Firms must transform production processes towards sustainable technologies in response to climate change and the emergence of policies aiming to curb carbon emissions. The energy shock due to the war in Ukraine renders this transformation not only important, but also urgent. All this requires...

The relevance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) for the economic growth implies that researchers should help to identify how they can be supported to succeed. One of the weaknesses of many SMEs is the lack of management accounting (MA) and management control (MC) systems. These in...

Topics: - incentives to abide or not by accounting standards; - practices of standard setters, auditors, and accountants; - internal control deficiencies; - accountant professionalization surrounding the fraud concept; - legitimization of standards and best practices; - failure of monitoring...

Research questions that contributors to the conference might address are: - How do sustainability issues affect different forms of finance for publicly traded firms versus privately held firms (including venture backed, crowdfunded, etc)? - In what ways do FinTech innovations enable...

It is fundamental to analyze what happened in the post-pandemic, pushing researchers to develop novel theories and approaches for a more resilient future. CONFERENCE TRACKS 2022 - Opportunity generation and early business development - Business models (growth, performance), international...

In this seminar we will discuss several main research themes in contemporary empirical financial accounting research. We will examine the historical origins, theoretical underpinnings and research methods used in leading research in each area. We will also discuss the potential implications of...

International entrepreneurs and entrepreneurially-oriented smaller firms have dominated the growth of the global economy in the past two decades. These firms have grown to become International New Ventures, Born Global, Born Digitals, Early Internationalizing Enterprises that compete...

Topics: Intangibles and sustainability; Sustainability and ESG reporting standards and frameworks; Innovation and Intellectual Capital; Intangible liabilities; Sustainability and Intellectual Capital; Intangibles and SDGs. In particular, R&D and IP and their impact on SDGs; Sustainable...

Topics: Fertility, Family, Marriage and Work, Health, Education, Training and Human Capital, Migration and Regional Labour Markets, Labour Market Discrimination, Retirement, Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Mobility, Job Satisfaction, Job Market Session, Wage Inequality and Mobility,...

The 2022 conference will be a special occasion - it will be the 50th to be held. ETC will take as its main theme: “Behaviour Change – the impacts of the climate emergency and COVID-19 on long term travel patterns”. The conference attracts transport practitioners and researchers from all...