Seminar in Accounting and Finance
2024-25
24.1.2025
Benita Gullkvist (University of Vaasa)
Female representation in top management teams and corporate carbon performance
(co-authored by Juha Mäki)
Discussant: Habeeb Yahya
30.9.2024
Paul Griffin (UC Davis)
Extreme Weather Events in New Zealand: Financial Market-Related Impacts
(co-authored by Martien Lubberink and Tom Stannard)
Discussant: Javad Rajabalizadeh
26.8.2024
Charl de Villers (University of Auckland)
Sustainability Accounting
Discussant: TBA
2023-24
29.5.2024
Sophie Audousset-Coulier (Concordia University – John Molson School of Business)
The Determinants of Joint Audit Imbalance: A Supply-Side Analysis
(co-authored by Géraldine Broye, Lamya Kermiche, Charles Piot)
Discussant: Antti Fredriksson
26.3.2024
Richard Price (University of Oklahoma)
Industry Characteristics and Earnings Management
(co-authored by Dipankar Ghosh and Andrew Snyder)
Discussant: Anila Kiran
2.2.2024
David Hay (University of Auckland)
Private Sector versus Public Sector Auditors
(co-authored by Sabine Schuhrer, Shihe Li, and Chia-Feng (Jeffrey) Yu)
Discussant: Javad Rajabalizadeh
15.12.2023
Ville Kukkonen (University of Turku)
Term structure estimation of commodity prices with applications in hedge accounting under IFRS 9
Discussant: Juhani Raatikainen
3.11.2023
Javad Rajabalizadeh (University of Turku)
Managerial Ability and Repetitive Disclosures in Management Discussion and Analysis: Evidence from Corporate Investment Efficiency
Discussant: Antti Fredriksson
5.10.2023
Othmar Lehner (Hanken Business School)
(Re)conceptualizing Social and Environmental Accounting as Prefigurative Politics towards Concrete Utopia: A Baradian Perspective on Performativity
Discussant: Zachary Sherman
22.9.2023
Habeeb Yahya (University of Turku)
Blockholding and Firms’ ESG Performance: Nordic Evidence
Discussant: Md Khaled Hossain Rafi
2022-23
22.5.2023
Paul A. Griffin (University of California–Davis Graduate School of Management)
Does Free Speech Law Contribute to Voluntary Corporate CSR Disclosure? Empirical Evidence
Discussant: Antti Miihkinen
28.4.2023
Habeeb Yahya (University of Turku)
Female leadership and ESG performance of firms: Nordic Evidence
Discussant: Sofiya Meleshkova
10.2.2023
Robert Stoumbos (ESSEC Business School)
Dividends, Trust, and Firm Value (co-authored by Martin Kapons, Peter Kelly, and Rafael Zambrana)
Discussant: Ingolf Kloppenburg
3.2.2023
Abu Chowdhury & Mika Vaihekoski (University of Turku)
Do Institutional Investors Dilute Corporate Failure?
Discussant: Habeeb Yahya
25.11.2022
Habeeb Yahya (University of Turku)
The relevance of firm sustainability performance in crisis: A case from the Nordic countries' experience in the COVID-19 pandemic
Discussant: Abu Chowdhury
21.10.2022
Stefan Sundgren (University of Umeå)
How is the audit-partner's competence and experience associated with client business risk? Evidence from partner and audit firm appointments
Discussant: Sofiya Meleshkova
30.9.2022
Tony Kang (University of Nebraska)
Government debt and financial reporting quality
Discussant: Antti Miihkinen
20.9.2022
Tobias Polzer (Wirtschaftsunivärsitet Wien)
Management accounting in the public sector, looking left, right and forward
20.9.2022
Oana Apostol (Tampere University)
Accounting for sustainability
20.9.2022
Jan Pfister (University of Turku)
Management accounting and control for sustainable future: Reflection on research work and agenda
16.9.2022
Paul A. Griffin (University of California Davis Graduate School of Management)
Free Speech, the Right to Petition, and Corporate Innovation
Discussant: Javad Rajabalizadeh
2021-22
29.4.2022
Jarkko Peltomäki (University of Stockholm)
Investor Attention and the Use of Leverage
Discussant: Habeeb Yahya
28.1.2022
Collins Ntim (University of Southampton)
Non-financial reporting in non-profit organisations: The case of risk management regulations and disclosures in UK higher education institutions
Discussant: Muddassar Malik
10.12.2021
Wuyang Zhao (University of Texas in Austin)
Why Has PEAD Declined Over Time: Increased Arbitrage or Decreased Earnings Persistence?
Discussant: Abu Chowdhury
2.12.2021
Sean Cao (Georgia State University)
Can Machines Understand Human Decisions? Dissecting Stock Forecasting Skill
Discussant: Timo Knuutila
1.10.2021
Habeeb Yahya (University of Turku)
Firm Environmental, Social and Governance performance: the relevance to profitability and value
Discussant: Antti Miihkinen
24.9.2021
Jonas Spåhr (Åbo Akademie)
The challenge of setting the discount rate for infrastructure investments
Discussant: Muddassar Malik and Ville Kukkonen
17.9.2021
Jill Atkins (University of Sheffield)
Exploring the Roots of Environmental and Ecological Accounting, Auditing and Accountability from the Dawn of Human Consciousness
Discussant: Abdulla Masud
2020-21
14.5.2021
Angela K. Gore (George Washington University)
A streetcar undesired? Determinants and consequences of inefficient investment in the government setting
Discussant: Mikko Kepsu
26.3.2021
Aaron Yoon (Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management)
The ESG's Resource Allocation Dilemma: Stock Returns of Highly Rated Senior Managers
Discussant: Javad Rajabalizadeh
8.1.2021
Paul A. Griffin (University of California Davis Graduate School of Management)
Do Firms Experiencing More Wildfires Disclose More Wildfire Information in Their 10-Ks?
Discussant: Antti Miihkinen
16.10.2020
Ole-Kristian Hope (Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto)
Determinants and Consequences of Audit-Firm Profitability: Evidence from Key Audit Matters.
Discussant: Antti Fredriksson
5.3.2020
Erkki Lassila (University of Oulu)
"Free"-to-Play Game: Governing the Everyday Life of Digital Popular Culture.
Discussant: Oana Apostol
16.1.2020
Muddassr Malik (University of Turku)
The impact of risk governance on the performance of OECD banks.
Discussant: Jan Pfister
29.11.2019
Martin Carlsson-Wall (Stockholm School of Economics)
Risk management as communicatively constituted – the power of narratives when enacting an industry level risk management artefact.
Discussant: Oana Apostol
8.11.2019
Lukas Goretzki (Stockholm School of Economics)
The construction of forecast(er) credibility: Exploring forecast review meetings of BU controllers and their functional superiors
Discussant: Kari Lukka
2.10.2019
Satu-Päivi Kantola & Hannu Scahdewitz (University of Turku)
Business integrity and its impact on earnings quality: Evidence from EU civil law jurisdictions.
Discussant: Ingolf Kloppenburg
13.9.2019
Anne Saarinen (University of Turku)
Management Control System package of the new business models: why some control systems dominate in software companies?
Discussant: Mika Jakovaara
13.6.2019
Eija Vinnari (University of Tampere).
Accounting and ontological politics: Enacting farmed animals
Discussant: Jan Pfister
16.5.2019
Jukka Pellinen (University of Jyväskylä)
Blended logics of accounting practices in university setting.
Discussant: Kari Lukka
11.4.2019
Oana Apostol (University of Turku)
Accountability failure? A sensemaking perspective to sustainability communication.
Discussant: Mika Jakovaara
21.3.2019
Sven Modell (University of Manchester)
Accounting for Institutional Work: A Critical Review
Discussant: Terhi Chakhovich
21.2.2019
Albrecht Becker (University of Innsbruck)
Healthcare quality assessment in Austria: Discourses and performances.
Discussant: Oana Apostol
24.1.2019
Markus Granlund & Kari Lukka (University of Turku)
Safeguarding the unknown? Quality of research in the performance measurement era at universities
Discussant: Kirsi-Mari Kallio
30.11.2018
Terhi Chakhovich (University of Turku)
Investment risk as vulnerability: The context of repairing trust in CEO public communication.
Discussant: Mika Jakovaara
9.11.2018
Marko Järvenpää (University of Oulu)
Reasons behind redundancies with negative outcomes: Management Control System Package in a public sector case.
Discussant: Terhi Chakhovich
5.10.2018
Mika Vaihekoski (University of Turku)
Time-variation of dual-class premia.
Discussant: Valtteri Peltonen
7.9.2018
Paul Healy (Harvard Business School)
Director Perceptions of their Boards’ Effectiveness, Size and Composition, Dynamics, and Internal Governance.
Discussant: Antti Fredriksson
24.8.2018
Yves Gendron (Université Laval)
On the centrality of peripheral research and the dangers of tight boundary gatekeeping.
Discussant: Jan Pfister
23.8.2018
Yves Gendron (Université Laval)
Experiencing risk management as a knowledge-based discipline.
Discussant: Jan Pfister
15.6.2018
Jan Pfister & Peeter Peda (University of Turku)
Digital connectivity and management control practice: A sociomaterial analysis of new temporalities.
Discussant: Oana Apostol
25.5.2018
Teemu Malmi (Aalto University)
Constructing legitimate costing data reports to change clinical routines.
Discussant-: Peeter Peda
27.4.2018
Antti Fredriksson (University of Turku)
Do CPA exams measure the quality of accountants?
Discussant: Mika Vaihekoski
27.3.2018
Albrecht Becker (University of Innsbruck)
Critical performativity and relevance of research.
15.2.2018
Marko Järvenpää (University of Jyväskylä)
Formation of information trust in management control systems.
1.12.2017
Jason Zezhong Xiao (Cardiff University)
The Effect of Budget Information Systems on Budget Procedural Justice and Firm Performance.
24.10.2017
Sven Modell (University of Manchester)
Rethinking performativity: a critical realist analysis of the role of accounting in performing corporate social responsibility. (co-authored by Max Baker, University of Sydney)
Discussant: Peeter Peda
28.9.2017
Terhi Chakhovich (Turku School of Economics)
Where do you mean? Subjectivity, instead of objectivity, as tied to accounting meaning — relevance, materiality, and specific place. (co-authored by Elton G. McGoun)
Discussant: Kirsi-Mari Kallio
24.8.2017
Michael Jones (University of Bristol)
Biodiversity historical counter accounting: the case of the High Ross Dam expansion. (co-authored by Tehmina Khan)
Discussant: Terhi Chakhovich
5.5.2017
Susan O'Leary (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Performance and impact evaluation within the polyphonic organisation: A case study of a non-governmental organisation. (co-authored by David Smith)
Discussant: Oana Apostol
31.3.2017
Win van der Stede (London School of Economics)
An empirical analysis of employee responses to bonuses and penalties. (co-authored by Anne Wu and Steve Yuching Wu)
Discussant: Mika Hannula
9.2.2017
Rauno Satopää (Turku School of Economics)
Hyvän tilintarkastustavan käsitteellistäminen ja käytännön muotoutuminen: tutkimus pienyritysten tilintarkastuksesta.
Discussant: Tapani Torpo
19.1.2017
Peter Agyemang-Mintah (University of Leicester) & Hannu Schadéwitz (Turku School of Economics)
Gender diversity in board committees and firm performance
Discussant: Antti Fredriksson
19.1.2017
Niina Ratsula (Turku School of Economics)
From informal towards formal control - A case study of the adoption of internal control system
Discussant: Henri Teittinen
1.12.2016
Jonas Spohr (Åbo Akademi)
Post-earnings announcement drift and the accrual anomaly in Europe - Can money be made?
Discussant: Mikko Kepsu
21.10.2016
Bino Catasús (Stockholm University)
Managing distances: Ontological work of ‘distancing’ in the consumption of accounting. (co-authored with Andreas Sundström)
Discussant: Terhi Chakhovich
13.10.2016
Hanna Silvola (Aalto University) & Eija Vinnari (University of Tampere)
The stagnation of sustainability assurance: An institutional work perspective.
Discussant: Marek Reuter (University of Innsbruck)
23.9.2016
Mats Alvesson (University of Lund)
Conducting significant and influential research based on problematization.
Discussant: Kari Lukka
7.6.2016
Nicole Sutton (University of Technology Sydney)
Studying MCS package design through managers’ incremental control choices. (co-authored by David Brown, University of Technology, Sydney)
Discussant: Henri Teittinen
25.5.2016
Lukas Goretzki (University of Innsbruck)
Exploring the roles of vernacular accounting systems in the development of “enabling” accounting and control systems. (co-authored by Erik Strauss, Witten/Herdecke University and Leona Wiegmann, Otto Beisheim School of Management)
Discussant: Oana Apostol
3.5.2016
Sanna Arola (University of Turku)
Investointipäätöksenteon rationaalisuus kuntakontekstissa – Case-tutkimus suomalaisessa kunnassa.
Discussant: Peeter Peda
9.3.2016
Antti Fredriksson (Turku School of Economics)
Audit partner-board interlocks and audit quality. (co-authored by Anila Kiran and Lasse Niemi)
Discussant: Hannu Schadewitz
19.2.2016
Mika Vaihekoski (Turku School of Economics)
Countercyclical and time-varying risk aversion and equity premium. (co-authored by Jan Antell, Hanken School of Economics)
Discussant: Mika Hannula
14.1.2016
Henri Teittinen (University of Turku)
Management control systems in private equity backed firms – a comparative case study.
Discussant: Jan Pfister
8.12.2015
Jari Huikku (Aalto University)
Learning-oriented use of NPV: Case study of new product development investment in the pharmaceutical industry. (co-authored by Katja Kolehmainen)
Discussant: Sanna Arola
29.10.2015
Linn Gevoll (Copenhagen Business School)
Controlling organizational behavior through ‘leading indicators’: On the opportunities and limitation of leading indicators and casual maps when managing operations. (co-authored by Allan Hansen)
Discussant: Henri Teittinen
18.9.2015
Eija Vinnari (University of Tampere)
(ANT)agonistic democratic processes: Plural politicization through social and environmental accounting. (co-authored with Jesse Dillard, Victoria University of Wellington)
Discussant: Terhi Chakhovich
10.9.2015
Allan Hansen (Copenhagen Business School)
Uncontrollable risk and management control system design: Exploring on-time delivery performance in a manufacturing firm. (Friis, Gevoll, Hansen & Vamosi)
Discussant: Johanna Rämö
8.5.2015
Jan Antell (Hanken School of Economics)
Expected Return and Variance: Lambda is Alive, Positive and Significant. (co-authored with Mika Vaihekoski, Turku School of Economics)
Discussant: Joonas Hämäläinen
9.4.2015
Johanna Rämö (Turku School of Economics)
Why can't we make it work? Localisation of global performance management practices in a customer interface.
Discussant: Peeter Peda
19.3.2015
Albrecht Becker (University of Innsbruck)
Economizing the field of development: Accounting in community development projects in Nepal. (co-authored with David Twardowski, London School of Economics)
Discussant: Oana Apostol
12.3.2015
Marc Wouters (KIT Karlsruhe)
Employee participation, performance metrics, incentives, and job performance: An empirical study based on self-determination theory (co-authored with Bianca Groen, University of Amsterdam and Celeste Wilderom, University of Twente)
Discussant: Jan Pfister
13.2.2015
David Bedford (University of Technology Sydney Business School)
The association between management control combinations and strategy: An empirical analysis.
Discussant: Terhi Chakhovich
5.2.2015
Daniel Martinez (HEC Paris)
Accountability and the “disarticulation” of a social movement.
Discussant: Eija Vinnari (University of Tampere)
21.10.2014
Jyrki Piilo (University of Turku)
How news affects the trading behaviour of different categories of investors in a financial market. (F. Lillo, S. Miccichè, M. Tumminello, J. Piilo, and R. N. Mantegna)
13.10.2014Terhi Chakhovich (Turku School of Economics) & Tuija Virtanen (Aalto University)
What you measure is what you do not get – The fluidity of the classified object of measurement in the context of sustainability.
Discussant: Peeter Peda
6.10.2014
Niina Ratsula (University of Turku)
Institutionalization of internal control system under SOX. (Phd Work in Progress)
Discussant: Antti Fredriksson
3.10.2014
Jari Huikku (Aalto University) & Kari Lukka (Turku School of Economics)
Persuasiveness of self-assessment based on post-completion auditing reports.
Discussant: Eija Vinnari (University of Tampere)
2.9.2014
François-René Lherm (ESCP Paris)
ANT's diplomatic negotiation as inductive moment in a pragmatist approach to accounting research: the conception and use of scenarios.
Discussant: Jan Pfister
21.8.2014
Joonas Hämäläinen (Turku School of Economics)
Predictable Returns and Portfolio Optimization: Less Information Can Be Better.
Discussant: Mika Hannula