21.05.2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Business Strategy and the Environment. 31 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  5. Accepted/In press

    Female directors on audit committees and corporate environmental decoupling. The moderator effect of sustainability assurance

    Velte, P., 2025, (Accepted/In press) In: Business Strategy and the Environment.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    Financial Penalties and Bank Performance

    Köster, H. & Pelster, M., 01.06.2017, In: Journal of Banking and Finance. 79, p. 57–73 17 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Financial penalties and banks’ systemic risk

    Köster, H. & Pelster, M., 2018, In: Journal of Risk Finance. 19, 2, p. 154-173 20 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Fiskalpolitische Maßgeblichkeit bei der Rückstellungsbewertung: Kritische Anmerkungen zum BFH-Urteil vom 20.11.2019 – XI R 46/17

    Velte, P., 15.06.2020, In: Die Unternehmensbesteuerung. 13, 6, p. 360-363 4 p., 6.

    Research output: Journal contributionsNotes on court decisionsTransfer

  9. Published

    Fiskalpolitische Maßgeblichkeit bei der Rückstellungsbewertung?

    Velte, P., 2013, In: Steuer und Wirtschaft. 90, 3, p. 197-210 14 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Foreign bias in institutional portfolio allocation: The role of social trust

    Drobetz, W., Mönkemeyer, M., Requejo, I. & Schröder, H., 01.10.2023, In: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 214, p. 233-269 37 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review