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CRAAG has a vibrant research seminar series that are delivered by both leading and emerging scholars from top institutions:

2022/2023 Research Seminar Series:

2023

Date	Speaker	Title
07 December 2023	Dr Ammar Ali Gull, EMLV Business School, France	Board gender diversity and financial default risk: An empirical analysis
22 November 2023	Professor Silvia Gaia, University of Essex	Let it be wild! – Accounting for the impact of biodiversity-sensitive companies on local species richness
01 November 2023	Professor Viet Anh Dang, University of Manchester	Labor Mobility and Corporate Environmental Performance
18 October 2023	Zeyu Yang, University of Southampton	Accounting and ESG: A systematic literature review and agenda for future research
11 October 2023	Dr Hesham Bassyouny, University of Southampton	The power of spoken words: evidence from corporate employment decisions
21 June 2023	Lin Zhang and Tingyu Sun, University of Southampton	Corporate Governance, CEO power and Payout Policy: Insite from Corporate Opportunity Waivers AND The Impact of Shareholder Litigation Risk on Income Smoothing
17 May 2023	Rui Yan and Yixiao Liu, University of Southampton	Country’s Technology and Innovation, and Corporate Environmental Innovation and Environmental Performance
26 April 2023	Dr. Sedzani Musundwa, University of South Africa	Centering self-reflection as an instrument for decolonization
12 April 2023	Dr. Philippe Lassou, the University of Guelph, Canada	Failure of major African state-owned enterprises: Neopatrimonialism in a historical perspective
22 March 2023	Professor Dimitrios Gounopoulos, University of Bath	The Impact of Wildfire Smoke on Business Outcomes
08 March 2023	Dr. Maria Correia, London School of Economics and Political Science.	Bankruptcy in Groups
22 February 2023	Professor Stergios Leventis, International Hellenic University, Greece	Sustainability Performance and Corporate Risk-Taking: Evidence from the Tourism Services Industry
15 February 2023	Dr. Sara Closs-Davies, Business School, Bangor University	Accounting, tax and socio-economic inequality: How relational power shapes everyday tax practices

2022

Date	Speaker	Title
7 December	Dr. Yasir Shahab, Xijing University	Corporate Environmental Irresponsibility and Stock Market Reaction: Evidence from Chinese Mergers & Acquisitions
30 November	Professor Frank Hartmann, The Nijmegen School of Management	Theory-hacking in Management Accounting Research: An Assessment of Survey-based Practices
2 November	Professor Bruce Hearn, The University of Bradford School of Management	Is Good Governance Price?
3 October	Dr. Seraina C. Anagnostopoulou, University of Piraeus	The real consequences of classification shifting: Evidence from the efficiency of corporate investment
8 June	Professor Juan Manuel Garcia Lara, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	CEO industry tournaments and conditional conservatism
11 May	Professor George Iatridis, Head of Department of Accounting and Finance, Director of the MSc Accounting and Auditing (ACCA accredited), University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece	Corporate philanthropy in the US stock market: Evidence on corporate governance, value relevance and earnings manipulation
27 April	Dr. Mohammed Elmahgoub, Lecturer in Accounting, Southampton Business School	CEO Network Centrality and the Readability of 10-K Reports
16 March	Yufeng Xie, PhD student, Southampton Business School	Related Party Transactions: A Systematic Review of Corporate Governance, Institutional Environment and Corporate Performance Literature
22  March	Professor Madhu Veeraraghavan, Director of T A Pai Management Institute	Obscured by Clouds: The Impact of Weather-induced Managerial Mood on Corporate Tax Avoidance

2021/2022 Research Seminar Series:

Date	Speaker	Title of the presentation
6 October 2021	Dr Xi Li, London School of Economics	Let’s Talk about the Environment: Environment Discussions in Earnings Conference Calls and Investor Reaction
27 October 2021	Professor David Veenman, Amsterdam Business School	Outliers and Robust Inference in Archival Accounting Research
3 November 2021	Professor Giovanna Michelon, University of Bristol	A governance approach to social media engagement in social enterprises
10 November 2021	Professor Sven Modell, Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester	Is Institutional Research on Management Accounting Degenerating or Progressing? A Lakatosian Analysis
24 November 2021	Professor Christopher Koch, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz	Does practitioner research help auditors to provide higher audit quality and improve their reputation?
8 December 2021	Dr. Pepa Kraft, HEC Paris	College Information Environment and Student Loan Default Rates

2020/2021 Research Seminar Series:

Date	Speaker	Title of the presentation
7 October 2020	Dr. Karim Sorour Associate professor in Accounting Northumbria University.	Exploring the Evolving Motives Underlying Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Disclosures in Developing Countries: The Case of ‘Political CSR’ Reporting
21 October 2020	Kam-Ming Wan Associate professor in Accounting and Finance Hanken School of Economics.	Treatment of Outliers: An Application of Estimation of Effects of CEO Incentives on Corporate Innovation
28 October 2020	Professor Sarah McVay Professor of Accounting and Editor: Contemporary Accounting Research. University of Washington.	Is non-GAAP the new GAAP? An analysis of frequent non-GAAP reporting
11 November 2020	Dr. Amy ZANG Associate professor in Accounting The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2 December 2020	Dr. Jenny Chu Lecturer in Accounting. University of Cambridge.
9 December 2020	Professor Christian Hofman Professor in Accounting and Associate Editor EAR LMU Munich
24 February 2021	Professor Mahbub Zaman, University of Hull	Critical Mass & Voice: Board Diversity & Financial Reporting Quality -
30 March 2021	Professor Helena Isidro, ISCTE Business School in Lisbon.	Debt Contracting After Bankruptcy
31 March 2021	Professor Benjamin Whipple, University of Georgia	A Firm-Quarter Measure of Non-GAAP Exclusion Quality
21 April 2021	Dr. Luc Paugam, HEC Paris	Earnings Management after Short-Selling Attacks
19 May 2021	Mohammad Alta'any, University of Southampton Laura Achiro, University of Southampton	The impact of corporate governance on sustainability reporting: International evidence of triple bottom line reporting Corporate governance and non-financial performance of public hospitals in the English National Health Service
30 June 2021	Professor Alan Lowe, RMIT University	Meeting Research(er) Accountability Halfway -

2019/2020 Research Seminar Series

Date & Venue	Speaker	Title – Paper/Event
16/10/2019 Venue: 02/3041	Professor Gilad Livne Professor of Accounting University of Exeter	Does the Audit Committee Influence Audit Effort? Evidence from Materiality and Audit Risk Areas’
30/10/2019 Venue: 02/3041	Professor Elaine Harris Professor of Accounting University of Roehampton	How organisations make strategic investment decisions: a stream of field studies
06/11/2019 Venue: 02/3041	Professor Chandana Alawattage Professor of Accounting Glasgow University	Neoliberalisation of management accounting’
20/11/2019 Venue: 02/3041	Professor Igor Goncharov Professor of Accounting Lancaster University	Disclosure Choice when Market-Wide Externalities Matter: Evidence from IFRS Adoptions by Central Banks’
29/01/2020 Venue: 02/3041	Professor Marco Trombetta Professor of Accounting Instituto de Empresa Business School,	Publishing in good journals with an emphasis on Journal of Accounting and Public Policy Why do governments “go dark”? Evidence on governments’ guidance transparency in presence of a mandatory guidance regime

2018/2019 Research Seminar Series

Date & Venue	Speaker	Title – Paper/Event
17/10/2018 Venue: 02/1085	Professor Sabur Mollah Professor in Accounting and Finance Swansea University	Does Shari’ah Governance Complement or Substitute Board Governance? Evidence from Micro Governance Data’
31/10/2018 Venue: 02/1085	Professor Ivo de Loo Professor in Accounting Aston University	The beautification of annual reports: the intersection of narratives and fashion.
14/11/2018 Venue: 02/1085	Dr Pingli Li Associate Professor in Accounting. University of Southampton	Independent directors in China: why would academics accept a dual career portfolio and how competent are they in the role?
06/02/2019 Venue: 4/4051	Dr. Lu Dai Lecturer in Accounting. School of Business Renmin University of China	Can Academic Independent Directors Reduce the Deregulation Risk of Listed Firms? The Case of China
20/02/2019 Venue: 4/4051	Dr Bai XUE Lecturer in Accounting The University of Southampton.	Does political connection matter? Evidence from the resignation of politically connected independent directors
13/03/2019 Venue: 2/3043	Dr Amir Amel-Zadeh Associate Professor of Accounting. University of Oxford	Are All Insider Sales Created Equal? Evidence from Form 4 Footnote Disclosures
20/03/2019 Venue: 4/4051	Professor Keith Robson Editor-in-Chief: Accounting, Organizations and Society HEC Paris	Moral imaginaries of performance measurement systems in the pharmaceutical industry
08/05/2019 Venue: 4/4053	Professor Kenneth Mcphail Professor of Accounting Alliance Manchester Business School University of Manchester	From Stakeholder Perspectives to Human Rights Perspectives: The UNGP’s, SDG’s and New Paradigms for Corporate Accountability
03/06/2019 Venue: 2/5033	Professor Stephen Penman Editor; Review of Accounting Studies Columbia Business School Columbia University	Connecting Book Rate of Return to Risk and Return: The Information Conveyed by Conservative Accounting

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