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. 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. 18 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  2. 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

  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. 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

  5. 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

  6. Published
  7. Published

    Extern berichten: Zu Wegen der Rechnungslegung und der Abschlussprüfung

    Velte, P., 2013, Die ZEIT erklärt die Wirtschaft: Betriebswirtschaft ; Was man wirklich wissen muss. Heuser, U. J. & Spoun, S. (eds.). Hamburg: Murmann Verlag, Vol. 2. p. 136-140 5 p. (Die ZEIT erklärt die Wirtschaft; vol. 2).

    Research output: Contributions to collected editions/worksContributions to collected editions/anthologiesTransferpeer-review

  8. Published

    Explaining the (Non-) Adoption of Advanced Data Analytics in Auditing: A Process Theory

    Krieger, F., Drews, P. & Velte, P., 01.06.2021, In: International Journal of Accounting Information Systems. 41, 24 p., 100511.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  9. Published

    Experteninterviews zur europäischen Reform der steuerlichen Gewinnermittlung (Teil II)

    Velte, P. & Mock, O., 2018, In: FinanzRundschau. 100, 24, p. 1125-1135 11 p., 24.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Experteninterviews zur europäischen Reform der steuerlichen Gewinnermittlung, Teil I

    Velte, P. & Mock, O., 2018, In: FinanzRundschau. 100, 23, p. 1081-1091 11 p.

    Research output: Journal contributionsJournal articlesResearchpeer-review