Department of Accounting & Business Law

Research

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At the Department of Accounting and Business law, we conduct high-quality research on various topics. Our research is published in top peer-reviewed journals. The emphasis of our research is on financial statement analysis, capital budgeting, auditing, performance measurement, management control, risk management, corporate governance, taxation, and competition law. 

Our faculty members apply economic, sociological and legal science-based theories in their research. We also deploy a variety of methods: qualitative (case studies, literature reviews, conceptual approaches, action and managerial research); quantitative (regression, survey, and textual data mining); and other research methods (field experiments, fsQCA). 

We host dedicated research groups for auditing and healthcare productivity.

The faculty of the department regularly publish their work in internationally recognised journals. Articles by the members of faculty have been published in a wide range of top academic journals, such as Accounting, Organizations and Society, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, Review of Economics and Statistics, Management Accounting Research, European Law Journal, and European Law Review.

Apart from these top journals, our faculty members regularly publish in internationally recognised Accounting and Finance journals, such as Journal of Corporate Finance; European Accounting Review; The British Accounting Review; Accounting and Business Research; Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; Accounting Horizons; Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory; International Journal of Accounting; Journal of Business Finance and Accounting; and Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation.

Interdisciplinary research from our faculty is regularly published in internationally acclaimed journals such as Personality and Individual Differences; Industrial Marketing Management; Journal of Business Research; and European Sports Management Quarterly. 

Recent Top Articles

Articles published in ABS 3-4* by our accounting faculty members since 2017

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Highly Cited Articles

Articles published in ABS 3-4* by our accounting faculty members with a minimum of 80 Scopus citations.

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Latest publications

Accountability for sustainability – An institutional entrepreneur as the representative of future stakeholders

Terhi Chakhovich, Tuija Virtanen 2023 CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING

Auditors' self-assessment of engagement quality and the role of stakeholder priority

Limei Che, Emma-Riikka Myllymaki, Tobias Svanstrom 2023 ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS RESEARCH

Mediating Power in Cross-Border Tax Dispute Resolution

Petra Hietanen-Kunwald, Moritz Scherleitner 2023 Liikejuridiikka

Dividends and tax avoidance as drivers of earnings management

Jussi Karjalainen, Eero Kasanen, Juha Kinnunen, Jyrki Niskanen 2023 Journal of Small Business Management

Kuka vartioi portinvartijaa?

Petri Kuoppamäki 2023 Liikejuridiikka

Board characteristics and negative disclosure tone

Antti Miihkinen, Minna Martikainen, Luke Watson 2023 Journal of Accounting Literature

Private firms’ tax aggressiveness and lightweight pre-tax-audit interventions by the tax administration

Hannu Ojala, Pekka Malo, Esko Penttinen 2023 JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING, AUDITING AND TAXATION
More information on our research in the Research database.
Research database

Research Groups

At the Department of Accounting and Business Law, we host two research groups:

Research Department of Finance

Healthcare Productivity Group

We are a dynamic research group focusing on top publications in management accounting, health economics and medical journals.

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Audit Research Group

Audit Research Group conducts research on cross-disciplinary aspects of auditing and collaborates actively with other universities and industry.

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